Editor’s 14 Jan note: If you are wondering why the presidential candidates don’t spend more time talking about space exploration, here’s your chance to try and change that situation and […]
2008
Posted inPersonnel News
LSU Is Looking For A New Chancellor
Chancellor Sean O’Keefe Announces Resignation, LSU“The university system leadership clearly has the authority and deserves the prerogative to empower those who can take the university to the next level and […]
Posted inEarth Science
How To Heat Up Right Wing Talk Radio With One Sentence
2007 Was Tied as Earth’s Second Warmest Year, NASA GISS“As we predicted last year, 2007 was warmer than 2006, continuing the strong warming trend of the past 30 years that […]
Posted inPersonnel News
HSPD-12 Update
Inquisition at JPL, opinion, LA Times“NASA Administrator Michael Griffin, however, is one of the Bush administration’s true believers, and his first reflex always is a crisp salute. He directed Caltech, […]
Posted inSpace & Planetary Science
No Longer Undiscovered Country
NASA MESSENGER’s First Look at Mercury’s Previously Unseen Side“When Mariner 10 flew past Mercury three times in 1974 and 1975, the same hemisphere was in sunlight during each encounter. As […]
Posted inElection 2008
Americans, Science, Technology – And Space
National Science Board Science and Engineering Indicators 2008, NSF“Science and Engineering Indicators, published by the National Science Board, provides a broad base of quantitative information on the U.S. and international […]
Posted inSLS and Orion
ESMD – Unable or Unwilling To Answer Routine Questions
Editor’s 15 Jan update: ESMD PAO just sent me a note: “We’re converging on a final answer for your many questions, and my clients in ESMD have asked me to […]
Posted inElection 2008
Another Chance to Get a Space Question To The Candidates
Your chance to ask the candidates a question, MSNBC“Watch the Jan. 15th 2008 Democratic Presidential Candidates’ Debate the first debate since the New Hampshire primaries on MSNBC TV and MSNBC.com […]
Posted inSpace & Planetary Science
JPL's SIM Prepares to Eat SMD's Lunch
Editor’s note: Looks like the Space Interferometry Mission (SIM) is not only back, but it is going to eat SMD’s lunch for the remainder of this decade and part of […]