Ohio ex-NASA worker charged over military exports, Washington Post “Authorities say Chun exported infrared focal-plane array detectors and infrared camera engines. They say Chun is a former employee at the […]
2011
Posted inCongress
Bill Nelson, Rocket Scientist
Senator: NASA May Have To Consider Having Only 2 Launches “NASA is getting a stern reality check from one of its biggest supporters. Senator Bill Nelson admitted Monday there may […]
Posted inAstronomy
Hubble Makes Another Unusual Discovery
Hubble Zooms In on a Space Oddity “One of the strangest space objects ever seen is being scrutinized by the penetrating vision of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. A mysterious, glowing, […]
Posted inAstronomy
Rocky Planet Discovered by Kepler
Kepler Mission Discovers its First Rocky Planet “NASA’s Kepler mission confirmed the discovery of its first rocky planet, named Kepler-10b. Measuring 1.4 times the size of Earth, it is the […]
Posted inPersonnel News
Granville Paules
Keith’s 6 Jan note: Granville Paules has died. Details to follow. Official bio. According to one reader “Mr. Pauls was launch GUIDO for Apollo 11 and 13 among other significant […]
Posted inExploration
When School Children Fund Exploration – and Preservation
Welsh donors praised for helping preserve Scott hut, BBC “In 1910 Scott relied heavily on school children to fund his expedition, with schools sponsoring a sledge dog or set of […]
Posted inSpace & Planetary Science
Old Data: New Science
Student Project: New Lunar Crater Search Using LROC-NAC Vs LOIRP Lunar Orbiter Images “Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project (LOIRP) is in possession of 1,478 2″ original analog tapes from 3 […]
Posted inISS News
NASA's Slow Motion Reluctance To Truly Open Up The ISS
Keith’s note: NASA held a ISS National Lab Public Day CAN meeting on 10 December 2010. The purpose was to explain the pending Cooperative Agreement Notice and how interested parties […]
Posted inAstronauts
Rep. Giffords and The Kelly Family
Space Program Runs in Congresswoman’s Family, NY Times “Mr. Cabbage said it was too early to say how Mark Kelly’s scheduled Endeavour mission would be affected. The Kelly brothers were […]
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JSC Gives Sole Source to InnoCentive, Inc. for "Open Innovation Support"
NASA JSC Solicitation: Open Innovation Support Services for Internal Collaboration Support Platform and Intermediary “NASA/JSC has a requirement for Open Innovation Support Services for internal collaboration support platform and intermediary […]