CuriousMars: Drilling For Martian Secrets, SpaceRef “Two powerful laboratories inside the Mars rover Curiosity are being readied to process the first powdered samples of subsurface Martian rock obtained by the […]
2013
Posted inCongress
What Is A National Consensus on Space?
Space Abhors a Policy Vacuum; The NRC Report and The Need for a Broad National Space Policy, Dennis Wingo “…The above sentence in its implication says that a scientifically justifiable […]
Posted inBudget
The Consequences of Sequestration
Sequestration and Planetary Exploration, Future Planetary Exploration (Van Kane) “I’d hoped that I’d never need to write this post. The latest news in the United States is that a poison […]
Posted inNews
Our Neighbours Include Earth-sized Planets
Earth-like Planets Are Right Next Door, SpaceRef “Using publicly available data from NASA’s Kepler space telescope, astronomers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) have found that six percent of […]
Posted inNews
Webb Telescope the Good and Bad
James Webb Telescope Makes Progress But at What Cost?, SpaceRef “NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center released the following list of highlights for the James Webb Telescope for 2012 marking the […]
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Failed DeathStar Petition Inspiring People?
Death Star Response Inspiring Future Explorers?, NASA “The White House response to a petition on building a Death Star (and the resulting media attention) led to some pretty interesting data […]
Posted inInternet Policies
Why Does MSFC Point NASAIMAGES.Org At Pictures of Weapons?
NASA and Internet Archive Launch Centralized Resource for Images (24 July 2008) “NASA and Internet Archive, a non-profit digital library based in San Francisco, made available the most comprehensive compilation […]
Posted inSpace & Planetary Science
Why Didn't SMD Announce Mars 2020 Science Definition Team?
Keith’s note: NASA has decided who is on their Mars 2020 rover Science Definition Team. No press release however. Isn’t it a bit odd that SMD uses a bull horn […]
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Remembering
President Barack Obama on NASA’s Day of Remembrance, NASA “Ten years ago, seven brave astronauts gave their lives in the name of exploration when America’s first flight-ready space shuttle, Columbia, […]
Posted inShuttle News
Looking Back and Looking Forward
NASA manager mused about what to tell Columbia crew if they had known space shuttle was doomed, AP “When NASA started flying shuttles again, Hale told the new team of […]