Astronaut Collapses During Ceremony, AP“An astronaut from the space shuttle Atlantis collapsed twice Friday during a welcome home ceremony, a wobbly return that officials attributed to the adjustment from 12 […]
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John Rummel New Senior Scientist for Astrobiology
NASA HQ Internal Memo: John Rummel To Become Senior Scientist for Astrobiology at NASA SMD Planetary Sciences Division“Taking Carl [Pilcher’s] place will be Dr. John D. Rummel. As Senior Scientist […]
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More Earths Than Previously Thought
Earth-like Planets May Be More Common Than Once Thought, University of Colorado at Boulder“More than one-third of the giant planet systems recently detected outside Earth’s solar system may harbor Earth-like […]
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NAI Gets a New Director
NASA Ames Announces Change in Astrobiology Management“Dr. Carl Pilcher, senior scientist for astrobiology at NASA Headquarters, Washington, has been appointed director of the NASA Astrobiology Institute (NAI) based at NASA […]
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Great News for NCSU, Great Loss for NASA
NASA analyst to take helm of NCSU’s graduate school, Triangle Business Journal“North Carolina State University on Wednesday named a NASA senior policy analyst as dean of its graduate school. Terri […]
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Mike Griffin's Latest Comments About Astrobiology
Mars Society conference report: Griffin and Elon not ready for K2 summit push, MountEverest.net“How do we motivate students to study astrobiology if this science is not favored in the budget?” […]
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Nature Magazine on NASA Science Priorities
No more protection, editorial, Nature (subscription)“It is bad enough that Earth science at NASA has already fallen victim to cuts and cancellations as has, for what its worth, astrobiology. Now […]
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Starving Science to Pay For Exploration
Meanwhile, Back on Earth – NASA climate-change research should not suffer because the president wants to go to Mars, Editorial, Washington Post“NASA is facing a real fiscal crisis. Even though […]
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GeneBox Update
A Closer Look at NASA’s GeneBox Payload, SpaceRef“This first flight of Genesis is primarily a proof of concept mission for larger inflatable modules. However, it also carries some interesting scientific […]
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Interesting Additions to the SSB
Editor’s note: The Space Studies Board has been revising its membership. It is interesting to note that in light of NASA’s continued cuts to astrobiology and space life science that […]