One Of Everything: The Breakthrough Listen Exotica Catalog “We present Breakthrough Listen’s “Exotica” Catalog as the centerpiece of our efforts to expand the diversity of targets surveyed in the Search […]
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This Is Not The Planetary Protection Headline That NASA Needs Right Now (Update)
NASA Should Beware of Viruses From Outer Space, Bloomberg Opinion “This summer, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration will launch a rover designed to collect samples of the Martian surface […]
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NASA Tries To Explain Its Astrobiology Shyness
Keith’s note: Over the past week I have posted several commentaries about how NASA shies away from using the word “astrobiology” in official agency releases and stories to describe missions […]
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NASA Continues To Hide Its Astrobiology Program
Keith’s note: NASA SMD has an extensive Program Officers list of contact information for all of its research programs. Virtually everything SMD does has a contact listed – except Astrobiology. […]
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NASA's Science Mission Directorate Has An Issue With Certain Words
Keith’s note: I sent this media request to a list of people at NASA SMD, GSFC, and JPL: “I have a question. Why does this NASA GSFC authored story “How […]
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More NASA Astrobiology News That Ignores NASA's Astrobiology Program
Keith’s 18 Nov note: Here we go again. This just appeared online at NASA. “NASA Scientists Confirm Water Vapor on Europa“. Look how the article opens: “Forty years ago, a […]
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Thursday's Stealth Astrobiology Event At Ames
Keith’s 13 Nov note: Last month the NASA Astrobiology Institute (NAI) tweeted about their mailing list telling people to join. I tried to join only to find out that I […]
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Living Next Door To SETI
NO SIGNAL: Growing Up in Green Bank, West Virginia, Observer (scroll down to page 36) “I grew up in Green Bank, West Virginia, at the center of the federally mandated […]
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Planetary Protection Review Report Released
NASA’s Planetary Protection Review Addresses Changing Reality of Space Exploration “NASA released a report Friday with recommendations from the Planetary Protection Independent Review Board (PPIRB) the agency established in response […]
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Mars 2020 Rover: Sloppy Reporting, Lazy Websites, Quaint Opinions
When — or if — NASA finds life on Mars, the world may not be ready for the discovery, the agency chief says, CNN “NASA’s next mission to Mars will […]