Hearing: The Path from LEO to Mars, Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation “Sep 12 2012 2:00 PM” NASA to Host Mars Curiosity Rover Progress Teleconference “September 12, 2012 […]
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Space Quarterly Magazine September Issue
Space Quarterly Magazine September 2012 Table of Contents, SpaceRef Marc’s note: The September 2012 edition of Space Quarterly Magazine is scheduled to be released on Tuesday, September 4. There many […]
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Once Again NASA Has Two Fully Active Rovers on Mars
NASA Mars Rover Begins Driving at Bradbury Landing “NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity has begun driving from its landing site, which scientists announced today they have named for the late author […]
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Mars Rock Screams on Twitter as NASA Blasts it With a Laser
Read the increasingly desperate tweets of Martian rock N165 as it is zapped by Curiosity “Poor little N165. It never really had a chance. As soon as the Curiosity rover […]
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President Obama Talks With Mars Curiosity Team
Click on image to enlarge. Source: The Internet. Transcript of Remarks by President Obama to the Mars Science Lab Team at NASA JPL “I understand there’s a special Mohawk Guy […]
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Mars, Everest, and Tricorders
Ocean Optics Spectrometers Land Safely on Mars “Three Ocean Optics instruments have completed their eight month journey to Mars to study soil composition as part of the ChemCam mission. The […]
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Good Morning Mars
Curiosity Image: Good Morning Mars “This image was taken by Navcam: Left A (NAV_LEFT_A) onboard NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity on Sol2 (2012-08-08 07:11:08 UTC) . Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech”
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JPL Doesn't Provide Equal Access For Media (update)
Keith’s 7 Aug note: In its 30 July press release listing all MSL media activities and opportunities, no mention is made by NASA that offsite media would be allowed ask […]
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Speaking of Mohawks
NASA’s 7 Minutes of ‘Mohawk Guy’ Goes Viral, PC Magazine “Meanwhile, the Mohawk Guy puzzle may have been solved, but there were other curiosities in the JPL’s Curiosity broadcast that […]
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Space Policy Snapshots
Can NASA keep public’s curiosity piqued?, Houston Chronicle “Paul Spudis, a senior scientist at the Lunar and Planetary Institute in Houston, said Curiosity’s success doesn’t change the fact that the […]