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Many people in the United States and Europe are seeing gorgeous lavender sunsets lately thanks to the eruption more than two weeks ago of Russia's Sarychev Peak volcano.

NASA announced this week that 33-year-old Navy Lt. Commander Gregory Reid Wiseman was selected from among 3,500 applicants for the 2009 astronaut class.

For months, a powerful Republican senator from Alabama has fought the Obama administration to block $150 million that the White House wanted to spend to help private companies build rockets capable of reaching the international space station.

Duncan Jones got a great introduction to the world of filmmaking: Running amok on the set of Jim Henson's "Labyrinth," starring his father, David Bowie.

Want to give the Obama White House an earful on how to open up government? Want to sort through the latest NASA images of Mars, use a text message to donate to Pakistani refugees or help transportation officials design new bus stops? Your government now has the tools to let you do that.

Four papers on the topic have been published in the journal Science on June 3, 2009.

STATUS REPORT Date Released: Thursday, July 2, 2009 Source: NASA HQ - Comments NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has transmitted its first images since reaching the moon on June 23.

NASA has tweeted in space, but now one of its astronauts is breaking a new space Twitter barrier.

Thanks to Catalogblog for the link. Here is the text from the NASA website : On the eve of the 40th anniversary of the historic first moon landing, NASA is seeking ideas from the public, academia, and industry about how to analyze and catalog notes from spaceflight pioneer Wernher von Braun into an electronic, searchable database or other system.

Written by ITT Sensors to help meteorologists improve short-term forecasts ROCHESTER, N.Y.---ITT Corporation announced today that its latest weather sensors have successfully launched into space.

HiRISE mosaic image of the Athabasca region examined in the new study. Credit: NASA/JPL/UofA The weather on Mars was much balmier in the recent past than scientists have previously thought, according to a new interpretation of the formation of certain landforms on the surface.

NASA ground crews at Kennedy Space Center, in Florida, work on a troublesome gas vent line.

A knob wedged against a cockpit window in shuttle Atlantis was freed, NASA said Tuesday, giving engineers a chance to look more closely at any damage it caused.

NASA has chosen two Space Camp graduates as part of the nine 2009 inductees into the astronaut corps.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - NASA has filled space shuttle Endeavour's fuel tank in a test, and is finding everything to be leak-free. Launch controllers filled the external tank this morning to see if repairs plugged a hydrogen gas leak that prevented Endeavour from blasting off last month.

The major words relating to the disease are millennia old, but treatments for cancer in Southbridge just joined the 21st century.

Nineteen years and close to 5.8 billion miles later, the Ulysses solar probe's mission is coming to an end according to the Associated Press.

A top NASA official is touting a replacement for the Space Shuttle program that would be much cheaper than the planned $35 billion Constellation program.

Like a car salesman pushing a luxury vehicle that the customer no longer can afford, NASA has pulled out of its back pocket a deal for a cheaper ride to the moon.

NASA has selected a team led by Raytheon Company to develop enhancements to the system-wide modeling and simulation capability in the Airspace Concepts Evaluation System, or ACES.