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Volcano's Eruption Creates Colorful U.S. Sunsets
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.
8 hrs ago | WMAR
NASA Picks MD Native For Astronaut Training
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.
12 hrs ago | El Sentinel
Alabama senator's NASA diversion could hurt Cape
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.
17 hrs ago | StarTribune
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.
21 hrs ago | LA Daily News
With boost from Obama, Web 2.0 government takes off
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.
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New Details About History Of Water On Mars
Four papers on the topic have been published in the journal Science on June 3, 2009.
First Moon Images From NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter
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 astronaut takes Twitter to space en Espanol
NASA has tweeted in space, but now one of its astronauts is breaking a new space Twitter barrier.
NASA Announces Request For Information On Von Braun Collection
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.
ITT Provides Main Sensors for GOES-O Weather Satellite
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.
Landforms on Mars Add to Evidence for Recent Water
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 crews work on Space Shuttle Endeavour
NASA ground crews at Kennedy Space Center, in Florida, work on a troublesome gas vent line.
Knob is thorn in shuttle's side
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.
2 Space Camp grads named astronauts
NASA has chosen two Space Camp graduates as part of the nine 2009 inductees into the astronaut corps.
NASA fuels space shuttle for leak test
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.
Ulysses solar probe to go dark
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.
VIDEO: NASA Exploring Cheaper Shuttle Replacement
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.
NASA pitches a cheaper ride to the moon
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.
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Raytheon-Led Team Wins NASA Award for NextGen Research
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.