Today: SPACE News, NASA, ESA, JAXA, Planetary Society, Mar 25, 2011

Mar 25, 2011

SPACE News, NASA, ESA, JAXA, Planetary Society, Mar 25, 2011

RIP Stardust: NASA Comet-Visiting Spacecraft Ends 12-Year Mission
Space.com
by Leonard David, SPACE.com's Space Insider Columnist LITTLETON, Colo. – You could call it assisted suicide in space. NASA's comet-visiting Stardust spacecraft was purposely put to death today by those that had provided tender loving care to the probe ...
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NASA Cancels Kelly Interviews
Discovery News
Apparently so, when it comes to media attention and NASA. After inviting reporters to Houston for a traditional series of briefings about the next space shuttle mission and round-robin interviews with the crew, NASA canned interviews with Mark Kelly, ...
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NASA Plans 2025 Manned Mission to Asteroid
AOL News
It's a little soon for astronauts to suit up, but NASA is planning to send a manned mission to an asteroid in 2025. In keeping with President Barack Obama's 2010 vision, the space agency has shifted its sights from returning to the moon and, instead, ...
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AOL News
Marshall Space Flight Center works well local small businesses
WAFF
By Tricia Forbes – bio | email HUNTSVILLE, AL (WAFF) - Administrators at NASA think the Marshall Space Flight Center is doing a good job working with small businesses. The center was awarded the NASA small business administrator's cup for the second ...
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NASA: No evidence of foul play, equipment failure in launch pad death
Florida Today
CAPE CANAVERAL — An investigation into a March 14 launch pad fatality at Kennedy Space Center has uncovered no evidence of foul play or any problems with safety tethers and other fall-protection equipment, a senior NASA official said Thursday. ...
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Spaceflight future tied to Orion project
Denver Business Journal
Jim Bray, director of the Orion Crew & Service Module for Lockheed Martin Space Systems Co., explains the heat shield and protective tiles that will go on the space capsule being built for NASA. John Ringelberg and Elliot Moss, senior staff engineers ...
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Orion Spacecraft Unveiled: Vehicle May Bring Humans To Deep Space (PICTURES)
Huffington Post
As NASA winds down its Space Shuttle program, the agency is looking toward new options for ferrying astronauts to and from the International Space Station (ISS) and beyond. Lockheed Martin is currently constructing a multipurpose vehicle, called Orion, ...
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NASA's starship project sets sights on the final frontier
msnbc.com
By Leonard David, SPACE.com's Space Insider Columnist Shooting for the stars will first require a lot of down-to-Earth elbow grease, as NASA's new 100-Year Starship project illustrates. The effort, to journey between stars in the 2100s, ...
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msnbc.com
Space trip prize out of this world
Sunshine Coast Daily
University of the Sunshine Coast lecturer Beverly Lowe is offering students and teachers the chance to go the NASA Space Camp. TWO people are set to get the opportunity of a lifetime – NASA style. The University of the Sunshine Coast is offering a ...
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NASA Helps Students Train Like Astronauts in Mission X Challenge
PR Newswire (press release)
At a final event Thursday at College Station Tiger Stadium in Texas, NASA Associate Administrator for Education and former astronaut Leland Melvin and astronaut Rick Linnehan shared their space travel experience with students. ...
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Astronomers get mixed signals — from Saturn
msnbc.com
The Hubble Space Telescope shows Saturn with the rings edge-on and both poles in view, with both of its fluttering auroras visible, in early 2009. Saturn is sending astronomers mixed signals — radio signals, that is. NASA's Cassini spacecraft recently ...
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msnbc.com
Satellite Snaps Clearest Picture of Perseus Galaxy Cluster
Space.com
"Understanding the content of normal matter in galaxy clusters is a key element for using these objects to study the evolution of the universe," said study co-author Adam Mantz, of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, in a statement. ...
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Gresham Middle event focuses on math, science
Knoxville News Sentinel
By Mike Blackerby Thirteen-year-old Lane Cook remotely launches a rocket as part of the Super Stellar Space Spectacular event at Gresham Middle School on Thursday. So were honest-to-goodness moon rocks and even tile from a NASA space shuttle. ...
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Direction: Space! Inside Russia's space facilities
Telegraph.co.uk
Nasa's future is uncertain because it has not so much been fulfilling a new dream as living in the shadow of an old one. Americans assumed themselves to be the winners of the space race when their men landed on the moon in 1969; relative to Russians, ...
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Telegraph.co.uk
NASA Paying Russia $63 million a Seat for Space Crew Transport through 2016
TMC Net
By Doug Mohney, Contributing Editor Last week, NASA announced it had signed a $763 million contract modification with the Russian Federal Space Agency for crew transport and related services to the International Space Station (ISS) between 2014 through ...
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EHSI's NASA Bioreactor to be Inducted into Space Technology Hall of Fame
4-traders (press release)
Emerging Healthcare Solutions Inc. (PinkSheets:EHSI) was energized this week by news that the NASA-developed rotating-wall bioreactor, key to the company's stem cell research plans, will be inducted into the Space Technology Hall of Fame next month. ...
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JPL scientist presents on NASA's $320 million NEOWISE project
PCC Courier
JPL scientist Amy Mainzer presented the findings of NASA's recent mission to space, the $320 million advanced telescope, NEOWISE, in the Lillian Vosloh Forum on Friday. The presentation, "The Year I Saw the Universe," drew a crowd to the Forum composed ...
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MV resident earns NASA scholarship
Bridger Valley Pioneer
ROCK SPRINGS—Wyoming NASA Space Grant Community College STEM Scholarships were recently awarded to six Western Wyoming Community College students. Students who received the scholarship are Rock Springs residents Adrian Sauter, Lindy Hicks, Lori ...
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NASA adds Donald McNeill of McNeill Designs to webcast of Space Shuttle ...
PR-USA.net (press release)
Endeavor's final launch, STS-134, coincides with the “launch” of McNeill's new NASA Space Terminology Deck, an add-on deck designed for use with the popular You've been Sentenced! word game. After brokering a Space Act Agreement with The National ...
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Kate Becker: Outer space due for a little spring cleaning?
Daily Camera
Space agencies like NASA and the European Space Agency are already thinking about how to reduce the junk that's stranded in space. It's a technical problem, but also a diplomatic, legal and economic one. Cleaning up my office? ...
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Astronaut who took Shorter flag to space returns with stories
Rome News Tribune
by Lydia Senn, staff writer Stephanie Wilson, NASA astronaut, shakes Shorter University President Harold Newman's hand on Thursday after giving him a pin in honor of the one of Wilson's space shuttle missions. (Ryan Smith, RN-T.com) When astronaut ...
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Japan Reopens Space Station Control Room After Quake
Space.com
During the space center closure, some Japanese flight controllers worked out NASA's space station Mission Control Center to oversee the Kibo module and HTV-2 cargo ship docked at the orbiting lab, NASA officials have said. ...
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Space.com Atlantis Crew Prepares For Last Shuttle Mission
Aviation Week
“But with every passing day, I'm more and more convinced that NASA has the funding put aside and we have the tacit approval of Congress.” The flight is included in the 2010 NASA Authorization Act. Ferguson, Hurley and Magnus spoke of the mission plans ...
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Aviation Week
You have a missed call, from NASA: Astronaut phones Scots aristocrat from space
stv.tv
NASA Astronaut Alvin Drew was orbiting the globe during the Discovery shuttle's recently completed mission, he phoned the Dowager Countess, who he knew through visits to the Tayside Space School, which she is a patron of. The Dowager Countess was out ...
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