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NASA News, Oct 24, 2011


AP Exclusive: NASA sting terrifies woman, 74
The Associated Press
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The elaborate mission to recover a moon rock led NASA agents to one of the most down-to-earth places: a Denny's restaurant in Riverside County. But at the end of the sting operation, agents were left holding a speck of lunar dust ...
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Photo of a Gas Giant Planet as Cool as Earth
Astrobiology Magazine (press release)
“We used NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope because it is the most sensitive infrared telescope available.” Luhman and his team discovered the brown dwarf WD 0806-661 B moving in tandem with the white dwarf WD 0806-661 in two Spitzer images taken in 2004 ...
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The James Webb Telescope Will See Earth-Like Worlds
Astrobiology Magazine
(JWST development is led by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, and the telescope is being built by Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems for NASA, the EuropeanSpace Agency, and the Canadian Space Agency.) While Congress deliberates the issue, ...
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Astrobiology Magazine
Hawaiian Astronomers Find New Planet
Kozmedia News
Kraus exhibited their find at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland on Wednesday. Their official write-up regarding the planet will be released in The Astrophysical Journal. Even after being formed, planets can inexplicably change their orbits ...
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ARISS ham radio contact planned for school in Israel
Southgate Amateur Radio Club
We currently have 300+ pupils learning astronomy, space and satellites engineering, and 50+ pupils involved in practical projects related to building our first satellite. These projects are acknowledged for the State matriculation exams. ...
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Dark star clusters are like regular star clusters…except full of black holes
io9
At least, three visible stars - two researchers at the University of Bonn's Argelander Institute forAstronomy believe this represents the first known example of a dark star cluster, one composed almost entirely of black holes. ...
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The stars would be sharper if our eyes were better
Lancaster Eagle Gazette
Having grown up with NASA we've both been interested in space since we were 8 years old, and in these last few weeks we've learned about the solar system and stars and the moons of Jupiter and enough other nifty stuff to get us looking up at the stars ...
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Carnival of Space 220: Shuttles, satellites, comets, tweetups ...
By Emma
Onto the stories, and let's begin with some space-travel newsNASA Space Flight gives an update on the progress New Orleans engineers are making on the Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle. The current aim is for this vehicle to blast off into ...
we are all in the gutter
NASA's New Rocket - Page 5 - Astronomy Forums | Telescope Forums ...
Citation: Envoyé par Modlerbob Sometimes I too feel that if NASA or ESA or the ... Join theAstronomy Newsletter FREE Articles, Event Updates, Astronomy News & More! ... Discuss spacetravel, space exploration, space missions and more! ...
www.astronomyforum.net/.../118104-nasas-new-rocket-5.html...
Space and Earth Sciences News :: Spitzer detects comet storm in ...
(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has detected signs of icy ... Astronomers used Spitzer's infrared detectors to analyze the light coming from th ...
www.news-about-space.org/astronomy-news/cluster11784753/
NASA's future rides on commercial space success, deputy chief says
msnbc.com
By Clara Moskowitz LAS CRUCES, NM — For NASA to achieve any of its lofty goals for the future, the commercial space industry must succeed, NASA deputy administrator Lori Garver said. The space agency has bet big that private spaceships will be ready ...
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In-orbit Fuel Depots vs. NASA's Heavy Lift Space Launch System (SLS) for Dummies
TMC Net
By Doug Mohney, Contributing Editor The New York Times has (belatedly) discoveredNASA's examination of propellant depots. In November, NASA engineers will meet in Washington to discuss how to leverage propellant depots to get further into space and ...
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NASA Ames Inks Lustre Support Deal With Whamcloud
MarketWatch (press release)
DANVILLE, CA, Oct 24, 2011 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- Whamcloud, a venture-backed company formed from a worldwide network of high-performance computing (HPC) storage industry veterans, today announced a Lustre support contract with the NASAAdvanced ...
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NASA Global Hawk Built by Northrop Grumman Prepares for 2012 Hurricane Missions
MarketWatch (press release)
SAN DIEGO, Oct 24, 2011 (GlobeNewswire via COMTEX) -- Environmental scientists will utilize the Northrop Grumman /quotes/zigman/236055/quotes/nls/noc NOC +3.14% -built unmanned NASA Global Hawks as part of the multi-year Hurricane and Severe Storm ...
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No reports yet of debris from falling satellite
BusinessWeek
"I don't think that we'll have a confirmation of any sort today," he said, pointing out that it also took NASA several days to establish where one of its satellites had hit last month. The 2.69-ton (2.4 metric ton) scientific ROSAT satellite was ...
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NASA Notice of intent to grant exclusive license QM Power, Inc
Space Ref (press release)
NASA hereby gives notice of its intent to grant an exclusive license in the United States to practice the invention described and claimed in MFS-32870-1 ``Greener Electro-Mechanical Slide Valve'' to QM Power, Inc, having its principal place of business ...
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NASA Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel Charter Renewal
Space Ref (press release)
ACTION: Notice of renewal and amendment of the charter of the NASA Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel. SUMMARY: Pursuant to sections 14(b)(1) and 9(c) of the Federal Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. 92-463), and after consultation with the Committee ...
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NASA ISS On-Orbit Status 23 October 2011
Space Ref (press release)
All ISS systems continue to function nominally, except those noted previously or below. Sunday - Crew off duty. Ahead: Week 6 of Increment 29 (three-person crew). FE-4 Volkov performed the routine checkup of the SM (Service Module) PSS Caution ...
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Africa – the fieriest continent
Globe and Mail
A series of visualizations of tens of millions of fires detected worldwide from space since 2002 shows how fire affects our environment, according toNASA. The visualizations show the observations made by the Moderate Resolution Imaging ...
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Globe and Mail
Huntsville's commercial space market topic of town hall meeting
al.com (blog)
By Crystal Bonvillian, The Huntsville Times This artist concept provided byNASA shows the launch of the space agency's newest rocket design, called the Space Launch System. The future of space travel was the topic of a town hall meeting held Sunday at ...
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al.com (blog)
Space Shuttle program fueled Stennis growth
SunHerald.com
By MICHAEL NEWSOM - mmnewsom@sunherald.com STENNIS SPACE CENTER -- As the Apollo space program was winding down in 1970,NASA leaders had considered closing their rocket testing operations in Hancock County. The last rocket was tested in October of ...
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SunHerald.com
Solano College student heads to NASA facility
Vallejo Times-Herald
By The Reporter, Vacaville/ A Solano Community College student and 47 other community college students nationwide have been selected to travel to NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., to develop prototype vehicles to roam Mars, ...
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UCF confident new hire a boon for space studies
Florida Today
NASA CAPE CANAVERAL — The University of Central Florida is poised to boost the quality and profile of its space-related research with a former chief of NASA's science programs now at the helm, at least temporarily. The university named Alan Stern to ...
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Herschel discovers tip of cosmic iceberg around nearby young star
Space Daily
Herschel is ESA's infrared space observatory with science instruments provided by European-led Principal Investigator consortia and important participation from NASA. HIFI, or the Heterodyne Instrument for the Far Infrared, has been designed and built ...
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NASA Solicitation: Propellant Loading Services for the LADEE Spacecraft
Space Ref (press release)
NASA Ames Research Center (ARC) is hereby soliciting information about potential sources to provide propellant loading and contingency offloading services for NASA'sLunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) mission in mid 2013 atNASA's ...
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NASA Solicitation: Mission Support to the NPP Mission
Space Ref (press release)
NASA/GSFC has a requirement to continue some mission related support for the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) Preparatory Project (NPP). This mission support covers algorithm calibration/validation and science ...
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Correlated Magnetics Research Selected for NASA Space Telescope Technology ...
MFRTech (press release)
The effort is sponsored by NASA's Research Opportunities in Space and Earth Science (ROSES) research solicitation and is aimed at technology developments for large space telescopes capable of observing objects in the ultraviolet, optical and infrared ...
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Professor keeps eye on space debris
Springfield News-Leader
Figuring out what those small pieces of junk are and where they are headed is a part-time job for Greg Ojakangas, a physics professor at Drury University and a NASAconsultant. Ojakangas says these small objects could collide with a satellite or ...
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NASA MODIS Image of the Day: October 23, 2011 - Fall colors in southeastern ...
Space Ref (press release)
Late in October, 2011, the annual march of brilliant fall foliage across North American had begun to fade in the north, while much of the southeastern United States enjoyed spectacular peak coloration. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer ...
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Space Ref (press release)
NASA Solicitation: Mission and Progam Integration for Program Integration and ...
Space Ref (press release)
This change in Program focus has a direct impact on the how NASA manages the ISS Program and its related transportation and integration services. Based on all these changes, the ISS Program needs to be able to address and respond more quickly to the...
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The James Webb Telescope Will See Earth-Like Worlds
Astrobiology Magazine
This July, the House of Representatives' appropriations committee on Commerce, Justice, and Science moved to cancel the project by taking $1.9 billion out of NASA's 2012 budget. Maryland Senator Barbara Mikulski is now the project's main defender in ...
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Astrobiology Magazine
Physics fanaticism taking flight
The Olympian
The school's Physics of Flight class gives students a chance to learn about all things aeronautic, from rubber band-powered balsa wood planes to NASA space shuttles. “It's totally my favorite class,” said eighth-grader Eric Furrer, 13. ...
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Spitzer Snaps a Picture of the Coolest of Companions
Space Daily
by Staff Writers NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has captured a picture of a nearby star and its orbiting companion - whose temperature is like a hot summer day in Arizona. "We have discovered a new record-holder for the coldest companion imaged outside ...
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Flying Over a Frozen Continent: Big Pic
Discovery News
Oct. 23, 2011 -- The view from the window of NASA's DC-8 looks down on the sweeping expanse of ice and snow of Marie Byrd Land in West Antarctica as part of the ongoing 2011 Operation IceBridge survey of the southern continent's ice cover. ...
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Discovery News
Astronaut, Jackson native Al Worden to discuss new memoir
The Grand Rapids Press - MLive.com
Courtesy PhotoAl Worden, who was pilot on the 1971 Apollo 15 mission and was fired by NASA nine months later, has a new memoir out. NASAfired Worden nine months after the Apollo 15 mission was completed. Worden said he addresses the controversy in ...
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The Grand Rapids Press - MLive.com
The Various Ice Types Of East Antarctica
iWeather Online
On October 7, 2011, the Advanced Land Imager (ALI) on NASA's Earth Observing-1 (EO-1) satellite captured this image of a variety of ice types off the coast of East Antarctica. Brilliant white ice fills the right half of this image. It is fast ice, ...
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iWeather Online
MSU's twin satellite to launch Oct. 28 on NASA rocket
Space Ref (press release)
The satellite, called Explorer-1 [Prime], is scheduled to launch Oct. 28 on a NASA mission. (Image courtesy of MSU's Space Science and Engineering Laboratory). BOZEMAN - The twin of a Montana State University student-built satellite that was launched ...
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Space Ref (press release)
AP Exclusive: NASA sting terrifies woman, 74 | The Associated ...
By The Associated Press
The elaborate mission to recover a moon rock led NASA agents to one of the most down-to-earth places: a Denny's restaurant in Riverside County. But at the end of the sting operation, agents were left holding a speck of lunar dust smaller than ...
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Carnival of Space 220: Shuttles, satellites, comets, tweetups ...
By Emma
Onto the stories, and let's begin with some space-travel newsNASA Space Flight gives an update on the progress New Orleans engineers are making on the Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle. The current aim is for this vehicle to blast off into ...
we are all in the gutter
MSU's twin satellite to launch Oct. 28 on NASA ... - Satellite PR News
By Artur Slesik
The twin of a Montana State University student-built satellite that was launched in the spring but failed to reach orbit as a result of an anomaly with the TAURUS-XL rocket is scheduled to be launched Friday, Oct. 28, on another NASA rocket. ...
Satellite PR News
NASA insider reveals NASA Moon Forbidden Fly Zones exist | UFO ...
By Carolyn Shield
I had read the recent article released by the Hindu times concerning the NASA Moon Forbidden Fly Zones. I happened to be visiting with a NASA insider who participated in the NASA space programs for many years and involved with the ...
UFO and Paranormal News
Weekend Meteor Shower - NASA Science
Earth is about to pass through a stream of debris from Halley's comet, source of the annual Orionid meteor shower. Forecasters expect more than 15 meteors per ...
nasascience.nasa.gov/science-news/science.../20oct_orionids/
600 Mysteries in the Night Sky - NASA Science
The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope recently produced a map of the night sky. Out of 1873 new sources, nearly 600 were complete mysteries. In today's ...
nasascience.nasa.gov/science-news/...at.../18oct_600mysteries/
NASA - NASA Glenn Hosts Student Sustainablility Conference
Media is invited to the Student Sustainability Conference on Friday, Oct. 21, from 9:30 a.m. to 1 p.m..
www.nasa.gov/centers/glenn/.../11-069_sustainablility.html
Comet Storm in a Nearby Star System - NASA Science
NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has detected signs of icy bodies raining down in an alien solar system. The downpour resembles our own solar system several ...
science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at.../19oct_cometstorm/
Texas lawmakers press NASA for a “real” space shuttle for display in ...
Texas lawmakers aren't giving up the fight to win a.
blog.chron.com/.../texas-lawmakers-press-nasa-for-a-real-spac...
NASA - Press Invited To View NASA Satellite Launch From Suitland ...
On Oct. 28, Reporters are invited to join NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver and NOAA Deputy Administrator Kathy Sullivan to view the launch of the nation's ...
ipv6.nasa.gov/.../HQ_M11-216_Garver_NPP_Launch.html
Ultra-Efficient Aircraft Wins NASA Prize : Discovery News
A Slovenia-based company has won the grand prize for energy-efficient aircraft design, with implications for Mars exploration.
news.discovery.com/.../ultra-efficient-aircraft-nasa-mars-1110...
NASA *News Flash* McDougal! | Powerlifting Watch
NASA *News Flash* McDougal! Submitted by Staff on October 16, 2011 - 7:40pm . This weekend the NASA Unequipped Nationals are taken place in ...
www.powerliftingwatch.com/node/20550
NASA, Japan Release Improved Topographic Map of Earth - NASA ...
NASA and Japan released a significantly improved version of the most complete digital topographic map of Earth on Monday, produced with detailed ...
www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2011-320
Spaceflight Now | Breaking News | NASA review clears way for ...
A top NASA official told Congress on Wednesday an independent engineering team agrees with Russia's findings in an investigation into a failure of a Soyuz ...
www.spaceflightnow.com/news/n1110/13soyuz/
NASA's Spitzer Detects Comet Storm in Nearby Solar System ...
NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has detected signs of icy bodies raining down in an alien solar system.
www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2011-322
NASA to test new atomic clock
When people think of space technologies, many think of solar panels, propulsion systems and guidance systems. One important piece of technology in ...
www.physorg.com/news/2011-10-nasa-atomic-clock.html
Europe looks to Russia after NASA falls short on ExoMars : Nature ...
Published online 14 October 2011 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news.2011.595 ... even thoughNASA has reneged on its promise to provide a launch rocket for the first ...
www.nature.com/news/2011/111014/full/news.2011.595.html

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