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10:49:43 PM Astronomy's 2010 Youth Essay Contest
Astronomy Magazine - USA

Astronomy.com is now accepting submissions for the 2010 Youth Essay Contest! The title for submitted essays is "What I love best about astronomy. ... [more]

10:44:23 PM Turkmenistan ex-leader Niyazov's arch to be removed
BBC News - E,UK

Cities, airports and even a meteorite were named after him. He introduced increasingly personal laws, and a book he wrote to be a "spiritual guide" for the ... [more]

10:27:25 PM NASA's Safety Advisers Urge US To Stick with Ares 1
Space News

By Amy Klamper WASHINGTON — As the administration of US President Barack Obama prepares to propose changes to NASA's human spaceflight program in the ... [more]

9:29:19 PM Boeing to bid on NASA cargo contract
St. Louis Business Journal - St. Louis,MO,USA

The Boeing Co. said it plans to bid on a NASA International Space Station cargo mission contract. NASA released a request for proposals Friday for a .... [more]

9:28:51 PM There goes the sun!
The Hindu

In 1715, the British astronomer Edmond Halley published the first prediction of the path of a total eclipse. Since then, scientists have been travelling to ... [more]

8:04:43 PM WTF: Billboard Porn? Wrong Kidney Removed & Free Space Shuttle Engines
Post Chronicle - USA

by Mitch Marconi First: An enormous television screen showing a pornographic film caused a midnight traffic jam in central Moscow Thursday as stunned ... [more]

7:48:09 PM Avatar: A Stunning New World That NASA Continues to Ignore
Astrobiology News - USA

At a time when NASA needs to re-exert its relevance to decision makers and the public, you'd think that there would be some effort to tap this interest in a ... [more]

7:15:24 PM NASA Slashes Price for Used Space Shuttles; Assembly Required
Daily Finance - New York,NY,USA

The shuttle program's history has seen remarkable achievements, from launching key satellites to helping build the International Space Station and Hubble ... [more]

6:37:35 PM Esa and Nasa get down to business
Ethiopian Review - Washington,DC,USA

Having spent most of last year working out how they could explore Mars together, Nasa and Esa posted their first Announcement of Opportunity on Monday. ... [more]

6:11:13 PM 2009 Postseason Awards
Roll 'Bama Roll

If you had given me betting odds on an asteroid crashing into the Earth and Lane Kiffin being the USC head coach on January 15th, 2010, I would have taken ... [more]

5:24:33 PM Daniel Irwin: Using NASA technology to solve disaster, environmental
Washington Post - Washington,DC,USA

Washington Post Daniel Irwin is a research scientist at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), but unlike colleagues involved in interplanetary ... [more]

4:54:43 PM Post Game TV Recap: BATMAN TB&TB Double Feature
Newsarama - Millburn,NJ,USA

Just as "Prof" (who I always read as PROHF and not PRAWF) is getting a sample of a meteorite, Batman shows up and soon both Challengers and Batman are ... [more]

4:39:40 PM Alien Planet Safari
Space Fellowship - UK

There's a dawning awareness among astronomers that the world's largest infrared telescope is going to be a canny hunter of planets circling faraway stars. ... [more]

4:28:36 PM NASA Offers Shuttles at Clearance Prices, Is Investigating Cocaine Found in
DailyTech - Chicago,IL,USA

DailyTech (Source: Kim Shiflett, NASA) For nearly three decades (since 1981), the Space Shuttle was an iconic symbol of the American space program and the country's ... [more]

4:27:57 PM X-Rite Announces New Linux and Mac SDK for Hubble Non-contact,
Laser-Guided ...

SYS-CON Media (press release) Available immediately for both Linux and Mac-based applications to complement the existing Windows version, the new Hubble SDK allows third party developers ... [more]

4:08:50 PM One second-hand space shuttle: Yours for $29m
Register - London,England,UK

By Lester Haines • Get more from this author NASA has knocked down the price of a used space shuttle to an affordable $28.8m - a considerable saving on the ... [more]

2:57:31 PM Space Shuttle engines: free to a good home
DVICE - USA

Now that the Space Shuttle missions are ending, NASA is cleaning house. While complete shuttles are for sale at 50% off "retail," the deal of the century ... [more]

2:54:51 PM Flying high at NASA
FOX 8 News WVUE-TV

A bag of cocaine was found in a space shuttle hangar, sparking a NASA investigation. The bag was found outside a bathroom in the restricted hangar that ... [more]

1:57:31 PM Cunnamulla meteorite ownership divides town
NEWS.com.au - Australia

If the rock turns out to be a meteorite, it could be worth a small fortune. Mr King hopes it will be housed in Cunnamulla's museum in the town centre. .... [more]

1:19:50 PM Photo Release -- NASA Global Hawk Continues Flight Expansion in
CNN/Money - USA

CNNMoney.com (press release) NASA Global Hawk aircraft will support NASA's Science Mission Directorate and the Earth science community during the GloPac Campaign set to begin this ... [more]

12:28:06 PM Pielke Senior: NASA GISS Inaccurate Press Release On The Surface
Prison Planet.com - USA

Prison Planet.com UPDATE PM JANUARY 16 2010 – Jim Hansen has released a statement on his current conclusions regarding the global average surface temperature trends [and ... [more]

10:31:52 AM Nasa selling three famous space shuttles
The Mirror - UK

Spokesman Mike Curie said: "We're confident we'll get other takers." Nasa expects science organisations, schools and museums to bid. [more]

8:55:29 AM Only 40% Believe Space Shuttle Has Been Worth The Cost
The Westside Story

NASA plans five more space shuttle missions this year, the first in early February, and then the historic shuttle program will come to an end. ... [more]

8:22:28 AM Nasa puts Discovery space shuttle up for sale for £17.7m
Telegraph.co.uk - London,England,UK

But you will still need a rather large bank balance to purchase the Discovery Space Shuttle, which is being sold off by Nasa for $28.2 m (£17.7m). ... [more]

7:27:53 AM For Sale: Space Shuttle Fleet - one fairly careful owner
The Tech Herald - Indianapolis,IN,USA

If the revised pricing is tugging at your bank account and you're curious to know what's on offer in NASA's exorbitant shop window, both the space shuttle ... [more]

6:20:57 AM Concerns over space shuttle workers getting high on the job
TECH.BLORGE.com - Sydney,Australia

Memories of the space shuttle Columbia disaster are still fresh in many people's minds especially considering it only happened seven short years ago. ... [more]

5:26:04 AM The Cape Wind Project
New York Times - New York,NY,USA

The writer, a solar physicist, is a professor of astronomy at Williams College. Wind power is a sector with the potential to produce many thousands of jobs. ... [more]

12:55:13 AM NASA's Rosetta "Alice" Spectrometer Reveals Earth's UV Fingerprint
Space Daily - Rancho Palos Verdes,CA,USA

One of the instruments aboard Rosetta is the NASA-funded ultraviolet spectrometer, Alice, which is designed to probe the composition of the comet's ... [more]

12:52:43 AM Hubble Catches End Of Star-Making Party
Space Daily - Rancho Palos Verdes,CA,USA

The map is part of The HI Nearby Galaxy Survey by the National Radio Astronomy Observatory's Very Large Array in New Mexico. By analyzing the combined data, ... [more]



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