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News From Wednesday, February 24, 2010
11:59:32 PM Elon Musk, SpaceX are the future of space exploration
SmartPlanet.com - London,UK

That's mighty attractive compared to the $450 million cost for each space shuttle mission not to mention the $1.7 billion pricetag to build a Space Shuttle ... [more]

11:45:47 PM Star "Eating" Superhot Planet's Atmosphere
National Geographic

That can have a dramatic effect on a planet, said study co-author Jonathan Fortney, also an astronomer at UC Santa Cruz. Jupiter's moon Io, for instance, ... [more]

11:34:59 PM Senators to NASA chief: Go somewhere specific
Washington Post - Washington,DC,USA

AP WASHINGTON -- Skeptical senators are telling NASA's chief that the space agency lacks a goal and destination. Earlier this month, the White House killed ... [more]

10:17:07 PM Asteroid Astronomers Get Unprecedented Amount of Telescope Time
Science Daily (press release) - USA

It will also boost the national and international research profile of the University's Astronomy, Astrophysics and Space Sciences programmes. ... [more]

9:30:57 PM NASA chief says Mars is goal, lawmakers express doubt
Lobbying World

By Tony Romm - 02/24/10 03:24 PM ET NASA Administrator Charles Bolden on Wednesday stressed that the space program's long-term goal is "eventually Mars. ... [more]

9:17:13 PM Embrace Arizona misconceptions with an old-fashioned rodeo
College Times - Tempe,AZ,USA

The Astronomy Open House at ASU offers telescope viewings, physics lessons and other scientific displays in all their splendor. Who knows? ... [more]

9:07:28 PM Hot planet's atmosphere spilling out
CBC News - Canada

(ESA/C. Carreau) A hot gas giant planet discovered in 2008 is losing its atmosphere to its star at a rate of 189 million billion tonnes a year, astronomers ... [more]

8:30:00 PM Gravity Is 'Unwinding' an Alien Planet
FOX News - USA

The researchers predict this gas is flowing toward the host star, forming a tenuous disk that should emit heat detectable by the Hubble or Spitzer Space ... [more]

7:47:35 PM The new 'Arizona room' on the International Space Station
KOLD-TV - Tucson,AZ,USA

(NASA EARTH OBSERVATORY) - Astronauts onboard the International Space Station (ISS) have a new view of Earth after the space shuttle Endeavour delivered the ... [more]

7:33:44 PM Houston leaders stress importance of NASA
KABC - Los Angeles,CA,USA

HOUSTON (KTRK) -- There's a lot of uncertainty about what's next for NASA, and that has Houston city leaders concerned. Mayor Annise Parker and other .... [more]

7:29:07 PM Heaviest element officially named Copernicium
Standard-Speaker - Hazleton,PA,USA

Copernicus' work in the field of astronomy is the basis for our modern, heliocentric world view, which states that the Sun is the center of our solar system ... [more]

7:28:43 PM My Cat Hush Puppy Captures Gold at Winter Olympics!
Petside - New York,NY,USA

Since the chilly Vancouver weather is extremely conducive to promote deep and lengthy slumber, Hush Puppy and Hubble both decided that these Winter Games ... [more]

6:05:27 PM NASA and the Pentagon
Washington Post - Washington,DC,USA

NASA boss Charles Bolden goes to the Senate today to get grilled on the decision by the Obama administration to kill Constellation. Constellation isn't dead ... [more]

4:54:18 PM Shop's T-shirt sales are sent into orbit
This is Somerset - Clevedon,Somerset,UK

In 1999 the town had an asteroid named after it thanks to former resident .... where he worked for Nasa, tracing asteroids which may one day hit the Earth. ... [more]

4:50:50 PM ESO Releases Image Of A Cosmic Sculpture
RedOrbit - Dallas,TX,USA

ESO, the European Southern Observatory, is the foremost intergovernmental astronomy organization in Europe and the world's most productive astronomical ... [more]

4:24:02 PM Shuttle Discovery Moves To Assembly Building
Central Florida News 13| - Orlando,FL,USA

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER -- Space shuttle Discovery is a step closer today to its roll out to Launch Pad 39A. Discovery now is attached to its external fuel ... [more]

3:41:21 PM Saturn Moon 'Spitting' PHOTO: NASA Shoots Picture Of Dramatic Plumes On
Huffington Post - New York,NY,USA

Huffington Post (blog) In a tweet, NASA described Enceladus as 'spitting something' from its surface, and indeed the images show a series of plumes emanating from the planet's ... [more]

3:26:17 PM Astrophysicist stargazed in Kingston
The Kingston Whig-Standard - Kingston,Ontario,Canada

"Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another," Plato is thought to have said. The distant stars glimmering in the ... [more]

3:05:56 PM TC blog partying continues
Tucson Citizen

Our next event in February is scheduled at the Sky Bar (536 N. 4th Avenue), where blogger “Logical Lizard” has been meeting and screening his “Meteorite ... [more]

2:51:22 PM Can NASA's space shuttle program be extended?
Florida Today - Melbourne,FL,USA

BY TODD HALVORSON • FLORIDA TODAY • February 24, 2010 Some NASA-backers in Congress are trying to push back the retirement of the space shuttles from 2010 ... [more]

2:27:26 PM AT&T gets NASA network contract
United Press International

24 (UPI) -- AT&T of Vienna, Va., has been awarded a contract to provide NASA's mission network around the world with necessary resources for projects and ... [more]

1:57:59 PM Poems of Space Astronomy and Poetry
Palladium-Item

World renowned British astronomer and astrophysicist Dr. Jocelyn Bell Burnell from Oxford University speaks today on Astronomy and Poetry. ... [more]

12:12:30 PM NASA launches an iPhone game
Fudzilla - Tuzla,Bosnia and Herzegovina

If you thought that the cash the US has been chucking at NASA was supposed to make them go back up there and explore something, you've apparently been wrong ... [more]

8:30:16 AM VAFB gets ready for Heavy duty
Santa Maria Times - Santa Maria,CA,USA

To accommodate the Delta 4-Heavy, which at nearly 24-stories tall is bigger than space shuttle, ULA spent some $58 million. The work included procuring 835 ... [more]

7:31:07 AM Zooming In On Heat At Baghdad Sulcus
Space Daily - Rancho Palos Verdes,CA,USA

It was obtained by NASA's Cassini spacecraft during its Nov. 21, 2009, flyby of that moon. The fissure, named Baghdad Sulcus, is one of four so-called ... [more]

6:21:52 AM Little Known Secret About Obama's New World Order and the Science ...
Before It's News

If you look away toward Jupiter you will see an asteroid belt between Jupiter ... If the Earth could be hit hard from the outside by a huge rock hard enough ... [more]

2:39:24 AM NASA Sets March 2 Launch For GOES-P
Aviation Week - New York,NY,USA

By Staff NASA plans to launch the third and final Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) in the GOES-N series on a United Launch Alliance ... [more]

2:35:38 AM Inner City Kids Get Field Trip To Jones Observatory
The Chattanoogan - Chattanooga,TN,USA

Jack Pitkin, of the UTC Physics and Astronomy Department, hosted the event with other department staff members. The kids were given a brief astronomy lesson ... [more]

1:41:48 AM School cancellations left astronomer with no one to talk to during Abilene
Abilene Reporter-News - Abilene,TX,USA

Abilene Reporter-News By Brian Bethel A University of Texas at Austin astronomer scheduled to speak in Abilene on Tuesday had to return home when inclement weather canceled his ... [more]

12:24:06 AM Endeavour Home After Completing A Special Delivery To ISS
Space Daily

by Staff Writers Space Shuttle Endeavour landed early this morning at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida after a flight delivering more living space, ... [more]



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