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News From Saturday, February 27, 2010
11:50:13 PM NASA Workers Launch Effort to Save Jobs
AFL-CIO - Washington,DC,USA

Without a new commitment to extend the space program, central Florida stands to lose 7000 jobs at NASA and another 16000 public- and private-sector jobs ... [more]

10:11:37 PM Climate change is a real concern
Lower Hudson Journal news

However, astronomers and climatologists have investigated this idea and concluded, in peer-reviewed science journals, that sunspots play no significant role ... [more]

9:13:25 PM A final look back at shuttle booster firing
Spaceflight Now - Orlando,FL,USA

Alliant Techsystems conducted its final ground firing of a space shuttle solid rocket booster, a bittersweet event that capped 33 years of testing for the ... [more]

8:56:12 PM Tsunami warning for Hawaii: What you need to know
Food Consumer - Manitowoc,WI,USA

Tsunamis are sersmic ocean waves created by an underwater disturbance such as an earthquake, landslike, volcanic eruption or meteorite. ... [more]

8:35:05 PM NASA Opens Access to CubeSat Satellites
Tonic

NASA calls them CubeSats: small cubes of approximately 4 inches on a side, weighing a bit over two pounds, these 'picosatellites' as NASA has dubbed them ... [more]

8:20:44 PM Weymanns contribute to students' education
Atascadero News - Atascadero,USA

“I think I enjoyed [tutoring] as much as anything I did in astronomy,” Ray said. Before giving any scholarships or tutoring, Ray and Barbara met while they ... [more]

6:52:09 PM WE Gordon, Creator of Link to Deep Space, Dies at 92
New York Times - New York,NY,USA

The Arecibo Observatory has been used to make scores of landmark discoveries in atmospheric physics and astronomy, including one that garnered a Nobel Prize ... [more]

6:36:32 PM Astro Bob blog: My flight to the mushroom planet
Duluth News Tribune

It went by the somewhat overblown name "The Organization of Amateur Astronomers" and garnered a few of my grade school friends. We hung out talking about ... [more]

5:41:00 PM Canada's famous robotic limb soon to come home
CTV.ca

It flew on Space Shuttle Columbia in 1981 and, since then, has rotated with the other Canadarms to fly on numerous missions over the years. ... [more]

4:55:54 PM Will NASA use VASIMR engines to go to Mars?
iTWire (press release) - Australia

By William Atkins With the Space Shuttle retiring and the new Constellation program already defunct, NASA is concentrating on developing new space ... [more]

3:43:07 PM NASA's Constellation: Closing down is hard to do
Central Florida Political Pulse - Orlando,FL,USA

NASA is discovering that to terminate Constellation it has to navigate a political and financial maze largely of its own making. ... [more]

3:08:31 PM Massive Chilean Earthquake Sets Off Tsunami Warning in Hawaii
Gather.com - Boston,MA,USA

A tsunami is a series of waves, made in an ocean or other body of water by an earthquake, landslide, volcanic eruption, or even meteorite impact. ... [more]

1:46:17 PM Rocket puts 40-day trip to red planet in reach
Sydney Morning Herald - Sydney,New South Wales,Australia

The Variable Specific Impulse Magnetoplasma Rocket is quickly becoming a centrepiece of NASA's future strategy as it looks to private firms to help meet the ... [more]

10:44:30 AM A Review of NASA's Latest Exploration Plans
TopNews - Little Rock,Arkansas,USA

This week's review of NASA's new plans for space exploration have been mixed, some very good and some very grim. The new plan calls for a cancellation of ... [more]

10:28:18 AM Scientist encourages a career with stars during visit to Charleston
Herald & Review - Decatur,IL,USA

Hammel is the senior research scientist with the space institute and works in planetary astronomy, using the Hubble telescope "as often as they let me," she ... [more]

8:45:53 AM Scientists spot 'alien' invaders in Milky Way
Times of India - India

Using mostly Hubble Space Telescope data, Bridges and Duncan Forbes, co-author, from Swinburne University of Technology, Australia, examined old star ... [more]

7:44:27 AM Particle Gives New Clues to Comets' Origins Some of their components
Forbes

Softpedia The same traces have been discovered in meteorite fragments as well, and so scientists believe that part of the materials in both classes of space objects ... [more]

7:38:28 AM Hubble 3D - space like you've never seen it before
The Inquisitr - Melbourne,Victoria,Australia

It is though probably one of the coolest movies you will see about man, space, and the Hubble telescope. In the last mission to upgrade and save the Hubble ... [more]

6:56:21 AM NASA's tough mission: Dismantling Constellation
Orlando Sentinel - Orlando,FL,USA

By Robert Block, ORLANDO SENTINEL SPACE EDITOR CAPE CANAVERAL — NASA is discovering that perhaps the only thing harder than starting up a program to send ... [more]

6:04:33 AM NASA lands at Carver Elementary
Savannah Morning News

By Chelsea A. Hauk It's not every day that students get a firsthand account of what it's like to work at NASA. But students at George Washington Carver .... [more]

5:33:32 AM A brief history of Stoffer Science Hall
Washburn Review - Topeka,KS,USA

Stoffer Science hall provides modern teaching facilities for the departments of Physics, Astronomy, Chemistry, Biology and Home Economics. .... [more]

3:14:14 AM NASA Solicitation: Announcement of CUBESAT Launch Initiative
Space Ref - USA

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Space Operations Mission Directorate (SOMD) anticipates that launch opportunities for a limited ... [more]

2:01:14 AM Astronomer lectures
Skidmore News

On March 2 Vera Rubin, an award-winning astronomer, will deliver a lecture on her research on dark matter. She will open with a brief historical ... [more]

12:38:33 AM New Shuttle Nettop PC Takes Up Less Space Than Before
NetworkWorld.com - Southborough,MA,USA

Don't have a lot of space? Shuttle's new super-thin power-sipping mini PC is the answer. By Alessondra Springmann, PC World. [more]



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