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HOUSTON, Jan. 30 (UPI) -- U.S. President Barack Obama's moves to drop a NASA program that would return astronauts to the moon will spark a political fight, space program experts predict.

By Keith Cowing 3 Feb: Space and Aeronautics Subcommittee - Hearing: Key Issues and Challenges Facing NASA: Views of the Agency's Watchdogs: 10:00 am EST - hearing runs for two hours. You can expect Subcommittee Chair Rep. Giffords to pick up where she left off at a previous hearing wherein she will bash No...

By Keith Cowing NASA/JSC has a requirement for the acquisition of services to update a magnet fixture with an additional cryocooler for conduction cooling and to eliminate the liquid cyrogen cooling system in preparation for crycooler testing in vacuum and magnetic field combined environments. In a...

By Keith Cowing NASA to Review Human Spaceflight, NY Times "The expansive, multimonth technical study, still in the preliminary stages, might be similar to the Exploration Systems Architecture Study that in 2005 settled on the design of the agency's program to return astronauts... NASA to Review Human...

By Jason Paur Image: X-15 aircraft./NASA See Also: NASA’s Contest to Design the Last Shuttle PatchStrange Places on Mars: What Do You Want to See Next?Mars Phoenix Tweets: “We Have ICE!”Data Nerds Hack NASA — in a Good WayNASA Wants Your Ideas for Digitizing Rocket Scientist’s Notes

NASA soon will provide Internet viewers an inside look at astronauts working in space by streaming video live from the International Space Station's laboratories. The internal views are set to begin Feb. 1 and will be available during all crew duty hours.

By Nancy Atkinson Mission Control: "Challenger, go with throttle up" Commander Dick Scobee: "Roger go with throttle up" Those were the last words heard from the Challenger crew on January 28, 1986. Then came an explosion, and the famous "Y" plume of smoke from the solid rocket boosters flying away aimless...

By Keith Cowing Report: Obama Budget to Scrub Moon Mission, CBS News "Instead of blasting off to the moon, NASA's hopes for a manned mission there have been blasted to pieces, sources in the White House, Congress and NASA tell the Orlando Sentinel."... Report: Obama Budget to Scrub Moon Mission, CBS News

soon will provide Internet viewers an inside look at astronauts working in space by streaming video live from the International Space Station's laboratories.

By Alexis Madrigal Spirit Rover Wiggles Her WheelsSpirit’s Low on MarsFree Spirit: NASA Recreates Mars Surface to Liberate RoverRobot Rescue Party Aiding Mired Martian RoverMars Rover “Spirit” Needs Sunny Slope to Survive Winter WiSci 2.0: Alexis Madrigal’s Twitter, Google Reader feed, and green tec...

NASA will host a media teleconference at 1 p.m. EST on Tuesday, Jan. 26 to discuss the status of the agency's Mars rover Spirit. The robotic explorer has been stuck in sandy soil on Mars for the past eight months.

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By Ken Kremer SDO and two piece payload fairing inside “clean room” at Astrotech Spaceflight facility near KSC on Jan 21. Fairing protects spacecraft during ascent through earths atmosphere. Credit: Ben Cooper/Spaceflight Now NASA SDO Website

NASA has exciting news! EarthKAM has just launched a new beta version of its Web site.

NASA's Mars exploration rover Opportunity is allowing scientists to get a glimpse deep inside Mars. Perched on a rippled Martian plain, a dark rock not much bigger than a basketball was the target of interest for Opportunity during the past two months.

By JR(jonjayray@gmail.com) In a new report, computer expert E. Michael Smith and Certified Consulting Meteorologist Joseph D'Aleo discovered extensive manipulation of the temperature data by the U.S. Government's two primary climate centers: the National Climate Data Center (NCDC) in Ashville, North Carolina...

NASA officials will discuss an upcoming spacewalk by two Russian cosmonauts, the relocation of a Soyuz spacecraft to a new docking port and other International Space Station activities during a briefing at 1 p.m. CST on Monday, Jan. 11.

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NASA has launched an initiative to use its missions and technology programs to boost summer learning. NASA's Summer of Innovation supports the President's Educate to Innovate campaign for science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education.

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By Alexis Madrigal and Betsy Mason gt;The space shuttle program is on its way out, but the core of people who built and maintained it will live on. To honor them, NASA gave its employees the chance to design the patch that will commemorate the shuttle program, which is slated to end in September, after STS-133 flies. From the de...

WASHINGTON, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- The U.S. space agency says it will choose from Venus, an asteroid and the moon for another unmanned venture to a celestial body in the solar system.

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YEARENDER: NASA remembers storied past, but looks to uncertain future Earthtimes (press release) But even as NASA announced unprecedented findings from scientific missions to the moon and Mars, the Obama administration conducted a review of its ... World's top super projects (2)Tempo

Space News The good news comes from a November "Readiness to Proceed" review of the NASA Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) that took a hard look at problem-plagued ... NASA salvages one of its orbiting Mars probesal.com (blog) Dust Bedevils Mars Much More Often...Science Now

By Keith Cowing That language, inserted by U.S. Sen. Richard Shelby, R-Ala., should pass this month as part of a nearly $450 billion omnibus appropriations bill. It would require NASA to spend nearly $4 billion on the program this fiscal year, effectively tying Obama's hands as he attempts to forge a new NASA...

Houston, They Have a Problem. Discovery Institute (blog) The fight over global warming science is about to cross the Atlantic with a US researcher poised to sue NASA, demanding release of the same kind of climate ... How damaging is “Climategate” to NASA?The Space Review

By Keith Cowing NASA: Briefing on National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Programs and Associated Activities, GAO GAO Report Affirms That NASA Has Effective Mechanisms for Coordinating with Other Federal Agencies and Avoiding Duplicative Efforts, House Science and Technology Committ...

By geeknews Show Links: Moon Bombing NASA gets to rock the Moon. Is Verizon and AT&T Scared of FCC? Is AT&T going to hammer heavy iPhone Users? FCC says Wireless carriers need more Spectrum. Russians going back to Venus! Comcast to warn subscribers if they have been hacked (BRAVO)!

By Alexis Madrigal Congress takes up the future of human spaceflight today in the wake of an independent report that could signal a fundamental reorganization of NASA. The Augustine committee, as it’s known because of its head, Norm Augustine, sent over a summary of its findings to the Office for Science an...

By Alexis Madrigal While the super-rich can pay millions to experience weightlessness at the International Space Station, some college kids have figured out how to experience the thrill of zero gravity for the student-friendly price of $0. “It’s the opportunity of a lifetime,” Niusma said.

By Alexis Madrigal There are a host of technical details and variations on each plan, but the key questions are [ppt]: When will the shuttle be phased out? When will the International Space Station be de-orbited? Which rocket — Ares I, Ares V, modified Ares V, shuttle-styled, or a commercial launch vehicle...

By kcowing Mike Griffin Reveals His Commercialization Vision for NASA: Part 2, SpaceRef Mike Griffin: Well, with regard to feelings: I don't do feelings. Just think of me as Spock." [audio] Comment by Lori Garver during yesterday's employee briefing: "Feelings are back at NASA".

By Alexis Madrigal March 2015: The first crewed Orion/Ares mission to the International Space Station will launch. 2016: The European Space Agency will launch ExoMars, a rover mission to the surface of that planet. NASA is involved, however, helping provide communications via the Deep Space Network.

By Alexis Madrigal That may have sounded great, but it put NASA in a tough spot. First, the agency had trumpeted its success with less expensive robotic missions, not manned flight, and Bush’s priorities seemed likely to defund robotic missions. Second, the Space Shuttle program has been slated to come to an...

By MarcBoucher NASA Releases Restored Apollo 11 Moonwalk Video, NASA NASA released Thursday newly restored video from the July 20, 1969, live television broadcast of the Apollo 11 moonwalk. The release commemorates the 40th anniversary of the first mission to land astronauts on the moon."

By Hadley Leggett The United States wasn’t the only country hoping to land on the moon in July 1969 — Russians were trying to beat us to the punch by landing the unmanned spacecraft Luna 15 while Apollo 11 was still in orbit around the moon. Now, thanks to the discovery of previously unheard recordings from 196...

By Brandon Keim Listen to the Apollo 10 broadcast. See Also: NASA’s Best Photos: You Make the CallOpen Data: Shuttle Impacts From Space JunkTiny, DIY Satellites Get NASA Boost Image: NASA Brandon Keim’s Twitter stream and Del.icio.us feed; Wired Science on Facebook.

By MarcBoucher Editor's note: Earth observation by satellites provide critical data on the health of our planet. This new report about ocean health plant indicates surprising changes are happening and it's too early to raise the alarm but there is evidence for some concern. Unfortunately it's taken a w...

By MarcBoucher The President’s FY 2010 budget request for NASA supports the Administration’s commitment to deploy a global climate change research and monitoring system, funds a robust program of space exploration involving humans and robots with a goal to return Americans to the Moon by 2020 and ex...

By MarcBoucher The Bay Area Houston Economic Partnership hosted United States Senator John Cornyn’s Roundtable Discussion on the Status of Human Space Exploration on Saturday at the Silver Moon Café at Space Center Houston. Listen: RealPlayer MP3"

By MarcBoucher Obama pledges 3 percent of GDP for research, Infoworld It sparked a wide range of scientific innovation with benefits that went far beyond the historic Apollo missions, such as advancements in building materials and fire-resistant fabrics, he said."

By Nancy Atkinson There’s good news and bad news for the upcoming Hubble repair mission. The good news is that the statistical threat posed to space shuttle Atlantis and her crew by micro-meteoroid orbiting debris (MMOD) is currently no greater than last year, even with the collision of two satellites in F...

By Amanda Terkel Last year, Griffin faced heated attacks for saying that he wasn’t sure whether or not global warming was a “problem.” He also “quietly altered” NASA’s mission statement to remove any reference to the agency’s responsibility to protect the earth against global warming

By Charles While in LA for PDC2008, we were lucky enough to get the chance to head down to Pasadena for a tour and interview at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Nic Fillingham and I grabbed a cab and met up with the great Marc Mercuri (of RoboChamps fame), DPE's VP Walid Abu-Hadba and others to get a look at...

By Sue Sturgis(noreply@blogger.com) It just makes it more difficult to fly," said Keith Koehler, the facility’s public affairs specialist. "For safety reasons, we don't want to be flying rockets anywhere near these things."When NASA launches rockets from Wallops, the used motors fall into the Atlantic, so steps would have...

By geek@geeknewscentral.com (Todd Cochrane) Mars Everest Panorama Big Bang or Big Bounce Cassini and New Aurora on Saturn Funny NASA Mission Control Google Gmail Video Roku Netflix One Dot? Is your Spam down? Mars Rover Low on Power Rover Update STS-126 to ISS for Home Improvements Telecoms Sweating Obama Administration

Young Czech designer Jan Čtvrtník has worked for some of the best-known names in the industry, from domestic firm Moser to IKEA and Electrolux. He has just won an illustrious Droog award for a vase highlighting the issue of climate change, which also attracted the attention of British des...

By JR(noreply@blogger.com) Source More crooked Greenie "science" Source Hoagy is a crook. FP: What is the science behind global warming theory? FP: If the science is so faulty, why does the culture at large rely on it so much? What political underpinnings are involved in this scare? Who profits?

By Elaine Chow Google and NASA are partnering up to let space beings (and astronauts) wander the web from up in orbit. Google VP Vint Cerf and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory have started working together to create a standardized internet for space, which can finally replace the one-time-use radio eq...

By Betsy Mason Asteroids of this size are estimated to strike Earth once every 500,000 years on average and could be capable of causing a global catastrophe if they hit Earth. In 2008, NASA’s Near Earth Object Program spotted a total of 11,323 objects of all sizes.

The big-government approach did get us to the moon -- the process might have been expensive and complicated, but it had also been fast, and it had worked. Unfortunately, the big-government approach stopped working. The Apollo program was ended early, the promised follow-up missions did...

Silly, I know, but I wonder what all those planets, dwarf planets and moons in our SOLAR system have in common. Hmmmm. SOLAR system. Hmmmm. Solar? I wonder. Nah, I guess we shouldn’t even be talking about this. The science is absolutely decided. There’s a consensus.