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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 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 And we're soon going to have a new NASA Administrator. I can't disclose it to you, because I've got to have hoopla on the announcement back here on Earth. But I can assure you that it's a high priority of mine to restore that sense of wonder that space can provide and to make sure that we've got a st...

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."

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By Robert Lemos The fate of the U.S. space program hangs in the balance.

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 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 deborahbyrd@earthsky.org (EarthSky Communications, Inc.) NASA astronomer Drake Deming talks about using brightness detectors similar to those on digital cameras to help in the hunt for Earth-like planets around other stars.

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. After drinking heavily, an astronaut flew on a Russian spacecraft and another was cleared for flight on a space shuttle, said the chairman of an independent panel of outside experts Friday, citing unverified interviews.

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After drinking heavily, an astronaut flew on a Russian spacecraft and another was cleared to fly on a space shuttle, experts stated. NASA News Conference

ORLANDO Former astronaut Lisa Nowak didnt wear diapers during her 950mile road trip to confront a romantic rival, her lawyer said Friday, disputing one of the more bizarre details to emerge from the NASA love triangle.

It's beautiful science." Patrick Hogan, Program Manager at NASA Learning Technologies, describes World Wind, NASA's incredible free open source application that provides access to terabytes of imagery collected by NASA's satellites. It lets you experience Earth terrain in visuall...

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.

By Your (optional) podcast author email address (seedmagazine.com) NASA plans for a lunar base, grouper and eels hunt together, and therapeutic cloning becomes legal in Australia.

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By info@universetoday.com (Fraser Cain) If you want to get a good view of something, you'll want a big telescope, or you want to get close. NASA has decided to both, equipping its new Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter with the largest spacecraft telescope ever built, and then flying it closer to Mars than any previous spacecraft. This te...

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By news@vanderbilt.edu (Vanderbilt News Service) Guest speaker Rick Chappell shatters some common misperceptions about gravity in space and shares his personal experiences from his training days as a back-up payload specialist for the NASA space shuttle. Dr. Chappell is a research professor of physics at Vanderbilt University and is...

By info@universetoday.com (Fraser Cain) Forget about nuclear weapons, if you need to move a dangerous asteroid, you should use a tractor beam. Think that's just Star Trek science? Think again. A team of NASA astronauts have recently published a paper in the Journal Nature. They're proposing an interesting strategy that would use...

A technology breakthrough on a key NASA planet-finding project will enable scientists to detect the dim dust disks around stars, where Earth-like planets might be forming.

By info@universetoday.com (Fraser Cain) How many times have I been to space? Well, I lost count at, oh, none. So I, and nearly every other human being on Earth can't compare with Story Musgrave, a legendary NASA astronaut who flew on the space shuttle six times, including leading the team that fixed the Hubble Space Telescope's vis...

By info@universetoday.com (Fraser Cain) Asteroids have been roughing up the Earth since it formed 4.6 billion years ago. Hundreds of thousands of potentially devastating asteroids are still out there, and whizzing past our planet all the time. Eventually, inevitably, one is going to score a direct hit and cause catastrophic dam...

By info@universetoday.com (Fraser Cain) Imagine a solar powered sail that could propel a space craft through the vacuum of space like a wind that drives a sail here on Earth. The energy of photons steaming from the Sun alone would provide the thrust. NASA and other space agencies are taking the idea seriously and are working on vario...

By info@universetoday.com (Fraser Cain) In case you missed the news, NASA is headed back to the Moon in the next decade. A permanent lunar base could be down the road, so scientists are starting to consider where we should build. Ben Bussey, with Johns Hopkins University in Maryland likes the Moon's North Pole. It's got everything yo...

Astronomers from Vanderbilt and Fisk universities might not be able to take students to the stars, but they can bring the stars to them. With a grant from NASA, the astronomers have created a roadshow for area schools and community centers using a portable, inflatable planetarium with th...