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7:49:32 PM Congress extends liability protection for commercial space firms
Central Florida Political Pulse - Orlando,FL,USA

Florida is hoping that after the space shuttle is retired next year, increased commercial launches might help offset some job losses that the end of the ... [more]

6:59:57 PM NASA Crashes Helicopter to Test New Shield
Discovery News

By Irene Klotz | Thu Dec 24, 2009 01:00 PM ET NASA intentionally crashed a 3000-pound MD-500 helicopter loaded with dummies to test a new safety shield. ... [more]

6:12:30 PM NASA prepared to show Santa Claus its green technology projects
Examiner.com - San Francisco,CA,USA

AP Photo/Akira Suemori Every year, NASA grants Santa permission to fly over its base in Cape Canaveral during the night of December 24 as part of his .... [more]

5:26:10 PM Starry, Starry Skies
Miller-McCune.com - Santa Barbara,CA,USA

"We protect the desert, and now we're protectors of the sky," said Dennis Mammana, a local astronomer and photographer. "Borrego is not just a daytime place ... [more]

5:14:49 PM The Star of Bethlehem
The New Nation - Bangladesh

What is more, Chinese astronomers used to record with meticulous care their own observations of the sky at the time. But they did not report any brilliant ... [more]

3:59:31 PM Stay tuned: New star coming in 1 million years
Science News - USA

NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage team/STScI and AURA Before a star can be born, gas and dust from a cold interstellar cloud must gather together into a ... [more]

3:42:40 PM GAO Warns NASA May Never Fully Utilize ISS
Aviation Week - New York,NY,USA

High transportation costs to space and inadequate funding on the ground may prevent NASA from using its expensive orbiting microgravity laboratory -- the ... [more]

3:15:12 PM Doorstep Astronomy: Tour the 7-day-old Moon
Space.com - USA

By Geoff Gaherty For most beginning astronomers, the moon represents the most accessible target in the sky, whether you're using binoculars, ... [more]

2:09:16 PM Astronauts Get Two Christmases in Space
Space.com - USA

Current station commander Jeff Williams of NASA is leading a crew of five, including Russian cosmonauts Maxim Suraev and Oleg Kotov, Japanese astronaut ... [more]

1:32:57 PM Shoppers try to get it done
Las Vegas Review - Journal - Las Vegas,NV,USA

By HUBBLE SMITH There's always someone going on a desperate Christmas Day mission to buy a late gift item, wrapping paper, batteries, a greeting card or ... [more]

1:05:03 PM Program enables visitors to interact with space program
The Coloradoan - Fort Collins,CO,USA

Visitors will also have a chance to test the durability of their homemade, balloon space suits against meteorite impacts. The videoconference is possible ... [more]

11:01:25 AM Do you have aliens in your family tree?
Nelson Leader - UK

And then there is the chance the Earth will be hit by massive solar flares, or might be struck by an asteroid, or ..., or ..., or . ... [more]

10:59:16 AM Avatar's life-bearing moon Pandora may exist in reality
Newspost Online - Baroda,India

Smithsonian astronomer Lisa Kaltenegger said that the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) would be able to study the atmospheres of Pandora-like worlds and ... [more]

10:53:00 AM With NASA grant, Whitman robotics team makes a come back
Business Gazette - Gaithersburg,MD,USA

A $5000 NASA grant, coupled with increased parent support, helped bring the team back from extinction earlier this school year. ... [more]

10:42:20 AM Christmas: a paradox of sources about Jesus, ancient myths, astronomy
Examiner.com - San Francisco,CA,USA

Examiner.com A final paradox is how unknown the striking similarity of the story of Jesus to other ancient myths related to astronomy and the winter solstice is among ... [more]

10:36:48 AM Top 10 stories of the decade: No. 8 -- Boulder County's aerospace industry
Daily Camera

Daily Camera This year, astronauts voyaged to Hubble to repair the Space Telescope and install new instruments, including the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph, ... [more]

8:35:27 AM Searching for the 'Christmas star'
New River Valley Current - Christiansburg,VA,United States

"Nobody knows which one is the Christmas star," says Radford University astronomer and physics professor Jack Brockway. Radford University physics professor ... [more]

8:26:19 AM Front-row seat to the universe
San Diego Union Tribune - San Diego,CA,USA

By Bruce Lieberman, UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER Palomar College astronomy instructor Mark Lane is also director of the Palomar College Planetarium, .... [more]

6:50:29 AM All The Rest
Rocktown Weekly - Harrisonburg,VA,USA

INTERESTED IN ASTRONOMY? A local astronomy organization, devoted to astronomy and astronomy education, is forming. For more information, call 434-1175 or ... [more]

6:44:30 AM Shuttle, it's cold outside
Florida Today - Melbourne,FL,USA

BY JAMES DEAN • FLORIDA TODAY • December 24, 2009 CAPE CANAVERAL — Space shuttle Endeavour has been kept warm and cozy in Kennedy Space Center's Vehicle ... [more]

4:11:27 AM Cornyn's fight to cut debt carries political price
Houston Chronicle - Houston,TX,USA

John Cornyn recently voted against legislation funding NASA, with its thousands of jobs at Houston's Johnson's Space Center, it caused a bit of a stir back ... [more]

4:10:53 AM Stars engage in vampirism to look young, hot
Healthcanal.com

Astronomers dubbed the perky stars that seem to defy ageing as blue stragglers. Further probing using the Hubble Space Telescope found evidence that there ... [more]

2:37:26 AM Canadian astronomers find two fountains of youth
Canada.com - Canada

Alison Sills, assistant professor in physics and astronomy at McMaster, explained that the discovery stemmed from an effort to uncover the reasons why stars ... [more]

2:37:13 AM Warding off flu en masse
Marshfield Mail - Marshfield,MO,USA

21, Webster County Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) members and sheriff's deputies were among those helping at Hubble Elementary School in .... [more]

2:24:40 AM NASA finds fix for Ares 1 vibration concerns
Spaceflight Now - Orlando,FL,USA

NASA has wrestled with the issue since 2007, but data from recent ground and flight tests have shown thrust oscillation in the Ares 1 is not as serious as ... [more]

1:31:00 AM Bounty offered for Paragould Meteorite
Paragould Daily Press - Paragould,AR,USA

Over the next five weeks, five fragments of the meteorite were found southwest of Paragould near Finch. The largest broke the US record at 820 pounds. ... [more]

12:35:38 AM Cuba already counts with a Planetarium
Cuba Headlines - Ciudad Habana,Habana,Cuba

A Cuban planetarium opened in the historical centre of Havana, honoring the invention of the telescope by the Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei (1609-2009) ... [more]

12:21:40 AM Second celestial treat in less than a year
Times of India - India

.... of the Sky Watchers' Association of North Bengal (SWAN), and National Executive Committee Member of the Confederation of Indian Amateur Astronomers. ... [more]

12:09:19 AM Volunteer trainers sought for astronomy program
The Lake Country Echo - Pine River,MN,USA

This grant will be used to acquire astronomy equipment that can travel throughout the region for use by individual groups. This equipment will consist of ... [more]



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