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News From Tuesday, February 23, 2010
11:55:24 PM NASA Chief Bolden reorganizes his space agency
Central Florida Political Pulse - Orlando,FL,USA

OK folks, here's some real inside NASA baseball for you: NASA administrator Charlie Bolden on Tuesday sent a letter to his agency chiefs describing how he ... [more]

11:25:54 PM Are we missing ET's call?
MSNBC (press release) - USA

Although SETI astronomers have been teased by one-time-only events such as the "Wow" signal, there have been no confirmed messages from ET Some astronomers ... [more]

11:03:31 PM Award-winning Cincinnati outreach program graduates first class of Galileos
Astronomy Magazine - USA

The purpose of the program follows the theme of the International Year of Astronomy — astronomy outreach. Most people in the Cincinnati area have never ... [more]

10:24:41 PM NASA Unveils New Space-Weather Science Tool
PR Newswire (press release) - USA

23 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- When NASA's satellite operators need accurate, real-time space-weather information, they turn to the Community Coordinated ... [more]

8:57:55 PM Spaceships Worthy of the Name
Huffington Post - New York,NY,USA

First, is the idea of what type of commercial crew-carrying vehicle should follow the Space Shuttle. Next is why we should extend the life of the Shuttle ... [more]

8:50:47 PM Alien Star Clusters Fill Our Galaxy
Space.com - USA

Astronomers previously suspected that some globular star clusters, which each contain between 10000 and several million stars, were foreign to our galaxy, ... [more]

8:33:51 PM For NASA no easy answer for next space destination
Washington Post - Washington,DC,USA

By SETH BORENSTEIN AP It's a simple question that NASA can't answer so easily anymore. The veteran space shuttle fleet is months from being mothballed and ... [more]

8:17:15 PM Milky Way galaxy littered with 'alien' stars
Motors ...

Dwarf galaxies gobbled up by our own Milky Way make up about a quarter of the 160 star-packed "globular clusters" littering the galaxy, astronomers report ... [more]

8:08:06 PM Wheaton may get downtown grocery store ... at Hubble School site?
Chicago Daily Herald - Chicago,IL,USA

By Robert Sanchez | Daily Herald Staff Wheaton's best chance for a downtown grocery store might be the former Hubble Middle School site - not the shuttered ... [more]

7:29:22 PM Shuttle Stirs Panic Over Central America
Information Week Weblog - Manhasset,NY,USA

Indeed, Endeavour's detour, and its auditory fallout, made front page headlines across the Western hemisphere's middle region, even as NASA remained mum on ... [more]

5:50:56 PM NASA Prepares Shuttle Discovery for April Launch
Space.com - USA

By Tariq Malik NASA's space shuttle Discovery moved a step closer to a planned April 5 launch Monday, a day after its sister ship Endeavour returned to ... [more]

5:49:46 PM iXsystems Unveils PC-BSD 8.0 Hubble Edition
TMCnet - USA

By Jai CS iXsystems Inc., a manufacturer of FreeBSD-certified servers and storage solutions, has launched Version 8.0 of PC-BSD Hubble Edition. ... [more]

5:34:41 PM "You Will Be Assimilated"
Discovery News

Now, astronomers had suspected this might be the case, but this is science: you need evidence. And the Hubble Space Telescope was there to help. ... [more]

5:12:29 PM Cambridge graduate on second space mission
Cambridge Varsity Online - Varsity,Cambridge,UK

Patrick, who works for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), first went into space in 2006, when astronauts fitted a backbone segment to ... [more]

4:18:32 PM SpaceX Rocket at Launch Pad for Final Tests
FOX News - USA

By Tariq Malik A new rocket built by a Californian company to launch commercial spacecraft on cargo trips for NASA is poised atop its Florida launch pad for ... [more]

3:53:05 PM Space Junk Mess Getting Messier in Orbit
Space.com - USA

"A penetrating object hitting the ISS, and possibly causing a casualty ... us with a large asteroid or comet collision every few million years that it isn't ... [more]

3:37:36 PM Can We Lower Earth's Thermostat?
Discovery News

By Ray Villard | Tue Feb 23, 2010 04:09 AM ET For years science fiction writers and astronomers have speculated about the feasibility of terraforming other ... [more]

3:09:25 PM NASA prepares for a satellite launch
United Press International

23 (UPI) -- NASA says it will provide television and Internet coverage of next week's launch of its Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-P. The ... [more]

2:57:11 PM Astronomers discovers youngest extra-solar planet
TopNews - Noida,UP,India

Astronomers have recently discovered the youngest extra-solar planet which is six times the mass of Jupiter - 1.9x1027 kg. It is only 35 million years old ... [more]

2:33:51 PM Asteroid? It's a Sign From God!
ScienceBlogs - USA

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has observed a mysterious X-shaped debris pattern and trailing streamers of dust that suggest a head-on collision between two ... [more]

1:49:26 PM Boeing, NASA Complete Key Reviews for Tracking and Data Relay Satellite
The FINANCIAL - Tbilisi,Georgia

The FINANCIAL The FINANCIAL -- Boeing [NYSE: BA] and its customer NASA on February 23 announced that the Tracking and Data Relay Satellite (TDRS) KL program successfully ... [more]

1:47:38 PM Laser demos to be today at UI
Iowa City Press Citizen - Iowa City,IA,USA

The annual University of Iowa Department of Physics and Astronomy Demonstration, featuring laser demonstrations, will be from 7 to 8 pm today in Lecture ... [more]

1:29:37 PM Three films guaranteed to offend scientists
BBC News - E,UK

After all, if the asteroid in Armageddon was spotted years before it threatened to hit Earth, the story would lack tension. "Errors of time scale are often ... [more]

12:54:35 PM Incredible cosmic phenomena captured by Hubble Space Telescope;
Port Folio Weekly - Virginia Beach,VA,USA

Port Folio Weekly A couple of weeks ago, the Hubble Telescope snapped this shot of what appears to be a cosmic throwing star. While scientists don't think it's a comet, ... [more]

11:51:46 AM Denmark anstronaut says spacewalk's unlike any other experience
The Times and Democrat - Orangeburg,SC,USA

Satcher made his first trip into space as part of a six-man crew on the space shuttle Atlantis on Nov. 16, 2009. During the flight, he installed spare ... [more]

11:07:56 AM Wallops winning more NASA support
Hampton Roads Daily Press - Newport,VA,USA

NASA is increasing its support of the Wallops Flight Facility on Virginia's Eastern Shore. The space agency said the support contract with the Virginia .... [more]

10:09:02 AM Aliens may be 'staring us in the face', says astronomer for the Queen
Metro Cafe - London,UK

The Queen's astronomer reckons aliens could be “staring us in the face” but human beings simply don't recognise them. Lord Martin Rees, the president of the ... [more]

8:31:54 AM Welcome home space shuttle crew today
Ultimate Clear Lake

Photo by Bruce Weaver/AFP/Getty ImagesWelcome home the crew of the space shuttle Endeavour this afternoon at Ellington Airport. ... [more]

6:52:40 AM NASA sets timetables for engine and demonstrators
Spaceflight Now - Orlando,FL,USA

BY STEPHEN CLARK NASA hopes to begin flying flagship-class space technology demonstration missions by 2014 and develop a powerful new hydrocarbon first .... [more]

3:16:45 AM ViewSpace at Linda Hall Library
UMKC University News - Kansas City,MO,USA

"The Cosmology Theater provides an opportunity to view Hubble images," said Eric Ward, associate director of Communications/Marketing for Linda Hall Library ... [more]

2:55:00 AM NASA Sets Coverage for GOES-P Weather Satellite Launch on March 2
Space Ref - USA

NASA will provide television, Internet and photo coverage of the launch starting with a prelaunch news conference at 4 pm on Monday, March 1, at NASA ... [more]

2:31:02 AM Feb 23, 1987: 'Quintessential' Supernova Bursts on the Scene
Wired News - USA

At the University of Toronto's observatory in the foothills of the Andes mountains, 30-year-old astronomer Ian Shelton was looking at photographic plates in ... [more]

2:06:46 AM Last rocket to be fired in Utah as final space shuttle launch nears
KSL-TV

The people who've been building space shuttle rockets for more than a third of a century will conduct the last test firing in Utah. ... [more]

1:36:41 AM NASA releases new details of commercial crew program
Spaceflight Now - Orlando,FL,USA

BY STEPHEN CLARK NASA will attempt to stimulate a portfolio of private transportation providers in its commercial crew program, striking a balance between ... [more]

12:43:04 AM Discover Interview Space Is Getting Bigger, and It's Getting Bigger Faster
Discover Magazine - New York,NY,USA

In the 1920s, Edwin Hubble showed that the universe is expanding. But the very next thing out of people's mouths was more questions: Will it keep expanding? ... [more]

12:17:17 AM A Stellar, Metal-Free Way To Make Carbon Nanotubes
Space Daily - Rancho Palos Verdes,CA,USA

Fries and Andrew Steele at the Carnegie Institution for Science, Washington, reported the meteorite findings. Now, the experiments by Nuth's team suggest a ... [more]

12:08:43 AM Astronomers ask public to help spot solar storms
Times Online Blogs - London,UK

Last weekend I visited the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, to see their new solar exhibition. It's timed to coincide with the launch of NASA's Solar Dynamics ... [more]



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