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11:35:31 PM Endeavour space shuttle launches, brings COLBERT its home
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by Mandi Bierly The space shuttle Endeavour had a gorgeous launch at 4:14 am ET this morning from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. ... [more]

11:23:19 PM Five major engineering screw-ups
EDN.com - Newton,MA,USA

The Hubble telescope mirror, they attribute to a fleck of paint (news to me). The 1977 New York blackout, blamed on an operator error. ... [more]

9:31:07 PM As NASA shifts priorities, officials need to keep eye on cybersecurity
Nextgov - Washington,DC,USA

By Aliya Sternstein 02/08/2010 NASA Budget request calls for NASA to stop human flight programs, which includes this abort system being tested. ... [more]

8:22:30 PM Many Wavelengths, Many Telescopes: How Observatories Reflect the Challenges
University of Wisconsin-Madison University Communications

University of Wisconsin-Madison DescriptionKelley Hess, astronomy department. All telescopes work on the same basic principles, yet radio telescopes, for example, look very different, ... [more]

7:07:09 PM NASA's Endeavour launches 'complicated' mission
ComputerWorld - USA

By Sharon Gaudin Computerworld - With this morning's launch of the space shuttle Endeavour, the six-astronaut crew began what NASA is calling a "very ... [more]

5:12:12 PM Super Bowl 2010 - the Ads
Associated Content - Denver,CO,USA

The best was set in an observatory that had detected an asteroid about to hit the Earth. So one last party ensues, naturally lubricated by six packs of Bud ... [more]

5:11:01 PM Pluto Shows Hubble Its True Colors
Sci-Tech Today - USA

To the layman, it has a yellow-orange hue, but astronomers say it has about 20 percent more red than it used to have. The pictures show icy frozen nitrogen ... [more]

3:16:28 PM Hubble's portrait of everybody's favorite ex-planet
Ars Technica - USA

By Matt Ford | Last updated February 8, 2010 8:52 AM While the Hubble space telescope has provided the world with some of the most amazing images ever taken ... [more]

2:59:29 PM Michael and Denise Okuda on Project Constellation and the Future of
TrekWeb.com - Los Angeles,CA,USA

TrekWeb.com Constellation, as you may know, began in 2004, after the tragic loss of the Space Shuttle Columbia and its crew. NASA was determined to make spaceflight ... [more]

2:55:14 PM Space Shuttle Lights Up Night Sky
Information Week Weblog - Manhasset,NY,USA

Endeavour embarks on a 13-day mission, one of the last for NASA's orbiter, to deliver key parts to the ISS. By Paul McDougall Hours after Super Bowl .... [more]

11:03:36 AM Meteorite in the hills of Donegal?
Ocean fm

It's emerged that Donegal could have been the most likely landing place for a meteorite spotted in skies across the North West last week. ... [more]

10:40:50 AM Smart Planet: Meet the 'Indiana Jones' of NASA
ZDNet - USA

NASA scientist Chris McKay takes his work to the far reaches of planet Earth, studying extreme conditions in order to find life on other planets. .... [more]

9:42:09 AM Space shuttle Endeavour launch
BBC News - E,UK

The US shuttle Endeavour is to lift off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on a mission to the International Space Station (ISS). ... [more]

9:41:47 AM Clouds force a delay in shuttle launch
Boston Globe - Boston,MA,USA

NASA counted down to the nine-minute mark, but the sky remained overcast. NASA managers said they would try again today, when slightly better conditions ... [more]

8:31:52 AM Politics of Cosmic Catastrophe
ÄÚ¸®¾ÆÅ¸ÀÓÁî - South Korea

According to NASA, if Apophis hit the Earth, it could release more than 100000 times the energy of the Tunguska event. Thousands of square kilometers could ... [more]

7:51:04 AM Money taken from college astronomy student
The Northwest Florida Daily News - Fort Walton Beach,FL,USA

27 during the Northwest Florida State College student's astronomy class. She and the rest of the class left the room to use a telescope in a different ... [more]

7:44:48 AM Reach for the Moon
The Dartmouth

How could we have repaired the Hubble Space Telescope four times without the space shuttle? “Rest assured,” I am told, “we can and will build unmanned ... [more]

7:37:38 AM Photos offer a glimpse of Pluto
Contra Costa Sun - Orinda,CA,USA

Pluto has been going through dramatic changes in the Kuiper Belt, according to Caltech astronomer Mike Brown. "It's a ridiculously extreme place to be," ... [more]

6:39:56 AM Remmert was self-taught musician, astronomer and contractor
San Antonio Express - San Antonio,TX,USA

.... he attended numerous astronomy conferences in northern California, which allowed him to build lasting friendships with professional astronomers. ... [more]

6:07:43 AM Mission correction
Boston Globe - Boston,MA,USA

.... it in 2004,'' said Jeffrey Hoffman, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and former astronaut who made five space shuttle flights. ... [more]

4:11:17 AM 'NASA, ESA Want To Be Part Of Chandrayaan-II Mission'
Space Daily

by Staff Writers NASA and European Space Agency (ESA) want to be part of Chandrayaan-II, the next Indian mission to Moon, by sending their instruments, ... [more]

4:04:25 AM In praise of… the pips
Guardian - UK

To ships' captains and astronomers, railway signalmen and the faithful at prayer, accurate timekeeping is indispensable. So there was a particular symbolism ... [more]

4:04:03 AM University houses one of world's largest meteorite collections
Web Devil - USA

ASU's Center for Meteorite Studies, home of the largest university collection of meteorite samples in the world, is making cutting-edge research in ... [more]

3:14:48 AM Editorials & reply
Guardian - UK

Editorial: To ships' captains and astronomers, railway signalmen and the faithful at prayer, accurate timekeeping is indispensable. ... [more]

1:39:25 AM Planets! planets! and more planets!
Daily Times - Pakistan

Astronomers working at Berkeley and Geneva have found nine new planets circling nearby stars. With this discovery, we now know of 50 extra-solar planets, ... [more]

1:18:14 AM Space shuttle fueling up for Monday launch
Reuters - NY,USA

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - NASA began fueling the space shuttle Endeavour for a Monday morning launch amid concerns that low clouds over Florida's ... [more]



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