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NASA managers will hold a news conference on Tuesday, Aug. 18, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida to discuss the status of the next space shuttle launch.
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Debate: Returning to the Moon
2, Aug 2009Upcoming Debate: Returning to the Moon , Economist “This house believes that NASA should not send humans back to the moon. This debate will happen online, and starts on August 4th 2009. You can sign up for email alerts to be notified when this debate begins.” – Defending the motion: Michael N. Gold, Director, Washington, D.C. Area Office, Bigelow Aerospace – Against the motion: Gregg Maryniak, Director, James S. McDonnell Planetarium and VP, Energy and Aerospace, Saint Louis Science Centre It’s time for NASA to get back on track , editorial, Walt Cunningham, Houston Chronicle “The so-called benefits of establishing an outpost on the moon are ephemeral and will be quite costly. Outposts on the moon are what I call “Mars Lite” — going beyond earth orbit, while avoiding commitment to the next real milestone of human exploration — Mars. Claims of mining Helium 3, prospecting for water, and rehearsing for Mars are not compelling reasons for returning to the moon. A lunar outpost diversion will cost at least $150 billion and carry with it the potential of becoming a financial swamp that could delay our exploration of Mars indefinitely.”
Endeavour Is Home
31, Jul 2009Space Shuttle Endeavour Returns to Earth “Space shuttle Endeavour touched down at 10:48: a.m. EDT. at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Commander Mark Polansky is expected to make a brief statement on the runway after the post-landing walk-around of the shuttle. The post-landing news conference is set for approximately 1 p.m. and will air live on NASA Television. The crew’s news conference is set to begin at about 3:15 p.m. The astronauts return to Houston’s Ellington Field is tentatively set for about 5 p.m. Saturday. STS-127 was the 127th space shuttle mission, the 23rd flight for Endeavour and the 29th shuttle visit to the station.”
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NASA LaRC Solicitation: Innovation Assessment and Workshop
- In: Space & Spacecraft
- Tags: cad, esa, innovation, jsc, kennedy-space, science-centre, services, sols-1900-1905, Space & Spacecraft, workshop
NASA JSC Solicitation: Open Innovation Support Services
MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. announced today that it has signed a contract for $4.6 million (CAD) to provide RADARSAT-2 satellite imagery to the European Space Agency (ESA). The imagery will be delivered from July 2009 until September 2010.
The atomic force microscope is a powerful tool in physics, able to image individual atoms by relying on a tiny probe dragged across a surface. Responding to the repulsive forces from the atoms it encounters, the probe gauges the topographical contours of the surface like a needle tracing the inside of a record groove. [More]