The Gap Looms
The Gap Looms
Thousands Of NASA Jobs In Jeopardy, Channel 13
“In just three years, NASA plans to shut down its manned spaceflight operations until the new constellation program comes on-line around 2014.
Thousands Of NASA Jobs In Jeopardy, Channel 13
“In just three years, NASA plans to shut down its manned spaceflight operations until the new constellation program comes on-line around 2014.
Hearing: Near-Earth Objects - Status of the Survey Program and Review of NASA’s Report to Congress
Editor’s note: According to the House Science and Technology Committee this hearing has been postponed.
Rocketplane Kistler President Resigns, SpaceNews
“RpK came in with a lot of promises and a half baked business plan and the market place is weeding them out,” Gump said.
In NASA’s Sterile Areas, Plenty of Robust Bacteria, NY Times
“Researchers have found a surprising diversity of hardy bacteria in a seemingly unlikely place — the so-called sterile clean rooms where NASA assembles its spacecraft and prepares them for launching.
Date Released: Saturday, October 6, 2007
Source: Gamma-ray lighthouse at the edge of our universe
There is a gamma-ray lighthouse shining from the edge of our universe.
Date Released: Saturday, October 6, 2007
Source: Fifty times sharper than Hubble - New Image of the Central Region of the Active Galaxy M87
M87, the central galaxy of the Virgo cluster in a distance of only 50 million light years, was observed by Yuri Kovalev from the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronony (MPIfR) in Bonn and his colleagues with the VLBA (Very Long Baseline Array) at 2 cm wavelength.
Date Released: Saturday, October 6, 2007
Source: A Colossus Gets its Name
Today, the first of the two ALMA antenna transporters was given its name at a ceremony on the compounds of the manufacturer, the heavy- vehicle specialist Scheuerle Fahrzeugfabrik GmbH, in Baden- Wuerttemberg.