Radio Telescope And Its Budget Hang in the Balance, Washington Post
“Driving beneath the giant dish in a rickety Jeep, [Arecibo Director Robert] Kerr is not counting on Congress.
Reader note: From: “M R K” emarkay@email.com: Manitowoc Wisconsin, 45 years ago: “…The hunk had been embedded three inches deep into the asphalt of 8th Street, just off the center line, for an hour before patrolmen Marvin Bauch and Ronald Rusboldt noticed it from their squad car….
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Joint Dark Energy Mission A Top Priority for NASA, Says NRC
“The National Research Council’s Beyond Einstein Program Assessment Committee has recommended that the Joint Dark Energy Mission (JDEM), jointly supported by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the Department of Energy, be the first of NASA’s Beyond Einstein cosmology missions to be developed and launched.”
“A group of high school students from Wendover, Utah, is learning that life presents more opportunities than any of them ever thought possible.
(Originally published in the 3 Sept 2007 issue of Aviation Week & Space Technology. Reprinted with permission):
“The NASA/JPL Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity are driving again on Mars after surviving electrical power shortages, caused by global dust storms that have swept the planet since July.
Editor’s note: Hearings are being held right now regarding the Astronaut Health Report issued in July by the NASA Astronaut Health Care System Review Committee. According to its chair, Col.
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Largest Space Prize Ever to Be Announced at Wired’s NextFest September 13th, Wired
“The X Prize Foundation (the people who brought you the $10 million dollar Ansari X Prize for the first private sub-orbital flights won by Scaled Composites’ Burt Rutan) just sent out an invitation to the September 13th, 2007 announcement of their next, and largest ever, space prize.
