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4 Feb 2012
- 05:05 UTC astrobites Caught in the Line of Fire: The Giants vs The Jets Paper title: Clouds and red giants interacting with the base of AGN jets Authors: V. Bosch-Ramon, M. Perucho, M. V. Barkov First author’s affiliation: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies Active ...
- 05:03 UTC Lunar Meteorite Hun... Just Breaking News - DC MD VA PA NC NJ Bolide Meteor Fire... Just Breaking News - DC MD VA PA NC NJ Bolide Meteor Fireball 3FEB2012 News agencies may publish this information IF they provide full citation to The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite ...
- 05:00 UTC NASA: Earth Observa... Earth, Behind the Scenes NASA's newest Earth-observing satellite, Suomi NPP, collected the images that went into this new view of our home planet.
- 04:20 UTC The New York Times Roger Boisjoly, 73, Dies; Warned of Shuttle Danger Mr. Boisjoly wrote a portentous memo six months before the Space Shuttle Challenger’s explosion, warning that if it was too cold, seals connecting sections of the shuttle’s rocket boosters could ...
- 04:00 UTC The New York Times National Briefing | Science: Job Seekers Still Drawn to S... The space shuttles are headed for museums, but NASA said Friday that more than 6,300 people responded to its latest call for would-be astronauts, the second highest in its history.
- 03:55 UTC AmericaSpace Glenn and Carpenter to Attend “Celebrating 50 Years of Am... The two surviving Mercury astronauts Senator John Glenn and Scott Carpenter will be at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex on Feb. 18 to commemorate 50 years of Americans on ...
- 03:49 UTC Space Age Archaeolo... The art of the cable tie OK, I've already admitted I'm obsessed. But I really can't resist sharing these wonderfully creative uses of the cable tie. A few weeks ago, I bought a book on the ...
- 03:44 UTC Universe Today Cities at Night Panorama of Millions of US East Coast Ear... Do you live here? Tens of millions of Earthlings live and work in the bustling and seemingly intertwined American mega-metropolis of the Philadelphia-New York City-Boston corridor captured in this stunning ...
- 03:00 UTC Spaceports Iran Launches 'Navid-e Elm-o Sanat' The Islamic Republic of Iran has successfully launched its domestically-built Navid-e Elm-o Sanat satellite into orbit following a decree by Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. More from PressTV, Russia Today, Fars ...
- 02:56 UTC SpaceRef NASA Hosts Special Event With Recent Space Station Reside... NASA Hosts Special Event With Recent Space Station Residents
- 02:55 UTC SpaceRef NASA Talk Features Pioneer Researcher and Inventor NASA Talk Features Pioneer Researcher and Inventor
- 02:54 UTC SpaceRef New USAF X-Plane, the X-56A UAV, Revealed by Aviation Wee... New USAF X-Plane, the X-56A UAV, Revealed by Aviation Week
- 02:40 UTC Starts With A Bang! Saturn's Super Storm Staggers Skywatchers! "More days to come / New places to go I've got to leave / It's time for a show Here I am / Rock you like a hurricane!" -The Scorpions ...
- 02:38 UTC The Mars Society Wanted: Mock Astronauts for Mission to Mars ... in Hawaii By Clara Moskowitz, SPACE.com, 02.03.12 If you've ever dreamed of becoming an astronaut and have four months to spare, you might have the "right stuff" to fly to Mars … ...
- 02:19 UTC SpaceRef Global Extinction: Gradual Doom as Bad as Abrupt The deadliest mass extinction of all took a long time to kill 90 percent of Earth's marine life--and it killed in stages--according to a newly published report. It shows that ...
- 02:15 UTC SpaceRef "Science and Engineering Indicators 2012" Released "Science and Engineering Indicators 2012" Released
- 02:14 UTC SpaceRef Chairmen Hall and Palazzo Statements on House Passage of ... Chairmen Hall and Palazzo Statements on House Passage of FAA Reauthorization
- 02:13 UTC SpaceRef NOAA SATOPS Morning Report: Friday, February 03, 2012 NOAA SATOPS Morning Report: Friday, February 03, 2012
- 02:11 UTC SpaceRef NASA ISS On-Orbit Status 3 February 2012 After wakeup this morning, FE-1 Shkaplerov performed the routine inspection of the SM (Service Module) PSS Caution & Warning panel as part of regular Daily Morning Inspection.
- 01:47 UTC Cosmic Log Crazy colors from the Red Planet There's not much red in this picture of the Red Planet, produced by the high-resolution camera aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. Browns and blues and greens and yellows and violets ...
- 01:21 UTC Beyond Apollo Manned Eros flyby (1966) German astronomer Gustav Witt discovered the asteroid Eros on August 13, 1898. Eros was both the first asteroid found to orbit entirely outside of the Asteroid Belt and the first ...
- 01:21 UTC Spaceports Orbital Sciences Corporation Role in Space Biz Learn more about Virginia-based Orbital Sciences Corporation and its major products. The firm will be launching commercial cargo to the International Space Station from Wallops Island, VA. later this year. ...
- 01:04 UTC Space Politics Santorum joins in This morning we noted that GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney criticized fellow candidate Newt Gingrich’s plans for lunar bases in a letter on the Romney campaign web site, even though ...
- 00:43 UTC SpaceRef Joint USAF/NOAA Report of Solar and Geophysical Activity ... Joint USAF/NOAA Report of Solar and Geophysical Activity 3 February 2012
- 00:35 UTC Alien Life Potential of ETI trying to contact us and why Americans s... Welcome! "Alien Life" tracks the latest discoveries and thoughts in the various elements of the famous Drake Equation. Here's today's news:g Message - Could extraterrestrials already have tried to contact ...
- 00:15 UTC Spaceports Matter That Matters on This Week @ NASA
3 Feb 2012
- 23:49 UTC Spaceports SpaceX SuperDraco: Ditching the Parachute?
- 23:25 UTC Alien Life What makes a planet habitable and how matter between star... Welcome! "Alien Life" tracks the latest discoveries and thoughts in the various elements of the famous Drake Equation. Here's today's news:g Stars - Using data from NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer ...
- 23:03 UTC HobbySpace RLV Spac... McCain presses USAF on ULA block buy The USAF is determined to go through with its big block buy of EELVs but Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) is determined to make them prove it is a good deal: ...
- 23:03 UTC Universe Today Incredible 3-D View Inside a Martian Crater This is why I always keep a pair of 3-D glasses by my computer. This well-preserved crater on Mars may look like just your average, run-of-the-mill impact crater in 2-D, ...
- 22:49 UTC Parabolic Arc The Sounds of Silence on the Space Coast’s Unemployed Lost in all the talk about Newt Gingrich’s plan to establish a base and then a state on the moon has been the plight of thousands of jobless along Florida’s ...
- 22:38 UTC HobbySpace RLV Spac... Remotely contour crafting a lunar base Lunar base building looking more feasible: No Joke: These Guys Created A Machine For Printing Houses On The Moon - Co.Design (via Popular Science) -
- 22:33 UTC SPACE.com Jupiter-Bound NASA Probe Adjusts Course Toward Giant Plan... NASA's Juno probe is the first solar-powered spacecraft to the outer solar system.
- 22:32 UTC AmericaSpace Violent Sun Imaged by NASA Solar Observatory Click here to view the video on YouTube. Violent activity on the Sun is accelerating as 2012 moves into its second month. All the activity has been seen building since ...
- 22:31 UTC NASA Blueshift [Blueshift Ponders] What Would You Like to Find on an Exo... We just recently blogged about some of the strange and wonderful planetary systems recently discovered. From Saturn-like rings, to miniature scale, to systems practically right out Star Wars, it seems ...
- 22:30 UTC SPACE.com Space Rock of Love: Asteroid Eros Attracts Skywatchers in... The close pass of the asteroid Eros this week allows astronomy buffs to measure the size of the solar system.
- 22:17 UTC HobbySpace RLV Spac... Briefs: UP Aerospace April launch; Next STIG to 120km; Jo... UP Aerospace Inc. says they will fly to space again this April in New Mexico: Twitter / @UPAerospace: UP Aerospace announced today that they will launch SpaceLoft 6 on April ...
- 22:15 UTC Universe Today Can We Land On a Comet? The Rosetta mission will do something never before attempted: land on a comet. The spacecraft is now on its way to intercept comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko in January 2014 and land a ...
- 22:13 UTC Aviation Week: On S... Calling all space entrepreneurs As many as 10 finalists are expected to present their plans to judges at the Space Frontier Foundation’s annual NewSpace Business Plan Competition during the NewSpace 2012 Conference at NASA ...
- 21:45 UTC HobbySpace RLV Spac... Commercial spaceflight regs: moratorium & review Here's more about the apparently successful effort to extend until 2015 the moratorium on FAA regulations dealing with crew and passenger safety: Congress acts to protect space industry from regulation ...
- 21:42 UTC moonandback NASA Receives Second Highest Number Of Astronaut Applicat... HOUSTON, Texas — More than 6,300 individuals applied to become a NASA astronaut between Nov. 15, 2011 and Jan. 27, the second highest number of applications ever received by the ...
- 21:31 UTC SPACE.com Photos of Space Love: The Asteroid Eros Up Close See photos of the asteroid Eros taken by NASA's NEAR space probe in 2000, and other observers.
- 21:28 UTC Aviation Week: On S... Spaceport View A private reusable-rocket testbed flying from New Mexico's Spaceport America has produced a preview of coming attractions for space tourists and researchers using the same facility to embark on suborbital ...
- 21:22 UTC Universe Today Are You Listening to Astronomy.FM? Are you listening to Astronomy.FM? If not, you should join the audience of over 25,000 listeners in 85 countries who are enjoying this amazing free service. Astronomy.FM is billed as ...
- 20:57 UTC The American Associ... AAVSO Newsletter 51 is now online AAVSO Newsletter 51, January 2012, is now online. http://www.aavso.org/aavso-newsletter
- 20:56 UTC Space Calendar February 6-12, 2012 / Vol 31, No 6 / Hawai`i Island, USA Vega Inaugural Launch Set for Feb 9 from Kourou, French Guiana The maiden voyage of Europe’s Vega rocket (TR), VV01, is set to launch NET February 13 from Kourou, French ...
- 20:50 UTC SpacePolicyOnline.c... NRC Says Yes to NASA Participation in ESA's Euclid Missio... The National Research Council (NRC) issued its report today on whether NASA should make a modest hardware contribution to Europe's Euclid dark energy mission valued at about $20 million in ...
- 20:33 UTC SPACE.com Mock Astronauts Needed for Mission to Mars … in Hawaii Scientists will study diet & nutrition for "astronauts" who spend four months in a mock space capsule.
- 20:31 UTC Cosmic Log Video: Be mesmerized by the future of glass Corning, the company known for its innovation in glass, has just put out another mesmerizing video exploring how its interactive display technology could mate with the computers and gadgets of ...
- 20:29 UTC Aviation Week: On S... A big step for Boeing Satellites It may seem a stretch to look for similarities between a C-17 or 737 assembly line and a satellite factory. The atmosphere in the two places is so different—literally. Airplane ...