09/Jul 2008 | NASA OIG: Final Memorandum on the Review of NASA's Plan to Build the A-3 Facility for Rocket Propulsion Testing | NASA OIG: Final Memorandum on the Review of NASA's Plan to Build the A-3 Facility for Rocket propulsion testing capability to efficiently meet national Aeronautics and Space Administration Office of I... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Wind Power From the Ocean (With Help from Space) | I drive regularly through Iowa and southern Minnesota in the US, and over the past few years wind farms have been popping up in that region up almost faster than corn grows. But there may be an even b... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Where In The Universe Challenge #11 | Blue is my favorite color. Especially the shade of blue in the image for this week's "Where In The Universe" challenge. The goal of this challenge is to test your skills and knowledge of our solar sys... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Phoenix Relegated to Scraping the Sidewalk | If humans ever build a city on Mars , perhaps (in its retirement) the Phoenix Lander can apply for a job with the city's public works department to scrape ice off sidewalks. Phoenix has been trying to... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | New research boosts hopes of water on the moon | The ancient astronomers once deemed the Moon, like Mother Earth, to be awash with water and gave fanciful names to its seas . The space age, of course, revealed these oceans, or Mare, to be desolate,... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Headline: 'Global Warming Causing California Glacier to Grow' | From the " You've Got To Be Kidding Me " department: " Global Warming Causing California Glacier to Grow, Scientists Say ." What? Hasn't Nobel Laureate Al Gore and every climate alarmist in the media ... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Phoenix Delivers Soil-Chemistry Sample | Posted on: Wednesday, 9 July 2008, 14:03 CDT NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander used its Robotic Arm to deliver a second sample of soil for analysis by the spacecraft's wet chemistry laboratory, data received... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Scientists Find Evidence Of Water On The Moon | 15:25 CDT Scientists have decided that evidence collected from the surface of the Moon almost 40 years ago shows that water existed there since its infancy. Small green and orange pebble-like beads co... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Obama watching Bush closely in WTO talks: aide | By Doug Palmer WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama wants a successful end to long-running world trade talks, but will closely review any deal reached by the Bush admi... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Swerve left to avoid that satellite | Think you have trouble getting rid of the clutter in your living room? After more than 50 years of launching rockets and satellites into space, the human race now has to deal with the clutter left beh... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Orbiter's HiRISE Camera Saw Phoenix Heat Shield in Freefall on Landing Day | The HiRISE camera aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter captured the Phoenix Mars Lander, its parachute and heat shield in an image, all before Phoenix touched down on May 25, 2008. Scientists ru... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Sample-Collection Tests by Phoenix Lander Continue | This image was acquired by NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander's Surface Stereo Imager on the 44th Martian day of the mission, or Sol 43 (July 7, 2008), after the May 25, 2008, landing, showing the current sam... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Yep, R.A | Wed, 2008-07-09 12:43. Dominance in Space Slips as Other Nations Step Up Efforts By Marc Kaufman, Washington Post China plans to conduct its first spacewalk in October. The European Space Agency is bu... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Evidence of water on the moon | Tiny green and orange glass balls brought back from the moon nearly 40 years ago by astronauts show . evidence that water existed there from the very beginning, scientists have said.They used a new ... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | The shuttle's long goodbye | NASA has set the dates for the space shuttle fleet's final missions, ending with a shipment of spare parts for the space station on May 31, 2010. That schedule isn t set in stone, however particular... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Research Season Underway on Devon Island | HMP Research Station Status Report for July 9, 2008 "A week after the initial Mars Institute advanced team arrived to setup the research station for this years field season operations are running smoo... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | NASA/ESA Architecture Study | NASA and ESA complete comparative exploration architecture study "Over the last 6 months, representatives from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the European Space Agency (E... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | 'Hands Are Always on the Trigger' | Col. Reuters July 9: A video grab from Al Alam television shows three of nine long- and medium-range missiles being fired during a test in Iran. July 9: A video grab from Al Alam television shows thr... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Glassy Lava Beads Show Moon's Interior Harbored Water | Scientists have found that glassy volcanic pebbles brought back to Earth by Apollo astronauts in the 1960s and early 1970s have trapped water molecules. The research, published in the journal Nature, ... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Myanmar s Cyclone-Damaged Rice Production Regions Monitored with GIS | Redlands, California Subsequent to Cyclone Nargis, a category 3 tropical storm that struck the low-lying and heavily populated coastline of Myanmar on May 2, 2008, the Foreign Agriculture Service (FAS... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Low Fertility Rate Among Open Clusters Like Orion | Posted on: Wednesday, 9 July 2008, 10:52 CDT A detailed survey of stars in the Orion Nebula has found that fewer than 10 percent have enough surrounding dust to make Jupiter-sized planets, according t... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Ocean Wind Power Maps Reveal Possible Wind Energy Sources | Efforts to harness the energy potential of Earth's ocean winds could soon gain an important new tool: global satellite maps from NASA. Scientists have been creating maps using nearly a decade of data ... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Seeing the universe through gamma-ray eyes | The scientists have stopped holding their breath. Three weeks after the launch of the Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST), researchers from Stanford University, the Stanford Linear Accelerato... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Iran tests missiles, rattles sabres | DA BOMB: A screencap from Al Alam television shows one of nine long- and medium-range missiles being fired during a test in Iran. After the missile test, Iran warned the United States and Israel it wa... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Iran tests missiles: Obama wants to discuss 'em, McCain wants to down 'em | Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama said Wednesday that Iran's missile tests highlight the need for diplomatic engagement with Teheran and threats of sanctions to try and persuage the Irani... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | I knew Pakistan would rue the day they let the Chinese parade the torch | BEIJING - Chinese police shot dead five members of a radical Islamic separatist group in western China, state media reported Wednesday, as officials called for an all-out security push ahead of the Be... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Moon Water Discovered | A Brown University-led research team has for the first time discovered evidence of water that came from deep within the Moon, a revelation that strongly suggests water has been a part of the Moon sinc... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Water Found on the Moon | Though the moon has many seas, scientists thought it was dry.In a study published today in Nature, researchers led by Brown University geologist Alberto Saal found evidence of water molecules in pebbl... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Hopes boosted of water on the Moon | News. THE ancient astronomers once deemed the moon, like Earth, to be awash with water and gave fanciful names to its "seas". The space age, of course, revealed these oceans to b... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Moon Once Harbored Water, Lunar Lava Beads Show | MISTY MOON: Water molecules in green glassy spherules brought back from the moon, such as those shown here, indicate that the early moon was not as dry as researchers assumed. Researchers have found ... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Iran tests missiles in Gulf | TEHRAN, Iran Iran test-fired nine long- and medium-range missiles Wednesday during war games that officials said aimed to show the country can retaliate against any U. Oil prices jumped on news of t... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Iran tests missilesamid tensions | By Zahra Hosseinian and Alistair Lyon TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran test-fired nine missiles on Wednesday and warned the United States and Israel it was ready to retaliate for any attack over its disputed n... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | China foils planned Islamic 'Holy War' | Chinese police shot dead five members of a radical Islamic separatist group intent on waging "holy war," state media reported Wednesday, as top officials called for an all-out security push ahead of n... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Moon's interior 'did hold water' | US scientists have found evidence that water was held in the Moon's interior, challenging some elements of the theory of how Earth's satellite formed. The Moon is thought to have been created in a vio... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Lucky Hubble find raises star cluster mystery | The distant elliptical galaxy at the centre of the image inset is expected to harbour thousands of compact star clusters (Image: NASA/ESA/H Richer/UBC/J Kalirai/UCSC). Middleweight black holes roam th... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | New VLT High Definition Video Material for Broadcasters is available for download | ESO for the Public. ESO Video Compilations feature stock footage on some of ESO s facilities and projects. These collections/tapes are thought to provide a sound visual basis for any broadcaster or p... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Space Station Section | International Space Station flies over Hurricane Bertha on Tuesday. Credit: NASA TVThe Expedition 17 crew of the International Space Station worked Tuesday towards completing preparations for a pair o... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | NASA mission to be crystal ball into oceans' future, mirror to the past; 'it's the motion of the ocean' | NASA Using Undersea Lab to Prepare for Future Space Missions; 'Similar Challenges' In Space and Under the Ocean Creating a Window On 'Oceans in Motion'; Scientists Working to Obtain Detailed Track of ... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | NASA Mission to be Crystal Ball into Oceans Future, Mirror to the Past | Jason 1 data showing the Pacific Ocean, Feb. Image credit: NASA/JPL (NASA) - Imagine the lives that could be saved from flash floods and drought, the millions of dollars in fuel costs that could be av... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Obama and McCain divided on Iran missile tests | WASHINGTON - Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama said Wednesday that Iran's missile tests highlight the need for direct diplomacy as well as tougher threats of economic sanctions and strong... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Final Space Shuttle flight announced for 2010 | That is the scheduled date for the last launch of the Space Shuttle Program, which has endured many triumphs and two tragic accidents since the very first launch of the Space Shuttle for mission STS-1... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Final Shuttle Launches Scheduled | Shiny Eye for Airborne Observatory. space agency says it's selected target launch dates for the remaining eight space shuttle missions for 2009 and 2010. The National Aeronautics and Space Administrat... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | US, Russia revert to cold-war rhetoric over missile-defense plan | Russia says that the proposed US defense shield in Poland and the Czech Republic, an initial agreement for which was inked this week, is targeting Russia, not rogue states. A war of words erupted this... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Iran's missile tests divide Obama a | Douglass K. Daniel Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama said Wednesday that Iran's missile tests highlight the need for direct diplomacy as well as tougher threats of economic sanctions and ... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Write Down Everything You Eat, A Method To Lose More Weight | People writing down what they eat every day lose on average twice as much weight as those who don t, according to a new study to appear in the August issue of the American Journal of Preventive Medici... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Space shuttle gets its final assignments | On Monday NASA released the final mission dates and details of the space shuttle, marking May 31, 2010 as the last flight of this icon of modern space flight. For many young scientists and engineers, ... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | NASA Sends Lockheed Martin Packing | NASA Sends Lockheed Martin Packing NASA NASA awarded Lockheed Martin Integrated Systems Inc. in Houston, a one-year contract extension valued at $42 million to provide integration services for carg... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Iran's missile tests divide Obama and McCain | WASHINGTON - Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama said Wednesday that Iran's missile tests highlight the need for direct diplomacy as well as tougher threats of economic sanctions and strong... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Iran test fires missiles in riposte to U.S., Israel | Story Highlights. Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards test fire nine long and medium range missiles. Drill conducted in the Persian Gulf and the strategic Strait of Hormouz . TEHRAN, Iran (CNN) -- Iran ... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Iran sends warning with missile test | Story Highlights. Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards test fire nine long and medium range missiles. Drill conducted in the Persian Gulf and the strategic Strait of Hormouz . TEHRAN, Iran (CNN) -- Iran ... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | The weapons of World War III | FROM JOSEPH FARAH'S G2 BULLETIN The weapons of World War III It will 'be fought in the electromagnetic spectrum' . Editor's Note: The following report is excerpted from Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin, th... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Sample-Collection Tests by NASA's Phoenix Lander Continue | NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander's science and engineering teams are testing methods to get an icy sample into the Robotic Arm scoop for delivery to the Thermal and Evolved Gas Analyzer (TEGA).... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Kabul attack indicates worsening Afghan situation: Obama | Photo gallery. Washington: Democratic Presidential candidate Barack Obama has said that if elected he would do everything to stabilise the Afghanistan situation, which is getting worse, as indicated b... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Iran seeks seat on Security Council | UNITED NATIONS | Tehran will seek a seat on the powerful U. Security Council next year, despite the trade sanctions the body has imposed to slow Iran 's nuclear program. "It is our right, we have not ... Read » |