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Mar 25th, 2008
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NASA seeks input on how to recycle space craft

One of the many random listserves I belong to is a NASA list that sends me announcements about new calls for proposals and requests for information.
Last week I received one of these emails and it is actually a request that is really cool, and that isn’t usually true - it’s usually the programs that are […]

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Mar 24th, 2008
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LPSC Audio Files: Dusty NASA Pig Skin

The following interview is from what was by far the funniest poster I’ve ever seen that was legitimate.

Here is a link to her science: Paper

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Mar 13th, 2008
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News from NASA: Jim Green & Andrew Thomas

Quick notes, often copied from PowerPoints. Attempts to write in full paragraphs not made.
Jim Green, Director of Planetary Science Division at NASA
State of the State of NASA Planetary Science Division (PSD)
18 months ago PSD had these problems:

The Reserarch and Analysis budget had been cut 15%. This below life support levels! With this level of cuts, […]

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Mar 10th, 2008
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SELENE at the Moon

It’s a day of missions. I just left the MESSENGER session to sit in on part of the SELENE mission session. This new craft on the block is a Japanese produced and is returned hi resolution images and movies back to Earth as it systematically acquires topographic maps of Earth’s moon. SELENE, which is also […]

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Mar 8th, 2008
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10 days of Space Science!

This is going to be another crazy wonderful week on Astronomy Cast Live. Just like we covered the American Astronomical Society meeting last January, this week we will be covering BOTH the launch of STS-123 and the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in Houston, TX. Making this possible are: Scott Miller (A SIUE student I […]

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Mar 3rd, 2008
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ISS until 2016. Science never?

This newspaper article really says all that needs to be said (hat tip to Chuck Pullen). I didn’t know until I read this that ISS was only funded through 2016. It’s insane how much money we’re spending for something that still fails to meet its international obligations and has very limited science capabilities.

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Feb 29th, 2008
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NASA let’s the Women Drive

In case you haven’t heard it from Phil enough times, Emily Lakdawalla is one of the coolest bloggers out there. Her blog touches on all things planetary and when some thing is not quit right or clear with an image, Emily will download the raw mission images and put them together and explain what we’re […]

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Jan 8th, 2008
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To Hubble with Love

For my entire professional astronomer life, Hubble has been there as a beloved icon of what scientists can accomplish technically and scientifically when they are given the opportunity to dream. The images most of us think of when we pull up a mental image of the universe came from Hubble: The Whirlpool, The Pillars of […]

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Dec 18th, 2007
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Of Bathrooms and Underware

Ok, I have to admit that is a title I never thought I’d use, but it was a weird day.
Somehow, bathrooms/toilet rooms, and underware just kept coming up as topics.
For instance at lunch… We’d wandered onto a nauseating topic, so I mentioned, to distract things, that my husband and I spent the weekend tiling our […]

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Oct 30th, 2007
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Return to the Moon

The last time man walked on the moon I wasn’t alive.
Hopefully I won’t be able to say that for too much longer. Several different nations are gearing up to make manned assaults on the surface of the Moon.
Before the people, there is a wave of explorer bots. (The good kind, not the bad spam bots […]

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