Topic: NASA - on November 11, 2007 at 11:28:00 AM CET
NASA’S Luxury, At Your Expense
What is the cost? Counting the reception ($64,000), dinner ($35,000), awards ($28,000), ground transportation (tour: $7,700; launch: $20,200), airfare ($105,000), hotel and food ($135,000 together), you’re talking $400,000 to $500,000.
If you think that's pricey, consider this: the NASA holds its big awards every time there's a shuttle launch. December's extravaganza will be the third one in 2007. Honoring all those people is costing you about $4 million a year.
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Topic: NASA - on August 23, 2007 at 1:08:00 PM CEST
NASA partners with Internet Archive to put space archives online
With the space shuttle Endeavour safely back on the ground, NASA is working on showing the world its photo album.
The space agency and the Internet Archive said Tuesday that they plan to scan and archive more than 12 million NASA photographs and 100,000 hours of film and video footage for free access online, under an five-year agreement. As part of the deal, the Internet Archive will host the media album on a new Web site, Nasaimages.org.
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Topic: NASA - on March 21, 2007 at 4:50:00 PM CET
NASA Earmarks $3m to Develop MMO and More
NASA, the U.S. space agency, is getting ready to launch its own exploration into virtual space. NASA’s Learning Technologies arm has issued an intramural call for proposal ideas for the development of a massively multiplayer online game that is intended to be “the front-end of a larger synthetic environment.”
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Topic: NASA - on February 12, 2007 at 12:17:00 PM CET
What’s happening on Jupiter’s moon Io?
Two sulfurous eruptions are visible on Jupiter’s volcanic moon Io in this color composite image from the robotic Galileo spacecraft that orbited Jupiter from 1995 to 2003. At the image top, over Io’s limb, a bluish plume rises about 140 kilometers above the surface of a volcanic caldera known as Pillan Patera.
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Topic: NASA - on February 6, 2007 at 3:27:00 PM CET
Astronaut arrested on attempted kidnapping charges
A NASA astronaut was arrested Monday on battery and attempted kidnapping charges after allegedly trying to subdue a romantic rival with pepper spray and abduct her from a parking lot at Orlando International Airport, police said.
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Topic: NASA - on January 30, 2007 at 11:53:00 AM CET
Hubble Space Telecope's Main Camera Offline, Some Science Lost
The Hubble Space Telescope’s primary camera is offline, with some science capabilities likely lost for good, NASA officials said Monday.
An electrical short in the backup system for Hubble’s Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) pushed the space telescope into a protective “safe mode” over the weekend and prompted the formation of an Anomaly Investigation Board on Monday, NASA officials said.
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Topic: NASA - on December 18, 2006 at 10:50:00 AM CET
Stunning hi-res photo of the shuttle crew's most recent space walk
absolutely 100% pure New Zealand
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Topic: NASA - on December 10, 2006 at 11:58:00 AM CET
Saturday's lunch of the space shuttle Discovery
Breathtaking shot of the shuttle over a marina, photographs this stunning are few and far between.
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Topic: NASA - on October 28, 2006 at 12:37:00 AM CEST
A Growing Intelligence Around Earth
EO-1 is a new breed of satellite that can think for itself. "We programmed it to notice things that change (like the plume of a volcano) and take appropriate action," Chien explains. EO-1 can re-organize its own priorities to study volcanic eruptions, flash-floods, forest fires, disintegrating sea-ice—in short, anything unexpected.
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Topic: NASA - on October 20, 2006 at 2:55:00 PM CEST
Nowhere to Go But Up - NASA is having a Space Elevator contest
Last October, German high school teacher Joern Lutat had never heard of a space elevator.
Then he listened to a radio report about the first-ever Space Elevator Games in Mountain View, California, where teams entered prototypes of laser-powered climbers. Unfortunately, none of the climbers successfully scaled the 200-foot tether. Lutat thought maybe he and his students could do better.
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Topic: NASA - on March 26, 2005 at 5:14:00 PM CET
NASA to broadcast live TV coverage of spacewalk
If you're bored with TV, try watching something "way cool". NASA TV will broadcast live a spacewalk beginning at midnight EST March 27 of the Expedition 10 crew which is expected to last six hours.
They will prepare for the arrival of Europe's Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) resupply ship. They will install three communications antennas for the ATV and a GPS antenna. Sharipov will manually deploy a Russian experiment, tossing a small science satellite called "Nanosatellite" into orbit.
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Topic: NASA - on March 14, 2005 at 4:48:00 PM CET
Europe tells US: 'Come to Europa'
The next big cooperative European-US space mission will be to Europa, the ice-crusted moon of Jupiter.
A joint working team is being set up to consider what sort of spacecraft would be needed and what each side could do.
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