• The Giant Asteroid, Up Close and Personal

    Updated: 2011-09-30 00:14:58
    By Marc Rayman As NASA’s Dawn spacecraft investigates its first target, the giant asteroid Vesta, Marc Rayman, Dawn’s chief engineer, shares a monthly update on the mission’s progress. This image obtained by the framing camera on NASA’s Dawn spacecraft shows the south pole of the giant asteroid Vesta. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA › Full image and caption | [...]

  • Wolf presses White House on Webb telescope funding

    Updated: 2011-09-28 17:06:30
    WASHINGTON — A top Republican from the U.S. House is pressing the White House to offer suggestions on how it would deal with NASA’s troubled James Webb Space Telescope, a program that has broken its budget and schedule and now is expected to cost $8.7 billion and be done by 2018. In a letter dated today, [...]

  • Upcoming Book on Outer Space Resources Law: "Law and Regulation of Commercial Mining of Minerals in Outer Space"

    Updated: 2011-09-17 06:08:00
    : : This area will cover relevant news of the threat to the planet from Near Earth Objects NEOs including concepts and designs for mitigation . All opinions are those of the . author 17 September 2011 Upcoming Book on Outer Space Resources Law : Law and Regulation of Commercial Mining of Minerals in Outer Space A new book from Dr . Ricky Lee entitled Law and Regulation of Commercial Mining of Minerals in Outer Space Space Regulations Library from Springer Press Due : February 10, 2012 From Springer Press . This monograph addresses the legal and policy issues relating to the commercial exploitation of natural resources in outer space . It begins by establishing the economic necessity and technical feasibility of space mining today , an estimate of the financial commitments required ,

  • Shuttles live on at Kennedy Space Center — Legoland version

    Updated: 2011-09-13 20:51:49
    The soon-to-open Legoland Florida has chosen Kennedy Space Center to be among its Miniland USA models, and the space shuttle program is alive and well in small block form. Below are some photos of the shuttle at the Winter Haven park, built on the site of the former Cypress Gardens. The park opens on Oct. 15. You [...]

  • B612 Foundation Website Update

    Updated: 2011-09-11 01:05:00
    The B612 Foundation has updated its website.About them...The B612 is a non-profit organization founded by a group of astronauts and scientists whose goal is to predict and prevent catastrophic asteroid impacts on Earth. B612 aims to find potentially threatening asteroids, track their trajectories, and to demonstrate the technology to alter the orbit of an asteroid in a controlled manner.

  • SGAC Announces the Winner of the 2011 Move an Asteroid Competition ("Smart Cloud" for Asteroid Mitigation)

    Updated: 2011-09-09 20:02:00
    : This area will cover relevant news of the threat to the planet from Near Earth Objects NEOs including concepts and designs for mitigation . All opinions are those of the . author 09 September 2011 SGAC Announces the Winner of the 2011 Move an Asteroid Competition Smart Cloud for Asteroid Mitigation The Space Generation Advisory Council SGAC announced the winner of its 2011 Move An Asteroid International Technical Paper Competition . Here is the announcement from SGAC . The winner , Alison Gibbings , is currently is currently a PhD student at the University of Strathclyde within the Advanced Concept Laborator in Glasgow , Scotland . She will be on National Public Radio NPR radio show Science Friday Here is the NPR show information Her proposal outlined in the paper is for a Smart Cloud

  • Press Release: Bill Nye Storms Congress

    Updated: 2011-09-09 08:00:00
    On the Planetary Society web site: Bill Nye Storms Congress

  • Slice of History: Cookie Cutter Missile Propellant

    Updated: 2011-09-08 00:40:06
    By Julie Cooper Each month in “Slice of History” we feature a historical photo from the JPL Archives. See more historical photos and explore the JPL Archives at https://beacon.jpl.nasa.gov/. Cookie Cutter Missile Propellant — Photograph Number 381-490 The ORDCIT Project at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory was a research and development program about long-range jet propelled missiles. Under a [...]

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