• Scaled Composites Installing Engine in SpaceShipTwo

    Updated: 2012-01-31 13:44:36
    Skip to content Parabolic Arc Space Tourism and Much More News Search Archives Parabolic Reading List Polls Archive Alan Boyle , Dennis Wingo Drop by The Space Show Scaled Composites Installing Engine in SpaceShipTwo Posted by Doug Messier on January 31, 2012, at 5:44 am in News Tags : Masten Space Systems space tourism space tourists SpaceShipTwo virgin galactic XCOR Comments : no responses 0 Comments Michael Belfiore was in Mojave a couple of weeks ago for Popular Mechanics His latest piece has updates on various projects that are not nicknamed : Birdzilla The new ship has begun atmospheric test flights , launched into free fall from its WhiteKnightTwo mother ship at 50,000 feet . Both vehicles—SpaceShipTwo and WhiteKnightTwo—were in various states of disassembly on my visit—the mother

  • Powerful Sun Storms May Sweep Away Space Junk

    Updated: 2012-01-31 13:01:07
    SPACE.com: The sun's violent activity expands Earth's atmosphere, which increases the rate that space junk falls from orbit.

  • Russia blames radiation for space probe failure

    Updated: 2012-01-31 12:27:46
    Method Mars Rover Science Investigations Continue as Solar Energy Levels Drop Home add your blog Archives Search Contact RSS FEED This site is an rss xml news reader containing our favorite feeds . All articles are the copyrighted material of the blogs that wrote them . Russia blames radiation for space probe failure post from CR4 Recent Blog Entries on 31 January 2012 08:27:46 AM . CR4 Recent Blog Entries From Yahoo News : Science News : The head of Russia s space agency said Tuesday that cosmic radiation was the most likely cause of the failure of a Mars moon probe that crashed to Earth this month , and suggested that a low-quality imported component may have been vulnerable to the radiati Read The Full Article : http : cr4.globalspec.com blogentry 18976

  • Twitter CEO says blocking policy over-distilled

    Updated: 2012-01-31 12:23:45
    Method Russia blames radiation for space probe failure Home add your blog Archives Search Contact RSS FEED This site is an rss xml news reader containing our favorite feeds . All articles are the copyrighted material of the blogs that wrote them . Twitter CEO says blocking policy over-distilled post from CR4 Recent Blog Entries on 31 January 2012 08:23:45 AM . CR4 Recent Blog Entries From PhysOrg.com latest science and technology news stories : Twitter CEO Dick Costolo sought to calm the global outrage over the company s new country-by-country censorship policy on Monday , complaining in part that the issue is being treated with the same kind of shorthand that has ma Read The Full Article : http : cr4.globalspec.com blogentry 18974 Twitter-CEO-says-blocking-policy-over-d istilled

  • Multitasking can be done differently, affect perceptions of work practices

    Updated: 2012-01-31 12:21:04
    , Method On-again off-again planet' elusive Home add your blog Archives Search Contact RSS FEED This site is an rss xml news reader containing our favorite feeds . All articles are the copyrighted material of the blogs that wrote them . Multitasking can be done differently , affect perceptions of work practices post from CR4 Recent Blog Entries on 31 January 2012 08:21:04 AM . CR4 Recent Blog Entries From PhysOrg.com latest science and technology news stories : In an age in which multitasking is often cited as a core competency for employees , organizational communication researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have begun to better understand the nuances of how different i Read The Full Article : http : cr4.globalspec.com blogentry 18973 Multitasking-can-be-done-differently-af

  • How the Hippies Saved Physics: Science, Counterculture, and the Quantum Revival

    Updated: 2012-01-31 12:12:12
    : , , Method Ground Truthing Mineralogical Data Collected By Orbiting Satellites Home add your blog Archives Search Contact RSS FEED This site is an rss xml news reader containing our favorite feeds . All articles are the copyrighted material of the blogs that wrote them . How the Hippies Saved Physics : Science , , Counterculture and the Quantum Revival post from CR4 Recent Blog Entries on 31 January 2012 08:12:12 AM . CR4 Recent Blog Entries From Scientific American : Editor s Note : Reprinted from How the Hippies Saved Physics : Science , Counterculture , and the Quantum Revival by David Kaiser . This book excerpt traces the history of quantum information theory and the colorful and famous physicists who tried to figure out spoo Read The Full Article : http : cr4.globalspec.com

  • A primer on fluorescence detection

    Updated: 2012-01-31 11:56:05
    Method Post mortem breast implants Home add your blog Archives Search Contact RSS FEED This site is an rss xml news reader containing our favorite feeds . All articles are the copyrighted material of the blogs that wrote them . A primer on fluorescence detection post from American Biotechnologist on 31 January 2012 07:56:05 AM . American Biotechnologist Yesterday we told you about how to get more data from your western blots by utilizing multiplex[ . Read The Full Article : http : www.americanbiotechnologist.com blog fluorescence-detection-primer Add to del.icio.us Digg this Post to Furl Add to reddit Add to myYahoo Website designed by Bartosz Brzezinski Powered by blogdig.net Cool Stuff Have A Great science BLOG Add Your Blog To this Site News Ticker Top science videos Write a Story for

  • the amazing, gyrating theory of everything

    Updated: 2012-01-31 11:23:59
    , Method the amazing , gyrating theory of everything Home add your blog Archives Search Contact RSS FEED This site is an rss xml news reader containing our favorite feeds . All articles are the copyrighted material of the blogs that wrote them . the amazing , gyrating theory of everything post from weird things on 31 January 2012 07:23:59 AM . weird things Maybe some people just let the pressures of our busy , post-industrial lives get to them and snap , producing a few fevered works of the imagination during a small nervous breakdown in the process . Or at least this is the only explanation I can really[ . Read The Full Article : http : worldofweirdthings.com 2012 01 31 the-amazing-gyrating-theory-of-everythin g Add to del.icio.us Digg this Post to Furl Add to reddit Add to myYahoo

  • Moonandback Interview With Ben Bradley, part 1 – Putting Together A Space Conference

    Updated: 2012-01-31 11:01:04
    moonandback: Director of Programming Ben Bradley talks with MM about what it took to put together the SpaceVision 2011 conference and the rewards thereof. **For optimal viewing experience choose full screen option.

  • New Horizons Works through Winter Wakeup

    Updated: 2012-01-31 10:15:52
    Method Ill . nuclear reactor loses power , venting steam Home add your blog Archives Search Contact RSS FEED This site is an rss xml news reader containing our favorite feeds . All articles are the copyrighted material of the blogs that wrote them . New Horizons Works through Winter Wakeup post from Space Tourism , Space Transport and Space Exploration News on 31 January 2012 06:15:52 AM . Space Tourism , Space Transport and Space Exploration News Laurel MD SPX Jan 31, 2012 New Horizons might be more than two billion miles from home , but the spacecraft has spent most of the new year at the fingertips of its operators . Since waking the spacecraft from hibernation on Jan . 3, the New Horizons mission operation team at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab in Maryland has uploaded a new set

  • Seekers of alien contact renew search

    Updated: 2012-01-31 10:15:52
    Method Super Bowl MVP Prediction : No , Not Brady or Manning . It s Social Media Home add your blog Archives Search Contact RSS FEED This site is an rss xml news reader containing our favorite feeds . All articles are the copyrighted material of the blogs that wrote them . Seekers of alien contact renew search post from Space Tourism , Space Transport and Space Exploration News on 31 January 2012 06:15:52 AM . Space Tourism , Space Transport and Space Exploration News Hat Creek , Calif . UPI Jan 31, 2012 The search for intelligent life elsewhere in the universe is back on , after a yearlong delay due to funding problems , U.S . researchers said . Forty-two radio telescopes , known as the Allen Telescope Army , have set up shop near Lassen Peak , Calif . searching for radio signals from the

  • Mars Rover Science Investigations Continue as Solar Energy Levels Drop

    Updated: 2012-01-31 10:15:52
    Method Vesta Science Program Continues At Low-altitude Mapping Orbit Home add your blog Archives Search Contact RSS FEED This site is an rss xml news reader containing our favorite feeds . All articles are the copyrighted material of the blogs that wrote them . Mars Rover Science Investigations Continue as Solar Energy Levels Drop post from Space Tourism , Space Transport and Space Exploration News on 31 January 2012 06:15:52 AM . Space Tourism , Space Transport and Space Exploration News Pasadena CA JPL Jan 31, 2012 Opportunity is positioned on the north end of Cape York on the rim of Endeavour Crater with an approximate 15-degree northerly tilt for favorable solar energy production during the winter . Opportunity is conducting regular radio Doppler tracking measurements to support

  • Vesta Science Program Continues At Low-altitude Mapping Orbit

    Updated: 2012-01-31 10:15:52
    Method Pythons hunt Florida mammals to brink of extinction Home add your blog Archives Search Contact RSS FEED This site is an rss xml news reader containing our favorite feeds . All articles are the copyrighted material of the blogs that wrote them . Vesta Science Program Continues At Low-altitude Mapping Orbit post from Space Tourism , Space Transport and Space Exploration News on 31 January 2012 06:15:52 AM . Space Tourism , Space Transport and Space Exploration News Pasadena CA JPL Jan 31, 2012 Dawn is scrutinizing Vesta from its low-altitude mapping orbit LAMO circling the rocky world five and a half times a day . The spacecraft is healthy and continuing its intensive campaign to reveal the astonishing nature of this body in the mysterious depths of the main asteroid belt . Since the

  • Ground Truthing Mineralogical Data Collected By Orbiting Satellites

    Updated: 2012-01-31 10:15:52
    Method Russia to postpone next manned space launch : official Home add your blog Archives Search Contact RSS FEED This site is an rss xml news reader containing our favorite feeds . All articles are the copyrighted material of the blogs that wrote them . Ground Truthing Mineralogical Data Collected By Orbiting Satellites post from Space Tourism , Space Transport and Space Exploration News on 31 January 2012 06:15:52 AM . Space Tourism , Space Transport and Space Exploration News Laguna Negra , Chile SPX Jan 31, 2012 PLL has been moved to its summer home on the northwest finger of Laguna Negra . Meanwhile , back on the south shore , Jeff Moersch , an assistant professor of Earth and planetary sciences at the University of Tennessee , and his graduate student , Robert Jacobsen , arrived at

  • Russia to postpone next manned space launch: official

    Updated: 2012-01-31 10:15:52
    : Method Vesta Science Program Continues At Low-altitude Mapping Orbit Home add your blog Archives Search Contact RSS FEED This site is an rss xml news reader containing our favorite feeds . All articles are the copyrighted material of the blogs that wrote them . Russia to postpone next manned space launch : official post from Space Tourism , Space Transport and Space Exploration News on 31 January 2012 06:15:52 AM . Space Tourism , Space Transport and Space Exploration News Moscow AFP Jan 31, 2012 Russia plans to postpone its next manned launch to the International Space Station ISS by at least a month , the head of its space agency's manned programmes told the RIA Novosti news agency Tuesday . The current mission on the ISS is likely to land around 45 days later than the scheduled March

  • Three SOPS LEO team snares first operating turn

    Updated: 2012-01-31 10:15:52
    Method New Horizons Works through Winter Wakeup Home add your blog Archives Search Contact RSS FEED This site is an rss xml news reader containing our favorite feeds . All articles are the copyrighted material of the blogs that wrote them . Three SOPS LEO team snares first operating turn post from Space Tourism , Space Transport and Space Exploration News on 31 January 2012 06:15:52 AM . Space Tourism , Space Transport and Space Exploration News Schriever AFB CO SPX Jan 31, 2012 During his first week of space training years ago , Staff Sgt . Brandon Cosper admits it was difficult to visualize exactly what was happening . As he watched lines of red , yellow and green telemetry data run across his computer screen he understood they represented actions and that operators were actually

  • On-again/off-again 'planet' elusive

    Updated: 2012-01-31 10:15:52
    Method On-again off-again planet' elusive Home add your blog Archives Search Contact RSS FEED This site is an rss xml news reader containing our favorite feeds . All articles are the copyrighted material of the blogs that wrote them . On-again off-again planet' elusive post from Space Tourism , Space Transport and Space Exploration News on 31 January 2012 06:15:52 AM . Space Tourism , Space Transport and Space Exploration News Princeton , N.J . UPI Jan 30, 2012 A possible planet outside our solar system captured by the Hubble space telescope has failed to show up in subsequent searches , U.S . astronomers say . An image taken by Hubble in 2008 of a pinpoint of light orbiting a star called Fomalhaut about 25 light-years from Earth was hailed as the first actual picture of an exoplanet . Now

  • CSExtra – Tuesday, January 31, 2012

    Updated: 2012-01-31 00:36:38
    , Search Skip to content Home About the Coalition Benefits of Space Newsroom Legislative Activity Blog Education Station Related Links Contact Us Newsroom Coalition News Book Reviews Follow : us CSExtra Tuesday , January 31, 2012 0 Comments January 31, 2012 Coalition News To subscribe to CSExtra via RSS feed click here If you would prefer to receive CSExtra in e-mail format , e-mail us at Info spacecoalition.com with the word SUBSCRIBE in the subject . line Tuesday’s CS Extra offers the latest reporting and commentary on space related activities from around the globe . NASA receives nearly 6,400 applications for the 9 to15 astronaut positions it plans to fill in 2013. Russian experts size up the impact of a Soyuz spacecraft test failure that could affect future launch plans . Russian

  • XCOR and NSRC-2012 Suborbital Contest Last Call

    Updated: 2012-01-30 20:52:53
    Home SpaceRef Commercial Space OnOrbit SpaceRef Europe Astrobiology Sign In This is not a NASA Website . You might learn something . It's YOUR space agency . Get involved . Take it back . Make it work for YOU . Important Disclaimer nasawatch spaceref.com Voice 1.703.787.6567 RSS Feed Twitter Advertising Archives Support Popular : Categories Budget Congress Commercialization Election 2012 ISS News Policy XCOR and NSRC-2012 Suborbital Contest Last Call By Marc Boucher on January 30, 2012 3:52 PM View Comments Final Call to Register and Win Suborbital Research Flight at Next Generation Suborbital Researchers Conference XCOR Aerospace XCOR Aerospace and the Southwest Research Institute SwRI announce the final week to register and become eligible to win a suborbital research flight on XCOR's

  • NASA Adds Facebook Gaming to its Repertoire

    Updated: 2012-01-30 17:26:16
    NASA Releases First Multi-Player Facebook Game, NASA "NASA has launched its first multi-player online game to test players' knowledge of the space program. Who was the first American to walk in space? Who launched the first liquid-fueled rocket? These are only a few of the questions players can answer in Space Race Blastoff."

  • Rob Strain Leaving NASA

    Updated: 2012-01-30 14:59:33
    Home SpaceRef Commercial Space OnOrbit SpaceRef Europe Astrobiology Sign In This is not a NASA Website . You might learn something . It's YOUR space agency . Get involved . Take it back . Make it work for YOU . Important Disclaimer nasawatch spaceref.com Voice 1.703.787.6567 RSS Feed Twitter Advertising Archives Support Popular : Categories Budget Congress Commercialization Election 2012 ISS News Policy Rob Strain Leaving NASA By Keith Cowing on January 30, 2012 9:59 AM View Comments NASA GSFC Center Director Rob Strain Announces Plans to Leave It is with mixed emotions that I announce my intention to leave NASA Goddard and return to industry . My last day as Director will be March 4. During my time here , it has been my privilege to play a small role in our awesome missions , remarkable

  • Big Rocket, Little Support

    Updated: 2012-01-30 02:26:55
    , Home SpaceRef Commercial Space OnOrbit SpaceRef Europe Astrobiology Sign In This is not a NASA Website . You might learn something . It's YOUR space agency . Get involved . Take it back . Make it work for YOU . Important Disclaimer nasawatch spaceref.com Voice 1.703.787.6567 RSS Feed Twitter Advertising Archives Support Popular : Categories Budget Congress Commercialization Election 2012 ISS News Policy Big Rocket , Little Support By Keith Cowing on January 29, 2012 9:26 PM View Comments Expensive NASA rocket draws skepticism Houston Chronicle As engineers at Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama begin designing a rocket that would eventually be capable of blasting 130 metric tons into orbit , many spaceflight experts are questioning why NASA chose what could be the most expensive and

  • The Temporary Importance of Space in the Election

    Updated: 2012-01-30 02:21:35
    Home SpaceRef Commercial Space OnOrbit SpaceRef Europe Astrobiology Sign In This is not a NASA Website . You might learn something . It's YOUR space agency . Get involved . Take it back . Make it work for YOU . Important Disclaimer nasawatch spaceref.com Voice 1.703.787.6567 RSS Feed Twitter Advertising Archives Support Popular : Categories Budget Congress Commercialization Election 2012 ISS News Policy The Temporary Importance of Space in the Election By Keith Cowing on January 29, 2012 9:21 PM View Comments Matt Reed : Newt's awesome space plan shields a bad candidate Florida Today How Gingrich led the impeachment of President Bill Clinton in 1998 for lying about an affair even as Gingrich had cheated on his wife for six years . I despised Gingrich by the time he took the stage in Cocoa

  • Mike Griffin, Romney Space Advisor

    Updated: 2012-01-28 04:44:44
    , Home SpaceRef Commercial Space OnOrbit SpaceRef Europe Astrobiology Sign In This is not a NASA Website . You might learn something . It's YOUR space agency . Get involved . Take it back . Make it work for YOU . Important Disclaimer nasawatch spaceref.com Voice 1.703.787.6567 RSS Feed Twitter Advertising Archives Support Popular : Categories Budget Congress Commercialization Election 2012 ISS News Policy Mike Griffin , Romney Space Advisor By Keith Cowing on January 27, 2012 11:44 PM View Comments Mitt Romney would have fired Mike Griffin : Is Romney Already Being Trapped By Unsustainable Space Interests Space Frontier Foundation During last night's Republican presidential debate , Governor Mitt Romney stated that a moonbase would be an enormous expense , and later stated that if someone

  • Suomi's Stunning View From Space

    Updated: 2012-01-26 16:19:09
    Image: Suomi NPP's View of North America "Suomi NPP's VIIRS instrument returned this hi-resolution full-disc image of the Earth from several passes made Jan. 4, 2012. The Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (Suomi NPP) mission represents a critical first step in building the next-generation Earth-observing satellite system that will collect data on both long-term climate change and short-term weather conditions."

  • NASA's Day of Remembrance

    Updated: 2012-01-26 15:59:50
    Home SpaceRef Commercial Space OnOrbit SpaceRef Europe Astrobiology Sign In This is not a NASA Website . You might learn something . It's YOUR space agency . Get involved . Take it back . Make it work for YOU . Important Disclaimer nasawatch spaceref.com Voice 1.703.787.6567 RSS Feed Twitter Advertising Archives Support Popular : Categories Budget Congress Commercialization Election 2012 ISS News Policy NASA's Day of Remembrance By Keith Cowing on January 26, 2012 10:59 AM View Comments Photo : NASA Day of Remembrance Wreath Laying Ceremony NASA Administrator Charles Bolden , NASA personnel , and others , participate in a wreath laying ceremony as part of NASA's Day of Remembrance , Thursday , Jan . 26, 2012, at Arlington National Cemetery . Wreathes were laid in memory of those men and

  • Santorum and Romney on Space in Florida

    Updated: 2012-01-26 13:21:13
    Home SpaceRef Commercial Space OnOrbit SpaceRef Europe Astrobiology Sign In This is not a NASA Website . You might learn something . It's YOUR space agency . Get involved . Take it back . Make it work for YOU . Important Disclaimer nasawatch spaceref.com Voice 1.703.787.6567 RSS Feed Twitter Advertising Archives Support Popular : Categories Budget Congress Commercialization Election 2012 ISS News Policy Santorum and Romney on Space in Florida By Keith Cowing on January 26, 2012 8:21 AM View Comments Santorum : Moon base idea is crass politics' Politico the idea that anybody's going out and talking about grand , new , very expensive schemes to spend more money at a time when we do not have our fiscal house in order , in my opinion , is plain , crass politics . Romney schedules Cape

  • Gingrich Talks About Space Policy in Florida (Update)

    Updated: 2012-01-26 00:38:40
    Home SpaceRef Commercial Space OnOrbit SpaceRef Europe Astrobiology Sign In This is not a NASA Website . You might learn something . It's YOUR space agency . Get involved . Take it back . Make it work for YOU . Important Disclaimer nasawatch spaceref.com Voice 1.703.787.6567 RSS Feed Twitter Advertising Archives Support Popular : Categories Budget Congress Commercialization Election 2012 ISS News Policy Gingrich Talks About Space Policy in Florida Update By Keith Cowing on January 25, 2012 7:38 PM View Comments Keith's : update At the first event in Florida today , Newt Gingrich called for setting aside 10 of the NASA budget for prizes which would be awarded tax free that there'd be a human base on the Moon by the end of his Administration flying an American flag , that progress on a trip

  • Ooooooooh, it's planet Earth

    Updated: 2012-01-25 22:47:19
    , Science Buzz Be a part of the Buzz Register or log in Site Navigation Site Navigation Blog Topics Future Earth Weighing the evidence Archive Features Experimonth : Identity Object of the Month Scientist on the Spot Changing Seasons Browse Images Browse Tags Links Community Latest comments Contribute Buzz points Scientists Teachers Community Guidelines Member Gallery Exhibit Buzz kiosks About Where is Science Buzz Awards Credits Your feedback will help us improve this website Copyright Information Privacy Help Science links Ooooooooh , it's planet Earth by mdr on Jan . 25th , 2012 The Big Blue Marble Courtesy NASA Goddard Photo and Video NASA has just released a very beautiful high-definition digital image of the Earth taken in several swaths by the VIIRS instrument aboard the agency's

  • NASA Administrator Visits Morgan State University

    Updated: 2012-01-25 05:20:40
    NASA Administrator Visits Morgan State University

  • Webinar: From exploring space to climbing Mt. Everest - Conversation with Scott Parazynski, M.D

    Updated: 2012-01-25 05:20:39
    Science and STEM studies can make all the difference in a person's life. Just ask Scott Parazynski, M.D. - a former NASA astronaut, doctor and adventurer.

  • Is Gingrich's Pro-Obama Space Policy Stance About to Flip Flop?

    Updated: 2012-01-25 05:07:20
    Home SpaceRef Commercial Space OnOrbit SpaceRef Europe Astrobiology Sign In This is not a NASA Website . You might learn something . It's YOUR space agency . Get involved . Take it back . Make it work for YOU . Important Disclaimer nasawatch spaceref.com Voice 1.703.787.6567 RSS Feed Twitter Advertising Archives Support Popular : Categories Budget Congress Commercialization Election 2012 ISS News Policy Is Gingrich's Pro-Obama Space Policy Stance About to Flip Flop By Keith Cowing on January 25, 2012 12:07 AM View Comments Gingrich plans major speeches , including one on space CNN Riding the momentum of his South Carolina win on Saturday , Newt Gingrich said Sunday he planned a week of big speeches offering big solutions for a big country . I'll be at the space coast in Florida this week

  • More Stealth NASA Spinoffs

    Updated: 2012-01-25 05:00:45
    Home SpaceRef Commercial Space OnOrbit SpaceRef Europe Astrobiology Sign In This is not a NASA Website . You might learn something . It's YOUR space agency . Get involved . Take it back . Make it work for YOU . Important Disclaimer nasawatch spaceref.com Voice 1.703.787.6567 RSS Feed Twitter Advertising Archives Support Popular : Categories Budget Congress Commercialization Election 2012 ISS News Policy More Stealth NASA Spinoffs By Keith Cowing on January 25, 2012 12:00 AM View Comments NASA Technology Transfer Opportunity : Quick Change Ceramic Flame Holder For High-Output Torches Seeking to improve upon stock stainless steel flame holders , researchers at NASA's Langley Research Center have developed a new ceramic design with a service temperature of 4,000 F . The combination of high

  • Space stations of yesteryear (that never were)

    Updated: 2012-01-24 21:48:37
    Science Buzz Be a part of the Buzz Register or log in Site Navigation Site Navigation Blog Topics Future Earth Weighing the evidence Archive Features Experimonth : Identity Object of the Month Scientist on the Spot Changing Seasons Browse Images Browse Tags Links Community Latest comments Contribute Buzz points Scientists Teachers Community Guidelines Member Gallery Exhibit Buzz kiosks About Where is Science Buzz Awards Credits Your feedback will help us improve this website Copyright Information Privacy Help Science links Space stations of yesteryear that never were by JGordon on Jan . 24th , 2012 Wired just posted a gallery of imagined or even proposed space stations over the last hundred years . Kind of cool Also , as a little bonus link , here's how the International Space Station

  • Slice of History: Surveyor 3 Camera Returned from the Moon

    Updated: 2012-01-24 20:35:04
    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/. Surveyor 3 Camera Returned from the Moon — Photograph Number P-10709B In November 1969 Apollo 12 astronauts Alan Bean and Pete Conrad landed on the moon less than 600 [...]

  • Space station sees southern lights

    Updated: 2012-01-24 04:12:30
    We've been talking a lot about the northern lights lately, but here's a must-see view of the southern lights, as captured by the crew of the International Space Station on Jan.

  • Proposals for SMD's graduate fellowships are due February 1, 2012

    Updated: 2012-01-22 21:30:37
    Proposals for SMD's graduate fellowships are due February 1, 2012

  • In Memoriam: The Passing of Professor Jim Arnold, Founding PI of the California Space Grant

    Updated: 2012-01-20 17:38:29
    Professor James R. Arnold, former Director of the California Space Institute and founding Principal Investigator for the California Space Grant Consortium, passed away Friday, January 6, 2012 at the age of 88. As founding PI of the California Space Grant Consortium, Jim contributed to the early National Space Grant Program under Julius Dash and was [...]

  • Topographic map with stratigraphic column may be oldest known

    Updated: 2012-01-19 16:45:56
    Science Buzz Be a part of the Buzz Register or log in Site Navigation Site Navigation Blog Topics Future Earth Weighing the evidence Archive Features Experimonth : Identity Object of the Month Scientist on the Spot Changing Seasons Browse Images Browse Tags Links Community Latest comments Contribute Buzz points Scientists Teachers Community Guidelines Member Gallery Exhibit Buzz kiosks About Where is Science Buzz Awards Credits Your feedback will help us improve this website Copyright Information Privacy Help Amazing fact Topographic map with stratigraphic column may be oldest known by mdr on Jan . 19th , 2012 1739 Topographic Map of the Dolomites : by Gregorio Piccoli del Faggiol Courtesy Public domain This week's Image of the Week entry at Scientific American's Layers of the Earth blog

  • Press Release: Thirty Percent for Science: Planetary Society Calls for Increased Investment for the Future

    Updated: 2012-01-19 08:00:00
    On the Planetary Society web site: Thirty Percent for Science: Planetary Society Calls for Increased Investment for the Future

  • Building a computer of bubbles

    Updated: 2012-01-13 23:40:04
    Science Buzz Be a part of the Buzz Register or log in Site Navigation Site Navigation Blog Topics Future Earth Weighing the evidence Archive Features Experimonth : Identity Object of the Month Scientist on the Spot Changing Seasons Browse Images Browse Tags Links Community Latest comments Contribute Buzz points Scientists Teachers Community Guidelines Member Gallery Exhibit Buzz kiosks About Where is Science Buzz Awards Credits Your feedback will help us improve this website Copyright Information Privacy Help Science links Building a computer of bubbles by Liza on Jan . 13th , 2012 It's Friday , so let's get a new Science Friday video up . Science Friday Courtesy Science Friday Today : Bubbles can do computations , says Stanford professor Manu Prakash . Just like electrons running through

  • Island emerges from Red Sea volcano

    Updated: 2012-01-13 16:43:58
    Science Buzz Be a part of the Buzz Register or log in Site Navigation Site Navigation Blog Topics Future Earth Weighing the evidence Archive Features Experimonth : Identity Object of the Month Scientist on the Spot Changing Seasons Browse Images Browse Tags Links Community Latest comments Contribute Buzz points Scientists Teachers Community Guidelines Member Gallery Exhibit Buzz kiosks About Where is Science Buzz Awards Credits Your feedback will help us improve this website Copyright Information Privacy Help Amazing fact Island emerges from Red Sea volcano by mdr on Jan . 13th , 2012 You don't see this every day a new land mass forming right before your eyes . This video shows a giant shield volcano erupting beneath the Red Sea and forming an island on the surface . Fishermen from Yemen

  • Physics in action

    Updated: 2012-01-12 20:59:14
    Science Buzz Be a part of the Buzz Register or log in Site Navigation Site Navigation Blog Topics Future Earth Weighing the evidence Archive Features Experimonth : Identity Object of the Month Scientist on the Spot Changing Seasons Browse Images Browse Tags Links Community Latest comments Contribute Buzz points Scientists Teachers Community Guidelines Member Gallery Exhibit Buzz kiosks About Where is Science Buzz Awards Credits Your feedback will help us improve this website Copyright Information Privacy Help On this day Physics in action by Liza on Jan . 12th , 2012 Get out there , if you can , and watch skaters take on the insane Red Bull Crashed Ice course here in downtown St . Paul . It's a great place to watch all sorts of physics in action . And bundle up . Winter's back , suddenly ,

  • Monday Phenology Round-up: January 9, 2012

    Updated: 2012-01-12 16:05:43
    : Science Buzz Be a part of the Buzz Register or log in Site Navigation Site Navigation Blog Topics Future Earth Weighing the evidence Archive Features Experimonth : Identity Object of the Month Scientist on the Spot Changing Seasons Browse Images Browse Tags Links Community Latest comments Contribute Buzz points Scientists Teachers Community Guidelines Member Gallery Exhibit Buzz kiosks About Where is Science Buzz Awards Credits Your feedback will help us improve this website Copyright Information Privacy Help Science links Monday Phenology Round-up : January 9, 2012 by tcnaturalist on Jan . 12th , 2012 Twin Cities Naturalist Courtesy Twin Cities Naturalist We're well into January now and the days are getting longer . Check out this week's Phenology Roundup where professional naturalist

  • Dropping the Science

    Updated: 2012-01-08 22:18:24
    Science Buzz Be a part of the Buzz Register or log in Site Navigation Site Navigation Blog Topics Future Earth Weighing the evidence Archive Features Experimonth : Identity Object of the Month Scientist on the Spot Changing Seasons Browse Images Browse Tags Links Community Latest comments Contribute Buzz points Scientists Teachers Community Guidelines Member Gallery Exhibit Buzz kiosks About Where is Science Buzz Awards Credits Your feedback will help us improve this website Copyright Information Privacy Help Science links Dropping the Science by Ellen on Jan . 08th , 2012 I admit it I've been known to waste more time than I care to admit on the Cheezburger Network's array of lowbrow but hilarious sites : I Can Haz Cheezburger , FAIL Blog , There I Fixed it , Autocowrecks . I've been

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