Da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da Bat Cave: Artificial cave helps wipe out bat disease
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HobbySpace Blog: In 1952, Arthur C. Clarke in Popular Science asked a good question: What Will We Do With The Moon? Popular Science April (1952) - Dreams of Space - Books and Ephemera. R.A. Smith provided illustrations like this one:
collectSPACE.com: Today In Space History: On Tuesday, space shuttle Endeavour opened on display at the California Science Center (CSC), following a ceremony held underneath the retired NASA orbiter for invited guests and schoolchildren. The commemoration, which was emceed by Bill Nye, "The Science Guy," marked the culmination of Endeavour's long journey 'home' and the start of its new mission to inspire a new generation of scientists, engineers and explorers.
Space Fellowship: This colourful view of the globular star cluster NGC 6362 was captured by the Wide Field Imager attached to the MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope at ESO’s La Silla Observatory in Chile. This new picture, along with a new image of the central region from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, provide the best view of this little-known cluster ever obtained. Globular clusters are mainly composed of tens of thousands of very ancient stars, but they also contain some stars that look suspiciously young. [...]
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Method Freeways of the Future 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 . Curiosity's Tastes of Martian Soil Offer Insights on Mineral Composition post from Space Tourism , Space Transport and Space Exploration News on 31 October 2012 05:16:43 AM . Space Tourism , Space Transport and Space Exploration News Tucson AAZ SPX Oct 31, 2012 NASA's Curiosity rover has taken its first bites out of the Martian surface and used the materials scooped up , sieved and portioned to cleanse the palate of the rover's sample collection system of any contaminants that may have come from Earth , said David Vaniman , Senior Scientist at the Planetary Science
Method Take That Linear Algebra to Go : Intel s 48-Core Chip Targeting Smartphones and Tablets 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 . NASA Rover's First Soil Studies Help Fingerprint Martian Minerals post from Space Tourism , Space Transport and Space Exploration News on 31 October 2012 05:16:43 AM . Space Tourism , Space Transport and Space Exploration News Pasadena CA JPL Oct 31, 2012 NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has completed initial experiments showing the mineralogy of Martian soil is similar to weathered basaltic soils of volcanic origin in Hawaii . The minerals were identified in the first sample of Martian soil ingested recently by
Method 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 . Continuing Work With Scoops at Rocknest' post from Space Tourism , Space Transport and Space Exploration News on 31 October 2012 05:16:43 AM . Space Tourism , Space Transport and Space Exploration News Pasadena CA JPL Oct 31, 2012 NASA's Mars Rover Curiosity on Sol 82 Oct . 29, 2012 used its Mars Hand Lens Imager MAHLI to photograph the diverse rocks in the Rocknest area and prepared for an overnight analysis of a soil sample by the Chemistry and Mineralogy CheMin instrument . On the preceding sol , the rover completed its third round of using vibration of scooped Martian soil to scrub the
Method Swansong Earth : Refuges for Life 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 . SSBV Aerospace and Technology Group and SpaceMetric announce signing of MOU post from Space Tourism , Space Transport and Space Exploration News on 31 October 2012 05:16:43 AM . Space Tourism , Space Transport and Space Exploration News Portsmouth UK SPX Oct 31, 2012 SSBV Aerospace and Technology Group SSBV and Spacemetric has announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding to develop and demonstrate a multi-purpose and real-time Ground Receiving and Processing Station . The increasing demand for regional and direct-downlink Ground Receiving and
, Method Continuing Work With Scoops at Rocknest' 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 . Crew Preparing for Cargo Ship , Spacewalk post from Space Tourism , Space Transport and Space Exploration News on 31 October 2012 05:16:43 AM . Space Tourism , Space Transport and Space Exploration News Houston TX SPX Oct 31, 2012 A special Halloween visitor will soon be knocking on the back door of the International Space Station . The ISS Progress 49 cargo vehicle launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 3:41 a.m . EDT Wednesday , heading for a docking to the aft end of the station's Zvezda service module at 9:40 a.m . Progress 49 is
Method 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 . Powered exoskeleton helps paralyzed walk post from Space Tourism , Space Transport and Space Exploration News on 31 October 2012 05:16:43 AM . Space Tourism , Space Transport and Space Exploration News Nashville UPI Oct 30, 2012 People paralyzed below the waist who thought they would never take another step could gain some independence thanks to a new exoskeleton , U.S . researchers say . A powered exoskeleton that enables people with severe spinal cord injuries to stand , walk , sit and climb stairs could be available commercially by 2014, Vanderbilt University reported Tuesday . Created at
Method Curiosity's Tastes of Martian Soil Offer Insights on Mineral Composition 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 . Planet-hunt data released to public post from Space Tourism , Space Transport and Space Exploration News on 31 October 2012 05:16:43 AM . Space Tourism , Space Transport and Space Exploration News Baltimore UPI Oct 30, 2012 A year's worth of planet-hunting data gathered by NASA's Kepler space telescope has been made available to scientists and the public , researchers said . The Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore released 12 additional months worth of planet-searching data , meaning every observation from the
Method Massive Jurassic Turtle Graveyard Unearthed in China 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 . Japan Plans to Launch New Carrier Rocket in 2013 post from Space Tourism , Space Transport and Space Exploration News on 31 October 2012 05:16:43 AM . Space Tourism , Space Transport and Space Exploration News Tokyo RIA Novosti Oct 31, 2012 Japan is planning to launch its new light-class Epsilon carrier rocket in summer 2013, national space agency JAXA said . JAXA's goal is to have an inexpensive rocket to launch compact low-cost satellites into orbit . It will replace the M-5 rocket , a similar vehicle that carried out seven successful
The Universities Space Research Association (USRA) invites youth worldwide ages 10–18 to share their visions of the future of space exploration by submitting visual, literary, musical, and video artwork to the 2012 Humans in Space Youth Art Competition. Due to worldwide request, the deadline for entries has been extended to November 15. The competition partners [...]
The California Space Grant Team recently led a distance learning activity between the Los Angeles County Fair and physics students at Mountain Empire High School, which is located in rural southeast San Diego County. Based on a concept developed by the National Science Foundation-funded High Performance Wireless Research and Education Network (HPWREN) team, the Live [...]