• A Wanderer Dances the Dance of Stars and Space

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  • Planetary Budgets and Younger Scientists

    Updated: 2012-12-31 20:23:49
    Home SpaceRef SpaceRef Business OnOrbit NASA Hack Space SpaceRef Canada Astrobiology Newsletter 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 Planetary Budgets and Younger Scientists By Keith Cowing on December 31, 2012 3:23 PM View Comments Editorial on NASA Planetary R Programs Mark V . Sykes , Planetary Science Institute At a minimum , this year's decline needs to be reversed to ensure that selection rates are improved to stop the imminent loss of the younger generation of planetary scientists as well as

  • Official NASA Memo: Implications of Ongoing Fiscal Cliff Negotiations

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  • Top 10 space stories of 2012 Astronomy Magazine

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  • Southampton researchers find a “glitch” in pulsar “glitch” theory Astronomy Magazine

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  • Orion†s Belt open cluster M35, and the Christmas Tree Cluster NGC 2264 Astronomy Magazine

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  • Mars Curiosity Rover Self-Portrait, Wide View

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  • International Space Station Crew Celebrates Christmas

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    Aboard the orbiting International Space Station, Expedition 34 Commander Kevin Ford, Russian Flight Engineers Oleg Novitskiy, Evgeny Tarelkin and Roman Romanenko, NASA Flight Engineer Tom Marshburn and Canadian Space Agency Chris Hadfield celebrated Christmas on the orbital laboratory Dec. 25, 2012 through song and downlink messages of cheer for flight controllers on the ground. The crew spent Christmas enjoying a joint meal with one another, sharing holiday greetings with their families in private conferences and soaking up the view of the Earth from the outpost.

  • Meteors will light up the winter sky Astronomy Magazine

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  • NASA SMD Responds to Community Budget Priority Concerns

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  • Curiosity Rover Report: Curiosity's Martian Holiday

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    Curiosity will spend the holidays at a location on Mars dubbed "Grandma's House."

  • Further up Yonder

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  • A Message from the International Space Station to All Humankind

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    NASA Television shares this inspiring production by Italian videomaker, Giacomo Sardelli, about the International Space Station, its inhabitants, and its role in space exploration. Sardelli writes of the video, "I'm not the first one to use NASA's pictures taken from the International Space Station to craft a Timelapse video. You can find many of them on the Internet, that's where my inspiration came from. What I wanted to do, though, was to look beyond the intrinsic beauty of those pictures, and use them to tell a story and share the messages sent by the astronauts who worked on the station in the last 11 years."

  • SpaceX Grasshopper Makes a Bigger Leap (with videos)

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  • All Clear Given on Potential Impact of Asteroid 2011 AG5

    Updated: 2012-12-22 19:32:09
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  • A Backlit View Of Saturn

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  • English Astronomers Sirs Halley Harrison Herschel and Wren Astronomy Magazine

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  • The week in pictures December 15–21, 2012 Astronomy Magazine

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  • February 2013 When stars go bang Astronomy Magazine

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  • NASA Watch is on Hiatus

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  • NASA's Chief Scientist is Departing

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  • Will NASA Meet Its DAR Implementation Deadline?

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  • Erika Rix's Astro Sketching Astronomy Magazine

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  • Worlds on fire Astronomy Magazine

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  • CuriousMars: Mars Drilling Delayed

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  • A Cosmic Holiday Ornament, Hubble-Style

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  • Cosmic Adventures Astronomy Magazine

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