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Fri, 9 May 2008 11:00:00 GMT

Nasa plans manned mission to asteroid

Nasa is preparing a three-month manned mission to an asteroid that is scheduled to pass close to Earth in 2030. The space agency has prepared a plan, seen by The Guardian, for a mission to the 1.1 million ton 2000SG344 asteroid. The asteroid caused
Fri, 9 May 2008 11:00:00 GMT

NASA spacecraft spots giant dust devils on Mars

AM IST NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has spotted two whirling dust devils, towering nearly a kilometre high, at the exact spot where the Phoenix Mars lander is due to touch down in a few weeks. According to a report in New Scientist, Phoenix
Fri, 9 May 2008 10:59:00 GMT

NASA Kepler Mission Offers Opportunity to Send Names Into Space

Artist concept of Kepler spacecraft. Image credit: NASA Tools: PASADENA, Calif. â?? How cool would it be to have your name on board the spacecraft that discovers the first known Earth-like planet beyond our solar system? Well, here's your chance.
Fri, 9 May 2008 10:55:00 GMT

NASA looks for 10 petaflops with new computer

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Fri, 9 May 2008 10:54:00 GMT

[LETTERS] Data Discrepancies in Solar-Climate Link

Discrepancies in Solar-Climate Link PierrehumbertScience 9 May 2008: 746aDOI: 10.1126/science.320.5877.746a Need ? How Do I Get Access? Sign In Registered Users and Subscribers User Name: Password: Auto Sign-In: Save my user name & password on this
Fri, 9 May 2008 10:34:00 GMT

[NEWS FOCUS] PLANETARY SCIENCE: To Touch the Water of Mars and Search for Life's Abode

PLANETARY SCIENCE: To Touch the Water of Mars and Search for Life's Abode KerrScience 9 May 2008: 738-739DOI: 10.1126/science.320.5877.738 Need ? How Do I Get Access? Sign In Registered Users and Subscribers User Name: Password: Auto Sign-In: Save my
Fri, 9 May 2008 10:32:00 GMT

Astrophysical Fluid Mechanics: A New Method For Simulating Supersonic Turbulence

Turbulence is worth studying, because of the fundamental role that it plays in astrophysics. Turbulence is frequently modelled by Large Eddy Simulations (LES), where the dynamics of turbulent eddies are computed on large scales, while a subgrid scale
Fri, 9 May 2008 10:29:00 GMT

Inventor, Engineering Students Explore New Type Of Solar Collectors

The energy in this case involves a team of students led by chemical engineering associate professor Dr. Kevin Dahm working with a local inventor to advance a new solar thermal collector the inventor designed. The engineering students pointed out that
Fri, 9 May 2008 10:27:00 GMT

NASA Satellite Images Burma Cyclone

NASA has captured the effects of the powerful cyclone that struck the Myanmar coast on Saturday, May 3, using an imaging instrument onboard its Terra satellite. The instrument, called the moderate-resolution imaging spectroradiometer (MODIS), measures
Fri, 9 May 2008 09:44:00 GMT

NASA Successfully Completes First Series of Ares Engine Tests

Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Ala. 256-544-0034 Paul Foerman Stennis Space Center, Bay St. Louis, Miss. 228-688-1880 May 8, 2008 RELEASE : 08-116 STENNIS, Miss. -- NASA engineers Thursday successfully completed the first series of tests in
Fri, 9 May 2008 08:50:00 GMT

NASA Successfully Completes First Series Of Ares Engine Tests

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Fri, 9 May 2008 08:43:00 GMT

NASA Successfully Complete First Series of Ares Engine Tests

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Fri, 9 May 2008 08:43:00 GMT

NASA ISS On-Orbit Status 8 May 2008

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Fri, 9 May 2008 08:42:00 GMT

NASA JPL Server Consolidation and Virtualization Assessment Request for Information

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Fri, 9 May 2008 08:42:00 GMT

NASA ditches Itanic for new Xeon-based SGI giant

NASA has once again turned to SGI for a massive supercomputer. The two organizations announced today that SGI will build a whopping 20,480-core system for NASA Ames in Mountain View, California. The giant will run on four-core versions of Intel's Xeon
Fri, 9 May 2008 07:56:00 GMT

NASA confirms manned mission to 10 Petaflops

Well, well, well. It would seem that the 20,000-core supercomputer announced yesterday by NASA will just be the first course in an ongoing relationship between the space folk, SGI and Intel. The three organizations have revealed a project dubbed Pleiades
Fri, 9 May 2008 07:54:00 GMT

NASA looks for 10 petaflops with new computer

SGI and Intel are teaming up to build a supercomputer for NASA that they expect will pass the petaflop barrier next year and hit 10 petaflops by 2012. A petaflop is 1,000 trillion calculations per second. Techs from SGI, a maker of high-performance
Fri, 9 May 2008 07:17:00 GMT

NASA Planning Mission To 40-Meter-Wide Asteroid

FudRucker points out a story from The Guardian about NASA's plans to visit 2000SG344, an asteroid 40 meters wide and weighing roughly 71 million kilograms. The manned mission would take three to six months, and it would make use of the Orion spacecraft,
Fri, 9 May 2008 06:41:00 GMT

Japan set to open up defense use of space

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Fri, 9 May 2008 06:13:00 GMT

Dead End Armory at Space to Celebrate CD Release

Local alt-country band Dead End Armory recently released its new album, 'Hope You're Good,' and Friday night, the band is holding a CD release party at Space to celebrate. Go to www.myspace.com/ deadendarmory to listen to audio. Honeyclouds and South
Fri, 9 May 2008 06:03:00 GMT

NASA to Announce Education Initiative at San Jose Future Forum

To: TECHNOLOGY EDITORS Contact: David E. Steitz of NASA Headquarters, Washington, +1- 202-358-1730, david.steitz@nasa.gov; or Kelly Humphries of NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif., +1-650-604-5026, kelly.o.humphries@nasa.gov; or Lisa Croel
Fri, 9 May 2008 06:03:00 GMT

NASA Awards Contract for Ares I Mobile Launcher

To: TECHNOLOGY EDITORS Contact: Stephanie Schierholz, +1-202-358-4997, stephanie.schierholz@nasa.gov, or Grey Hautaluoma, +1-202-358-0668, grey.hautaluoma-1@nasa.gov, both of NASA Headquarters, Washington; or George H. Diller, NASA Kennedy Space Center,
Fri, 9 May 2008 06:03:00 GMT

NASA Starts Artifact Loan Project

The U.S. space agency has announced the start of a new artifact loan program for museums, planetariums and other organizations. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration project is designed to help organizations borrow space exploration-related
Fri, 9 May 2008 06:03:00 GMT

Ed Weiler Becomes NASA's Science Chief

The U.S. space agency said Ed Weiler, interim chief of its science directorate, has been named the directorate's permanent director. I'm very pleased to have Ed officially accept a more long-term position as science chief, said NASA Administrator Michael
Fri, 9 May 2008 06:03:00 GMT

Wave Pattern Discovered in Saturn's Atmosphere

Two decades of scrutinizing Saturn are finally paying off, as scientists have discovered a wave pattern, or oscillation, in Saturn's atmosphere only visible from Earth every 15 years. The discovery of the wave pattern is the result of a 22-year campaign
Fri, 9 May 2008 06:02:00 GMT

Japan set to open up defense use of space

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan cleared the way for a law allowing non-aggressive military use of space on Friday, overturning a decades-old policy of limiting space development to peaceful uses. The move comes during a visit by Chinese President Hu Jintao aimed
Fri, 9 May 2008 05:16:00 GMT

Doorstep Astronomy: See the Big Dipper (SPACE.com)

Joe RaoSPACE.com Skywatching ColumnistSPACE.com As soon as darkness falls these evenings, step outside and look skyward. What is the most prominent and easiest star pattern to recognize? If you live in the Northern Hemisphere you only need to look
Fri, 9 May 2008 04:57:00 GMT

Astronaut corps recruitment drive

Sci. & Tech. GUARDIAN NEWS SERVICE By Ian Sample Officials from the European Space Agency arrived in Britain on Thursday as part of a recruitment drive to find new blood for the ESA's ageing astronaut corps. The ESA is looking for at least four new
Fri, 9 May 2008 04:53:00 GMT

65-Million-Year-Old Asteroid Impact Triggered a Global Hail of Carbon Beads

The beads, known to geologists as carbon cenospheres, cannot be formed through the combustion of plant matter, contradicting a hypothesis that the cenospheres are the charred remains of an Earth on fire. If confirmed, the discovery suggests environmental
Fri, 9 May 2008 04:47:00 GMT

Cyclone Nargis and Myanmar floods seen from space

the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) asked the International Charter on 'Space and Major Disasters' for support. The initiative, referred to as 'The Charter', was founded in October 2000 by ESA, the French space
Fri, 9 May 2008 04:47:00 GMT