First Family Views Shuttle Atlantis
Posted by brandoniswrite on October 15, 2010
President Barack Obama, First Lady Michelle Obama, daughters Malia, left, Sasha, Mrs. Obama’s mother Marian Robinson, astronaut Janet Kavandi and United Space Alliance project lead for thermal protection systems Terry White, walk under the landing gear of the space shuttle Atlantis as they visit Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Friday, April [...]
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OH truck wreck spills cereal on highway
Posted by brandoniswrite on October 14, 2010
TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) – Authorities say a crash on the Ohio Turnpike spilled hundreds of boxes of breakfast cereal. www2.wnct.com – National
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MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT: Student Spaceflight Experiments Program (SSEP) Now Featured at www.nasa.gov
Posted by brandoniswrite on October 13, 2010
The National Center for Earth and Space Science Education (NCESSE), and NanoRacks, LLC, are proud to pass on word from NASA that the Student Spaceflight Experiments Program (SSEP) is now featured at the NASA.gov website. Besides the main article, there is a separate feature article—written by the communities themselves—for 13 of the 16 SSEP communities [...]
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Swedish Space Corporation + German Aerospace Centre… Willing To Invest + Build (SATCOM)
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[SatNews] Two European space organizations are willing to invest as much as .3 million to build a satellite earth station in Southland, New Zealand, but a national customer needs to be established first. Satnews.com — Worldwide Satellite News
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Treasurer’s Report
Posted by brandoniswrite on October 11, 2010
by Michael Mitrano, Treasurer Membership has increased to 85 with many late-in-the-year renewals. We are now only four shy of last year’s full-year membership. Outreach contributions already exceed last year’s and match the full-year amount for two years ago. Our routine expenses have remained modest, and the AAAP’s surplus for the year-to-date has therefore risen [...]
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NASA Releases Images of Man-Made Crater on Comet
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NASA’s Stardust spacecraft returned new images of a comet showing a scar resulting from the 2005 Deep Impact mission. The images also showed the comet has a fragile and weak nucleus. The spacecraft made its closest approach to comet Tempel 1 on Monday, Feb. 14, at 8:40 p.m. PST (11:40 p.m. EST) at a distance [...]
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NASA’s Arctic Ice Campaign Adds Second Aircraft
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NASA scientists conducting an airborne campaign right now in the Arctic to monitor changes in sea ice and ice sheet thickness have a new tool. A second aircraft — the King Air B200 — arrived in Kangerlussuaq, Greenland, carrying an instrument that maps the icy surface from more than five miles (8 km) above, providing [...]
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Imagination Fascination, Alive and Well
Posted by brandoniswrite on October 9, 2010
They’re still out there — young people who want to have their imaginations fired up and their curiosity modes switched “on.” Recently, NASA staff uncovered evidence of such kids at two outreach events near Washington, D.C. Loaded with posters, paper models, worksheets and hands-on education activities, NASA aeronautics staff visited a school in Alexandria, VA [...]
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Catching Space Weather in the Act
Posted by brandoniswrite on October 8, 2010
Close to the globe, Earth’s magnetic field wraps around the planet like a gigantic spherical web, curving in to touch Earth at the poles. But this isn’t true as you get further from the planet. As you move to the high altitudes where satellites fly, nothing about that field is so simple. Instead, the large [...]
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Can WISE Find the Hypothetical ‘Tyche’?
Posted by brandoniswrite on October 6, 2010
In November 2010, the scientific journal Icarus published a paper by astrophysicists John Matese and Daniel Whitmire, who proposed the existence of a binary companion to our sun, larger than Jupiter, in the long-hypothesized “Oort cloud” — a faraway repository of small icy bodies at the edge of our solar system. The researchers use the [...]
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