Saturn's Rings Not As Young As They Look (www.sciencenews.org)→ Planet-hugging circles of particles might be more massive -- and thus much older -- than previously thought.
Shoaib fails the rocket science test (www.telegraph.co.uk)→ PAKISTAN'S Shoaib Akhtar believes he became the first bowler to break the 100 mph barrier, but an English-educated, cricket-mad scientist who works for NASA has said the entire procedure of calculating who is the world's quickest is flawed.
Scientists Debate Planet Definition and Agree to Disagree (www.psi.edu)→ Recognizing the need for further scientific debate on planet definition, more than 100 scientists and educators representing a wide range of viewpoints on the issue converged for three days on the Applied Physics Laboratory of Johns Hopkins University (APL) for "The Great Planet Debate: Science as Process" conference (http://gpd.jhuapl.edu/) last month.
Congress members lend support to Hangar One preservationists (www.paloaltodailynews.com)→ A dozen local lawmakers led by Palo Alto U.S. Rep. Anna Eshoo called on the Navy today to restore Hangar One for reuse once it's been scrubbed of toxins.
Fuentek Designs and Facilitates Training Session for NASA Innovative Partnerships Program (apexbusinessnews.com)→ Laura A. Schoppe, president of Apex-based Fuentek, LLC has announced that the firm coordinated and executed a training session for NASA’s Innovative Partnerships Program on August 4 and 5 at the NASA Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif.
Sally Ride Science Festivals (space.about.com)→ Dr. Sally Ride, America's first woman in space, invites 5th- through 8th-grade girls to join in upcoming day-long science festivals scheduled throughout the country. Sally Ride Science Festivals bring together hundreds of students for an exciting day of science and socializing.
UCSC hits fundraising record for research, renovations (www.mercurynews.com)→ The University Affiliated Research Center at the NASA Ames Research Center received the biggest research award, nearly $30 million, as part of the university's long-term agreement with the space agency to work on new technology.
Eight-legged space survivor gives 'panspermia' theory new life (www.usatoday.com)→ The revelation last week that tiny eight-legged animals survived exposure to the harsh environment of space on an Earth-orbiting mission is further support for the idea that simple life forms could travel between planets.
NASA Humanist Chris McKay: Where Darwinism Fails (www.scoop.co.nz)→ Over the phone I detect a touch of William Shatner's Kirk in the voice of NASA astrobiologist Christopher P. McKay. McKay admits he was inspired by the television series Star Trek 30 years ago and the "great voyages of discovery"...
NASA CoLab presents Luna Philosophie #12 (Laughing Squid)→ NASA CoLab presents Luna Philosophie #12 featuring Brian Day, Educational Technology Technical Lead at NASA Ames Research Center, who will be giving a talk at Yahoo! Brickhouse this Wednesday, September 17th on NASA’s High-Impact Return to the Moon.
Red Bluff Girl Scouts visit Ames Research Center (astrobiology magazine)→ Girl Scouts from Red Bluff Troop 70130 volunteered their time at NASA Ames Research Center's Return to the Moon Family Night event at Moffett Field in Mountain View.
Science by the Light of the Moon (astrobiology magazine)→ Researchers, students and professionals from around the world gathered in July at the NASA Lunar Science Conference to discuss the future of robotic and human exploration of the moon.
The Yin-Yang of Ultraviolet Radiation (www.space.com)→ Designers developing virtual-reality 'Cocoon' (www.cnn.com)→ Scott Fisher is the Chair of the Interactive Media Division at the University of Southern California. In the 1980s he helped develop the archetypal 'glove and goggles' virtual reality system at NASA's Ames Research Center.
Private Suborbital Spaceships Could Aid NASA Science (www.space.com)→ ALAMOGORDO, NM — NASA is eyeing ways to use privately operated suborbital vehicles to help carry out its space agenda.
Winemakers Need Space to Make Good Wines (Wine Spectator)→ Most winemakers know that the root of superb wine is in the soil of the vineyard.
Looking for life on Mars - in a Canadian Lake (Astrobiology Magazine)→ On the surface, Pavilion Lake, nestled among the peaks of Canada’s Marble Range, looks like a thousand other mountain lakes.
San Jose astronaut serves on STS-125 (The Californian.com)→ California astronaut Megan McArthur will embark on her first space journey next month as part of NASA's final servicing mission to the Hubble Space Telescope.
NASA ready to help save Hangar One (Mountain View Voice)→ City officials say they came away from a meeting with NASA Ames on Tuesday confident that the space agency is eager to save Hangar One.
NASA Seeks Next Carl Sagan - and E.T. (http://www.msnbc.msn.com)→ NEW YORK - The National Aeronautics and Space Administration, famous for its manned missions to the moon, announced the creation of the Carl Sagan Postdoctoral Fellowships in Exoplanet Exploration on Wednesday.
Mars Research in Polar Bear Country (http://astrobiology.nasa.gov)→ Interview with Hans Amundsen
Massive $208 million petascale computer gets green light (http://networkworld.com)→ The 200,000 processor core system known as Blue Waters got the green light recently as the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and its National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) said it has finalized the contract with IBM to build the world's first sustained petascale computational system.
NASA Ames Research Center technology spins off to hospitals (http://www.marketwatch.com)→ The genesis of On-Cue technology comes from NASA, where Allocade's Founder and Chief Technology Officer, Don Rosenthal, worked as a leading computer scientist within the Artificial Intelligence Application Group at the NASA Ames Research Center.
Scientists See Moon as Research Outpost, Training Ground (http://www.wibw.com/)→ One of the host of challenges facing NASA as the agency plans to rekindle robotic and human exploration of the moon is the development of a corps of investigators and technologies suitable for long-term missions akin to the research stations that dot Antarctica.
Space junkies ask 'who owns the moon?' (news.cnet.com)→ Within the next 10 years, the U.S., China, Israel, and a host of private companies plan to set up camp on the moon. So if and when they plant a flag, does that give them property rights?
ISS to Call High School Simulated ISS (UPI.com)→ CLOVIS, Calif., Aug. 20 (UPI) -- Buchanan High School pupils in Clovis, Calif., taking part in a 48-hour space station simulation, will be able to chat with a real space station crew member.
NASA to study Ares rocket propellant tank explosion risks (www.flightglobal.com/blogs)→ NASA Ames Research Center is to study the uncertainty in simulations of Ares launch vehicles propellant tank explosions.
Space junkies ask 'who owns the moon?' (news.cnet.com)→ Within the next 10 years, the U.S., China, Israel, and a host of private companies plan to set up camp on the moon.
ISS to Call High School Simulated ISS (UPI.com)→ Buchanan High School pupils in Clovis, Calif., taking part in a 48-hour space station simulation, will be able to chat with a real space station crew member.
Meeting Intel's Future Processor Family (InternetNews.com)→ Intel today offered a look inside its next generation of processors, the Nehalem family, with new details and demos during the Intel Developer Forum (IDF). Nehalem was the code name for the processor, which Intel recently dubbed officially as the Core i7.
Ares I Engineers See Fix For Thrust Problem (Aviation Week)→ Ares I engineers are scheduled to present their final recommendation this week on fixing a potentially dangerous thrust oscillation on the new crew launch vehicle.
Space Agency Presses Full-speed Ahead on Exploration Plans (Government Executive)→ NASA might be operating under a lean budget, but that isn't preventing officials at the 50-year-old space agency from dreaming big.
NASA delays robotic moon mission until 2009 (Associated Press)→ NASA has delayed the launch of an unmanned spacecraft to the moon to scout for potential landing sites for astronauts.
Inside NASA's Plan to Bomb the Moon and Find Water (Popular Mechanics)→ Short on time and tight on money, a team of NASA engineers aims to solve the mystery of lunar ice in late winter—by crashing its low-budget kamikaze spacecraft into a crater.
KARI signs a Statement of Intent for participation in the ILN (University of Mississippi School of Law)→ KARI signs a Statement of Intent for participation in the ILN on August 12th, 2008
Reflections on NASA at 50: Pete Worden (Discovery Channel)→ Simon P. "Pete" Worden, a retired Air Force brigadier general and University of Arizona astronomy professor, is the director of NASA's Ames Research Center in Mountain View, Calif.
Web3D Consortium Announces the ReLaunch of its CAD Working Group (www.prnewsnow.com)→ The Web3D Consortium (www.web3d.org) announces the re-launch of its CAD Working Group co-chaired by Alan Hudson of Yumetech, Paul Keller of NASA - Ames Research Center, and William Glascoe of CSC.
NASA, Fuentek Evaluating MMO Game Proposals (Tech Journal South)→ t’s no secret that convincing bright students to pursue science, engineering and math careers is vital to the nation’s continuing as a worldwide technology innovator.
Phoenix Mars Scientists Undaunted by Recent Chemical Find (Tucson Citizen)→ Al Globus returns to the program.
This Week on the Space Show (The Space Fellowship)→ Al Globus returns to the program.
Voyaging to the Stars on a Solar Breeze: Space Sail to Take Flight (Scientific American)→ How do you power a spacecraft in deep space?
NASA Uses Remote Sand Dunes as Stand-in for Moon (Associated Press)→ MOSES LAKE, Wash. (AP) — Two NASA astronauts in spacesuits drove their lunar truck up a steep sand dune in a barren, wind-swept landscape so forbidding it was reminiscent of the surface of the moon.
The Finish Line for the Next Space Race: Planet Earth (www.wired.com)→ NASA's heated space race with the Russians resulted in Americans orbiting the Earth, landing on the moon, creating new constellations of satellites and building a space station.
Nanotechnology At NASA Could Play Medical Role On Earth (www.usmedicine.com)→ Startling changes can come over a material when it is manipulated at the atomic or molecular level.
NASA Helps Firefighters Track Wildfires (www.sayeducate.com)→ For homeowners in many California counties this summer, wildfires have been a personal menace. At one point this month, more than 1700 fires were burning threatening huge swaths of the Golden State.
NASA Scientists Suggest Planting a Lunar Garden (tribe.net)→ NASA scientists are suggesting that before sending humans back to the moon, we should launch plants there and watch them grow.
NASA/Ames scientists map our return to the moon (MercuryNews.com)→ Thirty-nine years to the day after Neil Armstrong radioed "The Eagle has landed" from the Sea of Tranquility,
Sweeping Panoramas, Courtesy of a Robot (New York Times)→ A panorama of the Harmandir Sahib, informally referred to as The Golden Temple or Temple of God, in Amritsar, India, taken with the GigaPan camera system.
Are Students Taking NASA's Place? (Discovery News)→ Well, not really. But in terms of performing some functions that used to be the exclusive domain of NASA and some major aerospace contractors, they may indeed be filling a significant void.
California Has A Brand New Reliable Firefighter (eFluxMedia)→ The newest add-on to California’s Fire Department is a drone called Ikhana, developed by NASA, which will help the state’s fire crews efficiently battle the many blazes reported on an almost daily base.
NASA Drone's Sensors Help Battle California Wildfires (EE Times)→ NASA's Ikhana unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is spotting for the firefighters battling the more than 300 wildfires raging in California this week (June 14).
NASA Responds to California Wildfire Emergency Imaging Request (www.newsblaze.com)→ A remotely piloted aircraft carrying a NASA sensor flew over much of California earlier this week, gathering information that will be used to help fight more than 300 wildfires burning within the state.
NASA Drone Assisting in Big Sur Wildfire Fight (Monterey County Herald)→ While traditional firefighting aircraft have been hampered by low visibility in the smoke, at least one type of airplane doesn't have that issue as it flies over the Basin Complex Fire.
NASA / NSS Space Settlement Design Contest March 31, 2009 (Teaching with Contests.com)→ This annual contest, co-sponsored by NASA Ames and the National Space Society (NSS), is for 6-12th graders from anywhere in the world.
Zero-gravity Team Finds Spray Cooling Works in Space (University of Wisconsin-Madison News)→ When Falcon 1 takes off in a few weeks, one of the "piggyback" payloads will be a 4 kg (less than 10 lbs) NASA satellite about the size of a bread box that can unfurl into a 10 meter square solar sail on orbit.
SOFIA Telescope Mirror Gets Key Coating (Aviationweek.com)→ The two-ton primary mirror for the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) has gotten a shiny protective aluminum coating as preparations continue for the 747SP's service entry next year.
NASA's Kepler Telescope Set to Use 3PAR in the Search for Distant Earth-Like Planets (CNN.com)→ 3PAR® (NYSE: PAR), the leading global provider of utility storage, announced today that NASA Ames Research Center has chosen 3PAR Utility Storage for a mission that will send the Kepler Space Telescope into orbit around the Sun to find planets in solar systems outside our own.
SpaceX's Next Launch Will Carry NASA Solar Sail Experiment (Wired)→ When Falcon 1 takes off in a few weeks, one of the "piggyback" payloads will be a 4 kg (less than 10 lbs) NASA satellite about the size of a bread box that can unfurl into a 10 meter square solar sail on orbit.
NASA Unveils 128-Screen Visualization System (InformationWeek.com)→ NASA announced it has developed the world's highest resolution visualization and data exploration system, with 128 screens and the size of a billboard.
Google to build at NASA Ames→ After cooperating on several scientific projects, Google and NASA announced Wednesday they have negotiated a long-term lease that will allow the Internet search giant to build a major tech campus at the space agency's Ames Research Center in Mountain View.
