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Geotimes
February 2005
Naomi Lubick |
NASA Debates Hubble's Fate Without a replacement telescope in sight, NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe announced in the spring that a robotic mission would be sufficient to service Hubble, but now a group of scientists says that a robotic mission is too costly and uncertain.   |
Popular Mechanics
January 23, 2009
Andrew Moseman |
The 5 Most Powerful Telescopes, and 5 That Will Define the Future of Astronomy Today's best telescopes are astounding feats -- and astronomers are improving them constantly. |
Popular Mechanics
May 2007
Thomas D. Jones |
Should We Repair Hubble? A plan to save the Hubble calls for five spacewalks and two shuttles. We asked a four-time shuttle astronaut if it's worth the risk. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
January 2006 |
NASA's Hubble Looks for Possible Moon Resources NASA is using the unique optical capabilities of the Hubble Space Telescope for a new class of scientific observations of the Earth's Moon. |
Scientific American
July 2005
Mark Alpert |
Feeling the Pinch Voyager 1, now speeding out of the solar system after 28 years in space, is one of the NASA missions facing budget cuts, even though the craft is reporting remarkable discoveries. |
Fast Company
February 2011
Michael Silverberg |
Orbit: NASA's Space-Shuttle Program Ends As the $115 billion reusable-orbital program retires, let's look back at six notable missions from its 30-year history. |
Popular Mechanics
November 19, 2009
Stephen Ornes |
This Is Not Your Grade School Solar System: Gallery What has changed in solar system imagery over the past few decades and what we can learn from it |
IEEE Spectrum
April 2010
Susan Karlin |
Film Preview: Hubble 3D Hubble 3D is as close to a space walk as most of us will ever get |
Geotimes
July 2006
Kathryn Hansen |
Jupiter's Junior Red Spot Jupiter's famed Great Red Spot has a new companion. |
Popular Mechanics
February 2010
Erin McCarthy |
NASA's Hubble Is Ready for Its 3D Closeup (With Video!) During the past 20 years, the Hubble Space Telescope revealed the age of the universe (about 14 billion years), shed light on dark energy and captured galaxies in all stages of evolution. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
May 2007
John McHale |
Manned Space Missions, International Space Station, Get Increases in 2008 NASA Budget Request Officials at NASA are looking for increased funding for the International Space Station, manned space systems and other programs that fulfill President Bush's goal of reaching the Moon by the end of the decade. |
Geotimes
May 2005
Naomi Lubick |
NASA on Deck As NASA prepares for the first space shuttle flight since the Columbia disaster on Feb. 2, 2003, the space agency remains in a transition stage. |
IEEE Spectrum
March 2013
Stephen Cass |
App Watch: The Final Frontier -- on Your Phone NASA brings its missions to the smallest screen |
Smithsonian
August 2005
Anne Broache |
Indelible Images - Footloose The image of Bruce McCandless' spacewalk two decades ago still amazes. It was the first untethered walk ever -- and was among the last. |
Geotimes
December 2005 |
Highlights 2005 -- Space Rovers still trucking... New "planetary" neighbors... Back to space... |
Science News
May 6, 2000 |
A Hubble Decade To celebrate the Hubble Space Telescope's 10th anniversary, the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Md., has created a new Web site devoted to the Earth-orbiting telescope and its spectacular images.... |
Popular Mechanics
May 15, 2009
Joe Pappalardo |
The Future of 5 Telescopes in Space This week has been an active one for earthlings' quest to understand the universe. Here is the big news on five telescopes in the sky. |
Popular Mechanics
March 2007
Jennifer Bogo |
NASA Mission Statement Q&A: Eyes on Earth Interview with a professor involved in a study to find out how Earth scientists view NASA's shifting priorities and how it may affect the study of the planet. |
D-Lib
April 2005 |
D-Lib Featured Collection April 2005: IMAGES Images acquired before and during a magnetic storm, showing the buildup of energetic particles surrounding the Earth during the storm's main phase. Courtesy of the IMAGE HENA Team and NASA. |
Information Today
May 15, 2008 |
Microsoft Launches WorldWide Telescope WorldWide Telescope is a web application that brings together imagery from the best ground- and space-based observatories across the world to allow people to easily explore the night sky through their computers. |
Popular Mechanics
June 25, 2009
Lisa Merolla |
High-Tech Telescopes Yield New Galactic Photos: Gallery Space photos from advanced telescopes provide new views of the cosmos. |
InternetNews
July 5, 2005
Roy Mark |
NASA'S Comet Collision Explodes in 'Net Traffic Deep Impact's spectacular collision with the comet Tempel 1 resulted in an explosion of record traffic to the NASA Web site to see how it looked. |
Fast Company
Daniel Terdiman |
Dream Job Alert! NASA Puts Out Call For New Astronauts NASA today put out a call for new astronauts, including those who might support a future manned mission to Mars. |
Wired
July 24, 2007
Erin Biba |
Son of Hubble, Prepare for a 2013 Liftoff The James Webb Space Telescope will soon replace its aging predecessor. |
Geotimes
October 2007 |
Hubble Sees Evolving Galaxies Researchers at the Space Telescope Science Institute recently compiled more than 500 images taken with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to reveal a tapestry-style image of at least 50,000 galaxies in a small stretch of sky near the Big Dipper. |
Searcher
September 2011
David Mattison |
Searching for the Stars: Cosmic Views and Databases While amateur astronomers continue to play an important role in the field and are supported by numerous clubs, associations, and their peers, I have primarily examined resources originating from government and academic research environments. |
Popular Mechanics
March 22, 2010
Cassie Rodenberg |
The Best in Armchair Astronomy Some online sites post images from powerful telescopes around the world; others let viewers take control of the scopes. |
IEEE Spectrum
March 2010
Bikkannavar & Redding |
Software for Optical Systems Spells the End of Blur NASA software that calculates optical aberrations will sharpen images from space and could redefine perfect vision for humans |
IEEE Spectrum
August 2010
James Oberg |
ISS Repair Space Walk: A Glimpse Into the Station's Future NASA is changing the way it handles hardware problems |
Popular Mechanics
March 6, 2009
Mark Wolverton |
Can KEPLER Help Us Find Earth's Twin? With the latest universe-gazing technology, KEPLER (along with Hubble and the most advanced ground-based telescopes) will give extrasolar planet hunters a boost in the search for Earth-like planets. |
InternetNews
October 27, 2004
Michael Singer |
SGI Takes Off With NASA Supercomputer NASA's "Columbia" uses 10,240 Intel Itanium-2 chips to best IBM's Blue Gene/L and NEC's Earth Simulator. |
IEEE Spectrum
March 2009
Anna Bogdanowicz |
NASA Planet Hunter to Search Out Other Earths The Kepler satellite, scheduled to launch this month, will spend more than three years hunting for planets that might support life |
Geotimes
September 2005 |
Discovery Returns to Flight The space shuttle Discovery and its seven-member crew lifted off at 10:39 a.m. on July 26, successfully returning NASA to flight after a two-and-a-half-year hiatus. |
Scientific American
January 2009
George Musser |
Space Exploration Sticker Shock--Economics at NASA The laws of physics are easy; it's economics that vexes NASA |
Popular Mechanics
November 2009
Logan Ward |
10 Most Brilliant Innovators of 2009: Kepler Space Telescope The Kepler telescope -- a 15-foot-long, $600 million tool for finding Earth-like planets -- captured its first image in April. |
Popular Mechanics
November 16, 2009 |
The Retirement of the Space Shuttle--And What's Next for NASA We look back at coverage of the technology behind the Constellation Program and the development of the International Space station as well as news surrounding the Space Shuttles |
Chemistry World
December 2009
Jon Cartright |
Reading between the lines Since its emergence in the mid 19th century, spectroscopy has become the most important tool in astronomy, and in recent years there has been no end to its new discoveries. |
Popular Mechanics
September 10, 2009
Rand Simberg |
Risk Aversion and NASA Don't Mix: Augustine Report Analysis We now know the options that the Augustine panel is going to present to the administration for the future of NASA human spaceflight, because the summary was released on Tuesday. |
Geotimes
March 2005
Joseph Richard Gutheinz |
Marketing an Asteroid Threat NASA would prefer to market its successes, but with a mixed bag of successes and failures lately, they have opted for a new public relations ploy: fear -- whether it be fear of the environment or fear of asteroids. |
Wired
December 2004 |
After the X Prize Manned space travel's best hope is the private sector, not NASA. In the open market, entrepreneurs and space hobbyists will do in a decade what NASA couldn't do in 46 years: provide safe, reliable trips to the heavens for the cost of a Caribbean cruise. |
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NASA Studying The Sun The most advanced solar observatory ever built rocketed into space Thursday on a five-year quest to shed light on Earth's star. |
Geotimes
July 2007
Carolyn Gramling |
X-ray Eyes in the Sky Scientists are working on the next generation of low-orbiting satellites that they hope will see far past the Earth's surface and into its interior, to better understand the structure and composition of Earth's crust, mantle and core. |
Popular Mechanics
February 2, 2010
Tom Jones |
Launching NASA on a Path to Nowhere: Analysis The president released his FY 2011 budget Monday, and his policy for NASA's human spaceflight program sets the nation on a course to second-class status in space. |
Smithsonian
May 2005
Lawrence M. Small |
From the Secretary - Science Matters The Institution decides to focus on four basic scientific questions. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
February 2005
John McHale |
The Moon, Mars and beyond... The Space Shuttle program is due to be replaced by the Crew Exploration Vehicle. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
June 2008
Courtney E. Howard |
NASA, Intel, and SGI upgrade supercomputer, expand compute capabilities Experts at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration in Washington, Intel Corp. in Santa Clara, Calif., and SGI in Sunnyvale, Calif., are working toward significant increases in the computing performance and capacity of the space agency's supercomputer. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
August 2004
Ben Ames |
Astronomers Need Adaptive Optics for 30-Meter Telescope Space-based telescopes do not have to use adaptive optics to correct for peering through the Earth's atmosphere; the biggest advances in space-telescope technology come from the mirrors, which rely on near-perfect calibration and lightweight materials to catch maximum radiation. |
Scientific American
July 2009
Yam & Wilcox |
Updates: Whatever Happened to Hubble's Last Fix? Also: updates on mercury in seafood, happiness and choices, and delisting the gray wolf |
T.H.E. Journal
November 2000 |
Around the World with a Canon Camcorder The Canon A1 Digital camcorder is used onboard the Space Shuttle, but space is not the only place where you can find scientists from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration using Canon photographic equipment... |
IEEE Spectrum
June 2009
David A. Mindell |
The End Of The Cult Of The Astronaut How do you justify human spaceflight? |
