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  • Jun. 16, 2009 | 21:29 PDT | Jun. 17 04:29 UTC
    Space Politics Alert: U.S. Human Space Flight Plans Committee
    by Charlene M. Anderson The Review of U.S. Human Space Flight Plans Committee, chaired by Norm Augustine, is holding its first public meeting on June 17, from 9 am to 5 pm, EDT – and you can watch it live over the Internet. This is the group... More»
  • Jun. 16, 2009 | 09:12 PDT | 16:12 UTC
    HiFlyers
    by Timothy Reed The HiRISE website is one of my regular stops when I need my fix of planetary images. And if you like to surround yourself with samples of the latest releases of images from Mars, the HiRISE Team has made available a series of... More»
  • Jun. 15, 2009 | 16:44 PDT | 23:44 UTC
    LRO & LCROSS: 1 Day Launch Delay
    by Ken Kremer NASA managers decided today to delay by one day the June 17 dual launch of the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) and Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) in order to accommodate a postponed launch attempt by... More»
  • Jun. 15, 2009 | 12:56 PDT | 19:56 UTC
    Gravity's Bow
    by Timothy Reed Timothy Reed is an optical engineer living in Boulder, Colorado. He worked for 20 years developing spaceflight imaging systems and was a major contributor to HiRISE, JWST, NICMOS, QuickBird, Space Shuttle microgravity payloads, and... More»
  • Jun. 14, 2009 | 10:19 PDT | 17:19 UTC
    LRO & LCROSS Up Close Tour: Poised on Atlas V Rocket at Launch Complex 41
    by Ken Kremer The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) and Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) soon to launch companion spacecraft are the two pathfinding robotic missions specifically designed to reignite the US lunar exploration... More»
  • Jun. 12, 2009 | 10:39 PDT | 17:39 UTC
    Planning for Pluto
    John Spencer My New Horizons boss Alan Stern blogged about the New Horizons Pluto encounter planning a couple of weeks ago. He gave the high-level view of why we are planning the encounter now, six years before we reach Pluto, and how we... More»
  • Jun. 11, 2009 | 14:44 PDT | 21:44 UTC
    News from Mars and Capitol Hill
    by Louis Friedman Click to enlarge > Louis Friedman, Executive Director Some recent news – first the good: the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has resumed its fantastic photography mission over Mars. The spacecraft had shut itself down... More»
  • Jun. 9, 2009 | 20:03 PDT | Jun. 10 03:03 UTC
    Mysteries, Small and Large
    by John Spencer Some evening last winter I was idly looking out the window from our bedroom when something caught my attention -- a distant steady, bright green, light penetrating a screen of trees. Every so often it turned red. A traffic light,... More»
  • Jun. 8, 2009 | 10:49 PDT | 17:49 UTC
    Aloha, Io
    by John Spencer John Spencer is a staff scientist at Southwest Research Institute's Department of Space Studies in Boulder, Colorado and is a member of the New Horizons and Cassini science teams. His research interests include the moons of the... More»
  • Jun. 7, 2009 | 09:01 PDT | 16:01 UTC
    Designing the Cassini Tour
    by John Smith Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction and skillful execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives. [William A. Foster] The Cassini spacecraft... More»