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Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2012/05/16 09:55 CDT | 2 comments
How to enjoy a solar eclipse with your kids, making shadow magic with a pinhole viewer.
Posted by Andrew Chaikin on 2012/05/04 11:36 CDT | 2 comments
Planetary exploration is in trouble. Massive budget cuts threaten to starve NASA’s planetary program for years to come. If you are as angered and frightened by this situation as I am, I ask you to make your voice heard. Please share this video. And tell Washington, “We Must Explore.”
Nearly the last view of Endeavour with its life-blood flowing
Posted by Ben Cooper on 2012/04/08 11:59 CDT
After 12 years of photographing the space shuttle, and even getting to work for NASA as a photographer for the final three years of the program, I never had the privilege of going inside the cockpit until the program was over.
Interesting times for young planetary researchers
Posted by Matt Siegler on 2012/03/21 05:16 CDT
After NASA Night at the 2012 Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in Houston, Texas, a group of young scientists (most of us just out of graduate school) met to discuss what we could do both in the near and far term to revive NASA's ability to continue the flagship mission program we would all like to see in our future.
Guest post: Matthew Chojnacki: Public service announcement by, and for, planetary grad students
Posted by Matthew Chojnacki on 2012/03/19 04:58 CDT
The President's proposed 2013 NASA budget calls for deep cuts to the nation's very successful planetary science program. These cuts not only threaten the future of planetary science, but also impact our ability to conduct deep space missions. As the next generation of planetary scientists, the graduate student community is deeply concerned about the ramifications of these budget cuts, and we must voice our concerns to policymakers in Washington, D.C.
"How Much Would You Pay for the Universe?"
Posted by Charlene Anderson on 2012/03/08 05:53 CST | 1 comments
"If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea." -- Antoine St. Exupery. Currently, NASA's Mars science exploration budget is being decimated, we are not going back to the Moon, and plans for astronauts to visit Mars are delayed until the 2030s -- on funding not yet allocated, overseen by a congress and president to be named later.
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