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Everybody says we need a NEO survey telescope
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2011/08/30 03:25 CDT
Everybody says we need a NEO survey telescope
Meeting today: The infelicitously named "SBAG"
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2011/08/25 01:45 CDT
Meeting today: The infelicitously named "SBAG"
August Means Summer Recess for Congress But Let's Keep Up the Pressure for Space
Posted by Charlene Anderson on 2011/08/02 04:53 CDT
August Means Summer Recess for Congress But Let's Keep Up the Pressure for Space
House subcommittee votes to slash NASA
Posted by Bill Nye on 2011/07/07 04:54 CDT
Today the U.S. House of Representative subcommittee charged with appropriating funds to NASA mandated a draconian cut of almost $2 billion from the space agency's proposed budget.
Just Released: The Planetary Science Decadal Survey for 2013-2022
Posted by Charlene Anderson on 2011/03/07 04:41 CST
The embargo has just been lifted on the National Research Council's "Visions and Voyages for Planetary Science in the Decade 2013 -- 2022 (PDF)," which sets out priorities for which planetary missions should be undertaken in next ten years.
Posted by Susan Lendroth on 2010/09/07 07:01 CDT
Lou Friedman handed off the keys to the Planetary Society -- and a few worlds as well -- to new Executive Director Bill Nye.
Help explorers from Earth travel to new places in our Solar System
Posted by Bill Nye on 2010/09/01 09:41 CDT
Nobel Prize laureates and former NASA officials have come together to express concern over the House of Representatives Science Committee's proposed budget for NASA.
Critical partnerships for the future of human space exploration
Posted by Andre Bormanis on 2010/07/21 07:05 CDT
Exploring the current debate in the context of these three partnerships might help illuminate how future human expeditions beyond LEO will be carried out.tical partnerships for the future of human space exploration
A Chat on NASA, NEOs, and the Cost of Coffee on the Moon
Posted by Susan Lendroth on 2010/02/22 06:22 CST
A few highlights from Lou Friedman and Bill Nye's UStream chat on The New NASA Plan.
Posted by John Smith on 2009/06/07 12:01 CDT
Each Titan flyby is not a fork in the road, but rather a Los Angeles style cloverleaf in terms of the dizzying number of possible destinations. So how did our current and future plans for the path of the Cassini spacecraft come to be? That's the question Dave Seal put to me since that's my job -- I am a tour designer.
Farewell to Hubble, Obama Calls, Astronauts Testify to Congress as Shuttle is Set to Land
Posted by Ken Kremer on 2009/05/22 05:13 CDT
Farewell to Hubble, Obama Calls, Astronauts Testify to Congress as Shuttle is Set to Land
Ever Plan Ahead? How About Six Years Ahead?
Posted by Alan Stern on 2009/05/19 07:05 CDT
Despite still being more than six years and just over 18 Astronomical Units from the Pluto system, the project team for New Horizons is conducting the second and final portion of our Pluto Encounter Preliminary Design Review (EPDR) tomorrow and the next day.











