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Abort this space shuttle mission, opinion, LA Times

“Instead of risking another tragic or humiliating setback Saturday, NASA should abandon the shuttle and focus on more productive missions.”

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June 29, 2006 Erica Hupp Headquarters, Washington 2023581237 Lynn Chandler Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. 3012862806 RELEASE: 06254 NASAS MICROSATELLITES COMPLETE TECHNOLOGY VALIDATION MISSION NASAs three orbiting microsatellites known as Space Technology 5 have completed ..The post does not have any replies yet. Read more and discuss here
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The Cat’s Paw Nebula
Credit & Copyright: Robert Gendler & Martin Pugh

Explanation: Nebulae are perhaps as famous for being identified with familiar shapes as perhaps cats are for getting into trouble. Still, no known cat could have created the vast Cat’s Paw Nebula visible in Scorpius. At 5,500 light years distant, Cat’s Paw is an emission nebula with a red color that originates from an abundance of ionized hydrogen atoms. Alternatively known as the Bear Claw Nebula or NGC 6334, stars nearly ten times the mass of our Sun have been born there in only the past few million years. Pictured above, a deep wide-field image of the Cat’s Paw nebula was photographed from New South Wales, Australia.
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Space shuttle set for July 1 liftoff Nasa managers cleared the shuttle for liftoff even though the agencys top safety officer and its lead engineer objected, officials said on Saturday. quot;Managersquot; cleared the shuttle Engineers and Safety people did not Uh, wasnt this the ….. The post has 15 replies so far. Read more and discuss here
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NASA engineers are in the midst of a new series of tests that will aid development of the agency’s future space transportation systems.
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M57: The Ring Nebula
Credit: H. Bond et al., Hubble Heritage Team (STScI / AURA), NASA

Explanation: It looked like a ring on the sky. Hundreds of years ago astronomers noticed a nebula with a most unusual shape. Now known as M57 or NGC 6720, the gas cloud became popularly known as the Ring Nebula. It is now known to be a planetary nebula, a gas cloud emitted at the end of a Sun-like star’s existence. As one of the brightest planetary nebula on the sky, the Ring Nebula can be seen with a small telescope in the constellation of Lyra. The Ring Nebula lies about 4,000 light years away, and is roughly 500 times the diameter of our Solar System. In this recent picture by the Hubble Space Telescope, dust filaments and globules are visible far from the central star. This helps indicate that the Ring Nebula is not spherical, but cylindrical.
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So shuttle lifts off normally foam loss noted about the time a ascent abort is called. Shuttle for whatever reason must reenter immediately. Perhaps a low fuel sensor failure were flying with that problem still questionable. so upon reentry we lose another vehicle and crew. So how does griffin ju ….. The post has 5 replies so far. Read more and discuss here
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Many denizens of the Saturn system wear a uniformly gray mantle of darkened ice, but not these tw…
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NASA Television and the agency’s home on the Internet, http://www.nasa.gov, will provide extensive pre-launch and launch day coverage of the space shuttle Discovery’s mission STS-121 to the International Space Station, currently scheduled for a July 1 launch.
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Does anyone know where I can pick up a night sky chart of the new comet (C/2006 A1 (Pojmanski). For the next week its correct location Around 5am for the east coast of the USA… I tried to find it this morning at 510am eastern TZ usa or 5 from UT. No luck what so ever. I want to be able to sta ….. The post has 5 replies so far. Read more and discuss here
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