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NASA is marking a historic moment in the life of the nation’s largest rocket engine test complex.
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NASA’s Mars rover Opportunity edged 3.7 meters (12 feet) closer to the top of the “Duck Bay” alco…
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NASA ARC Internal Memo: Annual Call for Legislative Proposals

“NASA’s Office of Legislative Affairs issued the Annual Call for Legislative Proposals for the FY 2008 NASA Authorization Act. This is an annual call for legislative language to be considered for inclusion in the agency’s FY 2008 Authorization bill. The agency’s proposed bill will be submitted to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) this fall as part of the agency’s FY 2008 budget package submittal.”

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This vibrant image from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope shows the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy to our own Milky Way galaxy
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House Science Committee Democrats Question Wisdom of NASA’s Plans to Cut and Restructure Aeronautics Research Program

“Yet, instead of investing more in the highly productive aeronautics enterprise that has been built up within NASA and its predecessor organization over the last nine decades, NASA is in the process of dismantling those capabilities as it turns its attention elsewhere and reallocates resources to new ventures,” added Rep. Udall.”

House Space and Aeronautics Subcommittee to Examine NASA Aeronautics Program Tomorrow

“Tomorrow, the Space and Aeronautics Subcommittee will hold a hearing on the response of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to recommendations from the National Academy of Sciences on how NASA should run its civil aeronautics research and development (R&D) program.”

Talking Points: Full Cost Management and Overhead Simplification, NASA HQ

“While it appears that the Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate (ARMD) will take a significant hit as a result of this accounting change, the overhead simplification structure is a good thing for ARMD.”

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NASA will hosts science update on October 4 to discuss a Hubble Space Telescope discovery of extrasolar planet candidates orbiting a variety of distant stars.
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In the newsgroup alt.binaries.movies.divx somebody has uploaded a 1.1 Gb very High Quality video (with speaker comments, unfortunately) of the launch. Just thought I would let you know . . . Allan F … The post has 6 replies so far. Read more and discuss here
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Virgin Galactic Unveils Fullscale Mock-up of SpaceShipTwo

Editor’s note: Sir Richard Branson, Founder of the Virgin Group, will be on hand with his staff at Wired’s NextFest in New York City on Thursday to unveil a full scale mockup of his SpaceShipTwo commercial suborbital spacecraft. SpaceShipTwo is being developed by Branson and Burt Rutan’s Scaled Composites. A fleet of five vehicles is planned.

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NASA Hubble Space Telescope Daily Report #4205

“The ACS suspended at 266/15:21:25 GMT. … A detailed analysis of the event is underway with a tiger team meeting at 1pm Sunday. A follow-up status meeting is planned with HSTP for 9am Monday in. Actions from the tiger team meeting: -Investigate whether ASPC-2 relay status are analog, if analog assess the raw data for shifts that indicate whether or not all the relays switched.”

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A large, human-caused fire has been burning since September 4 in mixed brush and scattered timber…
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