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Obama trims US space ambitionsWashington (AFP) Jan 30, 2010 Facing budgetary constraints, President Barack Obama will scale back US space ambitions, abandoning plans to return to the moon by 2020 and confining NASA to lower orbits for years to come. The shift will be unveiled Monday when Obama presents his 2011 budget blueprint to Congress, according to an external White House advisor. "Constellation is dead," the advisor told AFP on Friday, referring to a program that envisioned using Earth's nearest neighbor as a base for manned expeditions to Mars. ... read more |
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Washington DC (SPX) Jan 29, 2010A discovery by two amateur astronomers in central Florida helped to set in motion a global network of ground- and space-based telescopes today, observing a violent explosion of a distant star in our Galaxy. The two astronomers, Dr. Barbara Harris of New Smyrna Beach and Shawn Dvorak of Clermont, were active participants in a global research campaign to monitor activity of the star U Scorpi ... more  
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 27, 2010The most amazing thing to come out of NASA has been the images from the Hubble Space Telescope. At least to this pair of eyes that were electrified with IMAX's presentation of the Hubble repair and impact. We all know that 3D makes a lot of movies more fun, but this experience was also touching. The Earth in the background while two white spacesuits glide to repair our telescope felt like ... more  
Manoa HI (SPX) Jan 28, 2010Humans may be justifiably nervous when an asteroid passes very close to Earth, but a new study has found that the encounter leaves the asteroid pale and shaken as well. UH Manoa astronomers Schelte Bus and Alan Tokunaga are members of an international team who set out to understand why some asteroids have colors different from those of others. In particular, they wanted to know why i ... more |
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Major Galileo Contracts SignedParis, France (ESA) Jan 28, 2010 Yesterday, Mr Rene Oosterlinck, ESA's Director of the Galileo Programme and Navigation-related Activities, signed the first three contracts for the Galileo full operational capability phase. This event marks the start of building the Galileo operational infrastructure. The signing ceremony took place at ESA's European Space Research and Technology Centre at Noordwijk (The Netherlands) in the presence of Mr Matthias Ruete, Director General 'Energy and Transport' of the European Commission (EC) and ... read more |
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