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May 31, 2014

NASA faces identity crisis, funding battle
Washington (UPI) May 30, 2013
As NASA funding continue to dissipate, space agency officials are left trying - frustratingly - to figure out what's worth paying for. And the Spitzer Space Telescope is just the latest in a growing list of defunded and soon-to-be-extinct projects. Since the Apollo missions to the moon ended in 1973, NASA's budget has steadily declined - from 1.35 percent of the federal government's total expenditures to less than 0.6 percent today. Although the 2014 budget recovered a small portion of previ ... read more

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SpaceX unveils capsule to ferry astronauts to space A sleek, white gumdrop-shaped space capsule that aims to carry up to seven astronauts to the International Space Station and return to land anywhere on Earth was unveiled Thursday by SpaceX. ... more		Earth's gravitational pull stretches moon surface Anyone who's been to the beach - and seen the ocean's tides - knows the moon's gravitational effects on Earth are rather obvious. The effects of Earth's gravitational pull on the moon are less apparent. ... more		Apollo 13 astronaut's toothbrush sells for $11,794 A toothbrush used by one of the American astronauts who flew to the Moon was sold at auction for nearly $12,000, or triple the starting bid, the auction house said Friday. ... more
				National Security Space: Then.Now.Tomorrow Well that was far too generous of an introduction. I didn't even recognize any of that myself. It is great to be back at the symposium this year and thank you all for attending this morning. It's an ... more		Engineers reconnect with ISEE-3, retired NASA probe Engineers with Skycorp, Inc. - the Los Gatos, California-based group attempting to reconnect with a retired NASA probe first launched in the 1970s - announced Thursday they had successfully established contact with International Sun-Earth Explorer-3, or ISEE-3. ... more

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A first for NASA's IRIS: a gigantic eruption of solar material Earlier this month, a coronal mass ejection (CME) - which sounds both gross and dangerous, until you learn it's just a really big solar flare - leaped from the side of the sun. Luckily, IRIS, NASA's newest solar observatory, was in prime position to capture a detailed profile view of extraordinary ejection. ... more		Earthly Conflicts Threaten US-Russia Space Cooperation Angered over U.S. sanctions against Russian officials involved in the annexation of Crimea, and unrest in Eastern Ukraine, Russian deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said Moscow may retaliate by r ... more		Taiwan running out of time for satellite communications, space chief tells AFP US lawmaker warns of military 'misunderstanding' risk with China Venezuela accuses US of waging 'undeclared war,' urges UN probe		US seeks greater missile defense cooperation by Japan, South Korea A top US military official on Wednesday called for better missile defense cooperation between Japan and South Korea, in the face of strained ties between America's two closest Asia allies and a belligerent North Korea. ... more
				Microsystems Technologies Office: Creating A New Electronics Revolution For National Defense Since its inception in 1992, DARPA'S Microsystems Technology Office (MTO) has helped create and prevent strategic surprise through its investments in compact microelectronic components such as micro ... more		China's decision to replace IBM servers with domestic equivalents may boost national security The use of home-made servers in Beijing's national banks may prevent inclusion of hidden backdoors that facilitate intelligence gathering by the US National Security Agency, according to expert in t ... more

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Supersonic spray delivers high quality graphene layer A simple, inexpensive spray method that deposits a graphene film can heal manufacturing defects and produce a high quality graphene layer on a range of substrates, report researchers at the Universi ... more		Zeroing in on the proton's magnetic moment As part of a series of experiments designed to resolve one of the deepest mysteries of physics today, researchers from RIKEN, in collaboration with the University of Mainz, GSI Darmstadt and the Max ... more		Toxic homes a lasting legacy of Los Angeles fires 'Greatest con job ever': Trump trashes climate science at UN Turkey facing worst drought in over 50 years		DNA nanotechnology places enzyme catalysis within an arm's length Using molecules of DNA like an architectural scaffold, Arizona State University scientists, in collaboration with colleagues at the University of Michigan, have developed a 3-D artificial enzyme cas ... more
				Scientists develop new hybrid energy transfer system Scientists from the University of Southampton, in collaboration with the Universities of Sheffield and Crete, have developed a new hybrid energy transfer system, which mimics the processes responsib ... more		Leaving the islands In a recent study involving LMU researchers, the desorption of oxygen molecules from a silver surface was successfully visualized for the first time. The effects account for the shortcomings of conv ... more

Water in moon rocks provides clues and questions about lunar history

Earth's gravitational pull stretches moon surface

NASA Missions Let Scientists See Moon's Dancing Tide From Orbit

New Mars Lander to Probe Interior of Red Planet

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Mars Curiosity rover may have transported Earth bacteria to Mars

Virgin space flights cleared for US take-off

NASA faces identity crisis, funding battle

Engineers reconnect with ISEE-3, retired NASA probe

Chinese lunar rover alive but weak

China's Jade Rabbit moon rover 'alive but struggling'

Chinese space team survives on worm diet for 105 days

	A Path Toward More Powerful Tabletop Accelerators Making a tabletop particle accelerator just got easier. A new study shows that certain requirements for the lasers used in an emerging type of small-area particle accelerator can be significantly re ... more		Sending entangled beams through fast-light materials Michael Lewis's bestselling book "Flash Boys" describes how some brokers, engaging in high frequency trading, exploit fast telecommunications to gain fraction-of-a-second advantage in the buying and ... more		Velociraptor robot almost as fast as robotic rival Cheetah Luckily for Usain Bolt, robots aren't allowed to compete for gold medals. If they were, the new Velociraptor robot designed by researchers at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, might force Bolt to settle for silver - or bronze if Raptor's robotic rival Cheetah raced, too. ... more		Virgin space flights cleared for US take-off Richard Branson's dream of commercial space flights took a step nearer reality after Virgin Galactic signed a deal with US aviation authorities to let it blast paying customers into space, the company said Thursday. ... more

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XCOR Raises Investment Capital Led by Dutch Investors

The 'Serpent' Star-forming Cloud Hatches New Stars

Probing satellites' mysterious death tumbling

Water in moon rocks provides clues and questions about lunar history

Antares Launch Postponed

Russia ratifies deal on aerospace cooperation with Kazakhstan

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Three New Crew Members En Route to ISS

Elon Musk to present manned DragonV2 spacecraft on May 29

Russia-Ukraine space program proceeding as planned

New Mars Lander to Probe Interior of Red Planet

Chinese lunar rover alive but weak

Sentinel-1 aids Balkan flood relief

Japan plans more proactive role in Asian security

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