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Griffin Lays Out NASA Position On Openness
Washington DC (SPX) Feb 06, 2006
NASA administrator Michael Griffin has laid out his agency's position on unauthorized statements by employees. He released the statement last Friday in the wake of recent media reports that a NASA climate scientist had been prevented from speaking on climate change, and that the Inspector General had been attempting to silence safety warnings about the space shuttle.

  
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Extremophile Bacteria Do One Job In Daylight And Another At Night
Washington DC (SPX) Feb 06, 2006
Photosynthetic bacteria living in scalding Yellowstone hot springs have been found to assume two radically different metabolic identities.

Identifying Whale Sharks Using Astronomical Star Pattern Recognition Program
Maynard, MA (SPX) Feb 06, 2006
Researchers plan to employ a new computer algorithm normally used by astronomers to recognize star patterns to identify individual whale sharks in an effort to protect them.

Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Is On The Approach
Pasadena CA (SPX) Feb 05, 2006
NASA's next martian orbiter has gotten one step closer to the red planet with the transition from cruise phase to approach phase!

Mozart On Mars - Sol 715-721
Washington DC (SPX) Feb 02, 2006
Opportunity is healthy and is continuing the characterization of an outcrop called "Olympia." The rover is on top of a feature called "Overgaard." The plan is to complete a mosaic with the microscopic imager, then drive toward a feature called "Roosevelt" and examine it with tools on the robotic arm.

Northrop Grumman Unveils New Modeling And Simulation Research Center
Newport News VA (SPX) Feb 06, 2006
Northrop Grumman has unveiled its new Aviation Ship Integration Center, a state-of-the-art research facility established in partnership with the U.S. Navy to conduct modeling, simulation, research, development and in-depth analysis for CVN 21-class aircraft carriers and other aviation-capable ships.

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Spacehab Files Court Complaint For Losses On Space Shuttle Mission
Houston (SPX) Feb 06, 2006
Spacehab is filing a civil complaint against NASA with the United States District Court in Houston for loss and damages suffered during the Space Shuttle Columbia tragedy in February 2003.

Spacesuit Overboard
Houston TX (SPX) Feb 06, 2006
Space station crew members released a spacesuit-turned-satellite during the second spacewalk of their mission on Friday. Called SuitSat, the device was supposed to transmit the recorded voices of schoolchildren to amateur radio operators worldwide. It did so faintly for a brief period before it ceased sending signals, Johnson Space Center officials reported.

Volkswagen And Google Team Up To Explore Future Vehicle Nav Systems
Auburn Hills (SPX) Feb 06, 2006
Volkswagen of America and Google Volkswagen, Google, and graphics chipmaker nVidia are working on an in-car navigation map system and display that aims to be 3-dimensional and more real looking than anything currently available, the companies said in a joint statement.

Xtar Signs Master Service Agreements With Key Government Services Organizations
Rockville MD (SPX) Feb 06, 2006
XTAR has signed master service agreements with General Dynamics Satellite Communications Services and Stratos Mobile Networks, two prominent government communications services companies.

Deep Impact Team Reports First Evidence Of Cometary Ice
Providence RI (SPX) Feb 2, 2006
Researchers examining data returned by NASA's Deep Impact mission have discovered that Comet Tempel 1 is covered with a small amount of water ice. The results, reported in an advance online edition of the journal Science, offer the first definitive evidence of surface ice on any comet.

Engineers Compete To Find Best Trajectory To Intercept An Asteroid
Noordwijk, The Netherlands (SPX) Feb 2, 2006
Experts from across the world are meeting at the European Space Agency's European Space and Technology Research Centre to discuss how to best calculate spacecraft orbits. Even though the space age is now 49 years old, determining the optimal trajectories for spacecraft remains a far from easy task.

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