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Friday, 27 June 2008 |
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SPACE.com Image of the Day
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Friday, 27 June 2008 |
 The ESA/NASA SOHO spacecraft has just discovered its 1500th comet, making it more successful than all other comet discoverers throughout history put together. Not bad for a spacecraft that was designed as a solar physics mission. |
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Friday, 27 June 2008 |
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Isla de la Palma in the Canary Islands is featured in this image photographed by an Expedition 17 crewmember on the International Space Station. |
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Friday, 27 June 2008 |
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Testing, Radiation Testing: Northwestern Transistors On Space Station |
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Friday, 27 June 2008 |
 The first thing an alien race is likely to hear from Earth is chirps and whistles, a bit like R2-D2, the robot from Star Wars. In reality, they are the sounds that accompany the aurora. Now ESA?s Cluster mission is showing scientists how to understand this emission and, in the future, search for alien worlds by listening for their sounds. |
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Friday, 27 June 2008 |
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NASA Awards Information Management and Communications Support Contract |
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Friday, 27 June 2008 |
 The European Space Agency has just closed its public recruitment drive to find the European astronauts of the future.
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Friday, 27 June 2008 |
 Sea levels are rising everywhere, but in some areas they are rising quicker than others, bringing increased dangers of flooding. A new satellite - Jason 2 - has been launched to continue work to monitor the situation, providing valuable information for scientists trying to understand how ocean levels fit into the climate change puzzle. |
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Friday, 27 June 2008 |
 The eastern part of Brazil's Amazon Basin and rainforests, located in the state of Pará, is highlighted in this Envisat image. |
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Friday, 27 June 2008 |
 Following the extremely hot weather conditions hitting Europe, Norway experienced its biggest forest fire in the last half century earlier this month. Envisat satellite images were used in the fire?s aftermath to get an overview of the damaged area for authorities and insurance companies. |
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Thursday, 26 June 2008 |
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The 42nd Annual Smithsonian Folklife Festival on the National Mall in Washington, D.C |
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Thursday, 26 June 2008 |
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Veteran space shuttle astronaut Barbara R. Morgan will leave NASA in August to become an educator at Idaho's Boise State University. |
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Thursday, 26 June 2008 |
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SpaceX successfully conducted a full launch dress rehearsal and hold down firing of the Falcon 1 Flight 3 vehicle on June 25, 2008 (Marshall Island Time) on Omelek Island, SpaceX's launch site at the Kwajalein Atoll. |
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Thursday, 26 June 2008 |
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Today at ~9:55am EDT, the ISS (specifically its FGB module) completed 55,000 orbits of the Earth, having covered a distance of 2.32 billion kilometers (1.45 billion st.miles) in 3506 days. |
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Thursday, 26 June 2008 |
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Canada is building the world's first space telescope designed to detect and track asteroids as well as satellites. |
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Thursday, 26 June 2008 |
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On July 23, NASA will host an Industry Day to discuss upcoming agency-wide acquisitions for the Information Technology Infrastructure Improvement Program. The program strategically will procure information technology infrastructure services for NASA. |
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Thursday, 26 June 2008 |
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NASA GSFC Solicitation Rapid Spacecraft Acquisition RFI
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Thursday, 26 June 2008 |
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NASA Request for Information for Medium Sun Sensors for the Global Precipitation Measurement Core Observatory
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Thursday, 26 June 2008 |
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NASA Solicitation: Teaming Opportunity for Advanced Component Technology For Risk Reduction on the Global Atmospheric Composition Mission
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Thursday, 26 June 2008 |
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SPACE.com Image of the Day
Two galaxies lock in gravitational embrace.  |
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Thursday, 26 June 2008 |
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A third red spot has appeared on the surface of Jupiter, heralding the creation of a new, violent storm. Jupiter’s Great Red Spot is a storm that’s been whirling away through the planet’s atmosphere for perhaps hundreds of years. These new storms may indicate changing weather on the gas giant. A white dwarf star is missing from the center of the nebula that should house it, according to a Hubble scientist working with a team on ground-based telescopes.
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Thursday, 26 June 2008 |
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NASA's deadline for accepting applications for the 2009 Astronaut Candidate Class is July 1. Those selected could fly to space for long-duration stays on the International Space Station and missions to the moon. |
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Thursday, 26 June 2008 |
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NASA will host a media teleconference to discuss repair plans for damage to Launch Pad 39A at 3 p.m. EDT, Thursday, June 26. |
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Wednesday, 25 June 2008 |
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All ISS systems continue to function nominally, except those noted previously or below. |
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Wednesday, 25 June 2008 |
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D.C. Area Reporters Invited to Media Day About Upcoming Shuttle Mission To HST |
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Wednesday, 25 June 2008 |
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SPACE.com Image of the Day
It's a fine day on Mars in this view from orbit by NASA spacecraft.  |
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Tuesday, 24 June 2008 |
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The Phoenix team will hold a teleconference with news media at 1:30 p.m. EDT on Thursday, June 26. |
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Tuesday, 24 June 2008 |
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New analysis of Mars' terrain using NASA spacecraft observations reveals what appears to be by far the largest impact crater ever found in the solar system. |
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Tuesday, 24 June 2008 |
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Engineering teams are conducting final checkouts of the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite, known as LCROSS, that will take a significant step forward in the search for water on the moon. |
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Tuesday, 24 June 2008 |
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Tuesday, 24 June 2008 |
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All ISS systems continue to function nominally, except those noted previously or below. |
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Tuesday, 24 June 2008 |
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SPACE.com Image of the Day
Space shuttle Discovery gets a post-landing cleaning.  |
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