Summary
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is headed by administrator Michael Griffin. The agency has a budget of $17.3 billion and operates 10 centers, including the Kennedy Space Center about 45 minutes east of Orlando. The agency plans to mothball the current space shuttle program after the last launch in 2010. Then it will begin work on the Constellation program, with the first launch scheduled for 2015.
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is headed by administrator Michael Griffin. The agency has a budget of $17.3 billion and operates 10 centers, including the Kennedy Space Center about 45 minutes east of Orlando. The agency plans to mothball the current space shuttle program after the last launch in 2010. Then it will begin work on the Constellation program, with the first launch scheduled for 2015.
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Make a mission to Mars just by looking up
++++++++++++++++++++ || || ++++++++++++++++++++ My daughter wants to go to Mars. She might actually get a shot at it too, I suppose, as NASA doesn't have any plans to send anyone to Mars before 2030. My little girl will be 26 then, probably a bit too...Tags: Space Programs
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The Weather Page
Sun Reporter // Weather BloggerIf clouds clear in time, there's a terrific show in the western sky after sunset tonight. It is a close lineup (upper left to lower right) of planets Saturn and Mars, the bright star Regulus and a delicate crescent moon. Just step outside after the sky...Tags: Space Programs
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Scientists prepare gear to service Hubble telescope
GREENBELT, Md. - In about two weeks, 24,000 pounds of what may be the most thoroughly tested and closely inspected hardware on Earth will be packed into custom crates, mounted on flatbed trucks and shipped as "wide load" cargo to Cape Canaveral, Fla....Tags: Engineering, Space Programs, Cape Canaveral, Hospitals and Clinics, IMAX
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U.S. Is Unprepared for Possible Asteroid Strike, Scientists Say
A group of scientists, joined by a member of Congress, used the 100th anniversary of the Tunguska asteroid event this week to draw attention to their belief that the United States is not doing enough to defend the planet against the dangers posed by near-...Tags: Society, Disasters, Ceremonies, Dana Rohrabacher, Natural Disasters
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U.S. not prepared for possible asteroid strike, group says
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterA group of scientists, joined by a member of Congress, used the 100th anniversary of the Tunguska asteroid event this week to draw attention to their belief that the United States is not doing enough to defend the planet against the dangers posed by near-...Tags: Space Programs, Disasters, Puerto Rico, John Johnson, Society
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Elvis Mitchell talks to Bill Murray, Sydney Pollack
Send e-mail to diane@tvworthwatching.com.Off the Wall has the right stuff. ALTERNATIVE AMERICANA. Independence Day weekend continues on the tube, not with fireworks and flag-waving, but with the things by which Americans truly define themselves. Westerns. Ice cream. Christmas. Lifetime Movie...Tags: Space Programs, Disasters, Public Holidays, Luke Perry, Fourth of July
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Deaths elsewhere
Robert C. Seamans Jr. Dr. Robert C. Seamans Jr., NASA's nuts-and-bolts manager of the Apollo moon-landing program, died June 28 at his home in Beverly Farms, Mass. He was 89. The cause was a heart attack, his son Joseph said. Seamans was deputy...Tags: Space Programs, National Government, Homes, Newspapers, Heart Disease
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Water traces on Mercury
Sun reporterInstruments aboard a Maryland-built spacecraft that soared past the planet Mercury in January have provided a real surprise: traces of water molecules in the hot little world's extremely thin atmosphere, scientists reported yesterday. It's not clear...Tags: Health and Safety at School, Space Programs, Disasters, University of Michigan, Natural Science
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Lucky seat 13 for Phelps' mother
Some think it's all that training and dedication, a life spent in the swimming pool and an adolescence timed with a stopwatch. Others think it's inexplicable genes, his flexibility, a long, lean body and limbs that never seem to end. And still others...Tags: Multi-Sport Events, John Daly, Swimming, Trials
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What to watch
It's easy to be dismayed by the flimsy offerings of summer TV, such as, say, Wipeout, and even more dismayed by the public's reaction to it. But there is also something to cheer. The engrossing and dramatic cinema verite series Hopkins, about the day-to-...Tags: Dustin Hoffman, Bob Newhart, Sarah Jessica Parker, David Letterman, Johns Hopkins Hospital
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