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Opening up space
Is there anything that the U.S. technology community, with an assist from the federal government, can do that would simultaneously achieve the following: a) help hone our economic edge to help us prosper a bit more over a long term; b) maintain and...
Tags: SpaceX, Virgin Group, Ltd., Mini, Companies and Corporations, Federal Aviation Administration
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William Bruce Schneck, communications manager
William Bruce Schneck, former manager of space shuttle Columbia's communications network, died June 17 of a massive heart attack at Chester River Hospital Center in Chestertown. The Shady Side resident was 59. The son of a Glenn L. Martin Co. quality...Tags: Rocketry, Patapsco, Heart Attack, NASA, Technology Solutions Company
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Johns Hopkins professor shares Nobel Prize in physics
A phone ringing at 5:30 a.m. can rattle anyone, even a professor immersed in the universe's mysterious dark energy. Adam Riess, an astronomy professor at Johns Hopkins University, learned in an early morning call from Stockholm Tuesday that he was one...Tags: Awards and Prizes, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Stockholm (Sweden), University of California, Astronomy
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Fingers crossed for Mars launch at Goddard
Florence Tan says she'll have fingers and toes crossed when NASA's latest Mars mission blasts off as early as Saturday morning from Cape Canaveral in Florida. The 47-year-old electrical engineer from Montgomery County oversaw all the wiring of an...Tags: NASA, Greenbelt (Prince George's, Maryland), Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Montgomery County (Maryland)
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Cancel Webb? America must dream bigger
What does it say about our country that a marvel like the Webb telescope faces possible cancellation after years of development and with its components 75 percent complete? We face budget problems, I understand. But boundary-pushing missions like Apollo,...Tags: NASA, Mergers, Acquisitions and Takeovers
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Is there life on Mars?
Is there life elsewhere in the universe? It's a question that has long intrigued astronomers and science fiction buffs alike, and now the National Aeronautics and Space Administration has launched its most ambitious attempt yet to find the answer....Tags: Science Fiction (genre), Fiction, Mystery (genre), NASA, Science
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Direct BWI service to Freeport begins
Baltimore and the Bahamas' Freeport have a lot in common. They're both cities with a mix of tourist areas and heavy industry, and both often play second banana to a national capital.
Now the two cities are linked by a direct air service that began...Tags: Durham (Durham, North Carolina), Marketing, Fort Lauderdale, Rentals, Central Intelligence Agency
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Messenger's mission to Mercury finds surprises
Six months after NASA's Messenger spacecraft began orbiting the planet nearest the sun, scientists have spotted a vast lava field at Mercury's north pole, weird sinkholes around some craters, and reason enough to throw out most theories for how the planet...Tags: Brown University, NASA, Science
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NASA's Messenger disproves several theories about Mercury
Only three months after NASA's Messenger spacecraft became the first to orbit the planet Mercury, scientists are already tossing out some long-held ideas about the place, and wondering at some surprising and unexpected discoveries.
"In many cases, a...Tags: NASA, Johns Hopkins University, Maryland
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NASA image shows galaxy with active black hole
A NASA image released Friday shows a glimpse of a galaxy with an active black hole, the focus of a recent discovery much of which was made in Baltimore. The space agency's image of the day gallery shows an active black hole squelching star formation in ...
Tags: NASA, Johns Hopkins University
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The Interview: Barry Bogage
The Maryland/Israel Development Center sees itself as a matchmaker — not of a romantic kind but an economic one.
For the past 19 years, the nonprofit group in Baltimore has been connecting Maryland companies with Israeli partners to promote trade...Tags: Europe, University of Maryland, College Park, Israel, Alvarion Limited, Owings Mills (Baltimore, Maryland)
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Full-scale model of Webb Telescope coming to Inner Harbor
When science center directors from around the country gather in Baltimore this month for their annual conference, they'll be able to see one of the largest scientific instruments ever made: a full-scale mock-up of the James Webb Space Telescope.
Northrop...Tags: Inner Harbor, Maryland Science Center, Fiction, Manufacturing and Engineering, Science
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