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| Air Force Meteorologist Receives NASA Launch Director's Award |
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| Two Peas in an Irregular Pod: How Binary Stars May Form |
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| Friday, May 21 2010 @ 12:30 PM MST
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PASADENA, CA - Our sun may be an only child, but most of the stars in the galaxy are actually twins. The sibling stars circle around each other at varying distances, bound by the hands of gravity. How twin stars form is an ongoing question in astronomy. Do they start out like fraternal twins developing from two separate clouds, or "eggs???? Or do they begin life in one cloud that splits into two, like identical twins born from one egg? Astronomers generally believe that widely spaced twin, or binary, stars grow from two separate clouds, while the closer- knit binary stars start out from one cloud. But how this latter process works has not been clear.
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| NASA's Spitzer Unearths Primitive Black Holes |
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| See Spot on Jupiter. See Spot Glow |
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| President Obama to Host Space Conference in Florida in April |
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| Sunday, March 07 2010 @ 07:05 PM MST
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WASHINGTON, DC - On April 15, President Barack Obama will visit Florida to host a White House Conference on the Administration's new vision for America's future in space, the White House today announced. The President, along with top officials and other space leaders, will discuss the new course the Administration is charting for NASA and the future of U.S. leadership in human space flight. Specifically, the conference will focus on the goals and strategies in this new vision, the next steps, and the new technologies, new jobs, and new industries it will create. Conference topics will include the implications of the new strategy for Florida, the nation, and our ultimate activities in space.
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| SpaceX Full Mission-Length Firing Falcon 9 Launch Vehicle |
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| Next Launch |
 | | Mission: Michibiki | | Launch vehicle: H-2A | | Launch site: Tanegashima Space Center - Japan | | Target date: Sept. 11 2010 | | Launch window: 1117-1216 GMT (7:17-8:16 a.m. EDT) | | | | Complete Launch Schedule |
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Kennedy Space Center, FL - Mr. Ed Mango, Launch Director for NASA's Ares I-X, and Mr. Pete Nickolenko (right), Acting Director Launch Vehicle Processing, recognized Ms. Kathy Winters of the 45th SW Weather Squadron with a NASA Launch Director's Award for her outstanding support of the Ares I-X mission at Kennedy Space Center on July 1.
PASADENA, CA - NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Project will pass a historic Martian longevity record on Thursday, May 20. The Opportunity rover will surpass the duration record set by NASA's Viking 1 Lander of six years and 116 days operating on the surface of Mars. The effects of favorable weather on the red planet could also help the rovers generate more power.
PASADENA, CA - Planners of NASA's next Mars mission have selected a flight schedule that will use favorable positions for two currently orbiting NASA Mars orbiters to obtain maximum information during descent and landing. Continuing analysis of the geometry and communications options for the arrival at Mars have led planners for the Mars Science Laboratory, or Curiosity, to choose an Earth-to-Mars trajectory that schedules launch between Nov. 25 and Dec. 18, 2011.
PASADENA, CA - Astronomers have come across what appear to be two of the earliest and most primitive supermassive black holes known. The discovery, based largely on observations from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, will provide a better understanding of the roots of our universe, and how the very first black holes, galaxies and stars came to be.
PASADENA, CA - Tendrils of the coldest stuff in our galaxy can be seen in a new, large image from Planck, a mission surveying the whole sky to learn more about the birth of our universe. Planck, a European Space Agency-led mission with important participation from NASA, launched into space in May 2009 from Kourou, French Guiana. The space telescope has almost finished its first of at least four separate scans of the entire sky, a voluminous task that will be completed in early 2012.
PASADENA, CA - New thermal images from powerful ground-based telescopes show swirls of warmer air and cooler regions never seen before within Jupiter's Great Red Spot, enabling scientists to make the first detailed interior weather map of the giant storm system.
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