NASA Telescope has Confirmed Alien Planet in Habitable Zone

While some scientists believe we may have reached the "tipping point" of no return when it comes to saving the earth from eradicating human life, NASA keeps hunting our solar system for planets that are hospitable to life. The job of hunting for "life hospitable planets" clearly is one that is like digging for a needle in a haystack -- only the haystack massively larger and the risks of not finding the planet in-time have much more dire consequences than almost any needle possibly could have.

Christmas presents have arrived early for these NASA planet-hunting scientists. Using the... (more)

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NASA's New Mission - Observer

On September 30th, the House Approved NASA's $19 Billion budget for FY2011. As long as President Obama signs the Bill, the budget is set. This means the death of the Constellation Program. What's that you ask? It was a program put into action in 2004 to return Americans to the moon and then on to Mars. It also included designing and building new vehicles to reach the moon, and possibly to Mars as well, and new mobile launches at Cape Kennedy. The vehicles were to be totally new design, new computers, electronics, avionics and of course engines. This means a lot of testing, testing, and more... (more)

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NASA: Need Another Shot of Alcohol

That's right another blemish on NASA's already tarnished name seems to be coming out. Rumors of astronauts drinking heavily before takeoff have rocked the space community. After the incident with Lisa Norwalk, NASA decided to create an independent panel for astronaut health. Aviation Week & Space Technology reported that the panel found “heavy use of alcohol” within the twelve hour “bottle to throttle” rule. The magazine also said that the panel found that on two separate occasions astronauts were allowed to fly even though the flight surgeons and other astronauts had said that... (more)

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Argos: Outbound, Chapter 12

... left the land and relocated to cities within El Salvadore, and eventually, the United States and Europe. James had moved with his small family to the suburbs of Houston, and eventually secured a position at a teaching hospital serving families of the professional and scientific community around NASA and its various supporting enterprises. It was in this capacity he and his wife, Teresia, had been selected to be a part of the colony. If it hadn’t been for the tragic death of their daughter at the age of ten, they would never have accepted to call to go.

Now, James and Teresia had... (more)

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Visualisation or goal setting - which is best?

...are, giving us a better understanding of what matters to us most and what makes us tick.

Visualising enables us to focus on how it’ll feel once we’ve actually achieved our goal and can produce amazing results which have been recognised and put to good use by Olympic coaches and NASA. The reason visualising is proven to work so well is because the method tricks your sub-conscious mind into believing what you want it to. If you’re imagining running a 100 metres race, your mind will send messages to your body so muscles fire up ready to spring into action. If you imagine... (more)

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A Gourmet Delight

In 2005, NASA scientists launched a project to feed Astronauts on long-term voyages in space; specifically, proteins as found in meat; something that would be a healthy addition to, or substitute for, the boring diet of hydroponic vegetables grown in spaceship gardens. This involved taking stem cells or tissue samples from food animals such as pigs, cattle, and chickens, and growing them in vitro in a cell culture.

This effort was successful, and the first artificial meat was created in small quantities in a sort of Petri dish environment. Scientists were quick to realize the potential:... (more)

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A Cosmic Sign

... be an avalanche or rock slide near the northern polar region.”

“Real time?”

“Yes sir, nearly.”

“OK, I have it…Damn…that’s going to make a lot of the geologist’s boys happy. Sh**…Johnson…Johnson…lock down your data link and transfer all MRO images to NASA Delphi 2 internal code link only, transfer MRO data for the last three days to my terminal, then lock down your station and meet me in my office…Johnson?”

“Yes sir.”

(knock, knock)…“Sir?”

“Come in Johnson.”

“What is it sir?” asked Johnson.

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A Cosmic Sign---Part II

...room was a rather large room with an ellipse shaped table in the center, projection screens could be lowered from the ceiling along any wall. At the conference table 12 men are already seated, some of them Colonel John Pike had already met or knew from reading the newspapers. Pete Worden, Nasa chief engineer of digital satellite imaging, director Charles Elachi director of JPL operations, Vice President Kelly, General Bradkroff of the Joint Chiefs, the other men looked familiar from the small world of Nasa and JPL. Director Charles Elachi, presided over the meeting.

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A Cosmic Sign---Part III

...detach and the momentum should, if all goes right safety, carry the Hercules fuel tanks into orbit, where their internal computers and navigational systems will use the onboard thrusters to achieve a stationary orbit of about 11 miles. When the two giant Hercules fuel tanks are safety in orbit NASA will use ground control computers to link them up for their mission to Mars. Everyone here is praying for the weather to hold and that everything goes as planned today. If everything goes as scheduled then on Wednesday, two days from now, Commander Pike and his crew will be blasted into space... (more)

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An Era of Less

...places as Las Vegas, ineffective stimulus spending, inflated Government salaries, and pork-barrel expenditures all of which does nothing but place our country into further debt when those dollars could be better used elsewhere.

When President Kennedy tooled up our space program and dared NASA to beat the Russians to the moon, which we did, it was one of the defining moments in our country’s history. It let the world know we could do anything and that OUR nation’s flag was to be the one planted atop lunar soil, and no one else’s could ever claim that same elite status. Since... (more)

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