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Remembrance: 9/11
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| Topic: Missions |
09/11/02 |
| "It is up to us. It's been said that astronomy is a humbling, and I might add, a character-building experience. To my mind, there is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than the distant [Voyager] image of our tiny world. |
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NASA Institute Welcomes New Director
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| Topic: Missions |
09/09/02 |
| Dr. Bruce Runnegar of the University of California, Los Angeles, was announced as the next director of NASA's Astrobiology Institute (NAI). He succeeds Nobel Laureate Dr. Baruch S. Blumberg. Runnegar currently is a professor in UCLA's Department of Earth and Space Sciences and the Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics (IGPP). As director of the Institute, Runnegar will lead the consortium in its efforts to answer the three big questions central to astrobiology: How does life begin and evolve? Does life exist elsewhere? What is life's future on Earth and beyond? "The answers to these questions will not come quickly," said Runnegar. "That's why NASA needs to attract bright young people to the field of astrobiology." |
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Swords to Plowshares
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| Topic: Missions |
07/26/02 |
| Using a converted Russian ICBM missile for a solar sail launch vehicle, Cosmos Studios is embarking on a bold experiment. Read more, from a remarkable interview with Ann Druyan, the widow of renowned scientist Carl Sagan, and astrophysicist Steven Soter to create the famed television series Cosmos. |
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Ice Cube of Exotic Microbes
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| Topic: Missions |
07/10/02 |
| A permafrost subglacial lake discovered beneath Antarctica offers scientists a chance to test sterile drilling techniques before exploring elsewhere in search of exotic microbes. Techniques that avoid contaminating a drill site with microbes prove useful for future drilling into Mars' polar caps in search of life. |
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Interview with Michael Meyer
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| Topic: Missions |
06/02/02 |
| In a recent interview with Kathleen Connell of the NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, CA, Michael Meyer discusses the past, present, and future of NASA's Astrobiology program. |
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Warm-nosed Robot Breaks the Ice
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| Topic: Missions |
06/02/02 |
| An adventurous science team recently returned from deep Norwegian glacial fields, having tested an instrument which may be used to explore areas beneath frozen surfaces of other worlds. |
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Warm-nosed Robot Breaks the Ice
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| Topic: Missions |
02/20/02 |
| An adventurous science team returned from the deep Norwegian glacial fields, having tested an instrument which may be used to explore areas beneath the frozen surfaces of other worlds. |
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Gravity Hurts (so Good)
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| Topic: Missions |
08/12/01 |
| Strange things can happen to the human body when people venture into space -- and the familiar pull of gravity vanishes. |
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