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Soltrite powered by Minnesota native's entrepreneurial spirit

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 14:40:49 GMT

Soltrite delivers high-quality, multi-party video conferencing over the ubiquitous public Internet, and provided the hardware device already has a webcam installed, there is no additional equipment to buy, although a quality USB headset is recommended.
Source: MinnPost.com

Hubble:Blushing dusty nebula [heic0915]

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 13:43:17 GMT

A recent NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image of part of NGC 7023, or the Iris Nebula, highlights a perfect dust laboratory in the sky.
Source: European Space Agency News

Canadian astronaut back on Earth

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 11:44:20 GMT

Canadian astronaut Robert Thirsk gestures as he rests inside a vehicle of the Russian Space Agency shortly after his landing in the steppe near the town of Arkalyk, Kazakhstan.
Source: Canoe

The financial incentives for doom-saying the climate

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 11:20:27 GMT

Bret Stephens points to the financial incentives that there are for researchers to keep decrying the warming of the planet. There is a whole lot of government and private money out there to be scooped up by such researchers.
Source: Betsy's Page

International Space Station crew lands safely

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 11:17:48 GMT

MOSCOW (AP) Astronauts from Canada and Belgium and a Russian cosmonaut landed safely on the Kazakhstan steppes on Tuesday following a six-month stint on the International Space Station. Parachutes slowed the craft to an easy touchdown at 10:15 a.m.
Source: USA Today

ISS Temporarily Down to Crew of 2

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 10:57:09 GMT

Retro rockets were fired for 4 min 19 sec at 1:26 AM Tuesday morning to initiate the de-orbit braking maneuver for the fiery plunge of atmospheric reentry. 19 minutes later the three Soyuz segments pyrotechnically separated at an altitude of 87 miles.
Source: Universe Today

100 Miles of Mirrors

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 10:43:30 GMT

Is the world on track to avoid climatic catastrophe? No. But a straightforward, actionable plan to replace coal by 2030 does exist.
Source: In These Times

A Change in Worldview

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 10:26:14 GMT

The Earth is not flat, nor is it the largest source of water in the solar system. According to Physorg.com, Jupiter's moon Europa has about twice the water of Earth.
Source: Associated Content

Quoted in 'Ingenuity and hard work - 20 years of internet in Australia'

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 22:50:10 GMT

said in The Age:

There was no Google, it you wanted to find say the latest Hubble pictures, you'd have to know the URL, the address of the NASA server, and because usually that was something that most people wouldn't remember, bookmarks were really important

Quoted in 'Best of the Web Today: 'You've Taken the Words Out of My Mouth''

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 17:56:07 GMT

said in Wall Street Journal:

the Competitive Enterprise Institute filed three Notices of Intent to File Suit against NASA and its Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS), for those bodies' refusal--for nearly three years--to provide documents requested under the Freedom of Information Act

NASA Shuttle-derived Sidemount Heavy Launch Vehicle Concept

Tue, 23 Jun 2009 17:50:17 GMT

Photo from Getty Images by AFP/Getty Images

Thu, 07 May 2009 00:00:00 GMT

This NASA handout photo shows NASA Acting Administrator Chris Scolese(L) and NASA Comptroller David Schurr as they prepare for the NASA fiscal year 2010 Budget Briefing at NASA Headquarters on May 7, 2009, in Washington,DC.

Photo from Getty Images by AFP/Getty Images

Fri, 01 May 2009 04:15:50 GMT

This NASA / MODIS satellite handout file photo taken from space taken on May 3, 2008 and obtained May 6, 2008 shows Cyclone Nargis directly over Myanmar.