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NASA Scientists Battle Feds To Protect PrivacyWashington DC (SPX) Oct 01, 2010 Should scientists working as government contractors be forced to submit to unrestricted and intrusive background checks-even when their work is low risk, unclassified, and doesn't require security clearance? For 28 scientists and engineers at the NASA Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL) at California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California, the answer is no. In 2007, they sued NASA to challenge the background checks as illegal and unjustified violations of their privacy. On October 3, 2007, the ... read more |
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Vienna (AFP) Sept 28, 2010The United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs on Tuesday dismissed as "nonsense" a newspaper report which said it had appointed a new ambassador as a point of contact for extra-terrestrials. "The article in the Sunday Times is nonsense," UNOOSA said in a statement, referring to a report this weekend which said the UN was to appoint Malaysian astrophysicist, Mazlan Othman, to be the first ... more  
Pasadena CA (JPL) Sep 30, 2010Turning a midsummer night's dream into reality, NASA's Cassini spacecraft begins its new mission extension - the Cassini Solstice Mission - today. The mission extension will take Cassini a few months past Saturn's northern summer solstice (or midsummer) through September 2017. It will enable scientists to study seasonal changes and other long-term weather changes on Saturn and its moons. C ... more  
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Sep 28, 2010As we approach the launch of China's second Moon mission on October 1, some major questions about the spacecraft and its launch vehicle remain unanswered. China's media has been generally low-key about covering the upcoming flight. There has been little recent talk in China's major newspapers, despite the supposed impending launch. That's a bit strange for a nation that loves to trumpet it ... more |
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Be Careful What You Do With Space GarbageBethesda MD (SPX) Sep 28, 2010 Everyone has heard about the problems with space debris, but few are aware of what will happen when we have human space tourism and orbiting hotels. As an example, let's review a story about a cook on a future hotel/space station. It appears that this future space hotel was designed such that all guests have rooms with Earth views. All hotel service personnel have quarters on the deep-space-facing part of the structure. In particular, the kitchen, storage and trash/garbage facilities are all in th ... read more |
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