Monthly Archives: November 2012

LAUNCH ALERT!

Posted on November 14, 2012 by Pam Hoffman

From:  Spaceflight Now

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Leonids Meteor Shower

Posted on November 14, 2012 by Pam Hoffman

Recall the Orionid Meteor Shower post from October?  The Leonids will peak soon… From: Sea and Sky November 17, 18 – Leonids Meteor Shower. The Leonids is one of the better meteor showers to observe, producing an average of 40 … Continue reading →

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Conference or Unconference, Which One’s for You?

Posted on November 14, 2012 by Pam Hoffman

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An interesting type of event has cropped up in recent years – a type of conference that is primarily built on the somewhat spontaneous gathering of like minded folks who develop this event on the fly, dubbed an ‘unconference,’ to … Continue reading →

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Lunch With an Astronaut

Posted on November 13, 2012 by Pam Hoffman

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From: Space Center Houston Space Center Houston is now proud to offer you and your family an extraordinary opportunity to spend time with a NASA astronaut. This casual event gives you the opportunity to hear first hand stories from a … Continue reading →

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News Release From NASA

Posted on November 13, 2012 by Pam Hoffman

Received email… JPL/NASA News Media advisory: 2012-357 Nov. 13, 2012 NASA Hosts Nov. 15 Telecon About Mars Rover Progress The full version of this story with accompanying images is at: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2012-357&cid=release_2012-357 PASADENA, Calif. — NASA will host a media teleconference … Continue reading →

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SPACEX TESTS GRASSHOPPER ROCKET IN TWO-STORY HOP

Posted on November 13, 2012 by Pam Hoffman

Received by email this morning… SPACEX TESTS GRASSHOPPER ROCKET IN TWO-STORY HOP On November 1, 2012, SpaceX’s Grasshopper – a 10-story vertical takeoff and landing (VTVL) vehicle — lifted nearly two stories in an 8-second duration test hop. The rocket … Continue reading →

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Spacer Paper

Posted on November 13, 2012 by Pam Hoffman

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Lunar Enterprise Daily “Tomorrow’s News Today” is a recent find and an example of a genre of online newspapers focused on space news. This one happens to be spawned out of Space Calendar. There are some others which I think … Continue reading →

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Night Lights?

Posted on November 12, 2012 by Pam Hoffman

From:  Earth Observatory (check out the pictures there!) Night lights can reveal a lot about the distribution of people on the landscape, or “human geography.” In this astronaut photograph from the International Space Station (ISS), the lights of Qatar show … Continue reading →

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Read to Get Ready!

Posted on November 12, 2012 by Pam Hoffman

From Space Travel… For Clarkson University Professor Pier Marzocca and a group of like-minded colleagues across the nation, space isn’t the “final” frontier, it’s the inevitable one. Toward that goal, they’ve co-written a pragmatic plan to help transform an attainable … Continue reading →

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If You Are In…

Posted on November 12, 2012 by Pam Hoffman

…London, England You might like to attend this lecture by Stephen Slater and John Zarnecki.  From the British Interplanetary Society site… The scientific and technical achievements of the Cassini-Huygens mission are well known within the worldwide scientific and space communities … Continue reading →

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