Keith Cowing

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• Posted Abstract Deadline 12 Nov: Next Gen Suborbital Researchers Meeting to NASA Watch

  Next-Generation Suborbital Researchers Conference (NSRC2010) Abstract Deadline: November 12, 2009, 5:00 p.m. CST. "A new generation of space vehicles capable of economically delivering payloads and researchers is coming on line beginning in 2010. These vehicles will revolutionize space access by...

• Posted A New Crop of Weightless Teachers to NASA Watch

  Northrop Grumman Foundation Weightless Flights of Discovery Kicks Off Year Four "The Northrop Grumman Foundation is kicking off the fourth year of its Weightless Flights of Discovery Program, flying a total of 120 science and math teachers on four microgravity...

• Posted Elachi Joins Lebanese American University Board of Trustees to NASA Watch

  Distinguished Scientist Slated to Become Chairman of Lebanese American University's Board of Trustees "Lebanese American University (LAU) will welcome Dr. Charles Elachi, director of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), as the new chairman of its Board of Trustees later this...

• Posted More Opinions on NASA's Value to NASA Watch

  Program brings us new technologies, Editorial by John Muratore, The Tennessean "Imagine facing security threats without stealthy aircraft made possible by fly-by-wire computer technology developed by NASA for the space shuttle using Apollo moon mission hardware. Imagine sending our troops...

• Posted Why Bother Telling People About Cool Stuff, eh? to NASA Watch

  Apollo 11: Second look, LRO "A month after LROC's first image of the Apollo 11 landing site was acquired, LRO passed over again providing LROC a new view of the historic site. This time the Sun was 28 degrees higher...

• Posted Virginia Commercial Space Flight Seeks a Leader to NASA Watch

  DEPUTY DIRECTOR, Old Dominion University Research Foundation, Washington Post "Virginia Commercial Space Flight (VCSFA) seeks a skilled, entrepreneurial leader willing to join a small team and assume full responsibility for all ops. including construction, design, launch manifest, grants, personnel, bus....

• Posted Seeing Part of Mercury For The First Time to NASA Watch

  Unseen Mercury Revealed "Yesterday, as the spacecraft approached Mercury for the mission's third flyby of the Solar System's innermost planet, MESSENGER captured this striking view. This WAC image shows portions of Mercury's surface that had remained unseen by spacecraft even...

• Posted Guilty Plea in Schoeberl Case to NASA Watch

  NASA Scientist Pleads Guilty to Participating in Award of Contracts To His Wife, DOJ "Mark Schoeberl, age 60, of Silver Spring, Maryland, a senior manager and scientist at NASAs Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), pleaded guilty today to a felony...

• Posted Expedition 21 Heads for ISS to NASA Watch

  Expedition 21 Crew Launches From Kazakhstan "Flight Engineers Jeffrey Williams and Maxim Suraev of the 21st International Space Station crew launched in their Soyuz TMA-16 spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 3:14 a.m. EDT Wednesday to begin a...

• Posted NASA OIG Criticizes Current JPL Contract to NASA Watch

  NASA OIG: NASA Should Reconsider the Award Evaluation Process and Contract Type for the Operation of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (Redacted) "NASA can improve its management of the JPL contract: - NASA's overall assessment of contractor performance may have been...

• Posted What Is Open Innovation at JSC? Update to NASA Watch

  NASA JSC Solicitation Notice: Open Innovation Support Services "NASA/Johnson Space Center (JSC) has a requirement for an Open Innovation Service Provider with an extensive external network that can be used to introduce collaboration opportunities to the public. Specifically, NASA JSC...

• Posted Selling NASA To The Skeptics to NASA Watch

  NASA veteran warns manned space program is a hard sell on Capitol Hill, Houston Chronicle "Supporters of NASA have to prove to Congress and the American people that NASA is "an essential part" of the nation's scientific, educational and economic...

• Posted Save Our Jobs Update to NASA Watch

  Worried Space Coast officials appeal to Obama to save NASA jobs, Orlando Sentinel "County officials are braced for as many as 28,000 direct and indirect job losses when the shuttle program ends either late next year or early in 2011....

• Posted LCROSS Focuses Its Aim Based on New Lunar Water Data to NASA Watch

  NASA's LCROSS Mission Changes Impact Crater "NASA's Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite mission (LCROSS) based on new analysis of available lunar data, has shifted the target crater from Cabeus A to Cabeus (proper). The decision was based on continued...

• Posted LCROSS Focuses Its Aim Based on New Lunar Water Data to NASA Watch

  NASA's LCROSS Mission Changes Impact Crater "NASA's Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite mission (LCROSS) based on new analysis of available lunar data, has shifted the target crater from Cabeus A to Cabeus (proper). The decision was based on continued...

• Posted Author of Almost Forgotten - and Never Delivered - Apollo 11 Speech Dies to NASA Watch

  William Safire, Wall Street Journal "In economic and foreign policy, as in fashion and music, the 1970s were largely a miserable decade. But out of that woeful time arose a generation of conservative giants in journalism and public life, among...

• Posted Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project Featured in MIT's Technology Review Magazine to NASA Watch

  Surface Restoration - Engineers restore high-resolution photos of the Moon, Technology Review (paid subscribers only) "The images of the Moon's surface taken by five NASA Lunar Orbiter satellites in 1966 and 1967 are still among the most detailed ever made....

• Posted Another Save NASA Website to NASA Watch

  Help Save America's Human Space Exploration Program Save Space is a movement started by people on the Space Coast to raise the awareness of the nation, the President, and other elected officials: Space needs to be a priority for America....

• Posted Pending Florida Job Loss To Be Discussed to NASA Watch

  Kosmas to Participate In Florida Space and Technology Forum "Tomorrow, September 28, 2009 from 9:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m., Congresswoman Suzanne Kosmas (FL-24) will participate in the Florida Space and Technology Forum. Congresswoman Kosmas will discuss her efforts to minimize...

• Posted More on Moon Water to NASA Watch

  The Importance of Lunar Water, Dennis Wingo, SpaceRef "It has been a few days now since the public revelations concerning the results from Cassini, Deep Impact, and the Brown University Moon Mineralology Mapper (mcubed) hosted on the Indian Chandryaan lunar...

• Posted Patenting NASA to NASA Watch

  NASA Request for Information: No-cost Patent Marketing and Brokerage Services With Revenue Sharing Component Upon License Execution "NASA's Goal: NASA wishes to maximize the benefit to the public from NASA's R&D investments yielding new technologies and patents. Seeking no-cost methods...

• Posted NASA Is Looking For New Prize Ideas to NASA Watch

  NASA Seeks Ideas for New Prize Challenges "The Innovative Partnerships Program at NASA Headquarters in Washington is offering an opportunity for the public to help shape the prize challenges the agency offers to America's future citizen-inventors. For the next six...

• Posted NASA OIG Criticizes Current JPL Contract to NASA Watch

  NASA OIG: NASA Should Reconsider the Award Evaluation Process and Contract Type for the Operation of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (Redacted) "NASA can improve its management of the JPL contract: - NASA's overall assessment of contractor performance may have been...

• Posted GAO Still Sees Problems With Constellation to NASA Watch

  GAO Report Confirms that Funding Shortfalls Have Hurt NASA's Ability to Execute Its Constellation Program As Planned, House Science and Technology Committee "Constellation has been underway for four years, and we have invested almost $8 billion in it to date....

• Posted Today's Video: First HD Camera At The Edge Of Space to NASA Watch

  First HD Camera At The Edge Of Space "This is a clip of the VadoHD video camera at an altitude between 80,000 ft and 100,000 ft. The camera is attached to the payload of a research weather balloon. The balloon...

• Posted An End To Sitting On Taxpayer-Funded Space Research News? to NASA Watch

  57 college presidents declare support for public access to publicly funded research in the US, Alliance for Taxpayer Access "The Presidents of 57 liberal arts colleges in the U.S., representing 22 states, have declared their support for the Federal Research...

• Posted Its Sitting There In The Night Sky Waiting For Us To Return - To Stay to NASA Watch

  "If God wanted man to become a space-faring species, He would have given man a Moon." - Krafft Ehricke...

• Posted There's News From Mars Too to NASA Watch

  NASA to Hold Teleconference to Discuss New Findings About Mars "NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., will host a media teleconference at noon PDT on Thursday, Sept. 24, to discuss new research results from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter." NASA...

• Posted Telecon Notes to NASA Watch

  Green: 4.5 GYA something hit the Earth. As it cooled Earth lost most of its volatiles. Moon rocks 50 ppm water on Apollo returned moon rocks. If we extracted all the water form Apollo rocks it would fill a table...

• Posted High School Astronomy and Giant Telescopes to NASA Watch

  High-School Student Discovers Strange Astronomical Object "A West Virginia high-school student analyzing data from a giant radio telescope has discovered a new astronomical object -- a strange type of neutron star called a rotating radio transient. Lucas Bolyard, a sophomore...