[Monday, November 2, 2009] NASA Administrator Charles Bolden held his first meeting with the restructured NASA Advisory Council and has added four new committees to the council in key areas of importance to the agency's future.

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[Monday, November 2, 2009] Two platforms have been developed for testing computer-vision algorithms for robotic planetary exploration.

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[Monday, November 2, 2009] The basic question being addressed by this experiment is "what would happen if we could tap into the expertise of the 15,000 employees at JSC to solve any one of the difficult challenges that we are wrestling with?"

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[Monday, November 2, 2009] An armada of robots may one day fly above the mountain tops of Saturn's moon Titan, cross its vast dunes and sail in its liquid lakes.

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[Monday, November 2, 2009] Until Oct. 24, NASA's Mars Exploration Rover had gone more than six months without an episode of amnesia-like symptoms like those that appeared on four occasions earlier this year.

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[Monday, November 2, 2009] Nearly 100 years ago, scientists detected the first signs of cosmic rays -- subatomic particles (mostly protons) that zip through space at nearly the speed of light.

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[Monday, November 2, 2009] ESA is offering European students the opportunity to conduct hypergravity experiments, with a call for proposals for the 2010 'Spin Your Thesis!' programme.

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[Monday, November 2, 2009] The race for the $2 million Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander X PRIZE Challenge (NGLLXPC) incentivized prize purse, funded by NASA and presented by the X PRIZE Foundation, has come to an exciting finish.

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[Monday, November 2, 2009] The remaining ice fields atop famed Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania could be gone within two decades and perhaps even sooner, based on the latest survey of the ice fields remaining on the mountain

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[Tuesday, November 3, 2009] The team led by Tanaka has used two major ground-based telescopes to study this structure in greater detail, measuring the distances from Earth of over 150 galaxies, and, hence, obtaining a three-dimensional view of the structure.

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[Tuesday, November 3, 2009] Dust samples collected by high-flying aircraft in the upper atmosphere have yielded an unexpectedly rich trove of relicts from the ancient cosmos, report scientists from the Carnegie Institution.

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[Tuesday, November 3, 2009] The second satellite in ESA's Earth Explorer series - the Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity mission - and the second demonstration satellite under ESA's Project for Onboard Autonomy were launched into orbit last night from northern Russia.

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[Tuesday, November 3, 2009] Nearby galaxies undergoing a furious pace of star formation also emit lots of gamma rays, say astronomers using NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope.

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[Tuesday, November 3, 2009] It seems the only thing constant in life is change, and we are certainly in the midst of it here at KSC. Change isn't necessarily good or bad, it just is, and we have the opportunity to make the best of it and seek ways to improve, or be left behind.

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[Tuesday, November 3, 2009] ESA is looking for ideas to use the International Space Station as a platform to conduct research into global climate change.

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[Tuesday, November 3, 2009] Welcome to AcademyApp.com. Here students can apply to the NASA Academy at Ames, Glenn, Godard, and Marshall with a single application.

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[Tuesday, November 3, 2009] A NASA spacecraft's third and final flyby of Mercury gives scientists, for the first time, an almost complete view of the planet's surface and provides new scientific findings about this relatively unknown world.

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[Tuesday, November 3, 2009] NASA Administrator Charles Bolden and Secretary of Education Arne Duncan are hosting Washington area middle and high school students Thursday for a live discussion with astronauts aboard the International Space Station.

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[Tuesday, November 3, 2009] Satellites, ground control systems, and user terminals in most of DOD's major space system acquisitions are not optimally aligned, leading to underutilized satellites and limited capability provided to the warfighter.

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[Wednesday, November 4, 2009] Constellation program managers agreed to reevaluate the proposed Ares I-Y flight test during an Oct. 30 Control Board and plan to take the decision up the ladder to management at NASA Headquarters soon.

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[Wednesday, November 4, 2009] ESA's comet chaser Rosetta will swing by Earth for the last time on 13 November to pick up energy and begin the final leg of its 10-year journey to comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.

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[Wednesday, November 4, 2009] In August of this year I wrote a missive concerning what happens after the Augustine report is released. Well, now that has happened, so what is next?

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[Wednesday, November 4, 2009] Five NASA centers join forces this month to showcase "green" science, engineering, and technology achievements at SC09, the leading international conference on high-performance computing, networking, storage, and analysis.

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[Wednesday, November 4, 2009] Evidence for a thin veil of carbon has been found on the neutron star in the Cassiopeia A supernova remnant. This discovery, made with NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, resolves a 10-year mystery surrounding this object.

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[Wednesday, November 4, 2009] In a ceremony this Thursday on Capitol Hill, NASA Administrator Charles Bolden will award $1.65 million in prizes to two commercial spaceflight companies for completing successful flights in the Lunar Lander Challenge.

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[Wednesday, November 4, 2009] News conferences, events and operating hours for the news center at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, Fla., are set for the upcoming launch of space shuttle Atlantis.

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[Wednesday, November 4, 2009] Winter images of NASA's Phoenix Lander showing the lander shrouded in dry-ice frost on Mars have been captured with the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment, or HiRISE camera, aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.

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[Thursday, November 5, 2009] The project supported is entitled "MAKER" and is pursuing an advanced manufacturing concept being developed and evaluated for deployment in future space exploration architectures requiring manufacturing capability in the spaceflight/mission environment.

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[Thursday, November 5, 2009] NASA Television will air the docking of the newest Russian module to the International Space Station starting at 9 a.m. CST Nov. 12.

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[Thursday, November 5, 2009] The spectacular new camera installed on NASA's Hubble Space Telescope during Servicing Mission 4 in May has delivered the most detailed view of star birth in the graceful, curving arms of the nearby spiral galaxy M83.

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[Thursday, November 5, 2009] The transfer of ownership of the Tranquility node from ESA to NASA has been rescheduled for 2 p.m. EST, Friday, Nov. 20. NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida will host the commemorative ceremony at NASA's Space Station Processing Facility.

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[Thursday, November 5, 2009] Nitrogen is an important element in biomolecules but is not abundant in meteorites. The authors note that impact-driven cyanide synthesis may have contributed significantly to the basic chemical building blocks needed for the origin of life.

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[Thursday, November 5, 2009] Solar wind generated by the sun is probably driven by a process involving powerful magnetic fields, according to a new study led by University College London researchers based on the latest observations from the Hinode satellite.

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[Thursday, November 5, 2009] Today, the X PRIZE Foundation along with NASA hosted an awards ceremony to culminate the Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander X PRIZE Challenge (NGLLXPC).

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[Friday, November 6, 2009] While the Kepler spacecraft continues in its orbit, and collecting science data, the Kepler team at the Ames Research Center continues its work on the science data processing pipeline software.

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[Friday, November 6, 2009] NASA scientists studying the origin of life have reproduced uracil, a key component of our hereditary material, in the laboratory.

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[Friday, November 6, 2009] The FAA is announcing the availability of the ROD for streamlining the environmental review of experimental permit applications for the launch and/or reentry of reusable suborbital rockets.

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[Saturday, November 7, 2009] NASA is accepting applications from students at U.S. colleges and universities who want to send their experiments to the edge of space on a high-flying scientific balloon.

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[Saturday, November 7, 2009] ESA's Education Office has awarded a contract to Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd of the UK to manage the development and testing of the first European student mission to the Moon. Launch is expected in 2013-2014.

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[Sunday, November 8, 2009] By chance I was in Omaha this week when the news was announced that the X-38 was going on display in the Strategic Air & Space Museum there.

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[Sunday, November 8, 2009] The 2009 edition of NASA's Spinoff, a publication that shows how NASA technology is being put to use in everyday life here on Earth, is available in print and online.

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[Sunday, November 8, 2009] Findings by an international team of scientists using a telescope located at the U.S. Antarctic Program's South Pole Station show that cosmologists probably do know what they believe they know about the universe.

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[Sunday, November 8, 2009] After the trajectory correction manoeuvre on 22 October, Rosetta has lined up on a near-perfect Earth approach path. The manoeuvre was so precise that mission controllers decided not to use the additional manoeuvre slot that was available yesterday.

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[Sunday, November 8, 2009] "Here's a 1924 telegram from then Chief of U.S. Naval Operations, Edward W. Eberle, instructing all Naval stations to monitor the airwaves for any unusual transmissions due to anticipated contact from Martians."

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[Monday, November 9, 2009] Challenger Center for Space Science Education announced today that former astronaut Scott Parazynski, MD has been named Chair-Elect of its Board of Directors.

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[Monday, November 9, 2009] Total investment in the commercial human spaceflight sector has risen by 20% since January 2008, reaching a cumulative total of $1.46 billion, according to a new extensive study performed by the Tauri Group.

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[Monday, November 9, 2009] Forty years after humans first walked on the moon, NASA is offering the next generation of explorers a chance to learn how the challenges of the Apollo 11 mission were met.

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[Monday, November 9, 2009] NASA has awarded $900,000 in prize money to a Seattle company that successfully demonstrated new wireless energy beaming technology which could one day be used to help power a "space elevator."

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[Tuesday, November 10, 2009] Jing Li, along with other researchers has developed a proof of concept of new technology that would bring compact, low-cost, low-power, high-speed nanosensor-based chemical sensing capabilities to cell phones.

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[Tuesday, November 10, 2009] NASA will hold a news conference Friday to talk about early science results from its successful Moon impacting mission, the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite, or LCROSS.

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[Tuesday, November 10, 2009] Containing millions of carbon nanotubes, the NASA biosensor can alert inspectors to minute amounts of potentially dangerous organic contaminants.

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[Wednesday, November 11, 2009] A newly discovered asteroid designated 2009 VA, which is only about 7 meters in size, passed about 2 Earth radii (14,000 km) from the Earth's surface Nov. 6 at around 16:30 EST.

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[Wednesday, November 11, 2009] ESA's 'Fly Your Thesis!' programme made its successful debut during ESA's 51st Parabolic Flight Campaign, held 25 October to 5 November.

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[Wednesday, November 11, 2009] Building on a long history of mutually beneficial cooperation in space science, NASA and the European Space Agency have expressed an interest in continuing henceforth jointly their robotic exploration of Mars.

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[Wednesday, November 11, 2009] On 8 November, Rosetta's OSIRIS instrument imaged the Moon from 4.3 million km as the satellite sped towards Earth for her final gravity-assist swingby, scheduled for 13 November 2009.

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[Wednesday, November 11, 2009] Tel Aviv University: Sunspots, which rotate around the sun's surface, tell us a great deal about our own planet. Scientists rely on them, for instance, to measure the sun's rotation or to prepare long-range forecasts of the Earth's health.

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[Wednesday, November 11, 2009] Earth's climate was far cooler billions of years ago, which could mean conditions for life all over the planet were more conducive than previously believed.

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[Wednesday, November 11, 2009] A ground-breaking census of 500 stars, 70 of which are known to host planets, has successfully linked the long-standing "lithium mystery" observed in the Sun to the presence of planetary systems.

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[Wednesday, November 11, 2009] Into its second week in orbit, Proba-2's spacecraft platform has proven to be in excellent health. This leaves the way clear for commissioning the many new technology payloads aboard the mini-satellite, among the smallest ever flown by ESA.

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[Thursday, November 12, 2009] The new Russian Mini-Research Module 2 (MRM2), also known as Poisk, docked to the space-facing port of the Zvezda service module of the International Space Station Thursday at 10:41 a.m. EST.

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[Thursday, November 12, 2009] When Europe's comet chaser Rosetta swings by Earth tomorrow for a critical gravity assist, tracking data will be collected to precisely measure the satellite's change in orbital energy.

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[Thursday, November 12, 2009] NASTAR announced today an international contest for students to design a patch that will commemorate NASTAR Center's newest training program for suborbital scientist-astronauts who will fly aboard commercial suborbital spaceflights.

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[Thursday, November 12, 2009] This proof of concept Lunar Electric Rover simulator was designed by Frassanito and Associates, in conjunction with Petter Sundness, Rommany Allen, and Chilton Webb. This simulator is based around NASA's Constellation Program architecture.

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[Thursday, November 12, 2009] The LOIRP Project has reached a major milestone of having two Ampex FR-900 Instrumentation Tape Drives operational at once. This will allow us to accelerate the production of images.

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[Friday, November 13, 2009] This morning, mission controllers confirmed that Rosetta had swung by Earth at 8:45 CET as planned, skimming past our planet to pick up a gravitational boost for an epic journey to rendezvous with comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko in 2014.

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[Friday, November 13, 2009] Preliminary data from NASA's Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite, or LCROSS, indicates the mission successfully uncovered water in a permanently shadowed lunar crater. The discovery opens a new chapter in our understanding of the moon.

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[Friday, November 13, 2009] NASA In a partnership that exemplifies One NASA, engineers at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. teamed up with engineers at NASA's Johnson and Kennedy Space Centers to design, build, and test five new ExPRESS Logistics Carriers.

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[Friday, November 13, 2009] Two teams of astronomers have found that extrasolar planet HAT-P-7b, discovered in 2008, has a retrograde or highly tilted orbit.

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[Friday, November 13, 2009] Reporters and the public are invited to attend the 2009 Astronaut Glove Challenge on Nov. 19 at the Astronaut Hall of Fame in Titusville, Fla., near NASA's Kennedy Space Center.

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[Saturday, November 14, 2009] An experiment by college students that will study how microbes grow in microgravity is heading to orbit aboard space shuttle Atlantis.

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[Saturday, November 14, 2009] Last month the Advanced Planning Office pulled together a team to look at possible vision statements for the agency. I know a rather tall order, but it is always great to see the energy and creativity found within our JSC when it is unleashed.

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[Monday, November 16, 2009] Unparalleled simulations of an extrasolar planet with a whole new ecology - but it would seem that NASA is not really interested in this film.

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[Monday, November 16, 2009] NASA has successfully completed a series of autonomous "drop" tests of a robotic lander test article - in a record 10 months - to demonstrate the ability to perform a controlled landing on the moon or other airless planetary bodies.

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[Monday, November 16, 2009] Please look at all six videos and then chose the one that best conveys its message. Your vote (and comments) will help judges select the best video for this course at Santa Clara University.

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[Monday, November 16, 2009] As required by the Reports Consolidation Act of 2000, this memorandum provides our views of the most serious management and performance challenges facing NASA.

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[Monday, November 16, 2009] As required by the Reports Consolidation Act of 2000, this memorandum provides our views of the most serious management and performance challenges facing NASA.

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[Monday, November 16, 2009] Space shuttle Atlantis and its six-member crew began an 11-day delivery flight to the International Space Station on Monday with a 2:28 p.m. EST launch from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

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[Monday, November 16, 2009] Today (Monday, Nov. 16), driving commands are being prepared to instruct Spirit to attempt to drive forward. These are the first driving commands since Spirit became embedded in a Martian sandtrap approximately six months ago.

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[Monday, November 16, 2009] Time Magazine Falls for Rocket Launch Hoax - Names Ares "Invention of the Year" Based on Launch of Dummy Vehicle

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[Wednesday, November 18, 2009] Two key instruments from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have a new home in the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum in Washington after being returned to Earth aboard space shuttle Atlantis last May.

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[Wednesday, November 18, 2009] A radiation-resistant version of NRAM(TM) carbon-nanotube-based memory, developed jointly by Lockheed Martin (NYSE:LMT) and Nantero, was tested on a recent Space Shuttle mission.

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[Wednesday, November 18, 2009] Students of all ages can follow the "butterflynauts" aboard the International Space Station as they develop from larvae into Painted Lady butterflies.

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[Wednesday, November 18, 2009] Some 80 nations, the European Commission and 56 international organizations are coordinating their Earth observation assets and strategies through GEO.

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[Wednesday, November 18, 2009] NASA and Microsoft Corp. of Redmond, Wash., have collaborated to create a Web site where Internet users can have fun while advancing their knowledge of Mars.

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[Wednesday, November 18, 2009] NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or Wise, is chilled out, sporting a sunshade and getting ready to roll.

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[Wednesday, November 18, 2009] Space shuttle Atlantis docked to the station at 11:51 a.m. EST. The shuttle is delivering two pallets carrying more than 20,000 pounds worth of spare equipment too large to be launched into space aboard any other vehicle.

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[Thursday, November 19, 2009] The Suborbital Applications Researchers Group (SARG) of the Commercial Spaceflight Federation is meeting in Washington, DC today.

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[Thursday, November 19, 2009] The 12 crew members aboard space shuttle Atlantis and the International Space Station will hold a news conference at 7:13 a.m. CST on Tuesday, Nov. 24.

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[Thursday, November 19, 2009] Today, the House Committee on Science and Technology's Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics held a hearing on the growth of global space capabilities.

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[Thursday, November 19, 2009] Much of our planet's mineral wealth was deposited billions of years ago when Earth's chemical cycles were different from today's.

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[Thursday, November 19, 2009] Challenger Center for Space Science Education has received a $274,000 grant from NASA for education and public outreach in Earth and space science.

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