A nudge on NASA to dump unneeded facilities: Senate Passes Rubio Amendment Urging NASA To Dispose Of Underutilized Facilities To Save Taxpayer Dollars – Space Industry News.
Ed Wright comments on the suspension of some education and outreach programs at NASA in response to sequestration cuts: NASA Suspends All Education Activities – citizensinspace.org.
Here’s a ScienceCast report on the possibility that Comet 2013 A1 will hit Mars: ScienceCasts: Collision Course? A Comet Heads for Mars – YouTube
A comet is heading for Mars, and there is a chance that it might hit the Red Planet in October 2014. An impact wouldn’t necessarily mean the end of NASA’s Mars program. But it would transform the program along with Mars itself.
The University of Southern California Rocket Propulsion Laboratory (USCRPL) “is an undergraduate research laboratory that designs, builds and tests experimental rocketry and propulsion hardware”. They are carrying out tests in Mojave of their rockets and rocket components and yesterday they posted the following (via Ben Brockert): Twitter / USCRPL:
Check out this video of our four
#Kiwi firings from this semester! http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=TIFoL7g-COU …
Find more of their videos at USCRPL’s Channel – YouTube.
The American Meteor Society provides a nice infographic that explains what words like meteor, meteorite, meteoroid, bolide, etc. really mean: Meteor Terminology – American Meteor Society –
Global Townhall posts the first installment of an interview with NASA astronaut Mike Massimino about his career, finding ones passion in life, and staying a child at heart: Michael Massimino Interview With Gabrielle Reilly – Global Townhall (Part 1)