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GRAIL Spacecraft Takes ShapePasadena CA (SPX) Jul 29, 2010 Engineers have conducted a fuel tank check of one of NASA's GRAIL mission spacecraft (Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory), scheduled for launch in 2011. Confirming the size and fit of manufactured components is one of the steps required prior to welding the spacecraft's fuel tanks into the propulsion system's feed lines. The image was taken on June 29, 2010, during the propulsion subsystem assembly and integration effort in the Space Support Building clean room at Lockheed Martin Space ... read more |
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Tucson AZ (SPX) Jun 30, 2010The first experimental evidence showing how atmospheric nitrogen can be incorporated into organic macromolecules is being reported by a University of Arizona team. The finding indicates what organic molecules might be found on Titan, the moon of Saturn that scientists think is a model for the chemistry of pre-life Earth. Earth and Titan are the only known planetary-sized bodies that ... more  
London, Canada (SPX) Jun 30, 2010Western professor Gordon Osinski (Earth Sciences, Physics AND Astronomy) is leading a Canadian science team in developing a robotic arm that will potentially be used by NASA to obtain rock samples from the moon. The MoonRise project (Lunar South Pole-Aitken Basin Sample Return Mission), led by Washington University (St.Louis, MO) professor Bradley Jolliff, is one of three contracts awarded ... more  
Bethesda MD (SPX) Jun 29, 2010Senator Jeff Sessions, last week , said Senators whose states will lose private sector jobs related to new NASA's space plans would like an independent legal opinion on whether or not NASA can order the winding down of the Constellation program. Senator Sessions and others seem to think "this is clearly a violation of the congressional intent." President Obama has instructed NASA to redire ... more |
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Moon Whets Appetite For WaterWashington DC (SPX) Jun 17, 2010 Scientists at the Carnegie Institution's Geophysical Laboratory, with colleagues, have discovered a much higher water content in the Moon's interior than previous studies. Their research suggests that the water, which is a component of the lunar rocks, was preserved from the hot magma that was present when the Moon began to form some 4.5 billion years ago, and that it is likely widespread in the Moon's interior. "For over 40 years we thought the Moon was dry. The bulk water content of the Mo ... read more |
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