No, NASA Did Not Release A Study On Aliens And Global Warming

Yesterday, the UK's Guardian reported on a paper "by a Nasa-affiliated scientist and colleagues at Pennsylvania State University"

which asks whether contact with extraterrestrial intelligence "would benefit or harm humanity." Among the numerous scenarios considered, the paper stated ( Read more... )

China's Space Program Shoots for Moon, Mars, Venus
Source - AP News
By LOUISE WATT Associated Press
BEIJING July 11, 2011 (AP)This year, a rocket will carry a boxcar-sized module into orbit, the first building block for a Chinese space station. Around 2013, China plans to launch a lunar probe that will set a rover loose on the moon. It wants to put ( Read more... )

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Maddow did a little segment on the behemoth NASA vehicle on it's very last journey carrying Atlantis to the launchpad for the last space shuttle mission :D

Kennedy Space Center, Florida (CNN) -- The Arizona congresswoman who was shot in the head just four months ago sat comfortably Monday morning, watching and cheering as the space shuttle Endeavour, with her husband aboard, took off on its final voyage.

Mark Kelly commands the shuttle's 16-day mission to the International Space Station. His wife, U.S ( Read more... )

Space.com via Yahoo! News: Rep. Giffords' Astronaut Husband Gets Backup Shuttle Commander
by Denise Chow, SPACE.com Staff Writer by Denise Chow, Space.com Staff Writer - Fri Jan 14, 6:45 pm ET

NASA has named veteran spaceflyer Rick Sturckow to serve as a backup commander during training for the final flight of the space shuttle Endeavour - a ( Read more... )

Some cogent analysis of Obama's revised space policy by Phil Plait:

You may remember that his last revamping caused quite a stir, with people screaming that it would doom NASA. I disagree. Canceling Constellation still strikes me as the right thing to do, because it was becoming an albatross around NASA’s neck. Mind you, this was also the ( Read more... )

the moon is "dead"

The lede of today’s Orlando Sentinel article is blunt: “NASA’s plans to return astronauts to the moon are dead.” So, it claims, are the Ares 1 and 5 rockets, which will not be funded in the FY2011 budget proposal to be released on Monday. “There will be no lunar landers, no moon bases, no Constellation program at all,” the ( Read more... )

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NASA To Bomb The Moon!NASA is launching a dramatic mission to bomb the moon ( Read more... )