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Defenders of the Bush plan cite the budget of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), which will get a boost in the coming year. They fail to mention, though, that most of NASA??€™s budget increase will go to the space shuttle, the International space station, and Bush’s plan to explore the Moon and Mars. Near-term scientific projects, even those with proven promise, will largely be scrapped. One undeserving casualty is the Hubble Space Telescope. Bush plans to terminate the Hubble Space Telescope Robotic Servicing Mission, which would extend the life...
Without regular servicing missions—one of which was scheduled for 2004 until NASA??€™s shuttle fleet was grounded in the wake of Columbia disaster—the Hubble will literally fall out of orbit. Instead of reinstating the cancelled servicing mission, however, NASA officials and the Bush administration have decided to pull the plug on the orbiting telescope. The administration’s recently released 2006 budget sets aside only $93 million for Hubble (out of a total NASA budget of $2.5 billion), $75 million of which will be spent to ensure the telescope safely crashes...
...movement in jazz, was awarded soprano sax of the year by the Jazz Journalists Award in 2001, the Charlie Parker Fellowship for Jazz Innovation, and the International Women in Jazz Jazz Masters Award. But her proudest accomplishment is that she is the first musician to be commissioned by NASA??€™s art program-—and she even has an asteroid named after...
...transit coincided as well with a meeting in Cambridge of the team for NASA??€™s Kepler mission, which aims to detect Earth-like extrasolar planets using transits...
Among the team members venturing to Cambridge was Jack Lissauer of NASA??€™s Ames Research Center, who said that the event could help publicize an endeavor which similarly relies on transits for its data...