NASA to Broadcast Historical Highlights in High Definition

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WASHINGTON, Aug. 5 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -NASA Television will broadcast a special high definition (HDTV) feed of two hours of highlights from America's human spaceflight history as the agency celebrates its 50th anniversary. The NASA HD highlights will be broadcast on Friday, Aug. Submitted by: phantomddl | Visited 5 times | Comments 0

♦ NASA Workshop Attracts Educators From Federal Way, Washington

1 vote	To: SCIENCE EDITORS Contact: Chris Rink of NASA, +1-757-864-6786, +1-757-344-7711, christopher.p.rink@nasa.gov HAMPTON, Va., July 15 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -NASA's Langley Research Center hosted its fourth annual MY NASA DATA workshop June 22 to 27 attracting 21 educators from regions across America. Submitted by: mattkpeters - Visited 6 - Comments 0 - Write first comment

♦ NASA Assigns Crew for Equipment Delivery Mission to Space Station

1 vote	To: SCIENCE EDITORS Contact: John Yembrick, Headquarters, Washington, +1-202-3580602, john.yembrick-1@nasa.gov, or Kylie Clem, Johnson Space Center, Houston, +1-281-483-5111, kylie.s.clem@nasa.gov, both of NASA WASHINGTON, July 16 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -NASA has assigned the crew for space shuttle mission STS-128. Submitted by: GWebmaster - Visited 9 - Comments 0 - Write first comment

♦ Panasonic announces three new SD cards

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Panasonic has added three high capacity SD cards to its Pro High Speed, High Speed and miniSD ranges. First up is the flagship 2GB card introduced to the Pro High Speed range. It offers a data transfer rate of 20MB/s and will hit the shops in August with a price tag of €249.99 (US$299). The new addition to the High Speed range is the 1GB SD card available in August for €99.99 (US$119). Submitted by: cosmictap - Visited 4 - Comments 0 - Write first comment

♦ Discovery's 'When We Left Earth' aims high

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Pictures of space travel are now as vivid as our memories of them. When We Left Earth: The NASA Missions marks a half-century of space exploration with original mission footage, some of it previously unreleased, upgraded to high-definition viewing standards. The six-hour Discovery Channel series, to air over the next three Sundays (9 ET/PT), follows the U.S. space program from its beginnings... Submitted by: jgold454 - Visited 11 - Comments 0 - Write first comment

♦ NASA's Johnson Space Center to Reopen Wednesday

1 vote	To: SCIENCE EDITORS Contact: Michael Curie, Headquarters, Washington, +1-202-3584715, michael.curie@nasa.gov, or John Ira Petty, Johnson Space Center, Houston, +1-281-483-5111, john.i.petty@nasa.gov, both of NASA HOUSTON, Aug. Submitted by: rmg - Visited 16 - Comments 0 - Write first comment

♦ XMM-Newton Finds Missing Matter

1 vote	To: STATE EDITORS Contact: Dana Davis, dana.l.davis@nasa.gov, or Rob Lazaro, robert.lazaro-1@nasa.gov, both of NASA's Johnson Space Center, Houston, +1-281-244-0933 HOUSTON, May 6 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ --NASA astronaut Stan G. Love will return home to Eugene, Ore.... Submitted by: ryan_uk - Visited 8 - Comments 0 - Write first comment

♦ Inching closer to wireless hi-def video

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The backers of Wireless Home Digital Interface plan to announce they are officially banding together Wednesday. But we're still months, or even a year from true, interoperable devices that can send high-definition video between themselves. Wireless Home Digital Interface, or WHDI, sends uncompressed, high-definition video signals over the unlicensed 5-Gigahertz band. Submitted by: Evilboy - Visited 27 - Comments 0 - Write first comment

♦ NASA Spacecraft Images Mars Moon In Color And In 3D

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ScienceDaily (Apr. 10, 2008) — A new stereo view of Phobos, the larger and inner of Mars' two tiny moons, has been captured by a NASA spacecraft orbiting Mars. The High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter took two images of Phobos 10 minutes apart on March 23. Scientists combined the images for a stereo view. Submitted by: AaRGeE - Visited 7 - Comments 0 - Write first comment

♦ NASA Sends Montana Teacher David Bixby Back to School

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To: STATE EDITORS Contact: Dewayne Washington of NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md., +1-301-286-0040, Dewayne.A.Washington@nasa.gov GREENBELT, Md., July 18 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -David Bixby, elementary school teacher at Hellgate Elementary School in Missoula, Mont., spent a week of challenge and discovery at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. Submitted by: bob803 - Visited 6 - Comments 0 - Write first comment

♦ NASA launches GLAST telescope to scout out gamma rays

1 vote	CAPE CANAVERAL — NASA launched a telescope Wednesday to scout out elusive, super high-energy gamma rays lurking in the universe. Glast — a NASA acronym standing for Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope — began its fiveto 10-year mission with a midday blastoff aboard a Delta rocket. Everything went well and, in just over an hour... Submitted by: Pleb - Visited 3 - Comments 0 - Write first comment

♦ NASA launches GLAST telescope to scout out gamma rays

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CAPE CANAVERAL — NASA launched a telescope Wednesday to scout out elusive, super high-energy gamma rays lurking in the universe. Glast — a NASA acronym standing for Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope — began its fiveto 10-year mission with a midday blastoff aboard a Delta rocket. Everything went well and, in just over an hour... Submitted by: bangalore - Visited 5 - Comments 0 - Write first comment

♦ NASA estimates 3,000 to 4,000 shuttle job losses

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CAPE CANAVERAL — NASA told a Senate panel on Monday that it anticipates losing 3,000 to 4,000 jobs at its launching site once the space shuttles stop flying in two more years, about half the cutback initially reported. Although as many as 6,000 to 7,000 shuttle jobs will be eliminated at Kennedy Space Center, about 3,000 positions will open up in the new exploration program... Submitted by: Ted_Lang - Visited 9 - Comments 0 - Write first comment

♦ Robotic Moon Excavation Teams Compete for NASA Technology Prize

1 vote	To: TECHNOLOGY EDITORS Contact: Sonja Alexander of NASA Headquarters, Washington, +1202-358-1761, sonja.r.alexander@nasa.gov WASHINGTON, July 25 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -NASA's Regolith Excavation Challenge is scheduled for Aug. Submitted by: yummytork - Visited 10 - Comments 0 - Write first comment

♦ Visionary 'NASA Exploration Experience' Exhibit on Display at Liberty Science Center, July 20-23

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To: SCIENCE EDITORS Contact: Dewayne Washington of NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md., +1-301-286-0040, Dewayne.A.Washington@nasa.gov GREENBELT, Md., July 18 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -Jo Cook, elementary school teacher at Park Creek Elementary School in Dalton, Ga., spent a week of challenge and discovery at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. Submitted by: dizajn - Visited 7 - Comments 0 - Write first comment

♦ A-MAIZE-ING: CORN'S PRICE HIGH AS AN ELEPHANT'S EYE

1 vote	Corn is likely to be rationed and not used as ethanol this summer as the precious crop that feeds the globe suffers record devastation from recent Midwest flooding. The sudden shortage sent corn futures for May 2009 skyrocketing yesterday to an all-time high above $8 a bushel a four-fold hike in the last two seasons. Submitted by: Alneo - Visited 7 - Comments 0 - Write first comment

♦ Discovery's 'When We Left Earth' aims high

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Pictures of space travel are now as vivid as our memories of them. When We Left Earth: The NASA Missions marks a half-century of space exploration with original mission footage, some of it previously unreleased, upgraded to high-definition viewing standards. The six-hour Discovery Channel series, to air over the next three Sundays (9 ET/PT), follows the U.S. space program from its beginnings... Submitted by: vertigoflow - Visited 1 - Comments 0 - Write first comment

♦ Sony's smallest high-def camcorder yet

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Sony's new Handycam HDR-TG1 is quite small for an AVCHD model, but at $900 it's not for everybody. Last year Sony introduced the NSC-GC1 Net-Sharing CAM, a pocket-sized camcorder that captures video at up to 640x480-pixels and 30 frames per second. Now, they've introduced a high-end version called the Handycam HDR-TG1 that can capture full 1920x1080-pixel high-definition video in AVCHD format... Submitted by: bestija - Visited 9 - Comments 0 - Write first comment

♦ Dissident threat is high - Orde

1 vote	The threat from dissident republicans remains high, the chief constable has warned. He was speaking after the Continuity IRA detonated a roadside bomb in County Fermanagh, slightly injuring two policemen on Saturday. But Sir Hugh also said that dissident republicans did not have the capability for a sustained campaign. Submitted by: kevster1 - Visited 2 - Comments 0 - Write first comment

♦ NASA Moon Capsule Running Late, Full of Problems

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2013, a top space agency official told The Associated Press Wednesday. continue. associate administrator for exploration. a more complicated moon launch that also will involve unmanned rockets. an interview about an internal NASA report leaked to the Web site, Nasa Watch. financial and technical problems, which NASA says it can overcome. this early in the running, Cooke said. Submitted by: mvl - Visited 8 - Comments 0 - Write first comment

♦ Astronomers Use New Method To Weigh Giant Black Holes

1 vote	To: SCIENCE EDITORS Contact: John Yembrick, Headquarters, Washington, +1-202-3580602, john.yembrick-1@nasa.gov, or Kylie Clem, Johnson Space Center, Houston, +1-281-483-5111, kylie.s.clem@nasa.gov, both of NASA WASHINGTON, July 16 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -NASA has assigned the crew for space shuttle mission STS-128. Submitted by: soul3 - Visited 9 - Comments 0 - Write first comment