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International Space Flight (ESA, Russia, China and others) => Indian Launchers => Topic started by: nooneofconsequence on 09/24/2009 02:05 am
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http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-sci-moon24-2009sep24,0,791176.story (http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-sci-moon24-2009sep24,0,791176.story)
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/24/science/space/24moon.html?em (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/24/science/space/24moon.html?em)
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewnews.html?id=1351 (http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewnews.html?id=1351)
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MEDIA ADVISORY : M09-183
Nasa To Reveal New Scientific Findings About The Moon
WASHINGTON -- NASA will hold a media briefing at 2 p.m. EDT on Thursday, Sept. 24, to discuss new science data from the moon collected during national and international space missions. NASA Television and the agency's Web site will provide live coverage of the briefing from the James E. Webb Memorial Auditorium at NASA Headquarters, 300 E St. SW, in Washington.
The briefing participants are:
- Jim Green, director, Planetary Science Division, Science Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters in Washington
- Carle Pieters, principal investigator, Moon Mineralogy Mapper, Brown University
- Rob Green, project instrument scientist, Moon Mineralogy Mapper, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif.
- Roger Clark, team member, Cassini spacecraft Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer and co-investigator, Moon Mineralogy Mapper, U.S. Geological Survey in Denver
- Jessica Sunshine, deputy principal investigator for NASA’s Deep Impact extended mission and co-investigator for Moon Mineralogy Mapper, Department of Astronomy, University of Maryland
Reporters unable to attend the briefing may ask questions by telephone. To reserve a telephone line, journalists should e-mail their name, media affiliation and telephone number to Steve Cole at:
[email protected]
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RLEP-2 cancellation (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18137271/ns/technology_and_science-space/) looks smarter and smarter every day ..
NASA wants to cancel the lander in part to help absorb a nearly $700 million shortfall in its exploration systems budget without having to delay near-term work on the Ares 1 rocket and Orion Crew Exploration Vehicle.
Thank you, mr. Griffin
This post (http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.php?showtopic=6224&view=findpost&p=146644) at unmannedspaceflight.com has direct link to the science paper being announced.
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Erm. This is THE hot space news of the day, and it was moved away from "Live space news feed" to this forgotten corner of the forum ??
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My guess is because it's a little more focused on the unmanned part of spaceflight... NSF leans more towards manned.
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In fact this should have been posted on the Chandrayaan-1 thread...
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Um, there are threads all around which have nothing to do with manned launches, also in live feed section.
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In fact this should have been posted on the Chandrayaan-1 thread...
Just to clarify the news: it wasn't just Chandrayaan-1, but also EPOXI (Deep Impact) and Cassini, as well as supporting data from Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter.
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Emily Lakdawalla of the planetary society has a very nice two part post on this:
http://www.planetary.org/blog/article/00002117/
http://www.planetary.org/blog/article/00002118/
You can watch the briefing on NASAs youtube channel here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=je0FviGlBz8
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hop: thanks for those links to Emily's writings (planetary.org links). Very well written, IMO, and helped me plug everything together in ways that *I* can understand more thoroughly :-)
Hope more folks see the stories - but this is a ~weird place for this to be (as mentioned above) and glad I noticed this thread's title on Forum homepage (!!)
Alex