Japan Reopens Space Station Control Room After Quake
Good news: Japan has reopened its space station control room following the earthquake.
Category: Points of Information
Very brief descriptions, with appropriate links, of current or recent news items.
The NASA space war mess
The NASA space war mess.
Congress is now looking to flatline or cut NASA budget (or not enact new ones) while also playing its own game of telling NASA to do things it simply does not have the budget to do. A new slow motion train wreck is in the making.
Quarter-mile diameter asteroid to pass only 200,000 miles from the Earth on November 8, 2011
Get those telescopes out! A asteroid, a quarter-mile in diameter, is going to pass only 200,000 miles from the Earth on November 8, 2011. Key quote:
Although classified as a potentially hazardous object, 2005 YU55 poses no threat of an Earth collision over at least the next 100 years. However, this will be the closest approach to date by an object this large that we know about in advance and an event of this type.
Send the space-bureaucrats to Mars
Human-caused climate change – then and now
The question of human-caused climate change – unclear now and unclear 8,000 years ago.
Stardust to end its mission after twelve years
Stardust has ended its mission after twelve years and two comet flybys.
Ground controllers will command the spacecraft to fire up its four rocket thrusters one last time at 7 p.m. EDT (2300 GMT) today to use up its remaining fuel. Engineers plan to watch closely while the probe’s propellant tank ran dry to help future missions gauge their fuel reserves more precisely.
Thousands of Christians Displaced in Ethiopia After Muslims torch churches and homes
Islamic tolerance: Thousands of Christians displaced in Ethiopia after Muslims torch churches and homes.
X-ray stripes in the expanding remnant of a supernova explosion
X-ray stripes in the expanding remnant of a supernova explosion.
Egypt Air removes Israel from map
Arab good will: Egypt Air removes Israel from map.
Just when you think they finally get it
Another example of the great disconnect: Just when you think they finally get it.