Deinococcus radiodurans - Go ahead, make their day!

2002-09-29 Thread LARRY KLAES
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap020930.html   D. rad Bacteria: Candidate Astronauts Credit: Michael Daly (Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences), DOE Explanation: These bacteria could survive on another planet. In an Earth lab, Deinococcus radiodurans (D. rad) survive extreme l

2002 Lowell Lectures - Is Anybody Out There?

2002-09-29 Thread LARRY KLAES
http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/ep/lowell02.html IS ANYBODY OUT THERE?   Artist's conception of the Milky Way Galaxy. (David Aguilar, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics) Have you ever gazed into the night sky and wondered about life beyond the stars? [Beyond the stars? Who wrote that bi

Huygens checks out for Titan mission

2002-09-29 Thread LARRY KLAES
TITAN-BOUND SPACE PROBE PASSES KEY CHECKOUT--- The Huygens probe, riding aboard the Saturn-bound Cassini spacecraft, stepped flawlessly through a test run last week of the activities it will perform when it descends through the soupy atmosphere of Titan less

Re: NASA MOVES FORWARD ON HUMAN MISSIONS TO MOON, MARS AND ASTEROIDS

2002-09-29 Thread Robert J. Bradbury
On Sun, 29 Sep 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED], commenting on my comments wrote: > A vasculoid system is apparently a concept for the creation of billions of > nanosized platelets, to cover the internal surfaces of every blood vessel in > the human body, and increase the efficiency of blood, by replacin

Great Moments in Solar System Exploration

2002-09-29 Thread Bruce Moomaw
>From this week's summaries of the articles in "Space News" ( www.space.com/spacenews/spacenews_summary.html ): __ European Officials Brace for Negotiations With CNES By PETER B. de SELDING Space News Staff Writer PARIS - European space authorities are bracing for diffi

Re: NASA MOVES FORWARD ON HUMAN MISSIONS TO MOON, MARS AND ASTEROIDS

2002-09-29 Thread JHByrne
In a message dated 9/28/2002 5:06:05 PM Alaskan Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Robert, your enthusiasm is astounding.  Where are the off-the-shelf > microplate sapphire suits? Sorry, not here yet.  We can't even assemble sapphire at the molecular level yet.  But we do have a design for

Re: earmarks and space pork

2002-09-29 Thread Bruce Moomaw
>From the Orlando Sentinel (http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/mld/ledgerenquirer/news/politics/4171702.htm ): "Lawmakers intent on bringing home the bacon increasingly are squandering NASA's scarce resources on pet projects that are often, at best, only marginally related to space exploration and r