■
JPL's 'Free Spirit' Update
http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/podcasting/jpl-mer20090626.html
Spirit :: Panoramic Camera :: Sol 1943 Credit: NASA/JPL
http://marsrovers.nasa.gov/gallery/all/2/p/1943/2P298897551ESFB1E5P2738L1M1.HTML
The bright streak is the star Canopus.
Spirit Rover Begins Making Night Sky Observations | Universe Today
http://www.universetoday.com/2009/06/27/spirit-rover-begins-making-night-sky-observations/
365 Days of Astronomy,
June 27th: Cries From the Infant Universe
"So if you look 14 billion light years away you're looking back in time 14 billion years. What you see when you look 14 billion light years away is the big bang itself, and so all around us then in a sort of 360 degree panorama at enormous distance sits this big bang image. "
http://365daysofastronomy.org/2009/06/27/june-27th-alma-deep-field/
Space Travel in Science Fiction from 365 Days of Astronomy,
the daily podcast of the International Year of Astronomy 2009
a journey through the universe as imagined in some of the great Science Fiction novels and movies.
Space Travel in Science Fiction is looked at in stories such as 2001: A Space Odyssey, Star Trek, and Dune, and includes SCI FI authors such as HG Wells, and Kurt Vonnegut.
Its just little old me
http://365daysofastronomy.org/
During the Apollo flights astronauts reported seeing odd flashes of light, visible even with their eyes closed.
http://d.hatena.ne.jp/yellowz/20090626
"During the Apollo flights astronauts reported seeing odd flashes of light, visible even with their eyes closed.
We have since learnt that the cause was cosmic rays ―
Galactic cosmic rays come from sources inside our home galaxy, the Milky Way, and consist mostly of protons moving at close to the speed of light, the “ultimate speed limit” in the Universe. These protons have been accelerated to energies exceeding by far the energies that even CERN’s Large Hadron Collider will be able to achieve.
The researchers looked at the remnant of a star that exploded in AD 185, as recorded by Chinese astronomers. The remnant, called RCW 86, is located about 8200 light-years away towards the constellation of Circinus (the Drawing Compass). It is probably the oldest record of the explosion of a star. "
ESO 23/09 - Milky Way's super-efficient particle accelerators caught in the act
http://www.eso.org/public/outreach/press-rel/pr-2009/pr-23-09.html
Saturn V
Apollo 40th Anniversary - NASA
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/apollo/40th/index.html
Apollo 40th Anniversary Events and Activities
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/apollo/40th/events.html
Saturn V
"The J-2 may be produced again for the Crew Launch Vehicle's upper stage.
Though the Saturn was a rocket, it was also a system.
Millions of individual pieces, each serving their own function, had to operate in unison."
http://www.universetoday.com/2006/02/06/book-review-saturn-v/
Dr. Wernher von Braun
First Center Director, July 1, 1960 - Jan. 27, 1970
"Wernher von Braun (1912–1977)
Von Braun is well known as the leader of what has been called the “rocket team” which developed the V–2 ballistic missile for the Nazis during World War II. The V–2s were manufactured at a forced labor factory called Mittelwerk.
Scholars are still reassessing his role in these controversial activities"
http://history.msfc.nasa.gov/vonbraun/bio.html
NASA Announces Request For Information On Von Braun Collection
On the eve of the 40th anniversary of the historic first moon landing, NASA is seeking ideas from the public, academia, and industry about how to analyze and catalog notes from spaceflight pioneer Wernher von Braun into an electronic, searchable database or other system."
http://www.nasa.gov/directorates/somd/home/von_Braun_RFI.html
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
Review of Human Space Flight Plans Committee Public Hearing
Review of Human Space Flight Plans Committee News Conference
ATLAST: Advanced Technology Large-Aperture Space Telescope
Delta IV HLV. Ares V payload to L2 = 65 mT, Delta IV HLV payload to L2 = 16 mT
ATLAST: Advanced Technology Large-Aperture Space Telescope
http://exep.jpl.nasa.gov/presentations/138-04-11-Oegerle.ppt
"Hitler's Stealth Fighter" Reborn : PHOTOS
"replica of a Horten 2-29, aka Hitler's stealth fighter,
created for a documentary airing June 28 on the National Geographic Channel. "
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/06/photogalleries/hitlers-stealth-fighter-plane-pictures/index.html
Apollo 40th Anniversary Events and Activities
July 2 – Lunar Sample Laboratory at the Johnson Space Center NASA TV live shots with the curators
July 10-11 – Space Camp Hall of Fame Reunion/Apollo 11 Anniversary Commemoration at the Saturn V Center in Huntsville, Ala.
July 16 – Kennedy Space Center's Apollo 40th Anniversary activities at the KSC Visitor Center
July 18-20 – Exploration Day at Virginia Living Museum in Newport News, Va.
July 19 – Moonfest 2009 at Ames Research Center
July 19 – John Glenn Lecture at NASM (Apollo 11 Crew)
Will air live on NASA TV and be streamed on http://www.nasa.gov/ntv.
July 19 – Apollo Commemoration Activities at Space Center Houston (Films, Exhibits)
July 19 – Apollo 40th Activities at the Neil Armstrong Museum in Wapakoeta, Ohio
July 20 – Apollo 40th Anniversary News Conference at NASA Headquarters
Location: James Webb Auditorium at NASA Headquarters in Washington, 300 E St., S.W.
Time: 9:30-10:30 a.m. EDT
Description: Apollo astronauts will discuss the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 flight and answer questions from reporters.
Participants: Apollo astronauts (To be determined)
Public: Not open to the general public
Media: The news conference will be carried live on NASA TV and streamed at www.nasa.gov/ntv. Media representatives may ask questions from participating NASA field centers. Reporters should call their local center to confirm its participation in the event.
July 20 – Apollo 40th Anniversary Educational Forum at the Newseum
Location: Newseum, Washington, DC
Time: 2 p.m. to 3 p.m. (approximate) EDT
Description: NASA and the Newseum will broadcast a special panel event commemorating the first human landing on our moon. Journalist Nick Clooney will moderate, asking and facilitating questions from the audience. The program also will be streamed into science centers and museums around the country.
Panelists include:
Buzz Aldrin (Apollo 11)
Charles Duke (Apollo 16)
Alan Bean (Apollo 12)
A current NASA astronaut
Laurie Leshin, PhD., deputy director for Science and Technology at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md.
Public: Program is free with museum admission or membership.
Media: No specific media events, but program will be broadcast on NASA TV and streamed at http://www.nasa.gov/ntv.
Time: 7 p.m. (program begins at 8 p.m.) EDT
Description: Event will be a celebratory reception for approximately 2,000 invited guests, including current and former NASA employees, posthumously honoring President John F. Kennedy with the Ambassador of Exploration award.
Participants: Apollo 11 crew and the rest of the Apollo astronauts, the STS-125 space shuttle crew, and former Apollo employees.
Media: No press event is planned, but program will be broadcast on NASA TV and streamed at
http://www.nasa.gov/ntv.
› July 20 – NASA Night at Houston Astros game in conjunction with NASA Exhibits at Union Station in Houston.
July 20 – First Footprint Celebration at the Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, Ala.
Time: 1 to 5 p.m. CDT
Description: The Marshall Space Flight Center team will gather at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center and Davidson Center for Space Exploration to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing and Marshall’s continuing role in sending explorers to space. Marshall will sponsor a 40-by-60-foot hospitality tent behind the Davidson Center, where visitors can enjoy live music and light refreshments and get their picture taken at the Moon-Mars Photo Kiosk.
Public: All Marshall civil service employees, Marshall badged contractors, their immediate families and retirees will receive free admission to the Space & Rocket Center during the event.
Media: Reporters are encouraged to attend. For more information, contact Angela Storey at 256-544-0034. The event will be recorded for NASA TV Video File and streamed at http://www.nasa.gov/ntv.
› July 20-24, 2008 – Apollo Activities at the Virginia Air and Space Museum in Hampton, Va.
July 24, 2009 – Apollo 11 Splashdown Celebration at Johnson Space Center’s Visitor Complex
Location: Space Center Houston Visitor's Complex
Time: 6:30 – 10 p.m. CDT
Description: Speaking Program honoring all Apollo team members. JSC Center Director Mike Coats, community and Apollo Program representatives will make remarks.
Participants: JSC and the surrounding community will celebrate the 40th anniversary of Apollo 11 with a Splashdown Celebration at Space Center Houston. The event will include a program with speakers from the Apollo era, a hot dog buffet and entertainment. Some Space Center Houston attractions will be open. Friends and family are welcome.
Media: This event is open to the public. For more information:
http://www.spacecenter.org/apollo11anniversary.html
STS-125 Highlights - NASA
NARRATOR: The on-time launch took advantage of a flawless day of sunny weather at Kennedy.
LAUNCH COMMENTATOR: 4, 3, 2, 1 . . . and liftoff of space shuttle Atlantis on a final visit to enhance the vision of Hubble into the deepest grandeur of our universe.
KYLE HERRING: Houston now controlling, Atlantis is on its way.
NARRATOR: The astronauts quickly began setting up space shuttle Atlantis quickly for its work ahead.
Massimino: Any reason why you have sunglasses on in the middeck where there is no light, I mean, no sun?
Feustel: Cause they look cool!
Massimino:Ah, there’s my man."
http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/podcasting/125_recap.html
沖縄地方が梅雨明け＝平年より5日遅れ−沖縄気象台（時事通信）
沖縄気象台は28日、沖縄地方が梅雨明けしたとみられると発表した。昨年に比べ11日遅く、平年に比べ5日遅い。
同気象台によると、梅雨の期間は41日間だった。沖縄地方は5月18日に梅雨入りした。"
http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20090628-00000013-jij-soci
『取引しません宣言』、看板倒れに？
「障害者雇用率未達成ならＮＯ」宣言、総務省が待った（読売新聞）
"橋下徹知事が「障害者雇用日本一」を目標に掲げたことから、府は昨年末、未達成企業へのペナルティーを盛り込んだ全国で初めての条例案作成に着手した。しかし、府と協議した総務省は「発注業務と直接関係がない障害者の雇用率を参加資格に盛り込むのは、安易な制限で問題だ」と否定的な見解を示した。
障害者雇用促進法で規定している未達成企業名の公表で、通常４〜５年かかる手続きを２年程度に短縮する条例案なども検討しているが、
府幹部は「これではとても、『取引しません宣言』とはいえず、看板倒れになりそう。"
http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20090628-00000101-yom-soci
JPL's 'Free Spirit' Update
http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/podcasting/jpl-mer20090626.html
Spirit :: Panoramic Camera :: Sol 1943 Credit: NASA/JPL
http://marsrovers.nasa.gov/gallery/all/2/p/1943/2P298897551ESFB1E5P2738L1M1.HTML
The bright streak is the star Canopus.
Spirit Rover Begins Making Night Sky Observations | Universe Today
http://www.universetoday.com/2009/06/27/spirit-rover-begins-making-night-sky-observations/
365 Days of Astronomy,
June 27th: Cries From the Infant Universe
"So if you look 14 billion light years away you're looking back in time 14 billion years. What you see when you look 14 billion light years away is the big bang itself, and so all around us then in a sort of 360 degree panorama at enormous distance sits this big bang image. "
http://365daysofastronomy.org/2009/06/27/june-27th-alma-deep-field/
Space Travel in Science Fiction from 365 Days of Astronomy,
the daily podcast of the International Year of Astronomy 2009
a journey through the universe as imagined in some of the great Science Fiction novels and movies.
Space Travel in Science Fiction is looked at in stories such as 2001: A Space Odyssey, Star Trek, and Dune, and includes SCI FI authors such as HG Wells, and Kurt Vonnegut.
Its just little old me
http://365daysofastronomy.org/
During the Apollo flights astronauts reported seeing odd flashes of light, visible even with their eyes closed.
http://d.hatena.ne.jp/yellowz/20090626
"During the Apollo flights astronauts reported seeing odd flashes of light, visible even with their eyes closed.
We have since learnt that the cause was cosmic rays ―
Galactic cosmic rays come from sources inside our home galaxy, the Milky Way, and consist mostly of protons moving at close to the speed of light, the “ultimate speed limit” in the Universe. These protons have been accelerated to energies exceeding by far the energies that even CERN’s Large Hadron Collider will be able to achieve.
The researchers looked at the remnant of a star that exploded in AD 185, as recorded by Chinese astronomers. The remnant, called RCW 86, is located about 8200 light-years away towards the constellation of Circinus (the Drawing Compass). It is probably the oldest record of the explosion of a star. "
ESO 23/09 - Milky Way's super-efficient particle accelerators caught in the act
http://www.eso.org/public/outreach/press-rel/pr-2009/pr-23-09.html
Saturn V
Apollo 40th Anniversary - NASA
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/apollo/40th/index.html
Apollo 40th Anniversary Events and Activities
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/apollo/40th/events.html
Saturn V
"The J-2 may be produced again for the Crew Launch Vehicle's upper stage.
Though the Saturn was a rocket, it was also a system.
Millions of individual pieces, each serving their own function, had to operate in unison."
http://www.universetoday.com/2006/02/06/book-review-saturn-v/
Dr. Wernher von Braun
First Center Director, July 1, 1960 - Jan. 27, 1970
"Wernher von Braun (1912–1977)
Von Braun is well known as the leader of what has been called the “rocket team” which developed the V–2 ballistic missile for the Nazis during World War II. The V–2s were manufactured at a forced labor factory called Mittelwerk.
Scholars are still reassessing his role in these controversial activities"
http://history.msfc.nasa.gov/vonbraun/bio.html
NASA Announces Request For Information On Von Braun Collection
On the eve of the 40th anniversary of the historic first moon landing, NASA is seeking ideas from the public, academia, and industry about how to analyze and catalog notes from spaceflight pioneer Wernher von Braun into an electronic, searchable database or other system."
http://www.nasa.gov/directorates/somd/home/von_Braun_RFI.html
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
Review of Human Space Flight Plans Committee Public Hearing
Review of Human Space Flight Plans Committee News Conference
ATLAST: Advanced Technology Large-Aperture Space Telescope
Delta IV HLV. Ares V payload to L2 = 65 mT, Delta IV HLV payload to L2 = 16 mT
ATLAST: Advanced Technology Large-Aperture Space Telescope
http://exep.jpl.nasa.gov/presentations/138-04-11-Oegerle.ppt
"Hitler's Stealth Fighter" Reborn : PHOTOS
"replica of a Horten 2-29, aka Hitler's stealth fighter,
created for a documentary airing June 28 on the National Geographic Channel. "
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/06/photogalleries/hitlers-stealth-fighter-plane-pictures/index.html
Apollo 40th Anniversary Events and Activities
July 2 – Lunar Sample Laboratory at the Johnson Space Center NASA TV live shots with the curators
July 10-11 – Space Camp Hall of Fame Reunion/Apollo 11 Anniversary Commemoration at the Saturn V Center in Huntsville, Ala.
July 16 – Kennedy Space Center's Apollo 40th Anniversary activities at the KSC Visitor Center
July 18-20 – Exploration Day at Virginia Living Museum in Newport News, Va.
July 19 – Moonfest 2009 at Ames Research Center
July 19 – John Glenn Lecture at NASM (Apollo 11 Crew)
Will air live on NASA TV and be streamed on http://www.nasa.gov/ntv.
July 19 – Apollo Commemoration Activities at Space Center Houston (Films, Exhibits)
July 19 – Apollo 40th Activities at the Neil Armstrong Museum in Wapakoeta, Ohio
July 20 – Apollo 40th Anniversary News Conference at NASA Headquarters
Location: James Webb Auditorium at NASA Headquarters in Washington, 300 E St., S.W.
Time: 9:30-10:30 a.m. EDT
Description: Apollo astronauts will discuss the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 flight and answer questions from reporters.
Participants: Apollo astronauts (To be determined)
Public: Not open to the general public
Media: The news conference will be carried live on NASA TV and streamed at www.nasa.gov/ntv. Media representatives may ask questions from participating NASA field centers. Reporters should call their local center to confirm its participation in the event.
July 20 – Apollo 40th Anniversary Educational Forum at the Newseum
Location: Newseum, Washington, DC
Time: 2 p.m. to 3 p.m. (approximate) EDT
Description: NASA and the Newseum will broadcast a special panel event commemorating the first human landing on our moon. Journalist Nick Clooney will moderate, asking and facilitating questions from the audience. The program also will be streamed into science centers and museums around the country.
Panelists include:
Buzz Aldrin (Apollo 11)
Charles Duke (Apollo 16)
Alan Bean (Apollo 12)
A current NASA astronaut
Laurie Leshin, PhD., deputy director for Science and Technology at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md.
Public: Program is free with museum admission or membership.
Media: No specific media events, but program will be broadcast on NASA TV and streamed at http://www.nasa.gov/ntv.
Time: 7 p.m. (program begins at 8 p.m.) EDT
Description: Event will be a celebratory reception for approximately 2,000 invited guests, including current and former NASA employees, posthumously honoring President John F. Kennedy with the Ambassador of Exploration award.
Participants: Apollo 11 crew and the rest of the Apollo astronauts, the STS-125 space shuttle crew, and former Apollo employees.
Media: No press event is planned, but program will be broadcast on NASA TV and streamed at
http://www.nasa.gov/ntv.
› July 20 – NASA Night at Houston Astros game in conjunction with NASA Exhibits at Union Station in Houston.
July 20 – First Footprint Celebration at the Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, Ala.
Time: 1 to 5 p.m. CDT
Description: The Marshall Space Flight Center team will gather at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center and Davidson Center for Space Exploration to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing and Marshall’s continuing role in sending explorers to space. Marshall will sponsor a 40-by-60-foot hospitality tent behind the Davidson Center, where visitors can enjoy live music and light refreshments and get their picture taken at the Moon-Mars Photo Kiosk.
Public: All Marshall civil service employees, Marshall badged contractors, their immediate families and retirees will receive free admission to the Space & Rocket Center during the event.
Media: Reporters are encouraged to attend. For more information, contact Angela Storey at 256-544-0034. The event will be recorded for NASA TV Video File and streamed at http://www.nasa.gov/ntv.
› July 20-24, 2008 – Apollo Activities at the Virginia Air and Space Museum in Hampton, Va.
July 24, 2009 – Apollo 11 Splashdown Celebration at Johnson Space Center’s Visitor Complex
Location: Space Center Houston Visitor's Complex
Time: 6:30 – 10 p.m. CDT
Description: Speaking Program honoring all Apollo team members. JSC Center Director Mike Coats, community and Apollo Program representatives will make remarks.
Participants: JSC and the surrounding community will celebrate the 40th anniversary of Apollo 11 with a Splashdown Celebration at Space Center Houston. The event will include a program with speakers from the Apollo era, a hot dog buffet and entertainment. Some Space Center Houston attractions will be open. Friends and family are welcome.
Media: This event is open to the public. For more information:
http://www.spacecenter.org/apollo11anniversary.html
STS-125 Highlights - NASA
NARRATOR: The on-time launch took advantage of a flawless day of sunny weather at Kennedy.
LAUNCH COMMENTATOR: 4, 3, 2, 1 . . . and liftoff of space shuttle Atlantis on a final visit to enhance the vision of Hubble into the deepest grandeur of our universe.
KYLE HERRING: Houston now controlling, Atlantis is on its way.
NARRATOR: The astronauts quickly began setting up space shuttle Atlantis quickly for its work ahead.
Massimino: Any reason why you have sunglasses on in the middeck where there is no light, I mean, no sun?
Feustel: Cause they look cool!
Massimino:Ah, there’s my man."
http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/podcasting/125_recap.html
沖縄地方が梅雨明け＝平年より5日遅れ−沖縄気象台（時事通信）
沖縄気象台は28日、沖縄地方が梅雨明けしたとみられると発表した。昨年に比べ11日遅く、平年に比べ5日遅い。
同気象台によると、梅雨の期間は41日間だった。沖縄地方は5月18日に梅雨入りした。"
http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20090628-00000013-jij-soci
『取引しません宣言』、看板倒れに？
「障害者雇用率未達成ならＮＯ」宣言、総務省が待った（読売新聞）
"橋下徹知事が「障害者雇用日本一」を目標に掲げたことから、府は昨年末、未達成企業へのペナルティーを盛り込んだ全国で初めての条例案作成に着手した。しかし、府と協議した総務省は「発注業務と直接関係がない障害者の雇用率を参加資格に盛り込むのは、安易な制限で問題だ」と否定的な見解を示した。
障害者雇用促進法で規定している未達成企業名の公表で、通常４〜５年かかる手続きを２年程度に短縮する条例案なども検討しているが、
府幹部は「これではとても、『取引しません宣言』とはいえず、看板倒れになりそう。"
http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20090628-00000101-yom-soci
JPL's 'Free Spirit' Update
http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/podcasting/jpl-mer20090626.html
Spirit :: Panoramic Camera :: Sol 1943 Credit: NASA/JPL
http://marsrovers.nasa.gov/gallery/all/2/p/1943/2P298897551ESFB1E5P2738L1M1.HTML
The bright streak is the star Canopus.
Spirit Rover Begins Making Night Sky Observations | Universe Today
http://www.universetoday.com/2009/06/27/spirit-rover-begins-making-night-sky-observations/
365 Days of Astronomy,
June 27th: Cries From the Infant Universe
"So if you look 14 billion light years away you're looking back in time 14 billion years. What you see when you look 14 billion light years away is the big bang itself, and so all around us then in a sort of 360 degree panorama at enormous distance sits this big bang image. "
http://365daysofastronomy.org/2009/06/27/june-27th-alma-deep-field/
Space Travel in Science Fiction from 365 Days of Astronomy,
the daily podcast of the International Year of Astronomy 2009
a journey through the universe as imagined in some of the great Science Fiction novels and movies.
Space Travel in Science Fiction is looked at in stories such as 2001: A Space Odyssey, Star Trek, and Dune, and includes SCI FI authors such as HG Wells, and Kurt Vonnegut.
Its just little old me
http://365daysofastronomy.org/
During the Apollo flights astronauts reported seeing odd flashes of light, visible even with their eyes closed.
http://d.hatena.ne.jp/yellowz/20090626
"During the Apollo flights astronauts reported seeing odd flashes of light, visible even with their eyes closed.
We have since learnt that the cause was cosmic rays ―
Galactic cosmic rays come from sources inside our home galaxy, the Milky Way, and consist mostly of protons moving at close to the speed of light, the “ultimate speed limit” in the Universe. These protons have been accelerated to energies exceeding by far the energies that even CERN’s Large Hadron Collider will be able to achieve.
The researchers looked at the remnant of a star that exploded in AD 185, as recorded by Chinese astronomers. The remnant, called RCW 86, is located about 8200 light-years away towards the constellation of Circinus (the Drawing Compass). It is probably the oldest record of the explosion of a star. "
ESO 23/09 - Milky Way's super-efficient particle accelerators caught in the act
http://www.eso.org/public/outreach/press-rel/pr-2009/pr-23-09.html
Saturn V
Apollo 40th Anniversary - NASA
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/apollo/40th/index.html
Apollo 40th Anniversary Events and Activities
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/apollo/40th/events.html
Saturn V
"The J-2 may be produced again for the Crew Launch Vehicle's upper stage.
Though the Saturn was a rocket, it was also a system.
Millions of individual pieces, each serving their own function, had to operate in unison."
http://www.universetoday.com/2006/02/06/book-review-saturn-v/
Dr. Wernher von Braun
First Center Director, July 1, 1960 - Jan. 27, 1970
"Wernher von Braun (1912–1977)
Von Braun is well known as the leader of what has been called the “rocket team” which developed the V–2 ballistic missile for the Nazis during World War II. The V–2s were manufactured at a forced labor factory called Mittelwerk.
Scholars are still reassessing his role in these controversial activities"
http://history.msfc.nasa.gov/vonbraun/bio.html
NASA Announces Request For Information On Von Braun Collection
On the eve of the 40th anniversary of the historic first moon landing, NASA is seeking ideas from the public, academia, and industry about how to analyze and catalog notes from spaceflight pioneer Wernher von Braun into an electronic, searchable database or other system."
http://www.nasa.gov/directorates/somd/home/von_Braun_RFI.html
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
Review of Human Space Flight Plans Committee Public Hearing
Review of Human Space Flight Plans Committee News Conference
ATLAST: Advanced Technology Large-Aperture Space Telescope
Delta IV HLV. Ares V payload to L2 = 65 mT, Delta IV HLV payload to L2 = 16 mT
ATLAST: Advanced Technology Large-Aperture Space Telescope
http://exep.jpl.nasa.gov/presentations/138-04-11-Oegerle.ppt
"Hitler's Stealth Fighter" Reborn : PHOTOS
"replica of a Horten 2-29, aka Hitler's stealth fighter,
created for a documentary airing June 28 on the National Geographic Channel. "
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/06/photogalleries/hitlers-stealth-fighter-plane-pictures/index.html
Apollo 40th Anniversary Events and Activities
July 2 – Lunar Sample Laboratory at the Johnson Space Center NASA TV live shots with the curators
July 10-11 – Space Camp Hall of Fame Reunion/Apollo 11 Anniversary Commemoration at the Saturn V Center in Huntsville, Ala.
July 16 – Kennedy Space Center's Apollo 40th Anniversary activities at the KSC Visitor Center
July 18-20 – Exploration Day at Virginia Living Museum in Newport News, Va.
July 19 – Moonfest 2009 at Ames Research Center
July 19 – John Glenn Lecture at NASM (Apollo 11 Crew)
Will air live on NASA TV and be streamed on http://www.nasa.gov/ntv.
July 19 – Apollo Commemoration Activities at Space Center Houston (Films, Exhibits)
July 19 – Apollo 40th Activities at the Neil Armstrong Museum in Wapakoeta, Ohio
July 20 – Apollo 40th Anniversary News Conference at NASA Headquarters
Location: James Webb Auditorium at NASA Headquarters in Washington, 300 E St., S.W.
Time: 9:30-10:30 a.m. EDT
Description: Apollo astronauts will discuss the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 flight and answer questions from reporters.
Participants: Apollo astronauts (To be determined)
Public: Not open to the general public
Media: The news conference will be carried live on NASA TV and streamed at www.nasa.gov/ntv. Media representatives may ask questions from participating NASA field centers. Reporters should call their local center to confirm its participation in the event.
July 20 – Apollo 40th Anniversary Educational Forum at the Newseum
Location: Newseum, Washington, DC
Time: 2 p.m. to 3 p.m. (approximate) EDT
Description: NASA and the Newseum will broadcast a special panel event commemorating the first human landing on our moon. Journalist Nick Clooney will moderate, asking and facilitating questions from the audience. The program also will be streamed into science centers and museums around the country.
Panelists include:
Buzz Aldrin (Apollo 11)
Charles Duke (Apollo 16)
Alan Bean (Apollo 12)
A current NASA astronaut
Laurie Leshin, PhD., deputy director for Science and Technology at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md.
Public: Program is free with museum admission or membership.
Media: No specific media events, but program will be broadcast on NASA TV and streamed at http://www.nasa.gov/ntv.
Time: 7 p.m. (program begins at 8 p.m.) EDT
Description: Event will be a celebratory reception for approximately 2,000 invited guests, including current and former NASA employees, posthumously honoring President John F. Kennedy with the Ambassador of Exploration award.
Participants: Apollo 11 crew and the rest of the Apollo astronauts, the STS-125 space shuttle crew, and former Apollo employees.
Media: No press event is planned, but program will be broadcast on NASA TV and streamed at
http://www.nasa.gov/ntv.
› July 20 – NASA Night at Houston Astros game in conjunction with NASA Exhibits at Union Station in Houston.
July 20 – First Footprint Celebration at the Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, Ala.
Time: 1 to 5 p.m. CDT
Description: The Marshall Space Flight Center team will gather at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center and Davidson Center for Space Exploration to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing and Marshall’s continuing role in sending explorers to space. Marshall will sponsor a 40-by-60-foot hospitality tent behind the Davidson Center, where visitors can enjoy live music and light refreshments and get their picture taken at the Moon-Mars Photo Kiosk.
Public: All Marshall civil service employees, Marshall badged contractors, their immediate families and retirees will receive free admission to the Space & Rocket Center during the event.
Media: Reporters are encouraged to attend. For more information, contact Angela Storey at 256-544-0034. The event will be recorded for NASA TV Video File and streamed at http://www.nasa.gov/ntv.
› July 20-24, 2008 – Apollo Activities at the Virginia Air and Space Museum in Hampton, Va.
July 24, 2009 – Apollo 11 Splashdown Celebration at Johnson Space Center’s Visitor Complex
Location: Space Center Houston Visitor's Complex
Time: 6:30 – 10 p.m. CDT
Description: Speaking Program honoring all Apollo team members. JSC Center Director Mike Coats, community and Apollo Program representatives will make remarks.
Participants: JSC and the surrounding community will celebrate the 40th anniversary of Apollo 11 with a Splashdown Celebration at Space Center Houston. The event will include a program with speakers from the Apollo era, a hot dog buffet and entertainment. Some Space Center Houston attractions will be open. Friends and family are welcome.
Media: This event is open to the public. For more information:
http://www.spacecenter.org/apollo11anniversary.html
STS-125 Highlights - NASA
NARRATOR: The on-time launch took advantage of a flawless day of sunny weather at Kennedy.
LAUNCH COMMENTATOR: 4, 3, 2, 1 . . . and liftoff of space shuttle Atlantis on a final visit to enhance the vision of Hubble into the deepest grandeur of our universe.
KYLE HERRING: Houston now controlling, Atlantis is on its way.
NARRATOR: The astronauts quickly began setting up space shuttle Atlantis quickly for its work ahead.
Massimino: Any reason why you have sunglasses on in the middeck where there is no light, I mean, no sun?
Feustel: Cause they look cool!
Massimino:Ah, there’s my man."
http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/podcasting/125_recap.html
沖縄地方が梅雨明け＝平年より5日遅れ−沖縄気象台（時事通信）
沖縄気象台は28日、沖縄地方が梅雨明けしたとみられると発表した。昨年に比べ11日遅く、平年に比べ5日遅い。
同気象台によると、梅雨の期間は41日間だった。沖縄地方は5月18日に梅雨入りした。"
http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20090628-00000013-jij-soci
『取引しません宣言』、看板倒れに？
「障害者雇用率未達成ならＮＯ」宣言、総務省が待った（読売新聞）
"橋下徹知事が「障害者雇用日本一」を目標に掲げたことから、府は昨年末、未達成企業へのペナルティーを盛り込んだ全国で初めての条例案作成に着手した。しかし、府と協議した総務省は「発注業務と直接関係がない障害者の雇用率を参加資格に盛り込むのは、安易な制限で問題だ」と否定的な見解を示した。
障害者雇用促進法で規定している未達成企業名の公表で、通常４〜５年かかる手続きを２年程度に短縮する条例案なども検討しているが、
府幹部は「これではとても、『取引しません宣言』とはいえず、看板倒れになりそう。"
http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20090628-00000101-yom-soci
JPL's 'Free Spirit' Update
http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/podcasting/jpl-mer20090626.html
Spirit :: Panoramic Camera :: Sol 1943 Credit: NASA/JPL
http://marsrovers.nasa.gov/gallery/all/2/p/1943/2P298897551ESFB1E5P2738L1M1.HTML
The bright streak is the star Canopus.
Spirit Rover Begins Making Night Sky Observations | Universe Today
http://www.universetoday.com/2009/06/27/spirit-rover-begins-making-night-sky-observations/
365 Days of Astronomy,
June 27th: Cries From the Infant Universe
"So if you look 14 billion light years away you're looking back in time 14 billion years. What you see when you look 14 billion light years away is the big bang itself, and so all around us then in a sort of 360 degree panorama at enormous distance sits this big bang image. "
http://365daysofastronomy.org/2009/06/27/june-27th-alma-deep-field/
Space Travel in Science Fiction from 365 Days of Astronomy,
the daily podcast of the International Year of Astronomy 2009
a journey through the universe as imagined in some of the great Science Fiction novels and movies.
Space Travel in Science Fiction is looked at in stories such as 2001: A Space Odyssey, Star Trek, and Dune, and includes SCI FI authors such as HG Wells, and Kurt Vonnegut.
Its just little old me
http://365daysofastronomy.org/
During the Apollo flights astronauts reported seeing odd flashes of light, visible even with their eyes closed.
http://d.hatena.ne.jp/yellowz/20090626
"During the Apollo flights astronauts reported seeing odd flashes of light, visible even with their eyes closed.
We have since learnt that the cause was cosmic rays ―
Galactic cosmic rays come from sources inside our home galaxy, the Milky Way, and consist mostly of protons moving at close to the speed of light, the “ultimate speed limit” in the Universe. These protons have been accelerated to energies exceeding by far the energies that even CERN’s Large Hadron Collider will be able to achieve.
The researchers looked at the remnant of a star that exploded in AD 185, as recorded by Chinese astronomers. The remnant, called RCW 86, is located about 8200 light-years away towards the constellation of Circinus (the Drawing Compass). It is probably the oldest record of the explosion of a star. "
ESO 23/09 - Milky Way's super-efficient particle accelerators caught in the act
http://www.eso.org/public/outreach/press-rel/pr-2009/pr-23-09.html
Saturn V
Apollo 40th Anniversary - NASA
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/apollo/40th/index.html
Apollo 40th Anniversary Events and Activities
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/apollo/40th/events.html
Saturn V
"The J-2 may be produced again for the Crew Launch Vehicle's upper stage.
Though the Saturn was a rocket, it was also a system.
Millions of individual pieces, each serving their own function, had to operate in unison."
http://www.universetoday.com/2006/02/06/book-review-saturn-v/
Dr. Wernher von Braun
First Center Director, July 1, 1960 - Jan. 27, 1970
"Wernher von Braun (1912–1977)
Von Braun is well known as the leader of what has been called the “rocket team” which developed the V–2 ballistic missile for the Nazis during World War II. The V–2s were manufactured at a forced labor factory called Mittelwerk.
Scholars are still reassessing his role in these controversial activities"
http://history.msfc.nasa.gov/vonbraun/bio.html
NASA Announces Request For Information On Von Braun Collection
On the eve of the 40th anniversary of the historic first moon landing, NASA is seeking ideas from the public, academia, and industry about how to analyze and catalog notes from spaceflight pioneer Wernher von Braun into an electronic, searchable database or other system."
http://www.nasa.gov/directorates/somd/home/von_Braun_RFI.html
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
Review of Human Space Flight Plans Committee Public Hearing
Review of Human Space Flight Plans Committee News Conference
ATLAST: Advanced Technology Large-Aperture Space Telescope
Delta IV HLV. Ares V payload to L2 = 65 mT, Delta IV HLV payload to L2 = 16 mT
ATLAST: Advanced Technology Large-Aperture Space Telescope
http://exep.jpl.nasa.gov/presentations/138-04-11-Oegerle.ppt
"Hitler's Stealth Fighter" Reborn : PHOTOS
"replica of a Horten 2-29, aka Hitler's stealth fighter,
created for a documentary airing June 28 on the National Geographic Channel. "
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/06/photogalleries/hitlers-stealth-fighter-plane-pictures/index.html
Apollo 40th Anniversary Events and Activities
July 2 – Lunar Sample Laboratory at the Johnson Space Center NASA TV live shots with the curators
July 10-11 – Space Camp Hall of Fame Reunion/Apollo 11 Anniversary Commemoration at the Saturn V Center in Huntsville, Ala.
July 16 – Kennedy Space Center's Apollo 40th Anniversary activities at the KSC Visitor Center
July 18-20 – Exploration Day at Virginia Living Museum in Newport News, Va.
July 19 – Moonfest 2009 at Ames Research Center
July 19 – John Glenn Lecture at NASM (Apollo 11 Crew)
Will air live on NASA TV and be streamed on http://www.nasa.gov/ntv.
July 19 – Apollo Commemoration Activities at Space Center Houston (Films, Exhibits)
July 19 – Apollo 40th Activities at the Neil Armstrong Museum in Wapakoeta, Ohio
July 20 – Apollo 40th Anniversary News Conference at NASA Headquarters
Location: James Webb Auditorium at NASA Headquarters in Washington, 300 E St., S.W.
Time: 9:30-10:30 a.m. EDT
Description: Apollo astronauts will discuss the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 flight and answer questions from reporters.
Participants: Apollo astronauts (To be determined)
Public: Not open to the general public
Media: The news conference will be carried live on NASA TV and streamed at www.nasa.gov/ntv. Media representatives may ask questions from participating NASA field centers. Reporters should call their local center to confirm its participation in the event.
July 20 – Apollo 40th Anniversary Educational Forum at the Newseum
Location: Newseum, Washington, DC
Time: 2 p.m. to 3 p.m. (approximate) EDT
Description: NASA and the Newseum will broadcast a special panel event commemorating the first human landing on our moon. Journalist Nick Clooney will moderate, asking and facilitating questions from the audience. The program also will be streamed into science centers and museums around the country.
Panelists include:
Buzz Aldrin (Apollo 11)
Charles Duke (Apollo 16)
Alan Bean (Apollo 12)
A current NASA astronaut
Laurie Leshin, PhD., deputy director for Science and Technology at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md.
Public: Program is free with museum admission or membership.
Media: No specific media events, but program will be broadcast on NASA TV and streamed at http://www.nasa.gov/ntv.
Time: 7 p.m. (program begins at 8 p.m.) EDT
Description: Event will be a celebratory reception for approximately 2,000 invited guests, including current and former NASA employees, posthumously honoring President John F. Kennedy with the Ambassador of Exploration award.
Participants: Apollo 11 crew and the rest of the Apollo astronauts, the STS-125 space shuttle crew, and former Apollo employees.
Media: No press event is planned, but program will be broadcast on NASA TV and streamed at
http://www.nasa.gov/ntv.
› July 20 – NASA Night at Houston Astros game in conjunction with NASA Exhibits at Union Station in Houston.
July 20 – First Footprint Celebration at the Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, Ala.
Time: 1 to 5 p.m. CDT
Description: The Marshall Space Flight Center team will gather at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center and Davidson Center for Space Exploration to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing and Marshall’s continuing role in sending explorers to space. Marshall will sponsor a 40-by-60-foot hospitality tent behind the Davidson Center, where visitors can enjoy live music and light refreshments and get their picture taken at the Moon-Mars Photo Kiosk.
Public: All Marshall civil service employees, Marshall badged contractors, their immediate families and retirees will receive free admission to the Space & Rocket Center during the event.
Media: Reporters are encouraged to attend. For more information, contact Angela Storey at 256-544-0034. The event will be recorded for NASA TV Video File and streamed at http://www.nasa.gov/ntv.
› July 20-24, 2008 – Apollo Activities at the Virginia Air and Space Museum in Hampton, Va.
July 24, 2009 – Apollo 11 Splashdown Celebration at Johnson Space Center’s Visitor Complex
Location: Space Center Houston Visitor's Complex
Time: 6:30 – 10 p.m. CDT
Description: Speaking Program honoring all Apollo team members. JSC Center Director Mike Coats, community and Apollo Program representatives will make remarks.
Participants: JSC and the surrounding community will celebrate the 40th anniversary of Apollo 11 with a Splashdown Celebration at Space Center Houston. The event will include a program with speakers from the Apollo era, a hot dog buffet and entertainment. Some Space Center Houston attractions will be open. Friends and family are welcome.
Media: This event is open to the public. For more information:
http://www.spacecenter.org/apollo11anniversary.html
STS-125 Highlights - NASA
NARRATOR: The on-time launch took advantage of a flawless day of sunny weather at Kennedy.
LAUNCH COMMENTATOR: 4, 3, 2, 1 . . . and liftoff of space shuttle Atlantis on a final visit to enhance the vision of Hubble into the deepest grandeur of our universe.
KYLE HERRING: Houston now controlling, Atlantis is on its way.
NARRATOR: The astronauts quickly began setting up space shuttle Atlantis quickly for its work ahead.
Massimino: Any reason why you have sunglasses on in the middeck where there is no light, I mean, no sun?
Feustel: Cause they look cool!
Massimino:Ah, there’s my man."
http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/podcasting/125_recap.html
沖縄地方が梅雨明け＝平年より5日遅れ−沖縄気象台（時事通信）
沖縄気象台は28日、沖縄地方が梅雨明けしたとみられると発表した。昨年に比べ11日遅く、平年に比べ5日遅い。
同気象台によると、梅雨の期間は41日間だった。沖縄地方は5月18日に梅雨入りした。"
http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20090628-00000013-jij-soci
『取引しません宣言』、看板倒れに？
「障害者雇用率未達成ならＮＯ」宣言、総務省が待った（読売新聞）
"橋下徹知事が「障害者雇用日本一」を目標に掲げたことから、府は昨年末、未達成企業へのペナルティーを盛り込んだ全国で初めての条例案作成に着手した。しかし、府と協議した総務省は「発注業務と直接関係がない障害者の雇用率を参加資格に盛り込むのは、安易な制限で問題だ」と否定的な見解を示した。
障害者雇用促進法で規定している未達成企業名の公表で、通常４〜５年かかる手続きを２年程度に短縮する条例案なども検討しているが、
府幹部は「これではとても、『取引しません宣言』とはいえず、看板倒れになりそう。"
http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20090628-00000101-yom-soci
JPL's 'Free Spirit' Update
http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/podcasting/jpl-mer20090626.html
Spirit :: Panoramic Camera :: Sol 1943 Credit: NASA/JPL
http://marsrovers.nasa.gov/gallery/all/2/p/1943/2P298897551ESFB1E5P2738L1M1.HTML
The bright streak is the star Canopus.
Spirit Rover Begins Making Night Sky Observations | Universe Today
http://www.universetoday.com/2009/06/27/spirit-rover-begins-making-night-sky-observations/
365 Days of Astronomy,
June 27th: Cries From the Infant Universe
"So if you look 14 billion light years away you're looking back in time 14 billion years. What you see when you look 14 billion light years away is the big bang itself, and so all around us then in a sort of 360 degree panorama at enormous distance sits this big bang image. "
http://365daysofastronomy.org/2009/06/27/june-27th-alma-deep-field/
Space Travel in Science Fiction from 365 Days of Astronomy,
the daily podcast of the International Year of Astronomy 2009
a journey through the universe as imagined in some of the great Science Fiction novels and movies.
Space Travel in Science Fiction is looked at in stories such as 2001: A Space Odyssey, Star Trek, and Dune, and includes SCI FI authors such as HG Wells, and Kurt Vonnegut.
Its just little old me
http://365daysofastronomy.org/
During the Apollo flights astronauts reported seeing odd flashes of light, visible even with their eyes closed.
http://d.hatena.ne.jp/yellowz/20090626
"During the Apollo flights astronauts reported seeing odd flashes of light, visible even with their eyes closed.
We have since learnt that the cause was cosmic rays ―
Galactic cosmic rays come from sources inside our home galaxy, the Milky Way, and consist mostly of protons moving at close to the speed of light, the “ultimate speed limit” in the Universe. These protons have been accelerated to energies exceeding by far the energies that even CERN’s Large Hadron Collider will be able to achieve.
The researchers looked at the remnant of a star that exploded in AD 185, as recorded by Chinese astronomers. The remnant, called RCW 86, is located about 8200 light-years away towards the constellation of Circinus (the Drawing Compass). It is probably the oldest record of the explosion of a star. "
ESO 23/09 - Milky Way's super-efficient particle accelerators caught in the act
http://www.eso.org/public/outreach/press-rel/pr-2009/pr-23-09.html
Saturn V
Apollo 40th Anniversary - NASA
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/apollo/40th/index.html
Apollo 40th Anniversary Events and Activities
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/apollo/40th/events.html
Saturn V
"The J-2 may be produced again for the Crew Launch Vehicle's upper stage.
Though the Saturn was a rocket, it was also a system.
Millions of individual pieces, each serving their own function, had to operate in unison."
http://www.universetoday.com/2006/02/06/book-review-saturn-v/
Dr. Wernher von Braun
First Center Director, July 1, 1960 - Jan. 27, 1970
"Wernher von Braun (1912–1977)
Von Braun is well known as the leader of what has been called the “rocket team” which developed the V–2 ballistic missile for the Nazis during World War II. The V–2s were manufactured at a forced labor factory called Mittelwerk.
Scholars are still reassessing his role in these controversial activities"
http://history.msfc.nasa.gov/vonbraun/bio.html
NASA Announces Request For Information On Von Braun Collection
On the eve of the 40th anniversary of the historic first moon landing, NASA is seeking ideas from the public, academia, and industry about how to analyze and catalog notes from spaceflight pioneer Wernher von Braun into an electronic, searchable database or other system."
http://www.nasa.gov/directorates/somd/home/von_Braun_RFI.html
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
Review of Human Space Flight Plans Committee Public Hearing
Review of Human Space Flight Plans Committee News Conference
ATLAST: Advanced Technology Large-Aperture Space Telescope
Delta IV HLV. Ares V payload to L2 = 65 mT, Delta IV HLV payload to L2 = 16 mT
ATLAST: Advanced Technology Large-Aperture Space Telescope
http://exep.jpl.nasa.gov/presentations/138-04-11-Oegerle.ppt
"Hitler's Stealth Fighter" Reborn : PHOTOS
"replica of a Horten 2-29, aka Hitler's stealth fighter,
created for a documentary airing June 28 on the National Geographic Channel. "
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/06/photogalleries/hitlers-stealth-fighter-plane-pictures/index.html
Apollo 40th Anniversary Events and Activities
July 2 – Lunar Sample Laboratory at the Johnson Space Center NASA TV live shots with the curators
July 10-11 – Space Camp Hall of Fame Reunion/Apollo 11 Anniversary Commemoration at the Saturn V Center in Huntsville, Ala.
July 16 – Kennedy Space Center's Apollo 40th Anniversary activities at the KSC Visitor Center
July 18-20 – Exploration Day at Virginia Living Museum in Newport News, Va.
July 19 – Moonfest 2009 at Ames Research Center
July 19 – John Glenn Lecture at NASM (Apollo 11 Crew)
Will air live on NASA TV and be streamed on http://www.nasa.gov/ntv.
July 19 – Apollo Commemoration Activities at Space Center Houston (Films, Exhibits)
July 19 – Apollo 40th Activities at the Neil Armstrong Museum in Wapakoeta, Ohio
July 20 – Apollo 40th Anniversary News Conference at NASA Headquarters
Location: James Webb Auditorium at NASA Headquarters in Washington, 300 E St., S.W.
Time: 9:30-10:30 a.m. EDT
Description: Apollo astronauts will discuss the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 flight and answer questions from reporters.
Participants: Apollo astronauts (To be determined)
Public: Not open to the general public
Media: The news conference will be carried live on NASA TV and streamed at www.nasa.gov/ntv. Media representatives may ask questions from participating NASA field centers. Reporters should call their local center to confirm its participation in the event.
July 20 – Apollo 40th Anniversary Educational Forum at the Newseum
Location: Newseum, Washington, DC
Time: 2 p.m. to 3 p.m. (approximate) EDT
Description: NASA and the Newseum will broadcast a special panel event commemorating the first human landing on our moon. Journalist Nick Clooney will moderate, asking and facilitating questions from the audience. The program also will be streamed into science centers and museums around the country.
Panelists include:
Buzz Aldrin (Apollo 11)
Charles Duke (Apollo 16)
Alan Bean (Apollo 12)
A current NASA astronaut
Laurie Leshin, PhD., deputy director for Science and Technology at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md.
Public: Program is free with museum admission or membership.
Media: No specific media events, but program will be broadcast on NASA TV and streamed at http://www.nasa.gov/ntv.
Time: 7 p.m. (program begins at 8 p.m.) EDT
Description: Event will be a celebratory reception for approximately 2,000 invited guests, including current and former NASA employees, posthumously honoring President John F. Kennedy with the Ambassador of Exploration award.
Participants: Apollo 11 crew and the rest of the Apollo astronauts, the STS-125 space shuttle crew, and former Apollo employees.
Media: No press event is planned, but program will be broadcast on NASA TV and streamed at
http://www.nasa.gov/ntv.
› July 20 – NASA Night at Houston Astros game in conjunction with NASA Exhibits at Union Station in Houston.
July 20 – First Footprint Celebration at the Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, Ala.
Time: 1 to 5 p.m. CDT
Description: The Marshall Space Flight Center team will gather at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center and Davidson Center for Space Exploration to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing and Marshall’s continuing role in sending explorers to space. Marshall will sponsor a 40-by-60-foot hospitality tent behind the Davidson Center, where visitors can enjoy live music and light refreshments and get their picture taken at the Moon-Mars Photo Kiosk.
Public: All Marshall civil service employees, Marshall badged contractors, their immediate families and retirees will receive free admission to the Space & Rocket Center during the event.
Media: Reporters are encouraged to attend. For more information, contact Angela Storey at 256-544-0034. The event will be recorded for NASA TV Video File and streamed at http://www.nasa.gov/ntv.
› July 20-24, 2008 – Apollo Activities at the Virginia Air and Space Museum in Hampton, Va.
July 24, 2009 – Apollo 11 Splashdown Celebration at Johnson Space Center’s Visitor Complex
Location: Space Center Houston Visitor's Complex
Time: 6:30 – 10 p.m. CDT
Description: Speaking Program honoring all Apollo team members. JSC Center Director Mike Coats, community and Apollo Program representatives will make remarks.
Participants: JSC and the surrounding community will celebrate the 40th anniversary of Apollo 11 with a Splashdown Celebration at Space Center Houston. The event will include a program with speakers from the Apollo era, a hot dog buffet and entertainment. Some Space Center Houston attractions will be open. Friends and family are welcome.
Media: This event is open to the public. For more information:
http://www.spacecenter.org/apollo11anniversary.html
STS-125 Highlights - NASA
NARRATOR: The on-time launch took advantage of a flawless day of sunny weather at Kennedy.
LAUNCH COMMENTATOR: 4, 3, 2, 1 . . . and liftoff of space shuttle Atlantis on a final visit to enhance the vision of Hubble into the deepest grandeur of our universe.
KYLE HERRING: Houston now controlling, Atlantis is on its way.
NARRATOR: The astronauts quickly began setting up space shuttle Atlantis quickly for its work ahead.
Massimino: Any reason why you have sunglasses on in the middeck where there is no light, I mean, no sun?
Feustel: Cause they look cool!
Massimino:Ah, there’s my man."
http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/podcasting/125_recap.html
沖縄地方が梅雨明け＝平年より5日遅れ−沖縄気象台（時事通信）
沖縄気象台は28日、沖縄地方が梅雨明けしたとみられると発表した。昨年に比べ11日遅く、平年に比べ5日遅い。
同気象台によると、梅雨の期間は41日間だった。沖縄地方は5月18日に梅雨入りした。"
http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20090628-00000013-jij-soci
『取引しません宣言』、看板倒れに？
「障害者雇用率未達成ならＮＯ」宣言、総務省が待った（読売新聞）
"橋下徹知事が「障害者雇用日本一」を目標に掲げたことから、府は昨年末、未達成企業へのペナルティーを盛り込んだ全国で初めての条例案作成に着手した。しかし、府と協議した総務省は「発注業務と直接関係がない障害者の雇用率を参加資格に盛り込むのは、安易な制限で問題だ」と否定的な見解を示した。
障害者雇用促進法で規定している未達成企業名の公表で、通常４〜５年かかる手続きを２年程度に短縮する条例案なども検討しているが、
府幹部は「これではとても、『取引しません宣言』とはいえず、看板倒れになりそう。"
http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20090628-00000101-yom-soci
JPL's 'Free Spirit' Update
http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/podcasting/jpl-mer20090626.html
Spirit :: Panoramic Camera :: Sol 1943 Credit: NASA/JPL
http://marsrovers.nasa.gov/gallery/all/2/p/1943/2P298897551ESFB1E5P2738L1M1.HTML
The bright streak is the star Canopus.
Spirit Rover Begins Making Night Sky Observations | Universe Today
http://www.universetoday.com/2009/06/27/spirit-rover-begins-making-night-sky-observations/
365 Days of Astronomy,
June 27th: Cries From the Infant Universe
"So if you look 14 billion light years away you're looking back in time 14 billion years. What you see when you look 14 billion light years away is the big bang itself, and so all around us then in a sort of 360 degree panorama at enormous distance sits this big bang image. "
http://365daysofastronomy.org/2009/06/27/june-27th-alma-deep-field/
Space Travel in Science Fiction from 365 Days of Astronomy,
the daily podcast of the International Year of Astronomy 2009
a journey through the universe as imagined in some of the great Science Fiction novels and movies.
Space Travel in Science Fiction is looked at in stories such as 2001: A Space Odyssey, Star Trek, and Dune, and includes SCI FI authors such as HG Wells, and Kurt Vonnegut.
Its just little old me
http://365daysofastronomy.org/
During the Apollo flights astronauts reported seeing odd flashes of light, visible even with their eyes closed.
http://d.hatena.ne.jp/yellowz/20090626
"During the Apollo flights astronauts reported seeing odd flashes of light, visible even with their eyes closed.
We have since learnt that the cause was cosmic rays ―
Galactic cosmic rays come from sources inside our home galaxy, the Milky Way, and consist mostly of protons moving at close to the speed of light, the “ultimate speed limit” in the Universe. These protons have been accelerated to energies exceeding by far the energies that even CERN’s Large Hadron Collider will be able to achieve.
The researchers looked at the remnant of a star that exploded in AD 185, as recorded by Chinese astronomers. The remnant, called RCW 86, is located about 8200 light-years away towards the constellation of Circinus (the Drawing Compass). It is probably the oldest record of the explosion of a star. "
ESO 23/09 - Milky Way's super-efficient particle accelerators caught in the act
http://www.eso.org/public/outreach/press-rel/pr-2009/pr-23-09.html
Saturn V
Apollo 40th Anniversary - NASA
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/apollo/40th/index.html
Apollo 40th Anniversary Events and Activities
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/apollo/40th/events.html
Saturn V
"The J-2 may be produced again for the Crew Launch Vehicle's upper stage.
Though the Saturn was a rocket, it was also a system.
Millions of individual pieces, each serving their own function, had to operate in unison."
http://www.universetoday.com/2006/02/06/book-review-saturn-v/
Dr. Wernher von Braun
First Center Director, July 1, 1960 - Jan. 27, 1970
"Wernher von Braun (1912–1977)
Von Braun is well known as the leader of what has been called the “rocket team” which developed the V–2 ballistic missile for the Nazis during World War II. The V–2s were manufactured at a forced labor factory called Mittelwerk.
Scholars are still reassessing his role in these controversial activities"
http://history.msfc.nasa.gov/vonbraun/bio.html
NASA Announces Request For Information On Von Braun Collection
On the eve of the 40th anniversary of the historic first moon landing, NASA is seeking ideas from the public, academia, and industry about how to analyze and catalog notes from spaceflight pioneer Wernher von Braun into an electronic, searchable database or other system."
http://www.nasa.gov/directorates/somd/home/von_Braun_RFI.html
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Review of Human Space Flight Plans Committee Public Hearing
Review of Human Space Flight Plans Committee News Conference
ATLAST: Advanced Technology Large-Aperture Space Telescope
Delta IV HLV. Ares V payload to L2 = 65 mT, Delta IV HLV payload to L2 = 16 mT
ATLAST: Advanced Technology Large-Aperture Space Telescope
http://exep.jpl.nasa.gov/presentations/138-04-11-Oegerle.ppt
"Hitler's Stealth Fighter" Reborn : PHOTOS
"replica of a Horten 2-29, aka Hitler's stealth fighter,
created for a documentary airing June 28 on the National Geographic Channel. "
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/06/photogalleries/hitlers-stealth-fighter-plane-pictures/index.html
Apollo 40th Anniversary Events and Activities
July 2 – Lunar Sample Laboratory at the Johnson Space Center NASA TV live shots with the curators
July 10-11 – Space Camp Hall of Fame Reunion/Apollo 11 Anniversary Commemoration at the Saturn V Center in Huntsville, Ala.
July 16 – Kennedy Space Center's Apollo 40th Anniversary activities at the KSC Visitor Center
July 18-20 – Exploration Day at Virginia Living Museum in Newport News, Va.
July 19 – Moonfest 2009 at Ames Research Center
July 19 – John Glenn Lecture at NASM (Apollo 11 Crew)
Will air live on NASA TV and be streamed on http://www.nasa.gov/ntv.
July 19 – Apollo Commemoration Activities at Space Center Houston (Films, Exhibits)
July 19 – Apollo 40th Activities at the Neil Armstrong Museum in Wapakoeta, Ohio
July 20 – Apollo 40th Anniversary News Conference at NASA Headquarters
Location: James Webb Auditorium at NASA Headquarters in Washington, 300 E St., S.W.
Time: 9:30-10:30 a.m. EDT
Description: Apollo astronauts will discuss the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 flight and answer questions from reporters.
Participants: Apollo astronauts (To be determined)
Public: Not open to the general public
Media: The news conference will be carried live on NASA TV and streamed at www.nasa.gov/ntv. Media representatives may ask questions from participating NASA field centers. Reporters should call their local center to confirm its participation in the event.
July 20 – Apollo 40th Anniversary Educational Forum at the Newseum
Location: Newseum, Washington, DC
Time: 2 p.m. to 3 p.m. (approximate) EDT
Description: NASA and the Newseum will broadcast a special panel event commemorating the first human landing on our moon. Journalist Nick Clooney will moderate, asking and facilitating questions from the audience. The program also will be streamed into science centers and museums around the country.
Panelists include:
Buzz Aldrin (Apollo 11)
Charles Duke (Apollo 16)
Alan Bean (Apollo 12)
A current NASA astronaut
Laurie Leshin, PhD., deputy director for Science and Technology at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md.
Public: Program is free with museum admission or membership.
Media: No specific media events, but program will be broadcast on NASA TV and streamed at http://www.nasa.gov/ntv.
Time: 7 p.m. (program begins at 8 p.m.) EDT
Description: Event will be a celebratory reception for approximately 2,000 invited guests, including current and former NASA employees, posthumously honoring President John F. Kennedy with the Ambassador of Exploration award.
Participants: Apollo 11 crew and the rest of the Apollo astronauts, the STS-125 space shuttle crew, and former Apollo employees.
Media: No press event is planned, but program will be broadcast on NASA TV and streamed at
http://www.nasa.gov/
