BLOG: Opinion L.A.: Capture an asteroid? Piece of cake
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Los Angeles Times
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May 24--http://www.trbimg.com/img-519fcc81/turbine/la-ol-asteroid-capture-washington-bridge-jesse-001/600 [http://www.trbimg.com/img-519fcc81/turbine/la-ol-asteroid-capture-washington-bridge-jesse-001/600] "What could go wrong?" If you're a woman, you've undoubtedly heard this phrase -- probably more than once -- from your father/grandfather/husband/boyfriend/male friends, shortly before the ...

May/24/2013 08:54 PM

Asteroid capture: NASA plans to drag space rock into lunar orbit
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Los Angeles Times
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May 24--NASA Administrator Charles Bolden dropped by JPL on Thursday to outline the agency's plans to capture an asteroid, and to look at a model of a powerful new ion thruster that has enough strength to drag a space rock into orbit around the moon. NASA unveiled a multi-step plan to rendezvous with a smallish asteroid, put it in what looks like a giant reflective garbage bag, and bring it ...

May/24/2013 09:55 AM

News Quiz: Scrutinizing can lead to more than meets the eye
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1. At 1.7 miles long, asteroid 1998 QE2 will be observed from Earth by astronomers using the Deep Space Network antenna in Goldstone, Calif., and the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico from May 30 to June 9, according to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California. On which date is it expected to make its closest pass to Earth? A. May 31 B. June 1 C. June 4 D. June 9 2. The outrage and fallout ...

May/21/2013 03:43 PM

BLOG: Breaking News: NASA administrator to tour NASA facility in eastern Kern County
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The Bakersfield Californian
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May 20--NASA Administrator Charles Bolden will visit all three of the agency's research facilities in California this week -- including Dryden Flight Research Center in eastern Kern County -- to highlight progress on a proposed asteroid mission, commercial crew transportation and space technology development. According to a news release from Dryden, which is located on Edwards Air Force Base ...

May/20/2013 09:05 PM

The Loop Ten: 5-20-13
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Pioneer Press, St. Paul, Minn.
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May 20--Our daily countdown of the top newsmakers, groundbreakers and world-class fakers. 1. Three-hour rain delays The only thing worse: a three-hour rain delay with a two-hour showing of "The Sandlot." (previous ranking: unranked) 2. Powerball If you're reading "The Loop" today, that's a pretty strong indication that we did not win it, either. (unranked) 3. Orb Pretty soon, folks will start ...

May/20/2013 03:08 AM

Watch: Space rock strikes moon with force of 5 tons of TNT
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Los Angeles Times
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May 18--The biggest explosion ever recorded on the moon was caused by a space rock roughly the size of a beach ball. It weighed 80 pounds and was just over 1 foot wide, but it was going incredibly fast, traveling through space at speeds of 56,000 mph. And when it collided with the moon, it exploded with the force of 5 tons of TNT, sending off a flash of light bright enough to see from here on ...

May/18/2013 09:44 AM

CORRECTION: Corrections
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The Arizona Daily Star, Tucson
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May 18---- The acronym NASA was garbled on first reference in "NASA greenlights UA-led mission to get bits of asteroid," Friday on A1. -- "Ravens roll, clinch spot in first state title game," May 11 on B6, said Empire's baseball team advanced to its first state title game by winning May 10. The Ravens went in 2010, making its May 11 appearance the second in school history. -- A photo ...

May/18/2013 04:14 AM

REFILE: NASA confirms first mission to fetch samples from asteroid Eds: Fixes typo in lede
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dpa, Berlin
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May 18--WASHINGTON -- The US space agency NASA has given final approval to the first US mission to fly a spacecraft to an asteroid and bring samples of it back to Earth. The mission aims to send the spacecraft in 2016 to a near-Earth asteroid under a budget of 1 billion US dollars. The University of Arizona in Tucson, which is authorized to lead the mission, said Thursday that NASA had ...

May/18/2013 12:01 AM

NASA greenlights UA-led mission to get bits of asteroid
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The Arizona Daily Star, Tucson
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May 17--NASA gave the all-systems-go signal Thursday for a University of Arizona-led mission to mine samples from a near-Earth asteroid named Bennu. The UA's OSIRIS-REx team has passed its design-and-development test. It can now move to building the capsule and instruments that will lift off in 2016 for a seven-year odyssey to the asteroid previously known by its sequential discovery code of ...

May/17/2013 08:44 PM

BLOG: Political Pulse: NASA to lease old KSC shuttle pad for commercial launches
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Orlando Sentinel
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May 17--WASHINGTON -- An old space shuttle launch pad at Kennedy Space Center [http://www.orlandosentinel.com/topic/science-technology/space-programs/kennedy-space-center-PLCUL000170.topic] soon could be home to commercial rockets under a plan [http://prod.nais.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/eps/synopsis.cgi?acqid=156025] announced Friday by NASA ...

May/17/2013 05:13 PM