Events TODAY, noon to 2 p.m. spaceday.digisle.tv A Webcast about the International Space Station, from the Air and Space Museum in Washington, will feature Dr. Roger Crouch, the senior scientist of the space station, as well as astronauts and former Senator John Glenn.
As a scientist in charge of space sensors and entire space missions before I was at NASA, I myself was involved in projects that overran.
Scientists of the space agency's historic New Horizons mission on Friday announced the discoveries with visible delight, with lead investigator Alan Stern declaring the Pluto system a "scientific wonderland".
It may have oceans today only because it was bombarded by comets and meteorites carrying payloads of ice"Rosetta, throughout 2014, will help scientists decipher some of space's remaining puzzles.
I see where Ouyang Ziyuan, chief scientist of China's space program, told People's Daily that Beijing plans to establish a manned base on the moon within eight years.
They say that the true sense of the word is "activity without extrinsic end": "The sculptor engrossed in cutting marble, the teacher intent on imparting a difficult idea, the musician struggling with a score, a scientist exploring the mysteries of space and time — such people have no other aim than to do what they are doing well".
Apollo was originally (at least, in the minds of space scientists) intended to lead to a permanent Moon base.
On Saturday, those workers were suddenly selfless civil servants: nurses and doctors saving lives, emergency workers braving natural disasters and NASA scientists exploring the frontiers of space.
Having previously created miniature volcanoes for living rooms, a "small science equivalent" of the Large Hadron Collider in her kitchen, and assembled a group of space scientists into the world's first International Space Orchestra, she says she approaches her work from a human, rather than a scientific perspective.
But it is an earlier heavenly encounter, far less spectacular but much, much closer, that is enthralling the small band of space scientists interested in keeping the Earth safe.On the evening of February 15th an asteroid called 2012 DA14 will pass so close to the Earth that, although it is only the length of an Olympic swimming pool, it will be visible through good binoculars.
