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JPL Tweetup Highlights

Posted on June 14, 2011 by Kevin A. Barnes

On Monday, June 6, 2011, I was fortunate to be among the 100 or so individuals invited by NASA to attend a daylong Tweetup at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL) in Pasadena, California. The event included briefings by members of … Read the rest of this entry →

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NASA JPL Tweetup

Posted on June 4, 2011 by Kevin A. Barnes

I’ve been selected1 by NASA to participate in a special Tweetup event this Monday, June 6, 2011, at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL) in Pasadena, California. Visiting and touring JPL, which oversees all of NASA’s unmanned space probes, rovers, etc., … Read the rest of this entry →

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Star Trek Honor for Space Shuttle Discovery

Posted on March 7, 2011 by Kevin A. Barnes

At 3:23 am ET this morning (March 7, 2011), NASA gave a fitting tribute to the Space Shuttle Discovery as she wraps up her final mission. The Discovery astronauts were awoken with a very special version of the introduction to … Read the rest of this entry →

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Where have all the sunspots gone?

Posted on March 3, 2011 by Kevin A. Barnes

During 2008 and 2009, our sun had the lowest number of sunspots and solar storms of any time during the last century — sunspots essentially disappeared during that two-year period. This lack of sunspots has puzzled astronomers and solar scientists, … Read the rest of this entry →

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A busy year for NASA spacecraft

Posted on February 17, 2011 by Kevin A. Barnes

Despite the fact that the Space Shuttle program will end permanently during the coming months,1 NASA still has a busy schedule in 2011. This year will see the launch of three new unmanned science missions in the short span of … Read the rest of this entry →

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