ProSpace, The Citizens’ Space Lobby, has always been a proponent of opening the Space Frontier to all. And it is a basic tenet of our philosophy that the best way […]
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STS-99 Status Report # 22
Monday, February 21, 2000, 6:00 p.m. CST With mapping operations complete and Endeavour’s radar mapping hardware stowed, astronauts today conducted checks of various flight control surfaces and thruster jets in […]
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Earth’s Oceans Destined to Leave in Billion Years
Pennsylvania State University University Park, Pennsylvania Contacts: A’ndrea Elyse Messer, (814) 865-9481, aem1@psu.edu Vicki Fong, (814) 865-9481, vyf1@psu.edu Washington, D.C. — The Earth’s oceans will disappear in about one billion […]
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Urban sprawl reduces annual photosynthetic production
Contact: Lynn Chandler Lynn.Chandler.1@gsfc.nasa.gov 301-614-5562 NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center–EOS Project Science Office A study of the impact of urbanization and industrialization over the past seven years using satellites shows that […]
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Endeavour Scheduled to land at KSC Completing Mission STS-99
KSC Contact: Bruce Buckingham KSC Release No. 18-00 The orbiter Endeavour is scheduled to land at Kennedy Space Center on Tuesday, Feb. 22, at 4:50 p.m. EST completing its 11-day […]
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STS-99 Status Report # 19
Sunday, February 20, 2000 – 6:00 a.m. CST Endeavour’s astronauts are looking forward to using one more small bonus in mapping operations time. They were given an additional 10 minutes, […]
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Celebrate National Engineers’ Week with NASA Quest
This week’s posting focuses on National Engineers’ Week at NASA Quest. There is an exciting lineup of interactive online chats plus a 3-day bilingual forum scheduled this week. Visit http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/qchats/special/eweek00/ […]
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STS-99 Status Report # 20
Sunday, February 20, 2000 – 6:30 p.m. CST Earth radar mapping continues smoothly on its last full day with Endeavour’s crew scheduled to wrap up operations early Monday morning at […]
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STS-99 Status Report # 17
Saturday, February 19, 2000 – 6:00 a.m. CST The EarthKAM, a digital camera mounted at an overhead window on Endeavour’s flight deck, continues its record setting pace. A little after […]
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Next Three Days on Galileo Saturday-Monday, February 19-21, 2000
Galileo’s intrepid flight controllers take the spacecraft back to Io in the next few days as part of the second encounter of the Galileo Millennium Mission, the extension to Galileo’s […]
