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| SCI | Keeping Nutrients in Astronauts’ Food Vital During Long Space Flights
A new study in the Journal of Food Science explores the impact of space flight on the nutritional value of foods. Maintaining the health of the crew aboard a spacecraft is a critical issue especially during extended trips. Because foods may lose their nutrients during extended space missions, food scientists are analyzing ways to increase shelf life of nutrients in the food.
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| SCI | Astronomers Find Hyperactive Galaxies in the Early Universe
Looking almost 11 billion years into the past, astronomers have measured the motions of stars for the first time in a very distant galaxy. They are whirling at a speed of one million miles per hour—about twice the speed of our Sun through the Milky Way. The galaxies are a fraction the size of our Milky Way, and so may have evolved over billions of years into the full-grown galaxies seen around us today. (Embargo expired on 05-Aug-2009 at 13:00 ET.)
Nature, 6-Aug-2009 | 05-Aug-2009
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| LIF | Budget Analysis Details U.S. Space Security Programs
Space security programs of the Department of Defense -- as outlined in that agency's Fiscal Year 2010 budget request -- are reviewed in a new budget analysis. | 05-Aug-2009
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| SCI | Mars Enthusiasts Gather at the University of Maryland
The University of Maryland is hosting the 2009 Mars Society Convention in College Park this weekend. The four-day conference -- sponsored in part by the university's A. James Clark School of Engineering -- features presentations by scientists from the nearby NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, roundtable discussions with noted authors on Mars and a tour of the Clark School's facilities that are dedicated to human space exploration. | 31-Jul-2009
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| SCI | Crashing Comets Not Likely the Cause of Earth's Mass Extinctions
A likely comet collision on Jupiter last week caused a minor sensation, but new research shows that similar impacts on Earth are most likely not responsible for any of the planet's mass extinctions, nor have they been responsible for more than one minor extinction event. (Embargo expired on 30-Jul-2009 at 14:00 ET.)
Science | 30-Jul-2009
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| SCI | Hubble Space Telescope Captures Rare Jupiter Collision
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has taken the sharpest visible-light picture yet of atmospheric debris from an object that collided with Jupiter on July 19. NASA scientists interrupted the recently refurbished observatory's checkout and calibration to take the image of a new, expanding spot on the giant planet on July 23. | 24-Jul-2009
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| SCI | NASA Celebrates Chandra X-Ray Observatory's 10th Anniversary
Ten years ago, on July 23, 1999, NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory was launched aboard the space shuttle Columbia and deployed into orbit. Chandra has doubled its original five-year mission, ushering in an unprecedented decade of discovery for the high-energy universe. | 23-Jul-2009
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| SCI | Scientists Capitalize on Extended Solar Eclipse
Scientists at this observatory outside Hangzhou joined residents and tourists across China and India in observing the longest total solar eclipse in a century and probably the most-viewed ever. The moon’s shadow traced a path across the world’s two most populous countries before racing across the Pacific, providing a view of totality for five minutes and 36 seconds for scientists gathered here from around the world as part of the Williams College Eclipse Expedition. | 22-Jul-2009
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| SCI | Thirty Meter Telescope Selects Mauna Kea
After careful evaluation and comparison between two outstanding candidate sites—Mauna Kea in Hawai‘i and Cerro Armazones in Chile—the board of directors of the TMT Observatory Corporation has selected Mauna Kea as the preferred site for the Thirty Meter Telescope. The TMT will be the most capable and advanced telescope ever constructed. | 21-Jul-2009
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| LIF | Call for Leadership in Global Space Activities
As the globe celebrates the 40th anniversary of Apollo 11’s first footprints on the Moon, there is urgent need to reflect on the future of America’s civil space enterprise and the role of international cooperation. | 21-Jul-2009
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