SPACE.com Update for March 7, 2007  * DESTINATIONS:* *News* *|* *SpaceFlight* *|* *Science/Astronomy* *|* *SETI* *|*   *Space Business News* *March 7, 2007*     *TOP STORY* *posted: March 7, 2007 01:27 pm EDT* *Deep Mission: Aquatic Robotic Diver Could Aid Europa Exploration*It?s robotic, aquatic and ramping up for a long, deep dive, all to test technology that could one day allow its autonomous de ...Continue Reading

Mar. 7, 2007 Michael Mewhinney Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif. 650-604-3937/9000 RELEASE: 07-27 NASA TO EXPLORE FUTURE COLLABORATIONS WITH STATE OF HAWAII MOFFETT FIELD, Calif. - NASA officials announced Wednesday they have agreed to explore future collaborations with the state of Hawaii in commercial space initiatives and programs supporting research, education and workforce development. Under the terms of a memorandum of understanding signed today in Hawaii, NASA Ames Research Center will expl ...Continue Reading

Mar. 7, 2007 Tabatha Thompson Headquarters, Washington 202-358-3895 Lynn Chandler Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. 301-286-2806 RELEASE: 07-59 NASA AND USGS PRODUCE MOST DETAILED SATELLITE VIEWS OF ANTARCTICA GREENBELT, Md. - Researchers from NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), Golden, Colo., have woven together more than a thousand images from the Landsat 7 satellite to create the most detailed, high-resolution map ever produced of Antarctica. The Landsat Image Mosaic of Antarctica (LIMA) ...Continue Reading

Mar. 7, 2007 Beth Dickey/J.D. Harrington Headquarters, Washington 202-358-2087/5241 Kelly Humphries/John Ira Petty Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 RELEASE: 07-58 NASA COMPLETES KEY REVIEW OF ORION SPACECRAFT WASHINGTON - NASA has established a requirements baseline for the Orion crew exploration vehicle, bringing America's next human spacecraft a step closer to construction. The Orion Project completed its system requirements review in cooperation with its prime contractor, Lockheed Martin, Marc ...Continue Reading

LiveScience.com Tuesday, March 6, 2007 Male Spiders Leave Chastity 'Plug' to Ensure Paternity A male orb-web spider leaves behind a post-coital parting gift that helps to ensure that subsequent offspring are his?the tip of his genitals ? in the females' sexual orifice. Military Tracks Speeding Bullets Back to Source Sniper detection systems follow the supersonic trail of a bullet back to the gunman. The Secret Language of Whales Revealed Blue whales sing to find mates and cal ...Continue Reading

SPACE.com Update for March 6, 2007  * DESTINATIONS:* *News* *|* *SpaceFlight* *|* *Science/Astronomy* *|* *SETI* *|*   *Space Business News* *March 6, 2007*     *TOP STORY* *posted: March 6, 2007 12:00 pm EDT* *The Milky Way?s Pinball Wizard*In a cosmic game of pinball, black holes fling high-energy protons into space, where they zigzag around at near light-speeds before smashing into low-energy pr ...Continue Reading

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Mar. 6, 2007 Sonja Alexander Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1761 Dewayne Washington Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. 301-286-0040 RELEASE: 07-54 NASA SCIENTIST INDUCTED INTO NATIONAL INVENTORS HALL OF FAME GREENBELT, Md. - Emmett Chappelle, retired research scientist from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md., has been named one of 16 inductees for 2007 into the National Inventors Hall of Fame. The honorees will be inducted during ceremonies May 4-5, in Akron, Ohio. The National ...Continue Reading

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