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The Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) could be in deep trouble. NASA has in essence lost contact with the spacecraft. With the spacecraft having been in orbit for nearly 9 years it has outlived it’s mission expectancy. NASA will be working hard to re-establish contact but sadly the spacecraft could be lost. [New Scientist]
Well the folks at NASA/JPL are faced with a dilemma, that may spell the demise of the Opportunity Rover. They are trying to determine how they should drive the Rover into the Victoria Crater but they are not necessarily worried about driving out. Thus the Opportunity Rover could very well be on a one way ticket into a crater to collect
There are a lot of smart people at Sandia National Labs, and the science that they do is pretty important to this country. I was not surprised when I read today that they had melted a diamond into a puddle. Knowing that melting a diamond is not something that is done everyday, I was intrigued to see what they were
The site that has reported this story says the Lost Nasa Tapes have been found,, but an a thread on Digg is saying tese are only data tapes and not the original video feed tapes. Now I am going to sit this one out and hope that these are indeed are the lost tapes.
The linked story is one of inspiration and also gives insight into what the human mind can achieve to overcome a very serious condition that causes some people to quite literally loose their voice. [dilbertblog.typepad.com]
This is very good news for the science community I firmly believe that NASA has made the correct choice here. [ABC]
NASA has had their hands full processing the external shuttle tanks and announced that all Shuttle flights for 2007 will be sliding to the left a month. This will give the teams some relief in being able to keep up with external tank processing. The December shuttle flight is still a go. [SpaceToday]