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Ed Weiler Becomes NASA's Science Chief

The U.S. space agency said Ed Weiler, interim chief of its science directorate, has been named the directorate's permanent director.

Ed Weiler becomes NASA's science chief

The U.S. space agency said Ed Weiler, interim chief of its science directorate, has been named the directorate's permanent director.

Astronaut Sally Ride Invites Girls to Explore Hands-on Science at Science Festival...

Astronaut Sally Ride Invites Girls to Explore Hands-on Science at Science Festival at Southern Methodist University Sally Ride Science Festival brings science to life and inspires upper elementary and middle school girls to think about the vast range of careers in science SAN DIEGO--(Business Wire)-- On April 26, Dr. Sally Ride, America's first woman in space, will touch down at Southern Methodist University in Dallas to inspire local girls to dig into hands-on science at the Sally Ride Science Festival. The festival, which is open to the public, runs from 11 a.m. to 4:15 p.m. and is presented by ExxonMobil. Ride, the festival's keynote speaker, is currently president and CEO of Sally Ride Science(TM), an innovative science content company dedicated to fueling students' interests in science, math and technology.

Weiler to remain NASA science chief

NASA boss Michael Griffin has announced that Edward Weiler will remain the agency’s chief executive of science after almost six weeks as an interim replacement.

NASA science chief resigns

NASA Administrator Mike Griffin has named Edward Weiler, currently director of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, as Stern's interim replacement. Weiler held Stern's post, of associate administrator for science, from 1998 to 2004.

NASA's New Science Chief Settles in for Long Haul

WASHINGTON — Ed Weiler, the 30-year NASA veteran who agreed in March to lead the agency's Science Mission Directorate temporarily, will fill that position permanently, NASA announced Wednesday.

Busker David Reveals the Appliance of Science to Pupils

A BUSKER made science simple for school students during a visit.David Price, from demonstration group Science Made Simple, showed pupils at Framwellgate School, Durham, how science is at work in everyday situations, as part of the school's celebrations of National Science and Engineering Week.In one of Mr Price's demonstrations, he balanced a cork with two forks sticking into it on the end of pupil Chelsea Hall's nose.Youngsters aged 11 to 19 took part in the sessions.Clare Whitfield, the school's science college co-ordinator, said: "Students found the experiments exciting and were very keen to take part."The theme for this year's science week at the school was food for thought and questions in science. Yesterday, Professor Sir Arnold Wolfendale, the former Astronomer Royal, visited the Science Learning Centre North-East, which is next to

NASA science director quits

The chief executive of NASA’s science mission directorate has decided to quit the agency after less than a year in the post. Alan Stern will be replaced temporarily by Edward Weiler, the director of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Centre. Stern, who declined to comment, has not yet publicly revealed the reasons behind his decision.

NASA Earth Scientist to Head Programs Office in Science Directorate

WASHINGTON, April 10 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Michael R. Luther has been named deputy associate administrator for programs in NASA's Science Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters in Washington. Ed Weiler, associate administrator for the directorate, made the announcement Wednesday.

NASA Completes First Full-Scale Motor Test for Orion Spacecraft

Contact: Grey Hautaluoma of NASA Headquarters, Washington, +1- 202-358-0668, grey.hautaluoma-1@nasa.gov, Emily Outen of NASA's Langley Research Center, Hampton, Va., +1-757-864-7022, emily.s.outen@nasa.gov, or Jennifer Morcone of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Ala., +1-256-544-7199, Jennifer.J.Morcone@nasa.gov

NASA Running Out of Plutonium

PRB_Ohio takes us to Space.com for a story about NASA's plutonium shortage, and how it may affect future missions to the far reaches of the solar system. The U.S. hasn't produced plutonium since 1988, instead preferring to purchase it from Russia. We discussed the U.S. government's plans to resume production in 2005, but those plans ended up being shelved. If NASA is unable to find an additional source, it could limit missions that take spacecraft too far from the Sun. Quoting: "Alan Stern, NASA associate administrator for science, ... said he believed the United States had sufficient plutonium-238 on hand or on order to fuel next year's Mars Science Lab, an outer planets flagship mission targeted for 2017 and a Discovery-class mission slated to fly a couple years earlier to test a more efficient radioisotope power system NASA and the Ene

Bose Institute is First in India to Choose Thomson Scientific's Century of Science

Bose Institute is First in India to Choose Thomson Scientific's Century of Science Leading Research Institute Purchases 100 Years of Web of Science Comprehensive Backfile and Cited Reference Data PHILADELPHIA and LONDON, March 19 /PRNewswire/ -- Thomson Scientific, part of The Thomson Corporation (NYSE: TOC; TSX: TOC) and leading provider of information solutions to the worldwide research and business communities, today announced that Century of Science(TM) has been purchased by Bose Institute. Century of Science expands Web of Science with the most important scientific bibliographic and cited reference data covering the period from 1900 to 1944. Web of Science is a carefully selected and maintained collection of the world's most influential journals across all disciplines.

NASA Administrator Announces Science Mission Directorate Leadership Changes

Contact: Bob Jacobs +1-202-358-1600, bob.jacobs@nasa.gov, or Dwayne Brown, +1-202-358-1726, dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov, both Headquarters, Washington, or Edward Campion, Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md., +1-301-286-0697, edward.s.campion.1@gsfc.nasa.gov, all of NASA

13 year old German school boy corrects NASA and finds the chance that the asteroid Apophis would hit the Earth is 100times more than NASA thought before

NASA had estimated the chance that the asteroid Apophis would hit the Earth at 1 in 45,000. But a 13 year old German boy found mistakes in NASA’s calculations. Nico Marquardt correctly estimated that the chance really is at 1 in 450. NASA told its sister organization, the European Space Agency (ESA), that the student's calculations were, in fact, correct. Marquardt made his discovery as part of a regional science competition.

Review of NASA's Exploration Technology Development Program: An Interim Report

NASA requested that a committee under the auspices of the National Research Council's Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board carry out an assessment of NASA's Exploration Technology Development Program (ETDP). Organizationally, this program functions under the direction of NASA's Exploration Systems Mission Directorate and is charged with developing new technologies that will enable NASA to conduct future human and robotic exploration missions, while reducing mission risk and cost. The Committee to Review NASA'S Exploration Technology Development Program has been tasked to examine how well the program is aligned with the stated objectives of the President's Vision for Space Exploration (VSE), to identify gaps in the program, and to assess the quality of the research.

NASA Awards Contracts for Design Study of Lunar Landing Craft

Contact: Stephanie Schierholz or Grey Hautaluoma of NASA Headquarters, Washington, +1-202-358-4997, +1-202-358-0668, stephanie.schierholz@nasa.gov, grey.hautaluoma@nasa.gov, or Lynnette Madison of NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, +1-281-483-5111, lynnette.b.madison@nasa.gov

NASA Wants its MMO Created for Free

fyc writes "It seems that the educational MMORPG NASA's proposing will no longer have a budget of $3 million. Instead, any prospective development partner is being asked to create and maintain the MMORPG for free under a 'non-reimbursable Space Act Agreement'. It won't be a one-sided agreement, though. From NASA's RFP: 'In exchange for a collaborator's investment to create and manage a NASA-based MMO game for fun and to enhance STEM [science, technology, engineering and mathematics], NASA will consider negotiating brand placement, limited exclusivity and other opportunities.'"

NASA Announces Space Shuttle Pre-Launch and Mission Web Coverage

A pre-launch webcast, live blogs, podcasts, pictures and videos will highlight NASA's Web coverage of space shuttle Endeavour's STS-123 mission to the International Space Station. NASA will provide continuous online updates at: www.nasa.gov/shuttle A live webcast featuring Canadian Space Agency astronaut Julie Payette will start the in-depth online coverage of the mission at 11:30 a.m. EDT on March 10. Payette, who flew on STS-96, is scheduled to fly on the STS-127 mission in 2009. A blog will update the countdown beginning about six hours before Endeavour is scheduled to lift off on March 11 at 2:28 a.m. Originating from NASA's Kennedy Space Center, the blog is the definitive Internet source for information leading up to launch. The 16-day mission will allow Endeavour's crew to add science capabilities to the space station plus deliver e

Send Your Name to the Moon on NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter

Lro_trailer NASA is taking names to send to the moon on a microchip on the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, slatted to launch this fall. LRO, built at NASA Goddard in Maryland, is set to be NASA's first major mission as America returns to the moon. NASA links to a website with the press release and a 30-second video of two young guys in an office. 20 bonus points for attempting to use humor (keep it up NASA) and reach out to an 18+ audience. It may not be their best work, but we'll take anything at this point. (Hint: next time get someone else to do the soundtrack.) The person who dared to get this through should still be commended. Now do more.

Studying Big Science

SOCIOLOGY Studying Big Science Lillian Hoddeson STRUCTURES OF SCIENTIFIC COLLABORATION. Wesley Shrum, Joel Genuth and Ivan Chompalov. xiv + 280 pp. The MIT Press, 2007. $35. The continuing growth of "big science" since the 1970s has presented historians and archivists of science with new challenges. The ever-increasing scale of the work has demanded greater numbers of people, larger budgets, longer periods of time, and equipment that grows ever more gargantuan and sophisticated. In writing about science and technology, historians have thus had to expand their scope to include not just scientists working alone or in small teams but the vastly more complex activities of collectives. In this endeavor they have received enormous assistance from anthropologists and sociologists of science-people such as Karin Knorr Cetina, Bruno Latour, Andrew

Kees Koolen Named Chief Executive Officer Of Priceline.com's Booking.com International...

Kees Koolen Named Chief Executive Officer Of Priceline.com's Booking.com International Business Unit NORWALK, Conn.--(Business Wire)-- Priceline.com (Nasdaq: PCLN) today announced the promotion of Kees Koolen, 42, to Chief Executive Officer of Booking.com B.V., which is priceline.com's principal international business unit. Mr. Koolen will report to priceline.com's President and Chief Executive Officer, Jeffery H. Boyd. The promotion will be effective September 1, 2008. Mr. Koolen is Booking.com's Chief Operating Officer. He will succeed Stef Norden, 39, who is retiring to pursue other personal interests, but will continue as a member of the Board of Directors of priceline.com International Limited. Mr. Norden has served as Booking.com's Chief Executive Officer for five years.

COPUS Participants Gear Up for Nationwide Celebration of Science in 2009

The Coalition on the Public Understanding of Science (COPUS) is preparing to shine the national spotlight on science in 2009 and beyond. COPUS, an organization established in 2007, is planning events to celebrate the Year of Science 2009 (YoS09). The goal of this national, year-long celebration of science is to engage the public and improve understanding about the nature and process of science.

South Africa: Science Week to Encourage Youth to Pursue Science

Science and Technology Minister Mosibudi Mangena will on Thursday officially open the National Science Week (NSW) aimed at persuading the youth to pursue careers in the science field.

Science Weekly: science, fiction, and 'lablit'

We're all for blurring the lines between science and the arts, and this week James Randerson and the Science Weekly team discuss science, fiction and 'lablit' with our special guest, Dr Jennifer Rohn.

Weiler Assumes Official Role as NASA Science Chief

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