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NASA chief says Congress must act to get Russian craft

NASA Administrator Mike Griffin says U.S. crews might have to abandon the International Space Station in 2011.

Nasa Chief Says US Must Stick to Moon Plan

If President-elect Barack Obama wants to abandon Nasa's road map to the moon, the space agency's chief says he wants no part of it.

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Pak cricket chief selector resigns to give room to new PCB chief

Hours after the formal announcement of the appointment of new PCB chief Ijaz Butt, Pakistans chief selector Salahuddin Ahmad resigned here last evening, saying that he wanted to give room to the new chief to appoint a chief selector of his own choice.

Pak cricket chief selector resigns to give room to new PCB chief

Hours after the formal announcement of the appointment of new PCB chief Ijaz Butt, Pakistans chief selector Salahuddin Ahmad resigned here last evening, saying that he wanted to give room to the new chief to appoint a chief selector of his own choice.

Pak cricket chief selector resigns to give 'room' to new PCB chief

Lahore, Oct 9 (ANI): Hours after the formal announcement of the appointment of new PCB chief Ijaz Butt, Pakistan's chief selector Salahuddin Ahmad resigned here last evening, saying that he wanted to give "room" to the new chief to appoint a chief selector of his own choice.

NASA's Moon Rocket Ares I May Not Fly

NASA's latest version of moon craft, the very one who put its original designer, Michael Griffin, in the position of NASA administrator 3 years ago, has encountered new glitches. This would mean millions of dollars over the budget and a considerable lag in terms of deadline, but NASA is prepared to do anything to see the rocket lift off. The Ares I issues and the management approach of the agency have angered much of the personnel. Most of them would rather see the rocket not leaving the ground than give in to the compromises that would possibly help the craft reach the Moon.

NASA chief says criticism of moon rocket is hurting space agency's morale

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. - Unfounded criticism of the United States' next-generation moon rocket is hurting NASA morale but hasn't stopped progress on the craft, the space agency's administrator Michael Griffin said Tuesday.

American Dominance of Space is Fading, NASA Chief Says

NASA Administrator Michael Griffin has clashed repeatedly with the White House in recent months - a rift that escalated when budget officials heavily edited a statement he was submitting to Congress about China's space ambitions and spilled into the open last week in a leaked e-mail that accused the budget office of doing "everything possible" to walk away from the $100 billion international space station.

NASA Updates Time for Space Shuttle Atlantis' Roll from Launch Pad

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., Oct. 17 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA managers have adjusted the time for space shuttle Atlantis' rollback from Launch Pad 39A to the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Monday, Oct. 20, to 7 a.m. EDT. Atlantis is expected to be in the Vehicle Assembly Building by about 2 p.m. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20081007/38461LOGO ) NASA Television will provide live coverage of Atlantis' move off the pad beginning Monday at 6:30 a.m. Video highlights of the rollback will air on NASA TV Video File. Media are invited to a photo opportunity of the shuttle's move from the pad at 7 a.m. Monday, and must arrive at Kennedy's News Center by 6 a.m. for transportation to the viewing area.

NASA Tests Deep-Space Network Modeled On the Internet

hcg50a writes "NASA has successfully tested the first deep space communications network modeled on the Internet. Working as part of a NASA-wide team, engineers from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, CA, used software called Disruption-Tolerant Networking, or DTN, to transmit dozens of space images to and from a NASA science spacecraft located about 20 million miles from Earth. The store-and-forward protocol was designed by NASA in consultation with Vint Cerf. Here's a discussion from last July before the test began."

NASA Chief Thanks Obama for Helping With Soyuz Waiver

NASA Administrator Mike Griffin credited Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama for spurring Congress to action on legislation allowing the U.S. space agency to buy the Russian Soyuz flights its needs to send astronauts to the international space station beyond 2011.

NASA Says Phoenix Mars Mission Has Ended

This artist's rendering provided by NASA shows the Phoenix Mars spacecraft. NASA said Monday, Nov. 10. 2008, that the Phoenix Mars mission has ended. The lander has been digging trenches and conducting science experiments since May, to study whether the environment on Mars could support primitive life. (AP Photo/NASA)

NASA Prefers US Commercial Rockets over Russian Ones

Despite the Iran-North Korea-Syria Nonproliferation Act (INKSNA) regulations, which prevent US organizations from conducting business with Russia while the latter is supporting any of the countries mentioned in the Act, NASA still hoped for a government waiver that would allow them to continue using

Lockheed Gets $485M From NASA To Create MAVEN Craft

coondoggie writes to tell us that Lockheed Martin has landed a $485 million contract to create the spacecraft for NASA's MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN) project. "MAVEN is the second mission in NASA's Mars Scout Program — a series of small, low-cost, principal investigator-led missions to the Red Planet, NASA said. The Phoenix Mars Lander was the first mission under the program. Lockheed Martin is the industry partner on the Phoenix mission. It designed and built the spacecraft, and also provided flight operations and currently surface operations for the lander. The mission has been extended through Sept. 30, 2008."

SIIA's 'Don't Get Mad, Get Even' Campaign Extended as Cheated Consumers Fight Back Against Software Pirates

Victims of Auction Fraud Who Purchased Pirated Software Online Can be Awarded up to $500 For Reporting Counterfeit Sellers Consumers Speak Out Against Fraudulent Software Sales! WASHINGTON, Oct. 30 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA), the principal trade association for the software and digital information industries, today announced it is extending its successful "Don't Get Mad, Get Even" anti-piracy campaign in its fight to help protect consumers who purchased illegal software online. The campaign allows buyers who purchased counterfeit software on auction websites such as eBay to get even with a fraudulent seller by reporting them to SIIA, which will then pay them up to $500 to purchase a legitimate copy of the software.

RPT-BRIEF-Dexia sells U.S. unit FSA after heavy Q3 loss

BRUSSELS, Nov 14 (Reuters) - Dexia SA (DEXI.BR: Quote, Profile, Research): * Dexia (DEXI.PA: Quote, Profile, Research) (DEXI.BR: Quote, Profile, Research) Q3 loss 1.544 billion euros * Dexia agrees to sell FSA insurance business to Assured Guaranty (AGO.N: Quote, Profile, Research) * Says total consideration for deal $722 million * Dexia to get a 24.7 percent ownership in Assured Guaranty * Says plan to sell FSA holding is for total consideration of $722 million * Says financial products excluded from FSA sale - Dexia to cover first loss of $3.1 billion on top of $1.4 billion existing reserves as of Sept. 30, 2008. * Dexia Q3 net loss excluding all crisis impacts 647 mln euros * Says Q4 reported results will be adversely impacted but solvency will remain strong * Dexia says Belgian and French states to provide guarantee of the assets of f

RPT-BRIEF-Dexia sells U.S. unit FSA after heavy Q3 loss

BRUSSELS, Nov 14 (Reuters) - Dexia SA (DEXI.BR: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz): * Dexia (DEXI.PA: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) (DEXI.BR: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) Q3 loss 1.544 billion euros * Dexia agrees to sell FSA insurance business to Assured Guaranty (AGO.N: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) * Says total consideration for deal $722 million * Dexia to get a 24.7 percent ownership in Assured Guaranty * Says plan to sell FSA holding is for total consideration of $722 million * Says financial products excluded from FSA sale - Dexia to cover first loss of $3.1 billion on top of $1.4 billion existing reserves as of Sept. 30, 2008. * Dexia Q3 net loss excluding all crisis impacts 647 mln euros * Says Q4 reported results will be adversely impacted but solvency will remain strong * Dexia says Belgian and Frenc

NASA slowly disabling Phoenix Mars lander

Washington - NASA's Phoenix Mars lander is slowly dying on the red planet, after the US space agency shut off one of the craft's heaters in a bid to save energy. The move was designed to briefly extend the life of the craft, but as NASA gradually tur...

NASA-TV Streams HD Film to Celebrate 50 Years in Space

50 years ago this month NASA rocketed into existence, and to celebrate this fact NASA-TV is streaming its special retrospective show "50 Years of Exploration: The Golden Anniversary of NASA" in HD format today at 1pm and 8pm EDT (and again tomorrow at 10am and 2pm). Check it out: it's presented by none other than Neil Armstrong, and it'll remind you how frickin' astonishing the achievements of the Agency are, despite its recent rockety woes. [NASA-TV]

NASA to Discuss Hubble Anomaly and Servicing Mission Launch Delay

WASHINGTON, Sept. 29 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA will host a media teleconference at 6 p.m. EDT today to discuss a significant Hubble Space Telescope anomaly that occurred this weekend affecting the storage and transmittal of science data to Earth. Fixing the problem will delay next month's space shuttle Atlantis' Hubble servicing mission. The briefing participants are: - Ed Weiler, associate administrator of the Science Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters in Washington - John Shannon, Shuttle Program manager at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston - Preston Burch, Hubble manager at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. To participate in the teleconference, reporters in the U.S. should call 1-800-369-6087 and use the pass code Hubble.

Russian spacecraft carrying U.S. space tourist lands successfully

KOROLYOV, Moscow region. Oct 24 (Interfax-AVN) - The landing capsule of the Soyuz TMA-12 spacecraft carrying Russian cosmonauts Sergei Volkov and Oleg Kononenko and U.S. space tourist Richard Garriott has successfully touched down in a Kazakhstan steppe. "The descent and landing passed according to plan," Valery Lyndin, the head of the Russian mission control center press service, told Interfax. Former cosmonaut Alexander Volkov and former NASA astronaut Owen Garriott earlier joined the rescue teams to meet their sons after landing. Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) spokesman Alexander Vorobyov told Interfax the Soyuz TMA-12 crew should be delivered to the Chkalovsky airfield outside Moscow on Friday afternoon. After that, Volkov, Kononenko, and Garriott will spend two weeks in a rehabilitation center at Zvyozdny Gorodok (Star City

Get Paid to Search the Internet?

We know this sounds like some sort of ad you would see on late night cable access TV, but this is actually happening. OK, you won't get cash for your searches, but Microsoft is willing to give you swag for your Web searches. Microsoft has announced a new plan called SearchPerks, which will reward people for using the Live Search search engine. For every search a user does on their Live Search network (MSN.com, Live.com, Windows Live Hotmail, as well as Windows Live Messenger), the user will get a ticket. The more tickets you get, the more stuff you can collect from Microsoft. Rewards include an Xbox 360 controller for 5,500 tickets, Xbox 360 games, and more. The promotion runs from Oct. 1 until April 15, 2009, and you get 500 bonus tickets just for signing up for the rewards program.

Podcast: Get Safe Online MD Tony Neate on why the initiative matters to business

Get Safe Online, a government-private sector initiative aimed at boosting online security, has launched the fourth annual Get Safe Online Week. Computer Weekly’s Warwick Ashford asked Get Safe Oline’s MD Tony Neate to outline the importance of the initiative for small and medium businesses in the UK and detail the role of businesses with Get Safe Online.

McMaster World Congress (29th)10th World Congress on Intellectual Capital and Innovation2nd World Congress on Strategic Business ValuationJanuary 16-18, 2009

Established in 1978, the McMaster World Congress (MWC) is an international business conference which has provided a collaborative framework bringing together academic researchers, business practitioners, management students and global thought-leaders to present, discuss and review the latest issues, trends, challenges and opportunities in the fields of corporate governance, intellectual capital and strategic business valuation.

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