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Q&A: NASA Scientist Answers Your Questions About Lying in Bed for 90 Days

Our readers had a lot of questions following our last post on the NASA Bed Rest Study, in which participants spend 90 days lying in bed in exchange for about $5,000 a month. What did participants eat? Could they have conjugal visits? Did they get to pay videogames?

NASA Bed Rest Lab Photo: Could You Spend 90 Days Here?

NASA senior scientist Ronita Cromwell, who we interviewed about NASA's 90 day bed rest study, sent over this picture of her lab. This is where and how you'd be spending three straight months getting paid $5,000 a month to let your muscles atrophy for the good of the space program.

NASA's Educational Game Proposal Deadline Extended

NASA MMO Team writes "Due to the additional time required to respond to the number of questions that were raised during the NASA Massively Multiplayer Online Educational Game RFP Briefing held on April 21, 2008 in Baltimore, MD, we have decided to extend the RFP Proposal response date to Monday, July 21, 2008 at 12:00 midnight EDT. ... Please contact the NASA Learning Technologies Project Office at mmo@nasa.gov with any additional questions." (NASA has set up a site with additional information on the NASA MMO Education Game project, too.)

90 Days in Bed for NASA's Human Guinea Pigs

To study the effect of weightlessness on the human body, NASA has asked volunteers to spend three months in bed. One of the human guinea pigs who have signed up for the scientific bed rest is Marques Butler, who shares the worst part of the ordeal, how he stays busy and what he can't wait to do.

Answers to 5 Burning 401(k) Questions

I can vouch for this: Personal finance writers field plenty of cocktail-chatter questions about managing and investing money. That's certainly true for Mark Bruno, a 30-year-old reporter who writes about retirement and investing for Financial Week. Inspired by questions from friends, family, and peers about getting started with their retirement savings, Bruno wrote Save Now or Die Trying: Achieving Long-Term Wealth in Your 20s and 30s, which he says offers pointers on "saving the right way." Here, he shares a handful of those tips:

Answers to 5 Burning 401(k) Questions

I can vouch for this: Personal finance writers field plenty of cocktail-chatter questions about managing and investing money. That's certainly true for Mark Bruno, a 30-year-old reporter who writes about retirement and investing for Financial Week. Inspired by questions from friends, family, and peers about getting started with their retirement savings, Bruno wrote Save Now or Die Trying: Achieving Long-Term Wealth in Your 20s and 30s, which he says offers pointers on "saving the right way." Here, he shares a handful of those tips:

NASA Offers $5000 a Month For You to Lie in Bed

tracer818 writes "In order to study a person as if they were in space without gravity, NASA scientists are paying subjects $17,000 to stay in bed for 90 straight days. The study will follow the Bed Rest Project standard model and be conducted at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, Texas. Participants will live in a special research unit for the entire study and be fed a carefully controlled diet."

NASA Targets GLAST Launch for June 7

Contact: Katherine Trinidad of NASA Headquarters, Washington, +1- 202-358-3749, katherine.trinidad@nasa.gov; George H. Diller of NASA Kennedy Space Center, Fla., +1-321-867-2468, george.h.diller@nasa.gov; Rob Gutro of NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md., +1-301-286-4044, robert.j.gutro@nasa.gov

Ninety Days in Bed for NASA's Human Guinea Pigs

To study the effect of weightlessness on the human body, NASA has asked volunteers to spend three months in bed. One of the human guinea pigs who have signed up for the scientific bed rest is Marques Butler, who shares the worst part of the ordeal, how he stays busy and what he can't wait to do.

Aldrin Warns that NASA will fall Behind Russia and China in Space Exploration

The world knows the huge potential China and Russia have for space exploration. Russia is maintaining a strong presence in space with their sturdy Soyuz program and China has set its sights on having their very first "taikonaut" EVA at the end of this year. But where does this leave NASA? The US space agency has spearheaded the exploration of space for the last 50 years, but amongst all the talk about NASA setbacks, overspending and delays, could the glory days be coming to an abrupt end? In May, the legendary astronaut John Glenn spoke out against Shuttle decommissioning and last week, US Senator Bill Nelson called a meeting at Cape Canaveral to raise concerns about announced job cuts in 2010. Now, the most famous NASA ex-employee and second man on the Moon, Buzz Aldrin has voiced warnings that the US could lose its grip on space and beg

NASA, NIA Announce NASA Education Television Partnership

SAN JOSE, Calif., May 14 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA Deputy Administrator Shana Dale announced Wednesday the launch of NASA Education TV (NASA eTV), a partnership with the National Institute of Aerospace (NIA) to produce new educational television programs for distribution on NASA Television and the Internet.

More answers for iPhone 3G questions

So outrageously popular were yesterday's answers to many of those popular questions prospective iPhone 3G buyers are clamoring about, that we’ve decided to provide you with a second installment, this one covering a few questions that an AT&T spokesperson graciously took the time to answer, just for us (and, by extension, you).

How NASA Will Bring the Phoenix Mars Mission To the Web

lgmac brings us a story about how NASA will bring information from the Phoenix Mars lander to the internet in the coming days. CIO Magazine speaks with JPL's chief knowledge architect and others about how they'll provide massive amounts of data from the lander to suit the needs of an audience ranging from professors to 8-year-olds. We've been discussing the Phoenix mission for quite a while now. The landing is on schedule for Sunday at roughly 5PM PDT. "'In previous missions, a system like this didn't exist and people were sharing images via external drives,' Bitter says. Some of the images are put up immediately and captioned, or sent to museum audiences, while others are made part of huge mosaic pictures that display the majesty of what the NASA spacecraft encounters, she says.

iPhone 3G questions, answered

You've got questions, we've got answers (no disrespect to RadioShack intended). Besides releasing rate plan details, AT&T has also posted answers to some of the lingering queries that new and existing AT&T customers might have about snagging themselves an iPhone 3G. Here are a few that we hope will answer questions that readers have frequently been asking us.

Studio Head Answers Your Questions About the Movie Business

You asked Larry Meistrich, head of NEHST Studios, how to get into the movie business. And he has answered your questions. So read his answers, then get off your lazy behind, pick up that digital cinema camera, and go to work!

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.

Inventor of Scratch-B-Gone answers tough questions about this amazing new product

Scratch-B-Gone is the industry solution to scratches, chemical stains and heat scorching on Stainless steel appliances, sinks and grills. Barry Feinman answers 8 questions asked by people who are first introduced to amazing solution to a heretofore 'unsolvable' problem!

NASA Remains Silent on Rocket That Could Rescue the Cape: Why Doesn't NASA Want It

It's the rocket NASA won't talk about -- but proponents insist it could change everything. If built, they say, it could get America back on the moon faster and cheaper than anything NASA is designing -- and save thousands of jobs in Florida.

Focal Point for Discussion of SOA, Virtualization, Java, Data Services, AJAX, iPhone, RIAs & Open Source

Questions, it is said, focus our thinking. Some go so far as to say that it is "better to know some of the questions than all of the answers." And good questions, it is generally agreed, outrank easy answers. Here then is a round-up of some of the "good questions" asked recently at SYS-CON.com, as part and parcel of our ongoing, 24 x 7 x 365 coverage of the interlocking worlds of technology and business.

Focal Point for Discussion of SOA, Virtualization, Java, Data Services, AJAX, iPhone, RIAs & Open Source

Questions, it is said, focus our thinking. Some go so far as to say that it is "better to know some of the questions than all of the answers." And good questions, it is generally agreed, outrank easy answers. Here then is a round-up of some of the "good questions" asked recently at SYS-CON.com, as part and parcel of our ongoing, 24 x 7 x 365 coverage of the interlocking worlds of technology and business.

Phoenix Mars Lander: How to Hunt for Martian IceNavigating By X-Ray PulsarAmbitious NASA Probe to Fly Through Sun's FringeNASA Team Studies Pollutants' Effect on Arctic Climate ChangeHow NASA's Phoenix Will Land on MarsAstrium Seeks 24.5 Million Euro

NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has a scoop on the end of its Robotic Arm. A motor-driven rasp can be lowered at an angle through a small opening in the bottom of the scoop to aid in gathering shavings of hard-frozen material. In this image, Lori Shiraishi, an engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, inspects the scoop while the spacecraft was being assembled and tested before its Aug. 4, 2007, launch. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona/Lockheed Martin

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Black Holes All Eat the Same WayCollisions Fuel Black Hole Feeding FrenziesProof! Water Ice Found on MarsPluto's Identity Crisis Hits Classrooms and BookstoresFrigid Future for Ocean in Saturn's MoonLarge 'Planet X' May Lurk Beyond Pluto

This composite image of M81 includes X-rays from the Chandra (blue), optical data from Hubble (green), infrared from Spitzer (pink) and ultraviolet data from GALEX (purple). The inset shows a close-up of the Chandra image where a supermassive black hole about 70 million times more massive than the Sun lurks. A new study using data from Chandra and ground-based telescopes, combined with detailed theoretical models, shows that the giant black hole in M81 feeds just like ones with masses of only about ten times that of the Sun. Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/Wisconsin/D.Pooley and CfA/A.Zezas; Optical: NASA/ESA/CfA/A.Zezas; UV: NASA/JPL-Caltech/CfA/J.Huchra et al.; IR: NASA/JPL-Caltech/CfA

NASA Awards Information Management and Communications Support Contract

Contact: Sonja Alexander, NASA Headquarters, Washington, +1-202- 358-1761, sonja.r.alexander@nasa.gov, or Candrea Thomas, NASA Kennedy Space Center, Fla., +1-321-867-2468, candrea.k.thomas@nasa.gov

NASA Launches Satellite To Monitor Oceans

On Friday, NASA launched the Ocean Surface Topography Mission/Jason 2 satellite into orbit to begin a detailed study of ocean currents, sea-surface height, and surface topology. Scientists hope to use the data gathered by Jason 2 in order to better understand weather patterns and global warming. Further details about the mission objectives (PDF) are also available. Quoting NASA's press release: "Combining ocean current and heat storage data is key to understanding global climate variations. OSTM/Jason 2's expected lifetime of at least three years will extend into the next decade the continuous record of these data started in 1992 by NASA and the French space agency Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales, or CNES, with the TOPEX/Poseidon mission.

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