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Bargain Basement Imposition

January 17, 2008 Robby

I am a custodian of a great human adventure. So says the LA Times, so it must be true. I…

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Voyager's Crossing the Termination Shockwave

December 19, 2007 Robby

Hey, who knew. MIT has an instrument on the Voyager 2 spacecraft! Evidently, the Plasma Science instrument is still going…

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Serendipity at its best

December 13, 2007 Robby

Sometimes you just get lucky. According to the New York Times, The lame wheel on the NASA Mars rover Spirit…

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Burt Rutan likes JPL!

October 8, 2007 Robby

Discover Magazine has an interview with Burt Rutan, he of SpaceShipOne fame. NASA does hundreds of wonderful things. They send…

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Give JPL case a closer look

October 5, 2007 Robby

The Pasadena Star News has an editorial about the JPL being sued over privacy concerns Creative minds aren't at their…

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The way space news should be written

October 4, 2007 Robby

This is the way all news stories about space should be written! And look, it's written by a JPL scientist,…

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Google's X-Prize

September 14, 2007 Robby

All I have to say about Google sponsoring the Lunar X-Prize mission is, Awesome! Those X-prize guys really know how…

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We're going in

July 6, 2007 Robby

We're going in. The robotic Opportunity rover currently rolling across Mars has been prowling around the edge of the…

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MER – still going

May 23, 2007 Robby

Asa points to the recent article about Spirit discovering more evidence of past Martian water. I could pull a life-lesson…

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JPL Open House

May 16, 2007 Robby

JPL is having its 2007 Open House this weekend. The banners and food stands and tents are already going up…

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