The Last Four Minutes of AF447
Feb 28 around 11 am mountain time
An infographic accompanies an article by SPIEGEL detailing, in lay terms, the last four minutes of Air France 447.
Obama Calls for End to NASA’s Moon Program
Feb 2 around 9 am mountain time
This still has to go through Congress and a million hoops, but The NYTimes reports:
President Obama is calling on NASA to cancel the program that was to return humans to the Moon by 2020, and focus instead on radically new space technologies.
Mr. Obama’s 2010 budget proposal for NASA asks for $18 billion over five years for fueling spacecraft in orbit, new types of engines to accelerate spacecraft through space and robotic factories that could churn soil on the Moon — and eventually Mars — into rocket fuel.
