Space & Astronomy

Magazine articles on space and astronomy.

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Science News March 12, 2005 David Shiga	The Zero Gravity Diet Having surveyed nutrition-related changes that occur in space travelers, including weight loss, NASA researchers plan further study of the potential problems from those changes.
Geotimes March 2005 Joseph Richard Gutheinz	Marketing an Asteroid Threat NASA would prefer to market its successes, but with a mixed bag of successes and failures lately, they have opted for a new public relations ploy: fear -- whether it be fear of the environment or fear of asteroids.
Macworld February 28, 2005 Henry Bortman	Starry Night 5.0 Astronomy program is difficult to master but reveals beautiful high-resolution images of many celestial objects.
Adventure March 2005 David Roberts	What's Scarier? John Grunsfeld talks about his experiences and compares mountaineering expeditions to space missions.
Fast Company March 2005 Ryan Underwood	60 Seconds on Doing the Impossible Peter Diamandis, the aerospace engineer and medical doctor, who created suborbital space competition, talks about the moon and nanotechnology.
IEEE Spectrum March 2005 Stephen Cass	Writing NASA's Marching Orders "New Moon Rising: The Making of America's New Space Vision and the Remaking of NASA," provides a lucid look at the messy and tangled process by which national science and engineering policy really gets made.
IEEE Spectrum February 2005 Anatoly Zak	Russians Propose a New Space Shuttle Late last year, Russia's S.P. Korolev Rocket and Space Corporation Energia revealed detailed plans for a next-generation, reusable space orbiter, dubbed the Kliper. But will it fly?
Scientific American February 7, 2005 Govert Schilling	String Revival Are cosmic strings behind unusual lensing effects?
Fast Company February 2005 Jennifer Reingold	Hondas in Space The ex-CEO of PayPal is spending a fortune to prove you can build rockets faster, cheaper, and better. Innovation, it seems, isn't always rocket science.
Geotimes February 2005 Naomi Lubick	NASA Debates Hubble's Fate Without a replacement telescope in sight, NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe announced in the spring that a robotic mission would be sufficient to service Hubble, but now a group of scientists says that a robotic mission is too costly and uncertain.
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