Daniel Barstow Brings 34 Years Education Experience
The Board of Directors of Challenger Center for Space Science
Education named Daniel Barstow as the education organization's new
President on Wednesday.
NASA managers announced Thursday they will not meet a February
2009 launch date for the fifth and final shuttle mission to the
Hubble Space Telescope. The decision comes after engineers
completed assessments of the work needed to get a second data
handling unit for the telescope ready to fly. The unit will replace
one that failed on Hubble in late September, causing the agency to
postpone the servicing mission, which had been targeted for October
14.
A NASA spacecraft gliding over the battered surface of Mercury
for the second time this year has revealed more previously unseen
real estate on the innermost planet. The probe also has produced
several science firsts and is returning hundreds of new photos and
measurements of the planet's surface, atmosphere and magnetic
field.
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