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June 12, 2013

Radar Movies Highlight Asteroid 1998 QE2 And Its Moon

Helped Scientists Define Estimates Of Asteroid's Size And Rotation

Scientists working with NASA's 230-foot-wide Deep Space Network antenna at Goldstone, CA, have released a second, longer, more refined movie clip of asteroid 1998 QE2 and its moon. The 55 individual images used in the movie were generated from data collected at Goldstone on June 1, 2013. Each of the individual images obtained on June 1, 2013, required about five minutes of data collection by the Goldstone radar.

Asteroid Capture Mission Widely Seen As A 'Distraction' For The Agency

Speaking at the “Humans 2 Mars Summit,” which was held May 6-8, 2013 at George Washington University, NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden stated that if another administration (or perhaps the Congress) steps in and says do a mission to the Moon, “…it’s game over! …we’re back to square one.” In other words if anyone at any time in the future deviates from the Obama plan for human spaceflight, NASA has to start all over again. We will thus be finished as a spaceflight nation- it’ll be a disaster, doom, toads raining from the sky, dogs and cats living together, MASS HYSTARIA!

Only Canadian To Command The ISS

Parliamentary Secretary Chris Alexander, on behalf of Christian Paradis Minister of Industry and Minister responsible for the Canadian Space Agency (CSA), took part in an event Monday celebrating Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield's return to Canada following his successful five-month mission aboard the International Space Station (ISS). Hadfield also used the opportunity to announce his plans to pursue new professional challenges.