Re: NASA Researchers Make First Discovery of Life's Building Block in Comet
On Aug 19, 4:59 pm, ram kumar <ramsciencelo...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
NASA scientists have discovered glycine, a fundamental building block
of life, in samples of comet Wild 2 returned by NASA's Stardust
spacecraft. for more news click herehttp://scienceupdatesforum.blogspot.com/2009/08/nasa-researchers-make...
Except that NASA itself has nothing to do with such research.
~ BG
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Relevant Pages
- New Measures Needed to Keep NASA Spacecraft From Contaminating Mars (Forwarded)
... WASHINGTON -- Over the coming decade, NASA should develop and implement new methods and requirements to detect and eliminate microorganisms on robotic spacecraft sent to Mars to prevent possible contamination of the planet, says a new report from the National Academies' National Research Council. ...
(sci.astro) - NASAs Stardust: Good to the Last Drop
... NASA's Stardust: ... spacecraft will perform a final burn with its main engines. ... the burn is something of an insignificant event. ... low-cost mission that required another five years and 1.04 billion ...
(sci.space.news) - NASAs Stardust Passes Moon, Just Hours Away From Earth Return
... Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. ... NASA'S STARDUST PASSES MOON, JUST HOURS AWAY FROM EARTH RETURN ... in delivering our capsule to Earth," said Stardust Project Manager Tom ... Prior to passing the moon's orbit, the spacecraft performed a final ...
(sci.space.news) - Stardust nears end of epic journey; researchers await its treasure (Forwarded)
... A few moments later, after the capsule slows to just faster than the speed of sound, a parachute will apply the brakes and Stardust will settle to the ground on the Air Force's Utah Testing and Training Range southwest of Salt Lake City. ... The tennis-racquet-shaped collector used a remarkably light and porous material called aerogel to capture the particles, each much smaller than a grain of sand and traveling six times the speed of a bullet fired from a rifle. ... Brownlee expects them to provide key information on the formation of the solar system 4.6 billion years ago and possibly to shed light on the origins of life on Earth. ... The tensest moment other than the comet encounter came in November 2000, while the spacecraft was cruising along some 130 million miles from the sun. ...
(sci.astro) - NASA Announces Shuttle Prelaunch Events And Countdown Details
... NASA ANNOUNCES SHUTTLE PRELAUNCH EVENTS AND COUNTDOWN DETAILS ... for the news center at NASA's Kennedy Space Center are set for the ...
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