AP – A comet-busting NASA spacecraft zipped past Earth on Monday on its way to rendezvous with another comet in an extended mission that will also see it hunt for Earth-sized planets around a cluster of stars. The Deep Impact probe made the first of three flybys designed to use the planet’s gravity to hurtle the spacecraft toward comet Hartley 2 for a 2010 meeting.
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AP – NASA grudgingly released some results Monday from an $11.3 million federal air safety study it previously withheld from the public over concerns it would upset travelers and hurt airline profits. The data reflects hundreds of cases where pilots flew too close to other planes, plunged from altitude or landed at airports without clearance.
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AP – Beginning Feb. 18, 2009, television stations will stop broadcasting analog signals. An older, non-digital television without cable or satellite service will need a special converter box to receive a picture.
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SPACE.com – Spaceexploration has become a topic of interest in U.S. presidential debates for the first time in over 40 years.Seventeen individuals are running for president in the two major parties’primaries. Several of them have expressed opinions about space; but most, toour knowledge, have not spoken directly about space, or addressed it atall. Below are statements from the candidates and/or their campaigns.
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AP – HANDING IT OVER: NASA grudgingly released some results Monday from an $11.3 million federal air safety study it previously withheld from the public.
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