http://www.yourstreet.com/news/national-aeronautics-and-space-administration YourStreet collects the latest local news and information from around the web. Find out what's going on in your town. en-us According to climatologists, it's going to be wet this winter. Experts on El Niño, the well-known global weather circulation pattern that often brings warm winters and heavy rain to the West Coast, recently released a chart showing the El Niño Southern... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6756587/acorns-appear-abundant-wet-winter-on-the-way- Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:40:08 -0800 I couldn’t make it to the unveiling ceremony I mentioned in a previous post, but I did stop by after work this afternoon to check out the new NASA images on display at the library. I have to admit I’m underwhelmed. It turns out “mural size”... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6756478/library-space-images-unveiled Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:40:08 -0800 In celebration of the International Year of Astronomy, the San Jose Public Library will be one of only two locations in the bay area, and 150 around the country, to display a new mural-sized image of the Milky Way’s galactic center. 2009 was declared an... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6756481/nasa-images-coming-to-sj-library Sat, 14 Nov 2009 18:31:08 -0800 Tonight at 6pm in the School of the Art Institute's Ballroom (112 S. Michigan Avenue) NASA Astronaut John Grunsfeld will describe the adventures of working on orbit on the Hubble Space Telescope and the exciting scientific results the new instruments provide. There... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6752478/astronaut-john-grunsfeld-hubble-s-story-saic Sun, 25 Oct 2009 14:51:45 -0700 NPR: With a growing budget deficit, there's not much appetite in Washington to increase NASA's funding. So some of what the agency does now, such as shipping cargo to the space station, will almost certainly be picked up by private companies. Bretton Alexander,... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6751698/prairiepundit-private-space-truckers Sun, 25 Oct 2009 05:00:08 -0700 Photo by philliefan99 We've mentioned the International Year of Astronomy in passing, but not in great detail because Washington, D.C., disappointingly, doesn't seem to be hosting too many events. The IYA is a celebration of the 400th anniversary of the year Galileo... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6751781/look-up-what-s-in-the-sky-this-week- Sat, 24 Oct 2009 12:00:08 -0700 So much space-related building excitement as of late. The Press-Telegram covers the new Arquitectonica-designed Columbia Memorial Space Center, housed on an old NASA in... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6752263/arquitectonica-s-columbia-space-center-opening-this-weekend Thu, 22 Oct 2009 10:06:08 -0700 Click the image above to view the full photogallery. Meet the latest from NASA: This is the Jet Propulsion Laboratory Flight Projects Center at 4800... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6752276/nasa-s-flight-projects-building-takes-off-in-pasadena Wed, 21 Oct 2009 10:26:08 -0700 Can your robot hand do this? Didn't think so. London-based Shadow Robot is on the bleeding edge of industrial robotics, numbering NASA among its customers.More about the company and its technology in a January 4, 2009 Economist story. http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6742001/shadow-robot-hand Mon, 12 Oct 2009 12:01:08 -0700 Photo courtesy the Newseum. I think NASA would agree with me when I say, had I known the LCROSS mission -- which impacted the Moon early Friday morning -- was the mission that the mainstream media would finally report on en masse, getting it so unbelievably twisted... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6742148/look-up-what-s-in-the-sky-this-week- Sun, 11 Oct 2009 11:45:08 -0700 President Barack Obama wins Nobel Peace Prize. NASA's strike on moon worked, mission official says. House votes to expand hate crimes definition. Proposals to create jobs add up to second stimulus. Airports to screen passengers for H1N1 symptoms. Scenes of carnage in... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6742028/news-bits- Fri, 09 Oct 2009 08:29:08 -0700 People who hoped to see live pictures of a spacecraft slamming into the moon may be disappointed, but NASA scientists say they're "thrilled" with this morning's lunar encounter. http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6749961/good-data-from-moon-rocket Fri, 09 Oct 2009 07:35:08 -0700 NASA has successfully steered an empty rocket hull into the moon's south pole in a search for hidden ice.  The intentional crash this morning is the first and bigger of two planned collisions that are expected to kick up miles of lunar dust. http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6748708/moon-shot-complete-search-on-for-water Fri, 09 Oct 2009 04:19:08 -0700 NASA smacked two spacecraft into the lunar south pole Friday morning in a search for hidden ice. Instruments confirm that a large empty rocket hull barreled into the moon at 7:31 a.m., followed four minutes later by a probe with cameras taking pictures of the first... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6746412/nasa-bombs-the-moon-looking-for-water-video Fri, 09 Oct 2009 00:54:08 -0700 Earth’s closest neighbor is holding a secret. In 1999, hints of that secret were revealed in the form of concentrated hydrogen signatures detected in permanently shadowed craters at the lunar poles by NASA’s Lunar Prospector. These readings may be an indication... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6743316/nasa-s-lcross-mission-will-end-with-a-bang-on-the-moon Thu, 08 Oct 2009 20:07:08 -0700 WASHINGTON (AP) — NASA will throw a one-two punch at the big old moon Friday and the whole world will have ringside seats for the lunar dust-up. http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6748558/ap-watch-nasa-give-moon-one-two-punch Thu, 08 Oct 2009 17:48:08 -0700 For as long as man has looked up, the moon has inspired romance, poetry and songs. Man also likes blowing things up. Now we get to do both -- in the name of science. http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6746318/video-nasa-probe-hits-moon-in-search-of-water Thu, 08 Oct 2009 16:12:08 -0700 Residents welcomed their hometown hero last week, starting on Thursday at the York High School where a sign proudly proclaimed, "Home of Astronaut Chris Cassidy." http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6747671/nasa-astronaut-chris-cassidy-is-happy-to-spark-students-curiosity Tue, 06 Oct 2009 20:47:08 -0700 NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy answered the following questions from Coastal Ridge Elementary students: http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6747683/astronaut-chris-cassidy-answer-cres-students-questions Tue, 06 Oct 2009 16:05:08 -0700 Photo by Eric Long/NASM, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution Back in early August, we previewed the Public Observatory Project at the National Air and Space Museum ; this week the ribbon was cut and the telescope is officially in business. (Before... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6739548/look-up-what-s-in-the-sky-this-week- Sun, 04 Oct 2009 08:15:08 -0700