volume number NASA White Sands Test Facility celebrates 40th anniversary by Cheerie R. Patneaude Roundup NASA S-64-17543 43/9 SPACE CENTER ROUNDUP Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center small test facility nestled in the San Augustine Mountains in southern New Mexico celebrated 40 years of continuous contribution to the nation's space program on Saturday, Sept. ... IT'S GREAT TO BE ALIVE AND IN HOUSTON! it comes to International Space Station outreach, NASA really means business. ...

... The TWiki is a Web-based collaboration platform. It looks like a normal Internet web site, but everybody can change pages or add content by just using a browser. ... The TWiki is a web-based collaboration tool that offers the possibility to use a web site like an enhanced white-board. ... The astronomy-related TWiki sites considered in this paper have all seen a constant increment both in the number of visitors and users, as well as in the amount of pages created/updated and files uploaded. ...

Journal of the Amateur Astrono mers Association of New York December 2011 Volume 59 Number 12 ISSN 0146 -7662 MESSENGER BRIEFING: ORBITING the METAL -RICH PLANET By Denton Ebel, Curator (Meteorites) Curator-in-Charge Dept. of Earth and Planetary Sciences, AMNH MESSENGER stands for Mercury Surface, Space Environment, Geochemistry, and Ranging. ... On November 8, a huge asteroid that could potentially threaten Earth one day travelled inside the Moons orbit. ... LIFE FORMING 60 LIGHT YEARS FROM EARTH? ...

Report by the ESA-ESO Working Group on Fundamental Cosmology Abstract In September 2003, the executives of ESO and ESA agreed to establish a number of working groups to explore possible synergies between these two major European astronomical institutions on key scientific issues. The first two working group reports (on Extrasolar Planets and the HerschelнALMA Synergies) were released in 2005 and 2006, and this third report covers the area of Fundamental Cosmology. The Working Group's mandate was to