Saturday, July 22, 2006

No Jimmy-Jackin' Around Excuse me, does anyone here speak Krukow? (Via El Lefty Malo.) Lots of missing stuff. Ugly finder comes to mind. 10:54:37 AM    comment []

Nasa loses goal of protecting home planet (NyT-Nas ... Nasa loses goal of protecting home planet (NyT-NasaW) (Via robot wisdom weblog.) "From 2002 until this year, NASA's mission statement, prominently featured in its budget and planning documents, read: "To understand and protect our home planet; to explore the universe and search for life; to inspire the next generation of explorers ... as only NASA can." In early February, the statement was quietly altered, with the phrase "to understand and protect our home planet" deleted. In this year's budget and planning documents, the agency's mission is "to pioneer the future in space exploration, scientific discovery and aeronautics research." David E. Steitz, a spokesman for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, said the aim was to square the statement with President Bush's goal of pursuing human spaceflight to the Moon and Mars." 10:46:01 AM    comment []

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