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...final window passed at 9:30 p.m., again with no cheers inside the lander's operations center at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Engineers will try again Saturday night and Sunday. The loss of Polar Lander after an 11-month journey...
...isolated La Nina occurring in the Pacific Ocean,'' said William Patzert, an oceanographer at the NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Patzert believes the ocean-wide temperature changes indicate a natural shift that occurs every 20 to 30...
...implement them more carefully,'' said Tony Spear, who led the other review and is a former manager at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Last year was especially difficult for NASA: In addition to losing two Mars probes, space shuttle flights...
...funding and inadequate margins'' in the planning and execution of NASA's Mars exploration program at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. The Mars program, he said, ''was underfunded by at least 30 percent.'' This forced...
...resources, but we're not going to let the pendulum swing all the way back,'' he told employees of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, where Mars Polar Lander and Mars Climate Orbiter were managed. Goldin visited the lab Wednesday, a day after...
...would be a bunch of little fireflies in the midst of a searchlight,'' Jane Platt, a spokeswoman for NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, said of trying to see it. Planetary alignments, which occur when three or more celestial objects move into...
...understanding is not complete and not to say more than you know," said William Patzert, an oceanographer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. "It's hard after three years of being a hotshot. It's really hard." Unlike El Nino and La Nina years...
...team of astronomers concluded Friday. The International Astronomical Union and space scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory said there is a 1-in-500 chance that a newly discovered asteroid-like object called 2000 SG344 could impact...
PASADENA, Calif. -- Scientists at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory have downgraded the threat of an object now speeding toward Earth and say there is no chance it will hit the Earth in 2030, but...