Roy Mark

19 Years of Heavenly Images from NASAs Hubble Telescope by Roy Mark Dust Band Around the Nucleus of ‘Black Eye Galaxy’ M64 Credit: NASA and The Hubble Heritage Team Spiral Galaxy NGC 4603 Credit: NASA Gas Pillars in the Eagle Nebula (M16) Credit: NASA, ESA, STScI, J. Hester and P. Scowen (Arizona State University) The […]

The Air Force Space Command took to Twitter May 19 to defuse concerns that the nation’s GPS system could potentially begin failing in 2010 because the Air Force has fallen behind schedule in deploying new GPS satellites. According to a recent GAO (Government Accountability Office) report, there are serious questions looming as to whether the […]

Bad weather may delay the space shuttle Atlantis’ return from its successful trip to repair and update the Hubble Space Telescope. As thunderstorms raked the Kennedy Space Center May 21, NASA officials warned the May 22 landing date was in doubt.NASA said the shuttle has two windows of opportunity for the landing May 22, but […]

No one is quite sure what happened yet, but the end result is the National Archives is missing a hard drive containing about a terabyte of information from the Clinton White House. The missing data includes the names and Social Security numbers of visitors and staff at the White House during the Clinton era in […]

As the space shuttle Atlantis heads back to Earth after a successful repair mission to the Hubble Space Telescope, Congress May 19 continued to debate the way forward for NASA. The Hubble mission is NASA’s last planned mission to the telescope, and the space shuttle fleet is scheduled for the bolt bucket after eight more […]

Shopping for a location-based application for your smartphone? The BlackBerry App World store has the most expensive and least varied offerings, Apple’s iTunes App Store offers the most variety for the iPhone at substantially lower prices than Research In Motion’s BlackBerry store, and Google’s Android Market features the least expensive paid applications, according to a […]

The crew of the Space Shuttle Atlantis released the Hubble Space Telescope back into its orbit May 19, backed away from the telescope with a slow separation burn and then hit the thrusters to begin its return to Earth. Atlantis is scheduled for a May 22 landing at the Kennedy Space Center, from which it […]

Three cyber-security groups said May 19 they are launching a new initiative applying many of the same approaches used to bring nuisance adware under control, a chain-of-command plan for “all organizations and individuals that play a role in securing the Internet.” Developed by the ASC (Anti-Spyware Coalition), NCSA (National Cyber Security Alliance) and StopBadware.org, “the […]

Aneesh Chopra, President Obama’s nominee to be the nation’s first chief technology officer, is scheduled for a May 19 confirmation hearing before the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science & Transportation. Obama nominated Chopra April 18 to fill the still vaguely defined position.The hearing comes just two days before a White House-mandated May 21 deadline for […]

Calling the Hubble Space Telescope’s extreme makeover a “really tremendous adventure,” the Space Shuttle Atlantis crew finished its fifth and final spacewalk May 18 and began preparing for a return trip to Earth. In all likelihood, it was the final trip that will ever be made to Hubble, the telescope that has become a symbol […]

The Obama administration has decided not to seek a Supreme Court review of lower court decisions striking down controversial Patriot Act provisions allowing the government to impose gag orders on NSLs (national security letters) recipients. FBI NSLs require recipients to turn over sensitive information about their clients and subscribers. The gag order provision allows the […]

The space shuttle Atlantis lifted off from the Kennedy Space Center May 11 on an ambitious final 11-day mission to repair and upgrade the Hubble Space Telescope to keep it operational for at least five more years. So far, so good.From tweets to system tweaks to major instrument upgrades, the seven-person crew of the Atlantis […]