NASA Invites Media to View Space Launch System Progress

WASHINGTON — NASA Associate Administrator for Human Exploration and Operations William Gerstenmaier and other agency officials will debut a new machine for manufacturing NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) and check on development progress with the heavy-lift rocket at the agency’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans Friday, June 21. NASA is inviting media representatives to attend a 9:15 a.m. Continue reading

Radio astronomy cranks up in WA's Mid West

A precursor to the international Square Kilometre Array (SKA) radio astronomy project in Western Australia’s Mid West region is being readied to commence full operations next month. The Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) is part of the growing Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory in a remote part of the state’s Mid West where radio frequency interference is virtually non-existent. Construction of the $51 million MWA was completed in December and it is now days away from being ready to start producing vast amounts of data. Continue reading

Radio astronomy cranks up in WA

A precursor to the international Square Kilometre Array (SKA) radio astronomy project in Western Australia’s Mid West region is being readied to commence full operations next month. The Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) is part of the growing Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory in a remote part of the state’s Mid West where radio frequency interference is virtually non-existent. Construction of the $51 million MWA was completed in December and it is now days away from being ready to start producing vast amounts of data Continue reading

Swiss nanotechnology pioneer Heinrich Rohrer dies

WOLLERAU, Switzerland, May 24 (UPI) — Heinrich Rohrer, a Swiss nanotechnology pioneer who helped invent the scanning tunneling microscope to observe and manipulate individual atoms, has died. An announcement Thursday from the IBM Research Laboratory in Zurich, where he had worked, said Rohrer died May 16 at his home in Wollerau, Switzerland, the Los Angeles Times reported. Heinrich Rohrer and colleague Gerd Binnig invented their improved version of the original 1930s electron microscope, calling it a scanning tunneling microscope, while working at the Zurich lab and together received the 1986 Nobel Prize in physics, an award they shared with physicist Ernst Ruska, who designed the first electron microscope Continue reading

Heinrich Rohrer dies at 79; a father of nanotechnology

The electron microscope revolutionized biology in the 1930s by providing magnifications thousands of times higher than that of light microscopes, allowing scientists to discern the inner workings of cells for the first time. But it was not nearly as helpful for materials scientists such as the ones constructing electronic circuits, who were more interested in surfaces Continue reading

Kerbal Space Program – Part 21: Space Station Construction – Video




Kerbal Space Program – Part 21: Space Station Construction With a mun landing under our belts; it's time to start building a space station that will be the foundation for all future expeditions. Continue reading

LMI Aerospace Announces Company to Present at the 2013 Wells Fargo Industrial and Construction Conference

ST. LOUIS, May 1, 2013 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — LMI Aerospace, Inc. (LMIA), a leading provider of design engineering services and supplier of structural assemblies, kits and components to the aerospace and defense markets, announced today it will be present at the Wells Fargo Securities 2013 Industrial and Construction Conference, which will be held at the New York Palace hotel on May 8 and 9, 2013 Continue reading

Liberty Power Supports the Children's Miracle Network in Charity Event

FT. LAUDERDALE, Fla., April 26, 2013 /PRNewswire/ –Liberty Power, the nation’s largest independent retail electric supplier, today announced their sponsorship in the 2013 Children’s Miracle Network 17th Annual Sporting Clays Charity Event which took place on April 6 in Hummelstown, Pennsylvania Continue reading

Russian Cosmonauts Take Spacewalk Outside Space Station

Two Russian cosmonauts ventured outside the International Space Station Friday (April 19) to begin a six-hour spacewalk to upgrade the orbiting lab with new experiments. Clad in their bulky Orlan spacesuits, veteran cosmonauts Pavel Vinogradov and Roman Romanenko began their spacewalk just after 10 a.m. EDT (1400 GMT) to install a space weather experiment to the space station’s hull and prepare the outpost for the arrival of a robotic cargo ship later this year. Continue reading

South Florida Biz TV – Freedom Builders Construction – Video




South Florida Biz TV – Freedom Builders Construction Freedom Builders Construction is a quality remodel and new construction contractor located in Dawson, WV. Bob Berchtold is the owner and believes that people.. Continue reading

North Liberty Seeks Public Input on West Side Park Project

NORTH LIBERTY, Iowa Officials with the city of North Liberty are hoping to get public input on plans for the city’s newest park. Though the North Liberty City Council will vote to approve a construction company for the first phase of the West Side Park project at tonight’s meeting, which includes building a 700 foot driveway into the park, seeding, grading and storm structures that will channel runoff into large pond the parks director is hopeful phases II and III of the project will be approved soon. City officials are hoping phase I of the West Side Park Project, a 40-acre plot of land along St Continue reading

Engaging the US astronomy community — NSF awards partnership-planning grant to TMT

Public release date: 18-Mar-2013 [ | E-mail | Share ] Contact: Gordon K. Squires squires@tmt.org 626-216-4257 California Institute of Technology Today the National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a cooperative agreement to the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) Observatory Corporation to explore a potential partnership between the organizations. The award is a milestone for the TMT project, initiating a broad dialog between TMT, the NSF and the United States’ astronomical community. Continue reading

Freedom to send sofa-making offshore

Furniture retailer Freedom is shutting down its factory in western Sydney as sofa production is shifted overseas. The company announced on Friday that it had decided to move its upholstery supply to offshore vendors and stop manufacturing products at its Kings Park facility from April. “This decision is not a reflection on the production, processes, quality or staff at the Sydney operation – it is due to a change in the upholstery supply strategy which Freedom has chosen to take,” Freedom said in a statement on Friday Continue reading