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NASA Pot O Gold Rush march 16th , 2014. #40 RAAW Motorsports Spec E30. Road Atlanta. – Video

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NASA Pot O Gold Rush march 16th , 2014. #40 RAAW Motorsports Spec E30. Road Atlanta.
Spec E30 Blitz race 03/16/2014. Qualified 1st in horrible weather conditions. Another GREAT battle with Sandro Espinosa. Was able to hold him off for the win.

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NASA celebrates 50 years of deep space exploration in Canberra

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NASA's top officials are in Canberra to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the space administration's Deep Space Network.

The Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex (CDSCC) at Tidbinbilla is one of three sites worldwide that facilitate the communication between NASA and its craft, satellites and astronauts across the solar system.

Over the past 50 years, the network has coordinated and controlled hundreds of manned and un-manned ventures into space including the first manned mission to the moon in 1969, the first fly-by of Neptune in the 1980s, and the Curiosity Mars Rover mission in 2012.

The Tidbinbilla facility, hidden among the hills near Canberra, has three giant antennas- one 70 metre-wide dish and two that are 32 metres wide - that help to coordinate the dozens of NASA missions running at any one time.

CDSCC director Dr Ed Kruzins says the Canberra site has contributed strongly to NASA's missions.

"The DSN (Deep Space Network) ensures that the critical science obtained by robotic spacecraft in extreme environments at incredible distances makes it back home to Earth," he said.

"We are tremendously proud of our ongoing contribution to NASA's exploration of space and of the job done by our predecessors."

The site is run by the CSIRO on behalf of NASA.

Dr David Williams leads information science research at CSIRO and in the past has run both the United Kingdom Space Agency and the European Space Agency.

He says the facility is a crucial part of the Deep Space Network.

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NASA Announces Small Business Industry Awards

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NASA announced Tuesday the recipients of the agency's Fiscal Year (FY) 2013 Small Business Industry Awards (SBIA) program at its inaugural Industry Forum. More than 30 nominations were received from all NASA centers.

The SBIA program recognizes the outstanding efforts of companies that support NASA in achieving its mission. Award categories include: Small Business Prime Contractor, Small Business Subcontractor, and Large Business Prime Contractor of the Year.

Under the leadership of Glenn A. Delgado, associate administrator for the agency's Small Business Program, more than 130 companies have received these respected awards since the program,s inception in FY 2008.

The FY 2013 NASA Agency-Level SBIA winners are:

*Healtheon, Inc., New OrleansAgency Small Business Prime Contractor of the Year

*Houston Precision Fasteners, HoustonAgency Small Business Subcontractor of the Year

*Honeywell Technology Solutions, Inc., Columbia, Md.Agency Large Business Prime Contractor of the Year

To learn more about NASA's FY 2013 SBIA winners and the Small Business Program at NASA, visit: http://www.osbp.nasa.gov

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NASA Awards Launch Services Contract for Solar Orbiter Mission

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NASA has selected United Launch Services LLC of Centennial, Colo., to launch the Solar Orbiter Collaboration mission to study the sun in July 2017. The Solar Orbiter will launch on an Atlas V 411 rocket from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida.

The total cost for NASA to launch the Solar Orbiter is approximately $172.7 million, which includes the launch service, spacecraft processing, payload integration, tracking, data and telemetry and other launch support requirements.

The Solar Orbiter is a collaborative mission between the European Space Agency and NASA to study the sun and its outer atmosphere. The spacecraft will observe the sun's atmosphere with high spatial resolution lenses and combine these observations with measurements taken in the environment surrounding the orbiter. It also will provide images and data covering the sun's polar regions.

NASA's Launch Services Program at the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida is responsible for management and oversight of the Atlas V launch services. NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., manages the program for the Heliophysics Division of the agency's Science Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters in Washington. United Launch Services operates as a subsidiary of United Launch Alliance.

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NASA sees some strength left in remnants of Tropical Cyclone Gillian

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5 hours ago by Hal Pierce TRMM passed above Gillian's remnants on Mar. 18, 2014, at 04:31 UTC and measured rain falling at a rate of over 86 mm/3.4 inches per hour in some intense storms. Credit: SSAI/NASA, Hal Pierce

NASA's TRMM satellite passed over the remnants of Tropical Cyclone Gillian and spotted some towering thunderstorms and areas of heavy rainfall, indicating there's still power in the former tropical storm.

Over the past few days former tropical cyclone Gillian's remnants moved from the Gulf of Carpentaria into the Timor Sea. The Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission satellite known as TRMM found a few strong convective thunderstorms when it passed above these remnants on March 18, 2014 at 0431 UTC. TRMM's Precipitation Radar (PR) instrument measured rain falling at a rate of over 86 mm/3.4 inches per hour in some intense storms.

The Joint Typhoon Warning Center or JWTC recently assigned Gillian's remnants a medium chance to regain tropical cyclone status. Asimulated 3-D image was made at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. using TRMM PR data. The 3-D image showed that several of the tallest thunderstorms in Gillian's remnants were reaching heights of over 15.75 km/9.8 miles. Radar reflectivity values of over 50.7 dBZ were being returned to TRMM from the heavy rainfall within these storms.

The Australian Bureau of Meteorology issued their last statement on Gillian's remnants on March 18 at 10:45 p.m. CST local time/Darwin. At that time, Ex-Tropical Cyclone Gillian was located 9.6 south latitude and 128.4 east longitude, about 330 km/205.1 miles east southeast of Dili and 525 km/326.2 miles east of Kupang and moving west at 24 kph/38.6 mph.

Gillian's remnants, now in the Southern Indian Ocean basin, are expected to continue moving to the west across the Timor Sea, away from the Northern Territory.

Explore further: TRMM satellite eyeing Tropical Cyclone Gillian's rebirth

Heavy rainfall rates and powerful towering thunderstorms were spotted in what appeared to be the rebirth process of Tropical Cyclone Gillian in the Gulf of Carpentaria between Australia's Northern Territory ...

NASA's Aqua satellite captured a visible image of Tropical Cyclone Gillian's remnants in the southern Arafura Sea today, as it passes north of Australia's "Top End."

NASA's TRMM satellite saw some towering thunderstorms in Tropical Cyclone Gillian before it made landfall over the Western Cape York Peninsula of Queensland, Australia. Gillian has been staying over land ...

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