Michael Angelo Le Houx Seeks to Simplify Everyday Problems Through Spirituality in New Book

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In his new book, Far More than We Think: Making Sense of Spirituality (published by Balboa Press), author Michael Angelo Le Houx offers readers a fusion of contemporary and ancient wisdom, scientific fact and personal experience to help prove that everyone is capable of far more than they think.

Le Houx delicately yet honestly addresses the challenges of his former life, through seven compelling sections that build to a conclusion that there is more to existence than may have been previously thought possible.

Far More than We Think is an intimate, informative book that helps readers from a variety of backgrounds to better understand the spiritual science behind the troubles that many face in life. Le Houx has given his audience a guide to quiet the mind so that spirit, love and true understanding can begin to shine through.

If anybody ever thought that there must be more to life than their current experience so far, then this book could mark an important turning point, Le Houx says.

Far More than We Think By Michael Angelo Le Houx Hardcover | 6 x 9 in | 360 pages | ISBN 9781452584904 Softcover | 6 x 9 in | 360 pages | ISBN 9781452584881 E-Book | ISBN 9781452584898 Available at Amazon and Barnes & Noble

About the Author Michael Angelo Le Houx is an accountant, former finance director and recovering alcoholic who is committed to helping others fulfill their true potential. He has tasted the elixir of success and achievement in his life and has also suffered the lonely despair of depression and alcoholism. His reflections on spirituality are well-researched and potentially of widespread significance. More information is available at http://youtu.be/cTPzKViET38.

Balboa Press, a division of Hay House, Inc. a leading provider in publishing products that specialize in self-help and the mind, body, and spirit genres. Through an alliance with indie book publishing leader Author Solutions, LLC, authors benefit from the leadership of Hay House Publishing and the speed-to-market advantages of the self-publishing model. For more information, visit balboapress.com. To start publishing your book with Balboa Press, call 877-407-4847 today. For the latest, follow @balboapress on Twitter. ###

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U.S.-Russia tension could affect space station, satellites

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The escalating tension between the U.S. and Russia over Ukraine has reached a new altitude: space.

In the aftermath of the Cold War, the two superpowers set aside their mistrust and agreed to build a massive orbiting outpost as a symbol of a new era of cooperation in space exploration. But now that partnership is under serious strain.

After Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin this week said his nation might no longer allow U.S. astronauts access to its launch vehicles and may use the International Space Station without American participation, the House Science, Space and Technology Committee pressed NASA for answers about the how the U.S. could respond.

Since the retirement of the U.S. space shuttle fleet, Russia has provided launches for U.S. astronauts, at $71 million each.

"Dropping out of ISS is a high-profile move on Russia's part," said Marco A. Caceres, space analyst for the aerospace research firm Teal Group Corp. of Fairfax, Va. "They're pulling the rug out from under the Americans. It's a move of national pride that plays well in Russia."

Indeed, after railing against U.S. sanctions in response to Russia's annexation of Ukraine's Crimea region, Rogozin, chief of the Russian space and defense sectors, suggested that "the U.S.A. ... bring their astronauts to the International Space Station using a trampoline."

Rogozin's threat is too significant for the U.S. to ignore, said Loren B. Thompson, an aerospace and defense expert at the Lexington Institute, a Washington-based think tank.

"The central assumptions of the Obama administration space policy are no longer valid," he said.

The space station is just one example of how the trouble in Ukraine is undermining aerospace trade between the two leaders in space travel. Russia has threatened to suspend exports of rocket engines, which are used to help launch U.S. Air Force satellites. And it has threatened to suspend cooperation on navigational systems that depend on outposts in Russia.

The U.S. helped fund the Russian program in the aftermath of the collapse of the Soviet Union. And when the shuttle Columbia burned up on reentry in 2003, killing seven, the Russians agreed to help ferry U.S. astronauts back and forth to space.

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Hubble catches Jupiter's Great Red Spot in the act of shrinking

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The Great Red Spot on Jupiter is a little less great than it used to be.

New images of the spot taken in April by the Hubble Space Telescope indicate that its about 10,250 miles across, according to Amy Simon, an expert on Jupiters atmosphere at NASAs Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. Thats the smallest its been since astronomers began keeping track of it more than 100 years ago.

The Great Red Spot is actually a giant anticyclonic storm thats bigger than Earth. Inside the storm, winds can reach speeds of several hundred kilometers per hour, according to the European Space Agencys Hubble team.

Hubbles latest observations show that very small eddies are feeding into the storm, Simon said in a statement from NASA. The eddies may be responsible for the accelerated change by altering the internal dynamics and energy of the Great Red Spot, she said.

In the late 1800s, astronomers estimated that the storm was 25,500 miles wide big enough to fit three Earths side by side. By the time Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 flew by in 1979, the spot was only 14,500 miles across.

Hubble, which launched in 1990, took a picture of the Great Red Spot in 1995 that showed the storm was slightly more than 13,020 miles wide. Another photo from 2009 pegged it at only 11,130 miles wide, according to NASA.

The shrinking accelerated in 2012, with the storm losing about 580 miles each year. In the process, the once-oval spot has become more circular, NASA says.

Simon says she plans to investigate whether the eddies Hubble witnessed are changing the storms momentum. In the meantime, the source of the spots shrinking remains a mystery.

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Virgin Galactic chief pilot ready to fly 1st paying customers to space

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When Virgin Galactics first commercial flight accelerates to space carrying Richard Branson, the billionaire owner of the company, and his family, David Mackay is likely to be at the controls.

Mackay, 57, is the chief pilot of the worlds first airline to space, and company officials are increasingly confident that the inaugural flight will lift off from Spaceport America near Truth or Consequences, N.M., this year. More than 700 people have bought flight tickets, which now sell for $250,000 each.

It looks like everything is coming together, said Mackay, in a mellow Scottish brogue.

Mackay is a fitting aviator for a new era of space travel. He has flown some of the oldest and slowest planes, including a 1909 Blriot, the type that made the first flight across the English Channel. Hes also flown 747s and British Harrier jets. With Virgin Galactic, he will be going much faster and higher.

Growing up in Scotland in the 1960s, Mackay was captivated by NASAs push to put astronauts on the moon. Royal Air Force jets regularly roared above Helmsdale, the village on the east coast of Scotland where he lived, training to fly low over hilly terrain. When he learned that NASAs astronauts were mostly former military test pilots, Mackay plotted a career path: He would fly Royal Air Force fighter jets, become a test pilot and then an astronaut to go to the moon and Mars.

That Britain did not have a space program did not deter him.

In the navet of youth, I didnt know that, he said. I thought by the time I was in my 20s or early 30s, this was something that would be routine.

Mackay did join the RAF and become a test pilot. But NASA astronauts stopped going to the moon after 1972, and Mackay could not follow in their footsteps. When he reached his mid-30s, he, like most test pilots, moved to a managerial position behind a desk, which was not where he wanted to be.

He left the RAF in 1995 and became a pilot for Virgin Atlantic, the British airline founded by Branson a job that offered unexpected career opportunities.

Virgin sponsored the successful effort by the billionaire and adventurer Steve Fossett to become the first person to fly solo and nonstop around the world without refueling. Mackay traveled to Mojave, Calif., in 2004 to meet with Burt Rutan, the designer of Fossetts airplane, the GlobalFlyer, and to review the technical documentation. (Fossett died in a plane crash in California in 2007.)

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US-Russia tension could affect space station, Air Force satellites

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The escalating tensions between the U.S. and Russia over Ukraine have reached a new altitude: space.

In the aftermath of the Cold War, the two super powers set aside their mistrust and agreed to build a massive orbiting outpost as a symbol of a new era of cooperation in space exploration. But now that partnership is under serious strain.

After Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin this week said his nation might no longer allow U.S. astronauts access to its launch vehicles and may use the International Space Station without American participation, the House Science, Space and Technology Committee on Thursday pressed NASA for answers about the how the U.S. could respond.

Since the retirement of the space shuttle, Russia has provided launches for U.S. astronauts, for $71 million each.

Dropping out of ISS is a high-profile move on Russias part, said Marco A. Caceres, space analyst for the aerospace research firm Teal Group Corp. of Fairfax, Va. Theyre pulling the rug out from under the Americans. Its a move of national pride that plays well in Russia.

Indeed, after railing against U.S. sanctions in response to Russias annexation of Crimea, Rogozin, chief of the Russian space and defense sectors, suggested that the U.S.A. ... bring their astronauts to the International Space Station using a trampoline.

Rogozins threat is too significant for the U.S. to ignore, said Loren B. Thompson, an aerospace and defense expert at the Lexington Institute, a Washington-based think tank.

The central assumptions of the Obama administration space policy are no longer valid, he said.

The space station is just one example of how the mess in Ukraine is undermining aerospace trade between the two leaders in space travel. Russia has threatened to suspend exports of rocket engines, which are used to help launch U.S. Air Force satellites. And it has threatened to suspend cooperation on navigational systems that depend on outposts in Russia.

The U.S. helped fund the Russian program in the aftermath of the collapse of the Soviet Union. And when the shuttle Columbia burned up on re-entry in 2003, killing seven, the Russians agreed to help ferry U.S. astronauts back and forth to space.

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To Space or Not to Space? Virgin Galactic Addresses the Question

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Virgin Galactic's CEO says his company is aiming to take passengers beyond 62 miles (100 kilometers) in altitude, but they'll be counted as space travelers if they just rise above the 50-mile mark.

That 12-mile span highlights differences in definitions of the outer-space boundary, as well as questions about the initial capabilities of Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo rocket plane. The spacecraft is expected to go through a series of flight tests over the coming months, setting the stage for commercial passenger operations.

Does going up a mere 50 miles count as spaceflight? That question was raised in a series of reports over the past week that took a close look at Virgin Galactic's policy.

100 kilometers vs. 50 miles

According to the International Aeronautical Federation, a flight goes astronautical when it crosses the 100-kilometer line, also known as the Karman Line. That was also the definition of space used for the $10 million Ansari X Prize a decade ago, and Virgin Galactic has referred to the 100-kilometer definition numerous times since then.

However, the U.S. military has historically awarded astronaut wings to pilots who rose above 50 miles (80 kilometers) during the 1960s. NASA followed that definition for its X-15 test pilots although three of those pilots didn't get their astronaut wings until 2005, 40 years after they flew. (One of them, Bill Dana, died last week at the age of 83.)

It's the 50-mile definition, rather than the 100-kilometer definition, that's written into the formal agreements for Virgin Galactic's customers. "Fifty miles has been in there from the start," George T. Whitesides, Virgin Galactic's chief executive officer, told NBC News on Friday.

More than 700 customers have paid as much as $250,000 for the space experience which would give them several minutes of weightlessness, a view of the curving Earth beneath the black sky of space, and a roller-coaster re-entry that involves as much as 6 G's of acceleration. That experience would be much the same at 50 miles as at 62 miles, though with somewhat less time spent in zero-G.

Step-by-step approach

Whitesides said Virgin Galactic is targeting the 100-kilometer altitude and beyond, but added that "we have to prove that out in our test program."

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Assembling and Launching Boeings CST-100 Private Space Taxi One on One Interview with Chris Ferguson, Last Shuttle …

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Boeing CST-100 manned space capsule in free flight in low Earth orbit will transport astronaut crews to the International Space Station. Credit: Boeing Story updated

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL Boeing expects to begin assembly operations of our commercial CST-100 manned capsule soon at the Kennedy Space Center, Chris Ferguson, commander of NASAs final shuttle flight and now director of Boeings Crew and Mission Operations told Universe Today in an exclusive one-on-one interview about Boeings space efforts. In part 1, Ferguson described the maiden orbital test flights to the ISS set for 2017 here.

In part 2, we focus our discussion on Boeings strategy for building and launching the CST-100 space taxi as a truly commercial space endeavor.

To begin I asked; Where will Boeing build the CST-100?

The CST-100 will be manufactured at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida inside a former shuttle hanger known as Orbiter Processing Facility 3, or OPF-3, which is now [transformed into] a Boeing processing facility, Ferguson told me. Over 300 people will be employed.

Chris Ferguson, last Space Shuttle Atlantis commander, tests the Boeing CST-100 capsule which may fly US astronauts to the International Space Station in 2017. Ferguson is now Boeings director of Crew and Mission Operations for the Commercial Crew Program vying for NASA funding. Credit: NASA/Boeing

During the shuttle era, all three of NASAs Orbiter Processing Facilities (OPFs) were a constant beehive of activity for thousands of shuttle workers busily refurbishing the majestic orbiters for their next missions to space. But following Fergusons final flight on the STS-135 mission to the ISS in 2011, NASA sought new uses for the now dormant facilities.

So Boeing signed a lease for OPF-3 with Space Florida, a state agency that spent some $20 million modernizing the approximately 64,000 square foot hanger for manufacturing by ripping out all the no longer needed shuttle era scaffolding, hardware and equipment previously used to process the orbiters between orbital missions.

Boeing takes over the OPF-3 lease in late June 2014 following an official handover ceremony from Space Florida. Assembly begins soon thereafter.

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Space News: Jupiter's great red spot is shrinking

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Jupiter's trademark Great Red Spot a swirling anti-cyclonic storm larger than Earth has shrunk to its smallest size ever measured.

According to Amy Simon of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, recent NASA Hubble Space Telescope observations confirm the Great Red Spot now is approximately 10,250 miles across, less than half the size of some historical measurements. Astronomers have followed this downsizing since the 1930s.

Historic observations as far back as the late 1800s gauged the storm to be as large as 25,500 miles on its long axis.

NASA Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 flybys of Jupiter in 1979 measured it to be 14,500 miles across.

In 1995, a Hubble photo showed the long axis of the spot at an estimated 13,020 miles across. And in a 2009 photo, it was measured at 11,130 miles across.

Beginning in 2012, amateur observations revealed a noticeable increase in the rate at which the spot is shrinking by 580 miles per year changing its shape from an oval to a circle.

In our new observations it is apparent very small eddies are feeding into the storm, said Simon. We hypothesized these may be responsible for the accelerated change by altering the internal dynamics and energy of the Great Red Spot.

Simon's team plans to study the motions of the small eddies and the internal dynamics of the storm to determine whether these eddies can feed or sap momentum entering the upwelling vortex, resulting in this yet unexplained shrinkage.

NASA's Juno spacecraft is hurtling toward Jupiter now, due to reach the giant planet in July 2016. Point-blank examination by Juno's instruments will undoubtedly help unravel the mystery. Stay tuned for updates from both Hubble and Juno.

The Hubble Space Telescope is a project of international cooperation between NASA and the European Space Agency. Goddard Space Flight Center manages the telescope.

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Red Sox-Tigers Live: Rick Porcello Shuts Down Sox; Boston Falls 6-1 At Fenway

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Final, Tigers 6-1: The Tigers have clinched this series, regardless of Sundays outcome.

Rick Porcello tossed eight solid innings Saturday to guide the Tigers to a 6-1 win over the Red Sox at Fenway Park. Detroit now has taken the first two games of this weekends three-game set, as Max Scherzer spearheaded Fridays impressive display of pitching by the Tigers.

Porcello gave up just one run on six hits while earning his seventh win of the season. The right-hander struck out four, walked one and threw 110 pitches (71 strikes).

John Lackey did not fare as well. The Red Sox starter lasted 5 1/3 innings and gave up six runs (five earned) on nine hits. He struck out four, walked two and threw 96 pitches (70 strikes).

The Red Soxs lone run came in the fifth inning on Xander Bogaerts first career home run at Fenway Park. The 21-year-olds previous two big leaguer homers both came on the road.

The Red Sox finished Saturdays game 0-for-4 with runners in scoring position, making them 0-for-9 in such situations this series. Boston left six men on base.

Jake Peavy and Anibal Sanchez will clash in a nationally televised showdown Sunday. The Red Sox are looking to avoid their first four-game losing streak since 2012, and the first pitch is scheduled for 8:05 p.m.

Mid 9th, Tigers 6-1: The Red Sox are three outs away from being dealt their third straight loss.

Miguel Cabrera drilled a two-out double in the ninth inning. Victor Martinez threatened to knock him in with a drive toward the right-center field gap, but Grady Sizemore made an impressive running grab to keep Bostons deficit at five runs.

Phil Coke will look to close out the Red Sox in the ninth inning after eight fantastic frames from Tigers starter Rick Porcello. Mike Napoli, Sizemore and Mike Carp are due up for Boston, although itll require a lot more than just those three guys for a comeback in this one.

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