NASA JSC Award: Lease of AIrcraft Hangar Facilities at the El Paso International Airport

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Award - Feb 21, 2013

Justification and Approval - Posted on Feb 21, 2013

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NAIS Posted Date: Feb 21, 2013 FedBizOpps Posted Date: Feb 21, 2013 Noncompetitive Action: Yes Recovery and Reinvestment Act Action: No Contract Award Date: Dec 13, 2013 Contract Award Number: NNJ13HA07C Solicitation Number: NNJ13384713R Contract Award Amount: 356000 Contractor: City of El Paso, DBA: El Paso International Airport, 6701 Convair Road, El Paso, TX 79925-1099 Contractor DUNS Number: 038801429 Classification Code: X -- Lease or rental of facilities NAICS Code: 488119 - Other Airport Operations

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NASA - White Sands Test Facility, P.O. Box 20, Las Cruces, NM 88004-0020

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Name: David L. Tellez Title: Contract Specialist Phone: 575-524-5133 Fax: 575-524-6793 Email: david.l.tellez@nasa.gov

NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION LYNDON B. JOHNSON SPACE CENTER JUSTIFICATION FOR OTHER THAN FULL AND OPEN COMPETITION PURSUANT TO 10 U.S.C. 2304(c)(2) Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) 6.302-2 LEASE OF AIRCRAFT HANGAR FACILITIES AT THE EL PASO INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT NNJ12HA38C

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NASA Creates Space Technology Mission Directorate

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Sat, Feb 23, 2013

NASA Administrator Charles Bolden has announced the creation of the Space Technology Mission Directorate. The directorate will be a catalyst for the creation of technologies and innovation needed to maintain NASA leadership in space while also benefiting America's economy.

The Space Technology Mission Directorate will develop the cross-cutting, advanced and pioneering new technologies needed for NASA's current and future missions, many of which also benefit America's aerospace industries, other government agencies, and address national needs. NASA will focus leadership responsibility for the existing Space Technology Program in the mission directorate, improving communication, management and accountability of critical technology investment activities across the agency. "A robust technology development program is vital to reaching new heights in space -- and sending American astronauts to new destinations like an asteroid and Mars," NASA Administrator Charles Bolden said. "A top priority of NASA is to invest in cross-cutting, transformational technologies. We focus on collaboration with industry and academia that advances our nation's space exploration and science goals while maintaining America's competitive edge in the new innovation economy."

Associate Administrator Michael Gazarik will head the organization. He previously served as the director of the Space Technology Program within the Office of the Chief Technologist. Serving as the Deputy Associate Administrator for Programs, James Reuther brings years of expertise in technology development, research and project management to oversee the nine programs within the mission directorate. Reuther previously served as deputy director of the Space Technology Program within the Office of the Chief Technologist. Dorothy Rasco, formerly the business manager of the Space Shuttle Program and the manager of the Space Shuttle Program Transition and Retirement, will join the directorate as the Deputy Associate Administrator for Management, assisting with the organizations strategic planning and management.

The Space Technology Mission Directorate will employ a portfolio approach, spanning a range of discipline areas and technology readiness levels. Research and technology development will take place within NASA centers, in academia, and industry, and leverage collaboration with other government and international partners.

NASA's Chief Technologist Mason Peck serves as the NASA administrator's principal advisor and advocate on matters concerning agencywide technology policy and programs. Peck's office will lead NASA's technology transfer and commercialization efforts, integrating, tracking, and coordinating all of NASA's technology investments across the agency. The Office of the Chief Technologist also will continue to develop strategic innovative partnerships, manage agency-level competitions and prize activities, as well as document and communicate the societal impacts of the agency's technology efforts.

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NASA Rover Curiosity Is First Robot To Drill Into Martian Surface

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Americas roving geologist on the Red Planet employed its drill on Mars for the first time and collected bits of powdered rock. Curiosity snapped a picture of the rock dust in the scoop with one of its own cameras.

Previous rovers have been able to study the surfaces of Martian rocks, but this is the first time a NASA rover has been able to study the interior of a rock, seeing geological traces that have been sealed away from harsh surface conditions.

Mars Curiosity engineer Louise Jandura told reporters during a phone conference on Wednesday that the maneuver is akin to unlocking a time capsule of evidence about the state of Mars going back 3 or 4 billion years.

Next, Curiosity will be analyzing the sample using several onboard instruments: the Collection and Handling for In-Situ Martian Rock Analysis, or Chimra; the Chemistry and Mineralogy device, or CheMin; and the Sample Analysis at Mars instrument, or SAM.

The sample taken comes from an area of veiny sedimentary rock that NASA has dubbed John Klein, after a Curiosity team member who died in 2011. In this part of the Martian plane, plates of bedrock are surrounded by soil, with spherical nodules and high-standing veins of material embedded in the rock.

All these features tell us the rocks in the area have a really rich geological history, Curiosity scientist Joel Hurowitz told reporters.

Preliminary data indicate the whitish powder from the rock drilling is likely calcium sulfate, although scientists wont know for sure until the full chemical analysis comes in.

The whitishness of the Martian rocks interior suggests that the inside of the rock didnt go through the oxidizing process that produces the Red Planets characteristic hue. Further geological data could show that ancient Mars looked very different from the crimson, rocky ball we see today.

One of the larger aspects of Curiositys mission is to investigate whether the environment on the Martian Gale Crater could have ever supported life. The mission has gone relatively smoothly since Curiositys seven minutes of terror descent last summer, which required precise timing and a newly developed sky crane to lower the rover to the surface.

The Curiosity team did encounter a small hiccup on this latest drilling operation -- software bugs caused the cleaning of the drill and the transference of the sample to take a bit longer than expected. But NASA scientists were able to work around the bugs, and Curiosity suffered no harm.

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Colorful Map of Mercury Snapped by NASA Spacecraft (Video)

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A new video by a NASA spacecraft orbiting Mercury is showing the closest planet to the sun like never before, revealing the rocky world as an oddly colorful planet.

Scientists created the new video of Mercury from space using images captured by NASA's Messenger spacecraft, which has been studying the small planet from orbit since 2011. The video shows a complete global map of Mercury as it spins on its axis and was assembled using thousands of photos into a single view.

"This view captures both compositional differences and differences in how long materials have been exposed at Mercury's surface," Messenger mission scientists at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Md., explained in an image description. The laboratory oversees the Messenger mission for NASA. "Young crater rays, arrayed radially around fresh impact craters, appear light blue or white."

The colors of Mercury in the new video are actually enhanced to better differentiate between the different kinds of terrain on the planet, the researchers said. Altogether, the video shows 99 percent of the surface of Mercury with a resolution of about 1 kilometer per pixel.

"Medium- and dark-blue areas are a geologic unit of Mercury's crust known as the 'low-reflectance material,' thought to be rich in a dark, opaque mineral," Messenger scientists wrote. "Tan areas are plains formed by eruption of highly fluid lavas."

NASA's Messenger spacecraft (the name is short for the MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry and Ranging) launched in 2004 and became the first spacecraft ever to orbit Mercurywhen it arrived at the planet in March 2011. The spacecraft's $446 million primary mission ended in 2012, and it is nearing the end of its first one-year mission extension.

During its two years orbiting Mercury, the Messenger spacecraft is expected to snap more than 168,000 photos of the planet, mission managers said.

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Eyewitness to Socialized Medicine and Gun Control in the Soviet Union – Part 1 of 3 – Video

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Eyewitness to Socialized Medicine and Gun Control in the Soviet Union - Part 1 of 3
Yule Gurreau describes his experience of socialized medicine and gun control living in the Soviet Union. His testimony is particularly valuable, as politicians in our own country are now attempting to impose the same upon us today. Yule gives us his account in his own amusing style and sense of humor. We are glad to have him with us today in the USA. KEYWORDS: medicine, firearms, guns, news, gun control, socialized medicine, legislation, russia, dianne feinstein, assault weapons, magazine ban, California, second amendment, constitution, sheriffs, truth movement, eyewitness, congress, history, schools, barack obama, gun confiscation, atascadero, speech, tea party, protest, day of resistance, infowars, NRA, GOA, USSR, soviet union, communism, testimony, demonstration, right to bear arms, environment, NWO, liberty, libertarian, democrat, republican, america, american, meeting, obamacare, reality, medical, unconstitutional, tyranny, socialism

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Eyewitness to Socialized Medicine and Gun Control in the Soviet Union – Part 2 of 3 – Video

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Eyewitness to Socialized Medicine and Gun Control in the Soviet Union - Part 2 of 3
Yule Gurreau describes his experience of socialized medicine and gun control living in the Soviet Union. His testimony is particularly valuable, as politicians in our own country are now attempting to impose the same upon us today. Yule gives us his account in his own amusing style and sense of humor. We are glad to have him with us today in the USA. KEYWORDS: medicine, firearms, guns, news, gun control, socialized medicine, legislation, russia, dianne feinstein, assault weapons, magazine ban, California, second amendment, constitution, sheriffs, truth movement, eyewitness, congress, history, schools, barack obama, gun confiscation, atascadero, speech, tea party, protest, day of resistance, infowars, NRA, GOA, USSR, soviet union, communism, testimony, demonstration, right to bear arms, environment, NWO, liberty, libertarian, democrat, republican, america, american, meeting, obamacare, reality, medical, unconstitutional, tyranny, socialism

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Eyewitness to Socialized Medicine and Gun Control in the Soviet Union – Part 3 of 3 – Video

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On Wednesday February 27th My Medicine TV premieres "The Medicine Men"

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On Wednesday February 27th My Medicine TV premieres "The Medicine Men" weeknight prime-time show, featuring Dr. A. J. Farshchian.

(PRWEB) February 23, 2013

Farshchian also appeared on CNN Headline News earlier last year.

Farshchian, who has been mostly behind the camera creating shows like "The Knee Diaries," or "Chi Ga, an exercise video," now will be hosting a live show.

When asked whether Farshchian will return to CNN Headline News he said, "That's a great question. We'll see, at this point I will be hosting a live show on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays at 5:30."

As for what he wants the show to be, Farshchian says, "The basic notion is setting the record straight, getting it right and asking the right question.

"We're going to do that with interviews with experts, panels, celebrities, whatever it might be to create good conversation on that topic."

The show will broadcast live, and in live TV anything goes. A.J. Farshchian MD says, "I don't think we could avoid the advancements in stem cells and regenerative medicine. I would talk to patients, people who've been in pain and are now out, and have them talk about what it feels like to have been in that state."

As a practicing orthopedic regenerative medicine physician, Farshchian wants to get behind the headlines to the motivations of the news makers.

Roman Garcia, an expert in the field of physical therapy and a celebrity among his patients, will be joining the show to co-host.

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West Liberty Men Keep Pedal Down

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WEST LIBERTY - The more than 1,500 fans that attended West Liberty's ASRC on Saturday expected to see another tightly contested battle between the No. 3-ranked Hilltoppers and Wheeling Jesuit.

What they got was a 25-point blowout as Jesuit made the trek back down Route 88 after dropping a 101-76 decision.

The difference between this game and the five-point Hilltopper victory on Jesuit's campus a month ago?

Photo by Matt Watson

West Liberty guard Tim Hausfeld shoots a deep 3-pointer as Wheeling Jesuit defender Recardo Gaddy gets a hand up.

''They play better at home,'' Cardinals coach Danny Sancomb said. ''Most teams do.''

The West Virgina Conference champions led by double digits for the majority of the second half and three Hilltoppers finished with double-doubles as West Liberty coasted to a victory against county rival Wheeling Jesuit in a mutual regular-season closer.

''We just didn't play particularly well,'' Sancomb said. ''West Liberty did a good job, of course, but we kind of ran out of gas in the second half. With our double-overtime win Thursday against Charleston, we weren't very sharp (Saturday), even a little bit sluggish for a game in this atmosphere.''

The Cardinals (17-9 overall, 14-8 WVC) had not lost since falling to West Liberty on Jan. 26 and brought an eight-game winning streak into Saturday's contest against the newly minted four-time champs, who boasted a 12-game roll of their own.

After trading baskets to begin the game, the Hilltoppers (27-1, 21-1) used a 17-6 run capped by an Alex Falk layup that the senior All-American made almost lying on his back. Following the ensuing free throw, WLU led 23-14, however, after a 1-and-1 by Justin Fritts, the score was tied at 34-34 with 2:22 remaining in the half.

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Speaks, Liberty down Austin Peay 79-73 in OT

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LYNCHBURG, Va. (AP) -- Tavares Speaks scored a team-high 18 points as Liberty beat Austin Peay 79-73 Saturday in overtime.

Davon Marshall scored 16 and JR Coronado added 10 and a career-high 18 boards for Liberty (10-19).

Marshall moved into fourth place all-time in 3-point field goals made for Liberty.

After Coronado's layup with 1:15 remaining pushed Liberty's lead to 65-62, Travis Betran connected from behind the arc to tie the game at 65-all with 26 seconds left. Marshall's missed 3-pointer with 2 seconds left sent the game into overtime.

Liberty scored the first six points of the extra period - Speaks made a jumper followed by layups from Marshall and Sanders - to go up 71-65 with 3:26 remaining.

Austin Peay (7-22) made it 71-69 on Chris Horton's free throw, but the Flames made eight free throws in the final 1:28 to seal the victory.

Anthony Campbell scored 21 points for the Governors.

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Libertarianism: Not a Fan – Video

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Hint: I #39;m not too fond of it. In this video I list my top 5 reasons for disliking libertarianism. I could easily write a book on the subject, so this video isn #39;t entirely fair. I also know I leave myself open to a lot of counter arguments, which is fine, so feel free to leave a video response. I don #39;t mind differing opinions 🙂

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Fmr. UN Ambassador John Bolton Dares Libertarian Students To Defend The Confederacy – Video

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Fmr. UN Ambassador John Bolton Dares Libertarian Students To Defend The Confederacy
And relishes the death of hundreds of thousands of American civilians without trial on TV. "If centralism is ultimately to prevail; if our entire system of free Institutions as established by our common ancestors is to be subverted, and an Empire is to be established in their stead; if that is to be the last scene of the great tragic drama now being enacted: then, be assured, that we of the South will be acquitted, not only in our own consciences, but in the judgment of mankind, of all responsibility for so terrible a catastrophe, and from all guilt of so great a crime against humanity." - Alexander Stephens, Vice President of the Confederate States of America

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John Stossel ~ The Libertarian Congressman – Video

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Ann Coulter Battles Stossel, Calls Libertarians ‘Pussies,’ And Gets Booed By Room Full Of Students

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What do you get when you invite outspoken conservative firebrand Ann Coulter to debate outspoken libertarian John Stossel in front of an audience of 1,000+ libertarian students?

Fireworks, thats what.

On tonights episode of Fox Business Networks Stossel, Coulter got into a heated debate with Stossel and the students over a variety of social issues, in the process calling libertarians pussies and receiving lots of jeering for her remarks.

Once a year, Stossel (full disclosure: my former boss) tapes a show at the International Students for Liberty Conference in Washington, D.C. He typically brings on friendly libertarian guests, like presidential candidate Gary Johnson, Reason magazine star Nick Gillespie, Cato Institute VP David Boaz, or up-and-coming Rep. Justin Amash (R-MI).

But just to show that the 1,400+ students are not beholden to either major political party, a liberal and a conservative will also join the show and mix things up. This year, Coulter was that conservative. And boy, did things get heated.

The initial conversation between Stossel and Coulter began as a light squabble over whether the War in Iraq was truly justified. The war was certainly worth the cost because Saddam Hussein was definitely looking for uranium from Niger, she said. Her remarks were met with tepid boos and confusion, but the room was mostly pleasant at that point.

But when the subject turned the the legalizing drugs, things quickly became tense. Libertarians and pot, Coulter said with a dismissive laugh.

This is why people think libertarians are pussies, she said. Yes, it was bleeped. But I was there in person, so I know she said it. Her explanation:

Were living in a country that is 70-percent socialist, the government takes 60 percent of your money. They are taking care of your health care, of your pensions. Theyre telling you who you can hire, what the regulations will be. And you want to suck up to your little liberal friends and say, Oh, but we want to legalize pot. You know, if youre a little more manly you would tell them what your position on employment discrimination is. How about that? But its always We want to legalize pot.

Stossel then asked: Why cant gays get married?

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