NASA Advisory Council Science Committee Presentation 18 May 2006 Astrobiology – These scientific investigations support NASA’s strategic goals. In addition, this program is particularly attractive to the general public.– Science […]
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Saving Astrobiology at NASA (Part 4) Astrobiology 2.0
Astrobiology 2.0 Suggestions to the Astrobiology Community: As I mentioned earlier, the original astrobiology program at NASA was propelled into existence, in great part, by the ALH84001 announcement and the […]
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Saving Astrobiology at NASA (Part 3) Fighting Back
Fight back or just give up The space life science community, never known for taking risks or speaking out on controversial issues, either did not respond to the cuts when […]
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Saving Astrobiology at NASA (Part 2) Mapping the Way
Heading Out on a Journey Before the Map is Complete After the President’s Vision for Space Exploration (VSE) was announced in 2004 a series of preliminary efforts lead to a […]
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Saving Astrobiology at NASA (Part 1) Origins
Origins and Epiphanies In August 1996, while working at a large meeting of biologists in Seattle, I got a startling email from back east. Within minutes I was at a […]
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Planetary Science Summer School
Session 1: July 24 – July 28, 2006 (18 participants) Session 2: July 31 – August 4, 2006 (18 participants) Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California Applications are due May 15, […]
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Griffin In Science and Nature on Budget Cuts
NASA Budget: Crisis Deepens as Scientists Fail to Rejigger Space Research, Science “… and NASA Administrator Michael Griffin in accepts a portion of the blame. “I made a mistake,” Griffin […]
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NAC Planetary Science Subcommitee Report Comments on Astrobiology
Report of the NASA Advisory Council Planetary Science Subcommittee “The cuts to the astrobiology Program, apparently made in the absence of advice from the scientific community, are particularly damaging. First, […]
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What Griffin Thinks – and the Academy Says – About Astrobiology
Outspoken: Mike Griffin on the NASA budget,” Nature Deep cuts to NASA astrobiology – Griffin: “I did think astrobiology was less important than traditional space science. It had less intrinsic […]
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International Journal of Astrobiology Vol. 5 Issue 02 Now Online
Terrestrial models for extraterrestrial life: methanogens and halophiles at Martian temperatures, International Journal of Astrobiology On the plurality of inhabited worlds: a brief history of extraterrestrialism, International Journal of Astrobiology […]