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Wife of RFK Jr. charged in NY with drunken driving

The wife of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was charged with drunken driving after a police officer saw her run over a curb outside a suburban school, authorities said Tuesday.

Police had responded to the Kennedy home twice in the week before the arrest but said no crimes had been committed there.

Mary Richardson Kennedy, 50, was arrested Saturday with a blood-alcohol level of 0.11 percent, Sgt. Matt Dunn said. The legal limit is 0.08 percent.

Kennedy told police she was at the school in Bedford, about 45 miles north of New York City, to pick up people from a carnival, authorities said.

Officers had visited the Kennedy home twice in the last week, on May 10 and May 13, but Lt. Jeff Dickan said those visits were unrelated to the arrest.

In one call, Kennedy reported a dispute between children, Dickan said. The other visit resulted in a state domestic incident report, but there were “no crimes committed, no report of assault, no arrests and no need for follow-up,” Dickan said. He declined to elaborate.
Officers had visited the Kennedy home twice in the last week, on May 10 and May 13, but Lt. Jeff Dickan said those visits were unrelated to the arrest.

In one call, Kennedy reported a dispute between children, Dickan said. The other visit resulted in a state domestic incident report, but there were “no crimes committed, no report of assault, no arrests and no need for follow-up,” Dickan said. He declined to elaborate.

Police would not say whether anyone else was in the car when Kennedy was arrested or if she had a lawyer. There was no phone listing for the Kennedy home.

Robert Kennedy Jr. is the son of former Sen. Robert Kennedy and nephew of President John F. Kennedy. He did not immediately return a call to his White Plains office, where he works as an environmental attorney.

Discovery shuttle makes safe return to Earth

HOUSTON: Shuttle Discovery touched down Tuesday at NASA”s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, making a safe return to Earth after a two-week resupply mission to the International Space Station.

NASA”s Mission Control gave Discovery”s astronauts approval for the landing at 9:08 am (1308 GMT) after repeated delays on Monday and earlier Tuesday due to rain and fog.

Discovery readies return to Earth unhampered by ash cloud

HOUSTON: Discovery astronauts prepare to return to Earth Monday ending a successful supply mission to the International Space Station that leaves NASA”s soon-to-retire shuttle program with just three more flights.

The crew aims for touchdown at NASA”s Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 1248 GMT with no threat from the huge ash cloud from an erupting Icelandic volcano that has shut down air traffic over Europe, the US space agency said.

“Iceland”s erupting volcano won”t affect Discovery”s landing Mon (Monday). Reentry course isn”t near ash cloud,” read a message from the Kennedy Space Center on micro-blogging service Twitter.

Over a 14-day mission, Discovery”s seven-member crew delivered nearly eight tons of scientific equipment and other supplies intended to fortify the orbiting science laboratory for operations beyond NASA”s final shuttle launch.

If scheduling holds, Discovery will lift off for the space station on September 16 for the final flight of the remaining three shuttles.

The United States will then rely on Russia for transportation of astronauts to the station until a new fleet of commercial space taxis is operating, a controversial policy that President Barack Obama re-enforced during a visit to the shuttle”s Florida landing site last week.

Monday”s forecast at Cape Canaveral includes overcast skies and a chance of showers, but shuttle commander Alan Poindexter and his crew have a backup landing opportunity in Florida later in the morning at 1423 GMT.

The astronauts took power conservation measures Sunday in case Mother Nature delays their return by a day.

“The weather situation is always fluid, and we will keep watching it,” Mission Control in Houston told Discovery.

The shuttle is provisioned to remain in orbit until Wednesday if necessary, said Bryan Lunney, NASA”s supervising flight director.

Monday”s descent will follow a rare northwest to southeast course over the United States, leaving a glowing contrail visible to observers across several states should skies remain clear.

Discovery lifted off on April 5. The astronauts docked with the space station two days later, overcoming a communications antenna failure that crippled their rendezvous radar.

The linkup united 13 US, Russian and Japanese astronauts from the two craft for 10 days. Four were females, the most women in space at one time.

Over the course of three spacewalks, astronauts replaced a bulky external coolant tank. The ammonia reservoir circulates a coolant through outstretched radiators to disperse the heat generated by the station”s internal electronics, including the life-support systems.

The science hardware delivered by Discovery included an Earth observations rack to hold cameras and spectral scanners for studies of the atmosphere, land forms, coastal areas as well as weather-induced crop damage. Another new experiment will measure changes in muscle and joint health of astronauts during their long exposures to weightlessness.

A new freezer will hold blood and other specimens collected for experiments.

During his April 15 visit to Kennedy, Obama made no mention of a shuttle program extension, disappointing some in Congress and those employed by the multi-billion-dollar space flight program.

At NASA, the looming reality that the United States will soon be unable to launch its own astronauts for the first time in three decades has begun to sink in.

“I”m sure that it”s running through people”s minds, but we are professionals and we are working really hard on the missions in front of us,” said Richard Jones, lead NASA flight director for the Discovery mission.

“As we get closer, that will be forefront on people”s minds.”

Discovery”s pilot Jim Dutton, who was making his first and possibly last space flight, echoed the sentiments.

“I think everyone feels a little bittersweet,” Dutton said. “We love the shuttle, but we have to press on into the future.”

Obama targets Mars

CAPE CANAVERAL: US President Barack Obama says it should be possible to send astronauts to orbit the planet Mars by the mid-2030s and return them safely to Earth.

The US president made the claim in a major speech to staff and guests at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

He was laying out the details of his new policy for the US space agency.

Mr Obama said he was giving Nasa challenging goals and the funding needed to achieve them, including an extra $6bn over the next five years.

“By 2025, we expect new spacecraft designed for long journeys to allow us to begin the first-ever crewed missions beyond the Moon into deep space,” he told his audience. “So we”ll start – we”ll start by sending astronauts to an asteroid for the first time in history.”

And then he added: “By the mid-2030s, I believe we can send humans to orbit Mars and return them safely to Earth. And a landing on Mars will follow. And I expect to be around to see it.”

Barack Obama Rejects NASA’s Moon Mission

Barack Obama Rejects NASA’s Moon Mission, US President Barack Obama’s proposed budget gives NASA a 6 billion U.S. dollar 5-year boost but aborts early attempts to return to the moon and turns over space transportation to commercial companies.
The space agency’s budget would grow to 19 billion US dollars in 2011 under the proposed budget, with an emphasis on science and less spent on space exploration. But the plan ends the Constellation program, initially intended to return US astronauts to the moon by 2020. The new budget, which is subject to change by Congress, also extends operations at the International Space Station past its planned retirement date of 2016, suggesting such potential additions as inflatable space habitats. Obama’s proposal hands over more space operations to the commercial sector, saying it will create thousands of new jobs and hold costs down. The budget also proposes a re-vamp of the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, where staff have feared major cutbacks, as part of making NASA more efficient.

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Barack Obama Rejects NASA’s Moon Mission was first posted on February 2, 2010 at 11:35 am.

Dave Brubeck,Kennedy Center Honors Bruce Springsteen

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Nasa Rocket Launch today

News updates about Nasa Rocket Launch today,  NASA on Tuesday delayed the test flight of an unmanned prototype moon rocket due to poor weather.

The attempt to launch the 327-foot (100-meter) Ares 1-X rocket was reset for 8 a.m. EDT on Wednesday.

The flight is the centerpiece of a $445 million NASA technology demonstration program aimed at replacing the space shuttles. The shuttles, which began flying in 1981, are due to be retired next year after six more flights to complete construction of the International Space Station.

NASA planned to launch the demo rocket on Tuesday but was stymied by cloudy skies over the Kennedy Space Center and by a boat that wandered into the launch danger zone. Pilots and mariners who violate restricted zones can face jail terms and fines of up to $250,000.

Ares 1-X, currently the world’s tallest rocket, is a modified space shuttle booster outfitted with a faux second stage and a simulated Orion crew capsule. It is the first new rocket developed by NASA since the 1970s-era space shuttle. The test flight is intended to verify computer models used to design rockets.

Ares 1-X’s motor was made by Alliant Techsystems Inc as part of a $1.8 billion Ares development contract for NASA.

NASA hopes to develop two Ares rockets to return U.S. astronauts to the moon sometime in the 2020s. The program, however, is under review.

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Nasa Rocket Launch today was first posted on October 27, 2009 at 11:37 pm.

Ares I-X rocket ready to launch

NASA’s new Ares rocket started its slow journey to the launch pad in Florida on Tuesday. The Ares I-X rocket left the vehicle assembly building early on Tuesday morning standing on a slow-moving crawler-transporter headed for Launch Pad 39-b at the Kennedy Space Center.

Moving at a top speed of 0.8 miles per hour, the re-scheduled deployment will take approximately seven hours to cover the 4.2 miles to the pad. The rollout of Ares I-X was set originally for Monday, however during testing on October 14, engineers detected a nitrogen gas leak in an accumulator located in the aft skirt of the rocket. The accumulator, which absorbs hydraulic pressure spikes as the system operates, was replaced and successfully retested. NASA management is assessing what effect, if any, this delayed rollout will have on the targeted launch date. The 327-foot rocket is scheduled to lift off on October 27 for its first suborbital test flight.

NASA officials will use this flight to gauge flight characteristics, examine hardware and observe ground operations associated with the launch. The Ares will carry no payload during this first flight.

If the U.S. President Barack Obama’s administration gives the green light to the Ares programme, the rocket is expected to replace the Space Shuttle payload system and could begin carrying astronauts and equipment to the International Space Station within five years, with plans to act as the delivery system for any manned lunar attempts or further space exploration.

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Ares I-X rocket ready to launch was first posted on October 21, 2009 at 12:00 am.

Station Fire Map Of California

This is another new updated map of the Station fire near Los Angeles. It shows heat detected by satellites at 2:17 p.m. on Saturday, August 29. The red areas depict heat detected within the last 12 hours.

It shows a great deal of fire growth, especially on the west and north sides, as it burns deeper into the Angeles National Forest and threatens homes in the front country on the south side. The fire has burned into across Big Tujunga Road and west over Mt. Lukens. It threatens homes in La Canada -Flintridge, Altadena, and Glendale.

Three civilians with burns were flown out of Big Tujunga Canyon.

The fire is driven by high temperatures, low fuel moistures, steep slopes, dense vegetation, and very low relative humidities. Southeast winds at 6-12 mph contributed to the fire spread Saturday afternoon. There is the potential for Sunday’s fire behavior to be similar to that seen on Saturday.

Fire officials report that the fire has burned 20,102 acres and it is 5% contained.

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Station Fire Map Of California was first posted on August 30, 2009 at 11:40 am.
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Edward Kennedy Burried Beside JF Kennedy

Washington: Democratic lion Edward Kennedy was on Saturday met with his dead brothers buried in a Virginia cemetery as a solo trumpet player ended a political dynasty.

Surrounded by his close-knit family that has dominated U.S. policy for half a century, Kennedy’s body was taken to Arlington National Cemetery, to rest on a hill overlooking the capital.

The late senator was buried 100 feet (30 meters) from the tomb of his brother, Robert Kennedy, assassinated in 1968, and near the eternal flame that marks the final resting place of President John F. Kennedy, assassinated in 1963.

Three days of great excitement came to an end as the nation’s final farewell to the man with the Kennedy mantle thrust upon him and he spent 47 years working tirelessly in the U.S. Senate to improve the lives of others.

In a Catholic Mass before the fief Boston Kennedy, President Barack Obama, who won critical support from Kennedy in his race for the White House, praised him as “the lion of the Senate.”

Obama, three former presidents and elite of the country met in Boston Basilica of Our Lady of Perpetual Help to say goodbye to the Kennedy family patriarch, who yesterday lost his fight with brain cancer. He was 77.

Obama praised Kennedy as “a champion of those who had none, the soul of the Democratic Party, and the lion of the U.S. Senate.”

Kennedy had triumphed over “more pain and tragedy that most of us will ever know,” the president said.

After Mass, Kennedy’s flag-draped coffin was flown to Washington on the last leg of their last trip that began Thursday, when it was put into a hearse outside his house on Cape Cod

Thousands of people took to the roads again Friday, reflecting scenes seen in the last three days at his home in Hyannis Port and then in Boston in an enormous flow of grief over the death of Kennedy.

Outside the U.S. Capitol the crowd broke into applause as the funeral cortege paused briefly to the senator’s last visit to the National Assembly of the imposition of white.

In unprecedented scenes, thousands of ordinary other pedestrians had gathered solemnly on the grass and the roads near their respects.

Outside the Senate for almost five decades shook with the sound of the voice of Kennedy, his widow, Vicki, and family members left his vehicle to greet hundreds of congressmen and legislators.

Members of the Irish-American clan before it moved to tears in the dough when the son of Kennedy, Ted Kennedy Jr., gave a moving speech about the tenderness of his father with him during childhood, when his leg was amputated due to cancer.

“He taught us that even our deepest losses are to survive,” said Kennedy Jr.

Telling how his father helped him to climb a hill of ice with his new prosthetic leg, Kennedy Jr. said: “He taught me that nothing is impossible”.

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Edward Kennedy Burried Beside JF Kennedy was first posted on August 30, 2009 at 3:00 pm.
©2009 “Pakistan News“.

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