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...Luckily for Blair, he isn?t working for NASA. Even as his comments were making headlines in England, James Hansen, a climate scientist working with the agency?s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, told the New York Times that NASA brass are trying to muzzle his own outspoken comments about the imminent dangers of global warming. NASA officials say in response that Hansen is simply required, as are all employees, to clear public statements with the head office...
...Global average surface temperature, in degrees Celsius, in 2005-the hottest on record 10,000 Years since the earth has been this hot, according to estimates from nasa scientists...
...Years since the earth has been this hot, according to estimates from NASA scientists...
Best feature: Webcasts of NASA shuttle launches...
...When NASA first considered a mission to Pluto more than 15 years ago, the idea was to visit the last and most distant of the nine planets, an oddball whose icy composition, tilted orbit and tiny size made it unlike anything else in the solar system. But when the New Horizons probe finally takes off from Cape Canaveral?as early as next week, if all goes well?it will be heading for something else entirely. "This little misfit is now central to our understanding of the origin of our solar system," says Alan Stern of the Southwest Research Institute...