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1. Shooting the moon: short on time and tight on money, a team of NASA engineers aims to solve the mystery of lunar ice--by crashing its spacecraft into a crater

Author

Milstein, Michael

Subjects
United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration -- Powers and duties -- Planning, Lunar probes -- Planning -- Finance, Aerospace engineers -- Practice -- Powers and duties -- Planning, Automobiles, Home and garden, Company business planning, Company financing, Practice, Finance, Powers and duties, Planning
Abstract

Astronomers hate the moon. It's so bright that it blinds telescopes like the sun in a driver's eyes. There's no atmosphere, and the geology is basically dead. Maybe that's why, [...]

Published
2008

2. This is my job: structural engineer

Author

Milstein, Michael

Subjects
Structural engineering -- Practice -- Equipment and supplies -- Safety and security measures, Bridges -- Design and construction -- Safety and security measures -- Equipment and supplies, Engineers -- Equipment and supplies -- Practice -- Safety and security measures, Automobiles, Home and garden, Practice, Design and construction, Safety and security measures, Equipment and supplies
Abstract

Chris Higgins has destroyed more bridges than any flood or earthquake. A structural engineer at Oregon State University's Kiewit Center, he casts concrete bridge parts and exposes them to stresses [...]

Published
2009

3. Sanguine science: as donor supplies remain critical, new 'pharming' technologies could create blood on demand

Author

Milstein, Michael

Subjects
Tissue engineering -- Evaluation, Erythrocytes -- Properties, Blood banks -- Management, Pharmaceutical biotechnology -- Evaluation, Automobiles, Home and garden, Company business management, Management, Evaluation, Properties
Abstract

Our bodies manufacture lots of blood--about 1.5 ounces of red blood cells daily--but the nation's hospitals remain in desperately short supply. The need for blood for soldiers in war zones [...]

Published
2009

4. This is my job: vertical gun range engineer

Author

Milstein, Michael

Subjects
Speed -- Research, Craters -- Research, Aeronautical engineers -- Practice -- Research, Automobiles, Home and garden, Practice, Research
Abstract

CHUCK CORNELISON > NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER > AGE: 45 > YEARS ON JOB: 22 When Chuck Cornelison gets ready for target practice, he loads his 12-ft-long gun and shoots [...]

Published
2009

5. Interplanetary iditarod: hardy earthlings will hitch a three year ride aboard a Mars bound spacecraft 10 determine if life can spread between planets

Author

Milstein, Michael

Subjects
Russia -- Space policy, Russia. Federal Space Agency -- Space policy, Planetary Society -- Services -- Management, Soils -- Sampling, Phobos (Satellite) -- Discovery and exploration, Automobiles, Home and garden, Company business management, Discovery and exploration, Management, Space policy, Services
Abstract

When a Russian spacecraft sets off late this year to scrape samples of the Martian moon Phobos, at least 10 of Earth's toughest life-forms will be going along for the [...]

Published
2009

6. Eco-espionage: environmental sleuths use DNA identification to unmask a hidden world of commercial whaling

Author

Milstein, Michael

Subjects
DNA testing -- Usage -- Investigations -- Protection and preservation -- Genetic aspects, Cetacea -- Protection and preservation -- Genetic aspects -- Usage -- Investigations, Whaling -- Investigations -- Usage -- Protection and preservation, Automobiles, Home and garden, Company legal issue, Usage, Protection and preservation, Genetic aspects, Investigations
Abstract

The growing databases of animal genes have given wildlife researchers a powerful tool to identify new species, protect endangered animals and even catch cheats at fishing tournaments. Scott Baker and [...]

Published
2008

7. Remedies on tap: dependent on a dwindling river, the American Southwest turns to radical engineering projects to keep the faucets running

Author

Milstein, Michael

Subjects
Water -- Management, Reservoirs -- Management -- Methods, Water-supply engineering -- Methods, Automobiles, Home and garden, Company business management, Management, Methods
Abstract

About 38 million people in California, Nevada, Arizona, four other states and Mexico depend on the Colorado River for their water supply. As increased usage and years of drought diminish [...]

Published
2008

8. Rad robots to the rescue: cleaning tanks of nuclear waste seeping into the water supply is a job best left to expendable machines

Author

Milstein, Michael

Subjects
Robots -- Usage -- Technology application, Radioactive wastes -- Management -- Technology application -- Usage, Automobiles, Home and garden, Company business management, Technology application, Robot, Management, Usage
Abstract

A brave, doomed robot is at the heart of the cleanup of Hanford Nuclear Reservation in eastern Washington state, where the United States produced weapons-grade plutonium until 1989. Now the [...]

Published
2008

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