Source: Orlando Sentinel Work may be a four-letter word to many adults, but to kids across Central Florida, going to work with Mom or Dad is a chance to check out the world of grown-ups — and sneak a peek at what their parents do all day long. At Lockheed Martin’s Missiles and Fire Control [...]

Source: The Washington Post The U.S. government is giving away prizes. In seeking solutions to problems, it has discovered the magic of contests, or challenges — also known as open grant-making or open innovation. Or crowd-sourcing. Whatever you call this new way of doing business, it represents a dramatic departure from the norm for the [...]

Source: Spaceflight Now A cadre of military and industry workers at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station is readying the first-of-its-kind satellite for the Global Positioning System, an advanced bird that will be shipped to the launch pad and bolted atop a Delta 4 rocket next week. Liftoff of the GPS 2F-1 spacecraft from pad [...]

Source: Pasedena Star News If the next generation rover is able to take high-resolution color movies in 3-D on Mars, it will be thanks to the reigning king of 3-D cinema himself, “Avatar” director James Cameron. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory scaled back its plans in 2007 to mount such a camera atop the rover Curiosity, [...]

Source: Spaceflight Now A three-day orbital chase by a robotic cargo freighter to catch the International Space Station began today with successful launch of the Russian-made resupply ship. Flying atop a Soyuz booster, the Progress spacecraft rocketed away from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 1:15 p.m. EDT (1715 GMT). A preliminary orbit was achieved [...]