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Changes to the Pasadena Sun staff
With the new year comes several staffing changes at the Times Community News division that includes the Burbank Leader, Glendale News-Press, La Cañada Valley Sun and Pasadena Sun. Jason Wells will be promoted to managing editor, news, overseeing coverage...Tags: Science and Technology, Henry Samueli, University of California, Los Angeles
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Athenaeum chef is sweet on Mars rover
In yet another breathtaking Caltech breakthrough, the world’s only edible Mars rover is on display at the Athenaeum this month. The engineer overseeing the project is Athenaeum Executive Chef Kevin Isacsson, who has supervised the kitchen of the...
Tags: Lobbying, Politics, Science and Technology, Restaurants, Dining and Drinking
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Year in Review: McDade tragedy, a mission on Mars, 710 stirs debate
The gunshots that took Kendrec McDade’s life on March 24 have echoed throughout the year in Pasadena. The Azusa teen was running down Sunset Avenue after allegedly serving as a lookout in a Northwest Pasadena car burglary when he neared two...
Tags: College Football, Highway Transportation, Football, Jesse Jackson, Sports
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At JPL, teens learn rocket science by crafting toilet paper catapults
High school students have been known to sling a roll or two of toilet paper — but not many use catapults or compete with rocket scientists for the longest heave. Yet that was the task Friday at the 15th annual Invention Challenge at Jet...
Tags: Scientific Invention, Students, Teaching and Learning, Engineering, Education
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GRAIL mission delivers a hi-fi map of the moon
A pair of NASA orbiters has given scientists their highest-fidelity look at the moon, a leap that could help explain the evolution of the solar system's rocky planets, including Earth. Scientists announced the first results Wednesday from the $496-...
Tags: Space Programs, Science and Technology, Cape Canaveral, Los Angeles Times, Scott Gold
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NASA to launch Mars rover in 2020, use Curiosity's spare parts
NASA will send another rover to Mars in 2020, using spare parts from Curiosity and the infamous “seven minutes of terror” landing sequence developed by Jet Propulsion Laboratory engineers for Curiosity’s August arrival on the Red Planet....
Tags: Adam Schiff, Economy, Business and Finance, Space Programs, Science and Technology, Google Inc.
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NASA announces new Mars rover mission
NASA is sending another robot to Mars. The space agency announced a new mission Tuesday afternoon that will launch another rover at the Red Planet in 2020. Curiosity, their latest 1-ton rover, just begun a two-year mission in August. NASA announced...
Tags: Adam Schiff, Space Programs, Charles F. Bolden, Jr., Science and Technology, Google+
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Testing, testing: JPL's Curiosity sends back first soil sample results from Mars
The rover Curiosity detected substances containing water, sulfur and other materials familiar to earthlings during its first full set of chemical tests of Martian soil, NASA officials announced Monday. The materials are similar to those identified by...
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Mars rover Curiosity's other mission: PR
NASA's Curiosity rover was designed to search Mars for places capable of supporting life. But the $2.5-billion mission has another, unofficial objective: To serve as a goodwill ambassador for the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in La Cañada Flintridge at a time...
Tags: Space Programs, Black Eyed Peas (music group), Science and Technology, Science, Los Angeles Times
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GRAIL moon mission ends with a bang
After dancing around the moon for months, the twin satellites nicknamed Ebb and Flow performed their final number, crashing into the same peak near the lunar north pole and bringing the GRAIL mission to a close. A cheer went up in the control room at...
Tags: Space Programs, Science and Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Los Angeles Times, Amina Khan
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Stolen NASA laptop contained workers' personal information
Workers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory are asking for a congressional investigation into the agency's data security efforts after learning the theft of a laptop and documents last month may have compromised information for 10,000 NASA employees. The...
Tags: Adam Schiff, Space Programs, Judy Chu, Washington, DC, NASA
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JPL workers call for congressional probe into NASA security breach
Workers at Jet Propulsion Laboratory in La Canada Flintridge are calling for a Congressional investigation into a NASA data breach that compromised the personal information of thousands of NASA workers. On Oct. 31 a NASA laptop was stolen from a...
Tags: Adam Schiff, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Washington, DC, NASA
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