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The descent to the brink of absolute zero has died

"It was here, in this' cooler atoms." This is where 15 years ago, we the lowest temperatures that have been generated so far "says physicist Wolfgang Ketterle, pointing a small black box wrapped in aluminum foil, surrounded by wires look like snakes in a jungle of high technology.

We are in his laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a small dark space could not be more full of high voltage cables, magnets, mirrors, vacuum generators, lasers and other strange devices that defy description.

These temperatures which are not spoken Ketterle -89 ° C to the South Pole. Even the -227 ° C on the surface of the moon.

Compared with the brutality of absolute zero, these are derisory sums , as distant as New York this is London ... "

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the other shoe dropped. As was feared, Constellation Program, complete with the return of astronauts to the moon in 2020, has died. The new budget for NASA, which can be read here , explains the reasons, including:

" The NASA Constellation program, which rested largely on existing technologies, was based on a vision of returning astronauts to the moon by 2010. However, the program had exceeded the budget was late, and had no innovative elements because of failure to invest in critical new technologies. Using a wide range of criteria, an independent panel determined that even if he had the money, repeat what Apollo did 50 years ago is the least attractive to space exploration, compared with potential alternatives. Moreover, attempts to pursue NASA's lunar goals are not only inadequate, but had diverted money intended for other programs such as robotic exploration, science and Earth observations. Constellation President cancels and replaces it with a fresh approach that invests in the segments of a larger effort capable of space exploration. "

At the same time, NASA have more money than before . According to its director, Charlie Bolden, a broader base of people have access to use ISS as a laboratory (university, maybe even college kids), there will be a total of 5 more shuttle missions, and new programs: NASA is partnering with commercial industry to transport astronauts and cargo to the ISS.

There will be more robotic missions. And new satellite missions to study Earth's climate change, development of robotic missions to explore the moon. Technologies to reduce emissions from aviation fuel. And a special commitment to encourage children to space exploration and science, encouraging math programs in schools.

all makes sense. I hope the elephant move with some agility. But I think the decision to return NASA to its original purpose, which is the test. The commitment to the ISS is absolutely key, we could not leave the space station adrift. And I think that new approaches put NASA on firm ground. The agency will not be stepping on thin ice as it was happening before.

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Constellation Palmer Station Bravo!

Stacie, left, and Diane, right, working as a chef and manager, respectively, at Palmer Station, for 5 months. The weekend plan: a break in the Jacuzzi, in the shadow of the icebergs.

Price pay for my trip to Antarctica was a broken ankle. Courtesy the Drake Passage during the journey back, in the ship. A particularly aggressive wave, those of 10 meters was good enough to push forward violently, right in the moment that only had a foothold in all my four limbs: he raised a foot to go through the doorway- hatch that led to the kitchen on board, and both hands were occupied with the camcorder. Maybe it was a punishment of Olympus for my vanity, and that day I was bragging up my immunity to the sickness which afflicted more than half of the passengers.

But while the ankle heals, the mind was full of experiences in Palmer, both ecological, scientific and adventure, and human. This tiny community is Palmer Station, back on your tongue of rock and ice, is an example of tolerance and cohabitation friendly and respectful. A society that is self, take care and heal herself, as an organism composed of individual parts that work as a whole.

If the rest of our societies were like this remote research station at 64 degrees south latitude, an example of respect, the world would be quite another. Palmer Bravo!

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