<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/1d6c73ac-8fe9-4606-a8d6-2ab4a3630638/6BEE6268-A453-465A-9A1A-F39369511BBA/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2007/08/google-aquires-.html" href="http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2007/08/google-aquires-.html" style="font-size: 11px;">blog.wired.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2007/08/google-aquires-.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/blog.wired.com/img/EAFED5CF-488F-4795-BD02-DFD2FFD2D9C9" alt="Yuri_gagarin_first_main_in_space_20" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2007/08/google-aquires-.html"><P>A NASA <A href="http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2007/aug/HQ_07176_Ed_Lu_Leaves.html" linkindex="46">press release</A> from Aug 10th said Lu was leaving NASA to accept a position in the private sector. (A statement in the release that Lu was the first American to launch and land on a <EM>Soyuz</EM>, overlooked Dennis Tito, the first private spaceflight participant who paid the Russians $20 million dollars to travel to the International Space Station in April of 2001.)</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2007/08/google-aquires-.html"><P><SPAN face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><IMG border="0" src="http://blog.wired.com/photos/uncategorized/2007/08/27/ed_lu.gif" title="Ed_lu" alt="Ed_lu" /></SPAN>Apollo Astronaut Rusty Schweickart, Ed Lu, and colleagues have also made news lately for their efforts to mitigate the dangers of an asteroid hitting the Earth (read the Wired News article <A href="http://www.wired.com/science/space/news/2007/08/schweickart_qa" linkindex="43" set="yes">here</A>). Lu even has an article published in <CITE>Nature</CITE> on his idea for a "<A href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4420762.stm" linkindex="44" set="yes">Gravity Tractor</A>" mission that could gently pull an asteroid off course over time. The group gets extra points for naming its <A href="http://www.b612foundation.org" linkindex="45" set="yes">B612 Foundation</A> after the prince's asteroid home in Antoine de Saint-Exupery's children's story <EM>The Little Prince</EM>.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/6BEE6268-A453-465A-9A1A-F39369511BBA/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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