CHAPTER 13: Space Business and JSC ouston and the Texas of the 1980s became something different than they had been in the 1950s, in part because NASA and JSC gave them the opportunity to be different. ... However, when oil prices quickened and the economy improved at the close of that decade, Owen Morris (a former JSC aerospace engineer and a cofounder of Eagle Engineering) recalled that Houston interest in space declined correspondingly. ... That company was itself a NASA/JSC spin-off. ...

... EYEPIECE April 2013 Volume 61 Number 4 ISSN 0146-7662 Isaac Asimov Memorial "Debate About Nothing" By Richard Brounstein NASA ROVER FINDS CONDITIONS ONCE SUITED FOR ANCIENT LIFE ON MARS WASHINGTON - An analysis of a rock sample collected by NASA's Curiosity rover shows ancient Mars could have supported living microbes. ... 11 EYEPIECE April 2013 FOCUS ON THE UNIVERSE Comet Chasing: Photographing PanSTARRS By Stan Honda wasn't expecting to dodge cow chips while photographing Comet PanSTARRS. ...

The Official Publication of the Amateur Astronomers Association of Princeton Director Rex Parker ( 609 ) 730-0670 rex_a_parker@msn.com Assistant Director John Miller ( 609 ) 252-1223 jmiller@princetonastronomy.org Treasurer Program Chairman Brian VanLiew Ken Kremer (908) 281-7957 ( 609 ) 558-4955 bvanliew@sensingstrategies.com ken@princetonastronomy.org Secretary Ludy D'Angelo ( ... Our guest speaker will be Dr. Guy Consolmagno of the Vatican Observatory. ... Observatory and Springtime Galaxies. ...