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2010 and NASA
NASA appealed and the US Supreme Court granted certiorari on March 8, 2010.
It was advantageous for NASA – even before the Shuttle was scheduled to be retired in 2010to keep using many pieces of 1970s technology rather than to upgrade those systems.
However, citing the Southwest Research Institute, NASA published a 2010 article that includes the following quotation:
However, President Obama signed the NASA Authorization Act of 2010 on October 11 which officially brought the Constellation program to an end.
Endeavour was originally scheduled to be decommissioned in 2010 after 18 years of service, but on July 1, 2010, NASA released a statement saying the Endeavour mission was rescheduled for February 27, 2011, instead of late November, 2010.
The Obama Administration proposed a revision of Constellation in 2010 to focus on the development of the capability for crewed missions beyond low earth orbit ( LEO ), envisioning extending the operation of the ISS beyond 2020, transferring the development of launch vehicles for human crews from NASA to the private sector, and developing technology to enable missions to beyond LEO, such as Earth / Moon L1, the Moon, Earth / Sun L2, near-earth asteroids, and Phobos or Mars orbit.
* In response to NASA research confirming 2010 tied for the warmest year on record, James Hanson, Chief Climate Scientist and Director, Goddard Institute for Space Studies at NASA, stated: " if the warming trend continues, as is expected, if greenhouse gases continue to increase, the 2010 record will not stand for long.
According to the Vision for Space Exploration, the next manned NASA program was to be Project Constellation with its Ares I and Ares V launch vehicles and the Orion Spacecraft ; however, the Constellation program was never fully funded, and in early 2010 the Obama administration asked Congress to instead endorse a plan with heavy reliance on the private sector for delivering cargo and crew to LEO.
He appeared to indicate that he did not see purchase of Russian launches for NASA crews as politically viable following the 2008 South Ossetia war, and hoped the new US administration will resolve the issue in 2009 by extending shuttle operations beyond 2010.
However, according to an article by former Space Shuttle program Director Wayne Hale on his official NASA blog, the space shuttle program, in preparation for the 2010 shutdown, has already terminated many specialty parts and materials contracts, many with small businesses whose only customer may have been the shuttle program and who closed shop and retired upon receiving their termination letters ; as a result, it would be difficult and expensive at this point to extend the shuttle program, and there would be a lag of at least a year ( without flights ) before exhausted exotic parts and supplies could be replaced.
A $ 2. 5 billion spending provision allowing NASA to fly the space shuttle beyond its then-scheduled retirement in 2010 passed the Congress in April 2009, although neither NASA nor the White House requested the one-year extension.
In 2010, nearly forty years after the 1971 loss of signal from Lunokhod 1, the NASA Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter photographed its tracks and final location, and researchers, using a telescopic pulsed-laser rangefinder, detected the robot's retroreflector.
On March 17, 2010 Phil Stooke, a professor at the University of Western Ontario announced that he had located Lunokhod 2's final resting place in photographs made by the NASA Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter ( LRO ).
File: Kliuchevskoi satellite photo. jpg | Satellite image image of Klyuchevskaya Sopka in April 2010 by NASA.
File: Lava and Snow on Klyuchevskaya Volcano 2010-02-13. jpg | The eruption of February 2010 taken by NASA ASTER.
On November 27, 2010, NASA announced the discovery of a tenuous atmosphere — exosphere.
* Voyager: Seeking Newer Worlds in the Third Great Age of Discovery, a 2010 book chronicling the NASA Voyager program by Stephen J. Pyne

2010 and scientists
In 2010, a team of scientists led by the University of Leeds used a robotic " yellow submarine " to observe detailed flows within an " undersea river " for the very first time.
After several years of research and concern, a team of scientists headed by Jerry Bromenshenk published a paper in October 2010 saying that a new DNA-based virus, invertebrate iridescent virus or IIV6, and the fungus Nosema ceranae were found in every killed colony the group studied.
In May 2010, a team of scientists led by Venter became the first to successfully create what was described as " synthetic life ".
In 2010, scientists created " malaria-resistant mosquitoes " in the laboratory.
However, on May 8, 2010, a sighting of a gray whale was confirmed off the coast of Israel in the Mediterranean Sea, leading some scientists to think they might be repopulating old breeding grounds that have not been used for centuries.
At the 16th meeting of the IMU General Assembly in Bangalore, India in August 2010, Berlin was chosen as the location of the permanent office of the IMU, which was opened on January 1, 2011, and is hosted by the Weierstrass Institute for Applied Analysis and Stochastics ( WIAS ), an institute of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Scientific Community, with about 120 scientists engaging in mathematical research applied to complex problems in industry and commerce.
In 2010, bones were discovered in the ruins of a Bulgarian church and two years later, after DNA and radio carbon testing proved the bones belonged to a Middle Eastern man who lived in the first century AD, scientists said that the remains could conceivably have belonged to John the Baptist.
In 2010 scientists using NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope were surprised to discover, for the first time, that a nova can also emit gamma-rays (> 100 MeV ).
In 2010, a team of Indian scientists announced they had developed a genetically modified potato with 35 to 60 % more protein than non-modified potatoes.
* 2160-Some scientists believe there are babies born in 2010 who may still be alive in 2160.
In 2010, a team of UK scientists funded by BBSRC announced they had decoded the wheat genome for the first time ( 95 % of the genome of a variety of wheat known as Chinese Spring line 42 ).
* Istvan Hargittai, Judging Edward Teller: a closer look at one of the most influential scientists of the twentieth century ( Prometheus, 2010 ).
Early in 2010, scientists solved the crystal structure of IN from prototype foamy virus ( PFV ) assembled on viral DNA ends.
Pinker was named one of Time Magazine's 100 most influential scientists and thinkers in the world in 2004 and one of Prospect and Foreign Policys 100 top public intellectuals in both years the poll was carried out, 2005 and 2008 ; in 2010 and 2011 he was named by Foreign Policy magazine to its list of top global thinkers.
On 7 May 2010, a letter signed by 255 Academy members was published in Science magazine, decrying " political assaults " against climate change scientists.
A group of Chinese scientists and explorers in 2010 proposed to renew searches in Shennongjia province, which was the site of expeditions in the 1970s and 1980s.
In June-July 2010, scientists at the GSI attempted the fusion reaction:
The experiment began in June 2009 and, in January 2010, scientists at the Flerov Laboratory of Nuclear Reactions announced internally that they had succeeded in detecting the decay of a new element with Z = 117 via two decay chains of an odd-odd isotope ( undergoing 6 alpha decays before undergoing a spontaneous fission ) and of an odd-even one ( 3 alpha decays before fission ).
In January 2010 Jacobs University restructured its research forming nine transdisciplinary centers in which scientists from different fields work together.
Named Leviathan by scientists 30 June 2010.
On 3 – 5 April 2010, China's Premier Wen Jiabao went on a three days inspection tour in the southwest drought-affected province of Guizhou, where he met villagers and called on agricultural scientists to develop drought-resistant technologies for the area.
In the International Marketing Review article “ Status Consumption in Cross-national Context: Socio – Psychological, Brand and Situational Antecedents ” ( 2010 ), Paurav Shukla reported that, whilst researchers recognize the importance of the consumer ’ s social and psychological environment, the definition of the construct of status-directed consumption remains ambiguous, because, in order to develop a comprehensive general theory, social scientists are intellectually required to accept two fundamental assumptions that do not always concord.
In December 2010, scientists at the Berlin Technical University in Germany revealed they have grown the world's first artificial hair follicles from stem cells.
In early 2010, scientists in Italy announced that rattan wood would be used in a new " wood to bone " process for the production of artificial bone.

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