WASHINGTON, May 21 -- The Military Sealift Command is seeking proposals for a 40-day dry cargo time charter to support critical re-supply and retrograde cargo operations at Pituffik Space Base in Greenland. This requirement involves the procurement of one U.S. or foreign-flagged, ice-class, self-sustaining, lift-on/lift-off, breakbulk vessel. The successful contractor will play a vital role in ensuring the logistical support necessary for operations in this remote location. The charter period i  more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, May 19 -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology posted the following news: * * * The Haystack 37m Telescope: A new era of astrophysical research * The Haystack 37m Telescope has been a landmark in radio astronomy and radar studies of the solar system since its first light in 1964. Over the following four decades, it supported NASA's Apollo landings on the moon, made planetary radar maps of the surface of Venus, contributed to experimental tests of Einstein's gen  more