"That rocked, " said deputy project manager Richard Cook, his face flushed with emotion.
Alex Anderson, deputy project director for fuels and waste at Dounreay, said the site was working closely with Sellafield and contractors.
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"We can see more clearly these pebbles all over the ground, " said Joy Crisp, a deputy project scientist with the mission.
"We will get a perspective that no one has seen before, of a spacecraft doing its final descent onto the Mars surface, " said deputy project scientist Ashwin Vasavada.
The probe was built with four reaction wheels and needs three of them -- one for each axis -- to aim its telescope precisely at a distant star, deputy project manager Charlie Sobeck said.
The sample comes from a hole about 2.5 inches deep drilled on Feb. 8 in a flat plate of sedimentary bedrock that the space agency managers have named "John Klein" in memory of a Mars Science Laboratory deputy project manager who died in 2011.
The "Mona Lisa" experiment was transmitted at a slow data rate of about 300 bits per second, but the "pathfinding achievement sets the stage for ... high data rate laser-communication demonstrations that will be a central feature of NASA's next moon mission, the Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer, " said Goddard's Richard Vondrak, the orbiter's deputy project scientist.
"There's a huge synergy there, in astronomers trying to find the influence of dark matter by mapping stars and galaxies and large structures in the universe, and particle physicists trying to discover the source of that influence of dark matter through subatomic particles here on Earth, " said Jason Kalirai, deputy project scientist for the telescope at the Space Telescope Science Institute.
But Hubble's deputy senior project scientist, Mal Niedner, said he was not concerned that the astronauts had to resort to refurbished gyroscopes, which lack the latest anticorrosive wiring.
Macronix will be presenting the technology at the IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting next week, but project deputy director Hans-Ting Lue wouldn't say when the company plans on taking the technology to market.
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High levels of illiteracy meant control of the association's finances and administration could have been concentrated in the hands of a few, Alvara da Graca da Fonseca Veloso, the deputy director of the project, said.
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"The government should be getting its own house in order first, " agrees Frank Cilluffo, deputy director of the Global Organized Crime Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
John Griffiths, deputy minister for skills, said the new Life Skills project will enable more people to improve their "long term employability".
But Assistant Treasury Minister, Deputy Eddie Noel, said the deputy's proposal would put an unacceptable delay on the project.
The British prime minister's deputy, Nick Clegg - a longstanding advocate of the European project - represented the UK at the ceremony.
Deputy First Minister Ieuan Wyn Jones is announcing European funding for the project.
For more on that report, I sat down with Gary Orfield, professor of education and director of Harvard's Civil Rights Project, and John Brittain, chief counsel and senior deputy for the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law.
In another bribery scheme tangential to the Smith case, Spring Valley Mayor Noramie Jasmin and Deputy Mayor Joseph Desmaret were accused of taking money and property to approve a real estate project.
Council deputy leader Graham Chapman said the city was determined to meet with owners to encourage them to complete the project.
It is thought a project on a scale to power the whole island would cost tens of millions of pounds but Deputy Duhamel thinks it would be worth the investment.
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