Prices in the Los Angeles area, as measured by the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U), declined 0.3 percent in August, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. (See table A .) Regional Commissioner Richard J. Holden noted that the August decrease was influenced by lower prices for gasoline.
NASA officials were reportedly especially impressed with her course on The American Woman which she had developed and taught. Barbara Morgan was the backup Teacher in Space who also trained with NASA in the astronaut training program. Christa McAuliffe was scheduled to teach two lessons from the space shuttle.
By Rachel Feltman July 9, 2015. NASA's Amy Shira Teitel explains why the New Horizons spacecraft is going all the way to Pluto, just to fly by it quickly. (YouTube/NASA New Horizons) NASA's encounter with Pluto is coming up quick -- just a few days away, on Tuesday -- but it will end just a few hours later. After almost a decade of speeding through space to get to Pluto, the New Horizons spacecraft is gonna keep zipping right on past it.