Shooting wounds at least three at Wisconsin Sikh temple

OAK CREEK, Wisc. (Reuters) - A shooting at a Sikh temple outside Milwaukee left at least seven people dead on Sunday, police said.

Four people were shot inside the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin and three outside, including a gunman killed by police, Greenfield Police Chief Bradley Wendtlandt told reporters.

Police were still uncertain if there were other shooters in the temple.

(Reporting by Ian Simpson; Editing by Jackie Frank)

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On the Scene: A lifetime of curiosity: An interview with JPL director Charles Elachi

Charles Elachi is busy this Friday morning. It?s three days before the Curiosity rover is set to land on Mars, and the director of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory is cheerfully making tracks between a NASA social media event and his office on JPL?s campus.

Elachi has been at JPL for 42 years: He came to Caltech in 1968 to earn his Ph.D. in electrical sciences and started working at the lab in 1970. He became director in 2001. ?I?m a lifer,? he says. ?It has been such a great career.?

Elachi also has a master?s degree in business administration from the University of Southern California, training he sought after learning he?d be the principal investigator for a science experiment aboard the space shuttle. ?I thought I better know how to read a budget sheet,? he explains. And, after befriending some geologists, he sought a master?s degree in geology from UCLA.? ?I used to go with them on field trips,? he recalls. ?And we were talking about sedimentary rocks and igneous rocks, and I thought, ?Gee, it would be fun to learn this so at least I know what they?re talking about.??

We sit down for a conversation in his office, which is decorated with mini replicas of JPL?s far-flung robotic explorers. The Spitzer Space Telescope, the Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity, GRACE and GRAIL ? there are dozens. ?That?s Juno, on the way to Jupiter,? he says, pointing to a brownish, three-pronged miniature. ?There?s Odyssey ? that?s the key spacecraft for communicating with MSL,? he says, gesturing to the mini Mars orbiter that will relay information from the Curiosity rover, starting on Sunday evening.

And there, already nestled in among the others, is a tiny Curiosity rover.

Here are some highlights of our conversation about the latest Mars mission:

JPL is going to try and land a giant rover on Mars. How are you feeling about that? Are you nervous?

Well, yeah, to be honest. I asked that question to our lead person who?s doing the entry, descent and landing [Adam Steltzner] and he said, ?Intellectually I feel great because we have done every test. Emotionally, I?m frightened like hell.?

And in a sense, I feel the same. Intellectually, we have done everything possible. This is probably the best tested, verified, analyzed lander we?ve ever done. But there is always a risk. You have 76 [pyrotechnic devices] which have to fire in the right sequence at the right time. You have a parachute which has been packaged a couple of years ago, which has to open and unfold and work perfectly. Everything has to work perfectly in order to have a successful landing. And there is no way we could have tested it exactly like we are flying it.

We don?t have a Mars atmosphere and a Mars environment to do that. So we had to test things in pieces. We did test the sky crane, we did test hovering, we did test the radar on a jet airplane coming down at the same speed. But putting them all together and having them all work in seven minutes ? there?s no way you could test that.

That?s why there is this nail biting time. We?re going to be sitting in the room watching every event that is happening. But I feel confident. We have a first-rate team, and that?s the best you can ask for.

Where will you be watching from?

I?ll be in the mission operation room, standing behind everybody there, nervously watching all the data coming down, listening to what?s happening. I?ll be listening to the same thing you?ll be listening to. We?ll be transmitting all the info in real-time and the commentary. It will be exciting. Probably we?ll be sharing it with tens of millions of people.

It?s going to make great TV.

That?s true, that?s true. They?re going to have it in real-time in Times Square, on the big screen, so I?m sure there will be lots of people watching that.

Assuming the Rover comes down, and it?s working and completes its mission, what do you hope its legacy will be? What are some of the big questions it can answer?

With Spirit and Opportunity and the orbiting assets, the community is pretty convinced that Mars did have an ocean a few billion years ago, which lasted for a significant period of time. A water ocean. So the immediate? next question is, if there was a liquid ocean ? and because it was liquid, that means the temperature was like here on Earth ? and it?s there at roughly the same time that life evolved on Earth, could life have evolved on Mars?

If there were the right ingredients, the right temperature, the right liquid, the right organic material, then the next question is, did life evolve? How far did it evolve? And where is it now?

Now, Curiosity is not looking specifically for life, but it?s going to look at the ingredients, the organic material, the composition of the rock. Of course, if we see any bugs or something that?ll be amazing. But that?s not the real purpose. We?re doing it like a scientist, step by step, learning about the basic ingredients.

That?s the key objective, and hopefully ultimately that will prepare us for bringing samples back to Earth and doing much more detailed analyses with those samples.

If for some reason it looks like Mars never was habitable, would we still be pushing for a Mars sample return mission?

Yeah, I think we will. The life habitability is one factor, but so is really understanding the evolution of a planet. This is a planet which is very similar to us, in the big picture. It?s not much different from us, in terms of distance from the sun, it has the same geological processes on the surface. The same laws of physics, same laws of biology evolved on there. So if really we don?t find anything, that will be equally fascinating. Why did life only happen on this planet? And what are the differences which have led it to happen only on this planet? Bringing samples back and analyzing them in more detail to understand that will be equally exciting.

It will be cool to bring samples back from anywhere.

Oh yeah. And bringing samples back also has another engineering aspect to it. If you?re thinking of sending humans somewhere in the future, you need to learn how you go there, how you land, how you rove around, how you take off, how you come back. So in a sense, a sample return is a small step in a dry run, if you want ? even though the humans will be a big step beyond that. But it gives us a better understanding of all these steps that have to be taken for a human mission.

Speaking of sending humans somewhere, at one point you said, ?It?s important to stay bold and keep pushing the limits.?

Yeah, that?s true. Let me tell you a little anecdote that struck me here at JPL. A couple of years ago, I was talking with one of our new employees. I asked her, ?What excites you about JPL, why are you working here?? And she said, ?Well, what I like about this place ? in the morning, I sit down with my colleagues at breakfast and talk about what?s impossible, and then we go and do it.?

And that?s the kind of thing we need. That?s how explorers function. And inventors. You really think about what?s the limit, and then you go and push it, and find out what?s on other side. The way people do inventions, is they don?t wake up in the morning and say, ?Today I?m going to invent something.?

The way we? do inventions, in any field not only in space, is you take a very, very hard problem and you put good people on it and tell them go and do it. And to do that, they have to invent something. I think that?s how the human mind operates, by getting a challenge.

Where do you think the limit is now? What are we pushing against? What?s next?

Something that?s very high on my list is taking pictures of neighboring planets. We do have the capability to take what I call the family portrait of the neighboring few thousand planetary systems. In my mind, that would be one of the most exciting things. Even if it?s a pixel. But if we can get more than a pixel, that will be great. That would change completely our thinking of the world around us.

The other one, which is equally exciting but in a different way, is going and visiting the different oceans around our solar system. Going to the ocean in Europa, the ocean in Enceladus, possibly the ocean on Titan ? at least some people now believe there might be an ocean below the surface of Titan. And really see how these oceans look. Could thing have evolved in them? It?s the same thing we talked about with Mars. We know there are water oceans. And then if they?re liquid, that mean you have the right temperature. And the question is, could life have evolved in that area?

I?d say those are two of the most exciting things that probably will happen in the next 10 or 20 years.

I?ve been asking various people on the MSL team, if you could go to Mars instead of the rover, would you go? And they all are saying no.

Well, it?s pretty nice here. Mars is exciting scientifically, but still, our planet is amazingly nice.

Do you think there?s life out there?

Oh yeah. I see absolutely no reason why life is not across the universe. Here you have the same laws of physics, the same laws of chemistry, the same laws of biology, the same material everywhere. There is really no reason whatsoever that life only happened on our planet. I?m pretty sure life is there across the universe.

But as a scientist, you have to prove it.

We are trained, you don?t come in with a new theory unless you can prove it, and that?s one of the challenges that we are all working on. You do it in steps. Find all the ingredients, all the environments, and so on. The exciting thing will be if we find planets which are not very far away, which have all those ingredients, then to focus on them and see, can we get any signals? That will be another very interesting thing.

What else do you think is important to tell Science News readers, or the public in general?

A couple of points, particularly because of the budget environment. One key point I keep making to all the politicians and decision-makers is that investment in science and education is absolutely essential for our country. The reason our country is so strong economically, and we have the lifestyle we have, is because of the investments that have been made in the past in developing new capabilities, new technologies, educating young people.

Who would have thought the Internet would change our life? It was an investment done by some of the DOD organizations to communicate, to have more resiliency in case of a catastrophe. So they came up with the Internet. Or you look at GPS, which we use all the time now, and that was also an investment the government did in terms of putting up a network of satellites. Or you could look at cell phones, which we cannot live without. Lots of that development was done in the space program, when they were developing low-power, high-efficiency electronics.

I think particularly when things are challenging, like the economy we have now, this is the time to increase investment, not the time to reduce it.

I hope that?s what the government will do. It?s going to require the public to say, ?Look we really need to increase our investment in science in general, or space, or medicine ? that?s what?s going to keep our economy strong.?

Otherwise, we?re going to fall behind other countries.

Education, scientific research, technology are probably the key areas that are going to help us. This is not only gaining knowledge, even though that?s very important, but it?s an investment which could strengthen our economy because of the inventions and the new technology and process of gaining knowledge.

Would you put planetary science in that category of things that need funding?

Oh yeah, absolutely. Almost all the science missions we do, even though the goal is to achieve more knowledge ? by working that process of gaining knowledge, you develop a lot of new technology, new approaches to do things. Inventions happen as we seek knowledge. I would put all of space science in that category.

If I was in charge of the country, I would double the NASA budget overnight.

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Obama, Romney see what they want in jobs report

WASHINGTON (AP) ? Sputtering along, the economy is offering some hope but no illuminating help to voters who are mired in a weak jobs recovery and flooded with familiar promises from President Barack Obama and Republican Mitt Romney. A new employment snapshot seemed too mixed and middling to jolt a consistently close race.

Three months shy of Election Day, the latest numbers out Friday showed monthly job creation was higher than expected ? but unemployment rose, too. That gave each candidate political room to see only what he wanted, and to stick with the fundamental economic argument that he thinks will win the White House.

"It's another hammer blow to the struggling middle-class families of America," Romney said of the pace of job growth, assailing Obama's record from a Las Vegas trucking business. At the White House, Obama surrounding himself with some of those families, playing up 29 straight months that private employers have added jobs.

"Those are our neighbors and families finding work," Obama said. "But, let's acknowledge, we've still got too many folks out there who are looking for work."

Fittingly, the two men spoke over each other on television, holding events at the same time.

The economy is stuck, long removed from the days of implosion but not growing enough to reduce unemployment or make people feel better. No signs of help are coming from a gridlocked president and Congress, or from the Federal Reserve, or from U.S. allies with their own problems as the world economy suffers.

That means the economy voters have now may be the one they get when it's time to pick a president.

The bright spot: Employers added 163,000 jobs in July, more than double that of June. Yet the politically important unemployment rate rose to 8.3 percent, a notch above June's 8.2 percent.

Only three such tone-setting jobs reports remain before the election ? one in September the day after Obama speaks at the Democratic National Convention, one in October shortly after the two men debate on the economy and one in November a mere four days before the election.

Whatever the monthly ups and downs, the big picture shows that the largest economy in the world has yet to take off: The 151,000 jobs added on average each month this year is almost the same monthly average as last year.

No economic recovery since World War II has been weaker than the current rebound from the recession that ended in June 2009.

A status quo economy means the campaign arguments and strategies are not changing, either.

Obama and Romney will keep punching it out in largely negative advertising and personal appearances in about eight states expected to determine the outcome. Much of the rest of America will be left to give money, volunteer or watch from the sidelines.

Obama's locked-in message is about asking the nation's richest people to pay higher taxes, extending tax cuts for the middle class and promising long-run economic growth by putting public money into education, energy and research. He has seized on a report that concluded Romney's plan would raise middle-class taxes.

Meanwhile, Romney's aides have long believed only a dramatic uptick in the economy could hurt his chances and force a broad change in messaging.

So one month of stronger-than-expected job growth did nothing to alter Romney's case that "America can do better." Capitalizing on an Obama vulnerability ? public disapproval of the president's handling of the economy ? Romney portrays himself as the change agent with the business background for the demands of the day.

He is promising to create 12 million jobs over four years, a pace that would demand nearly 90,000 more jobs every month than were created in July. Yet he has offered few specifics to back up that ambitious projection, outlining a broad economic agenda of trade, energy and lower taxes, spending and regulation.

Obama used the new numbers to fuel his own narrative of an American economy headed in the right direction.

"We knew when I started in this job that this was going to take some time," Obama said. "We haven't had to come back from an economic crisis this deep or this painful since the 1930s. But we also knew that if we were persistent, if we kept at it and kept working, that we'd gradually get to where we need to be."

The economy lost 8.7 million jobs in the recession and its aftermath. Since then, it has regained 3.9 million.

The size of the hole, the slow climb out of it, and the broken politics of Washington have left a lot of the country weary. Even in an election driven by the economy, one Associated Press-GfK poll found that 60 percent of people said whoever wins the election will have slim-to-no impact on employment.

Romney and Obama are going after roughly 10 percent of the electorate that remains undecided in the presidential race.

Neither side contends the public is truly engaged in the race yet; August vacations and the Olympics have steered plenty of attention elsewhere. Yet the last month of summer will be busy, with Romney's choice of a vice presidential candidate coming soon and the political conventions falling on either side of Labor Day.

Romney traveled from Las Vegas to Sun Valley, Idaho, for a fundraiser Friday night. He picked up the endorsement of actor Clint Eastwood, who told The Associated Press outside the Sun Valley Resort that he was backing the Republican because "I think the country needs a boost."

Romney is set to campaign in Indiana on Saturday, before spending two days in private at his New Hampshire summer home. He is expected to campaign in Iowa and Ohio in the following days before starting a bus tour targeting Virginia, North Carolina and Florida.

Obama, who celebrates his 51st birthday on Saturday, will spend much of the weekend at the presidential retreat at Camp David, Md. He will raise money in Connecticut on Monday before launching into a stretch of campaign travel in Colorado and Iowa, with fundraising in his hometown of Chicago tucked in between.

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Associated Press writers Steve Peoples in Reno, Nev., and Christopher S. Rugaber, Paul Wiseman, Julie Pace and David Espo in Washington contributed to this report.

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NASA's Curiosity rover completes crucial course correction en route to Mars (+video)

NASA's car sized Curiosity Mars Science Lab fired its thrusters to set in on course for its scheduled touchdown in the Red Planet's?Gale Crater, where, if the landing goes well, it will begin searching for signs of habitability.

By Ken Kremer,?Universe Today / July 31, 2012

This artist concept features NASA's Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover, a mobile robot for investigating Mars' past or present ability to sustain microbial life.

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Now just 1 week out from landing beside a 3 mile high (5 km) layered Martian mountain in search of life?s ingredients, aiming thrusters aboard the cruise stage of NASA?s car sized Curiosity Mars Science Lab successfully fired to set the rover precisely on course for a touchdown on Mars at about 1:31 a.m. EDT (531 GMT) early on Aug. 6 (10:31 p.m. PDT on Aug. 5).

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This 11-minute animation depicts key events of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission, which will launch in late 2011 and land a rover, Curiosity, on Mars in August 2012.

Two precise and brief thruster bursts lasting about 7 seconds were successfully carried out just hours ago earlier today at 1 a.m. on July 29, EDT (10 p.m. PDT on July 28). The effect was to change the spacecraft?s velocity by about 1/40 MPH or 1 cm/sec as it smashes into Mars at about 13,200 mph (5,900 meters per second). ?

This was the fourth and possibly last of 6 interplanetary Trajectory Correction Manuevers (TCM?s) planned by mission engineers to steer Curiosity since departing Earth for the Red Planet.

If necessary, 2 additional TCM?s could be implemented in the final 48 hours next Saturday and Sunday before Curiosity begins plunging into the Martian atmosphere late Sunday night on a do or die mission to land inside the 100 mile wide Gale Crater with a huge mountain in the middle. All 6 TCM maneuvers were preplanned long before the Nov 26, 2011 liftoff from Cape Canaveral, Florida.

Without this course correction firing, MSL would have hit a point at the top of the Martian atmosphere about 13 miles (21 kilometers) east of the target entry point. During the preprogrammed Entry, Descent and Landing (EDL) sequence the vehicle can steer itself in the upper atmosphere to correct for an error amounting to a few miles.

On landing day, MSL can steer enough during its flight through the upper atmosphere to correct for missing the target entry aim point by a few miles and still land on the intended patch of Mars real estate. The mission?s engineers and managers rated the projected 13-mile miss big enough to warrant a correction maneuver.

?The purpose of this maneuver is to move the point at which Curiosity enters the atmosphere by about 13 miles,? said Tomas Martin-Mur of NASA?s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., chief of the mission?s navigation team. ?The first look at telemetry and tracking data afterwards indicates the maneuver succeeded as planned.?

As of today (July 30), Curiosity has traveled about 97% of the overall journey to Mars or about 343 million miles (555 million kilometers) of its 352-million-mile (567-million-kilometer) total flight distance.

?I will not be surprised if this was our last trajectory correction maneuver,? Martin Mur said of the TCM-4 firing. ?We will be monitoring the trajectory using the antennas of the Deep Space Network to be sure Curiosity is staying on the right path for a successful entry, descent and landing.?

Curiosity will use an unprecedented rocket powered descent stage and a helicopter like sky crane to set down astride the sedimentary layers of Mount Sharp.

She will then conduct a minimum 2 year prime mission with the most sophisticated science instrument package ever dispatched to Mars to determine if a habitable zone ever existed on this region of Mars.

Curiosity will search for the ingredients of life in the form of organic molecules ? the carbon based molecules which are the building blocks of life as we know it. The one-ton behemoth is packed to the gills with 10 state of the art science instruments including a 7 foot long robotic arm, scoop, drill and laser rock zapper.

As Curiosity dives down to Mars surface on Aug. 6, 3 spacecraft from NASA and ESA are now positioned in orbit around the Red Planet and are ready to relay and record signals from the ?7 Minutes of Terror? ? Read the details in my article ? here

This post originally appeared on Universe Today.

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