Mar 12th, 2010 · Recently a group of Muslim women in Washington, D.C. sought to protest what they considered to be an injustice — being confined to a separate prayer space from their male counterparts. The issue of gender segregation is one that many Muslims are talking about and to get some perspective host Michel Martin speaks with Asra Nomani who participated in the protests and wrote about them for The Daily Beast, and Asha Abdi, a student studying sociology at San Jose State University in California.
Keywords: protests · Muslim · Washington · D.C · California · students · Segregated · prayers · gender · male · injustice · mosque
Mar 11th, 2010 · Mankind has been dreaming about flying in space ever since we began looking up to the stars. Once flight and space travel became a reality, songs about flying to the heavens entered the mainstream musical world. In that spirit, here are some stellar (and interstellar) tracks by Billy Murray, The Byrds and David Bowie.
Keywords: world · mainstream · music · songs · Spirit · David Bowie · stellar · Heaven · Byrd · mankind · Space · lightspeed
Mar 6th, 2010 · When Anousheh Ansari was a little girl in Tehran, she used to sleep on her family's balcony and look up at the stars as they twinkled over Mt. Damavand. In 2006, she became the first self-funded woman to fly on the International Space Station. She talks to host Scott Simon about her travels into space and about her new book, My Dream of Stars.
Keywords: Scott Simon · 2006 · Tehran · International Space Station · Family · balcony · tourists · Emmy · twinkling · Mt · Space · Anousheh Ansari
Mar 2nd, 2010 · Drawing from its globe-trotting experience with Yo-Yo Ma's Silk Road Ensemble, Brooklyn Rider blends genres and influences seamlessly, carving out its own unique space within the world of chamber music. The string quartet will perform as part of NPR Music's daytime party at The Parish in Austin, Texas, on March 18.
Keywords: world · Texas · music · Quartet · riders · Brooklyn · chamber · concert · NPR Music · Austin · genre · 2010
Mar 2nd, 2010 · The European Space Agency's Mars Express spacecraft will pass within 42 miles of the small, oddly shaped Phobos, once speculated to be a Martian space station. The craft will use radio signals to measure the distribution of the mass inside the moon.
Keywords: distribution · Spacecraft · Mart · Potato · European Space Agency · Space · Phobos
Feb 25th, 2010 · President Obama's proposed budget for NASA would kill an effort to build new rockets and capsules to return astronauts to the moon by 2020. On Capitol Hill on Wednesday, some lawmakers criticized the plan, telling the space agency's chief it would put American on the sidelines while other countries moved forward.
Keywords: agency · Senate · Americans · lawmakers · countries · Capitol Hill · Mission · astronauts · NASA · Capsule · 2020 · sideline
Feb 25th, 2010 · President Obama's proposed budget for NASA would kill an effort to build new rockets and capsules to return astronauts to the moon by 2020. On Capitol Hill on Wednesday, some lawmakers criticized the plan, telling the space agency's chief it would put American on the sidelines while other countries moved forward.
Keywords: agency · Senate · Americans · lawmakers · countries · Capitol Hill · Mission · astronauts · NASA · Capsule · 2020 · sideline
Feb 21st, 2010 · NASA pressed ahead with a Sunday night landing for space shuttle Endeavour, but poor weather on both coasts made any touchdown attempts unlikely.
Keywords: poor · Weather · shuttle · NASA · touchdown · Endeavour · Space
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