The FINANCIAL -- A more cautious funding environment since the summer is having a greater effect on the most leveraged and vulnerable companies in the high yield universe.

The FINANCIAL -- NASA has awarded a contract to Science Systems and Applications, of Lanham, Md., for the Global Modeling and Assimilation Office scientific support services.

The FINANCIAL -- NASA has selected Airborne Systems North America of Santa Ana, Calif., ILC Dover LP of Frederica, Del., and Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company of Littleton, Colo., to support agency inflatable aerodynamic decelerator research and development, including work on the Space Technology Program's Hypersonic Inflatable Aerodynamic Decelerator project.

The FINANCIAL -- International Space Station Commander Dan Burbank captured spectacular imagery of Comet Lovejoy, viewed from about 240 miles above the Earth’s horizon on Wednesday, Dec. 21.

The FINANCIAL -- The 18th IPRM meeting under the Incident Prevention and Response Mechanism took place in Dvani today. The meeting was co-facilitated by the EU Monitoring Mission in Georgia and the OSCE.