NASA HQ is located at Two Independence Square, a building in a complex at 300 E Street SW in the nation’s capital. Responsible for ensuring the safety of millions of holiday travelers every year with a complex network of air traffic control systems, the FAA recognized jolly old St. Nick’s flight path and confirmed his coordinates in one clean sweep. A notable exception to the ISS shuttle missions was STS-125, a successful 2009 flight to service the Hubble Space Telescope. Because of capacity limits on the DSN, new spacecraft intended for missions beyond geocentric orbits are being equipped to use the beacon mode service, which allows such missions to operate without the DSN most of the time. 15, NASA received the final transmission from the Cassini spacecraft. This is important, as even the most minor of naughty deeds committed within the final few hours of Dec. 24 can determine whether children get what’s on their gift list or instead receive lumps of coal.

Many rocket accidents happen faster than a human can detect and respond to them. The International Space Station will continue to serve as the world’s leading laboratory where researchers can conduct cutting-edge research and technology development to enable human and robotic exploration of the Moon and Mars. There are all kinds of comfort, and these baths illustrate just how easy to live with — and how sophisticated — rustic style can be. Continue on to the next page for an example of traditional style in the 1920s. A wealth of quality surfacing materials and intelligent design touches makes the space wonderfully livable as well as beautiful. Traditional styles break down by genre as well as by time period. If you’re seeking a no-fail recipe for timeless elegance, this handsome, refined look borrows elements from several historical American and English styles. Call on faux-finishing artists to conjure up the richly antiqued look of an ancient palazzo with richly dimensional plaster walls, sponged or painted with fresco scenes.

Continue with other grand gestures, including ornately carved vanity cabinets in fine-grained hardwoods embellished with ornate, antiqued brass hardware. A rustic, darkly stained wood vanity with wrought-iron-look fixtures and hardware fits right in with this style. To get the look, choose a vanity cabinet in oak or pine (or, even more refined, in fruitwood or pecan) with antiqued brass fixtures and hardware. Keep metals matte (choose antiqued bronze-brass, pewter, or brushed nickel; not shiny brass, chrome, or stainless steel) and accessories in wood or stoneware colored to blend with your palette. For fittings, choose ornately designed, elegantly traditional brass or pewter, perhaps with faucet handles adorned with quartz or another semiprecious stone. Choose a vanity in a rustic wood such as oak or knotty pine, and add a simple sink, perhaps a bronze, pewter, or white porcelain bowl that sits entirely on a countertop of slate, tumbled marble, or other textured, rustic surfacing material. Choose your color scheme — perhaps the classic royal blue, sun yellow, and white — and create a work of art with decorative tiles on your vanity countertop and backsplash.

You can choose luxurious polished marble; durable, dramatic granite; interesting tumbled marble tiles; or hand-painted Italian tiles (or several of the above) to carry out your color scheme and decorating theme. Select a calendar and generate either an HTML file or a .ics file that you can then send to a friend, a relative or a colleague. If the budget allows, consider a pedestal sink that’s a work of art itself in agate or rose quartz. They’re handsome in muted jewel tones (old gold, blue-green, Federal blue, burgundy, and old rose), and they’re lovely and fresh in the cameo-pale tones of tea rose pink, primrose yellow, celadon green, sky blue, and white. Choose a hand-painted porcelain sink or one in a suite of fixtures, perhaps in a regal tone such as maroon, hunter green, eggplant, warm gold, or ivory. The mix is one of free-spiritedness, but with a certain comfort. Italy is one of the world’s finest sources of quarried stone and artisan-made tiles, so indulge in luxurious natural stone flooring, countertops, backsplashes, and even entire walls, especially in a walk-in shower area. In one bath here, weathered wood, rough-cut stone, and strategically placed beams work together to create a simple, striking room.