Piece Of Historic Spacecraft Up For Grabs
Sky News (Free subscription) | yesterday
A piece of the first spacecraft to land on the moon is expected to fetch up to £1,200 at auction.
Sky News (Free subscription) | yesterday
A piece of the first spacecraft to land on the moon is expected to fetch up to £1,200 at auction.
Spacefellowship (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
(NASA) – The International Space Station crew was notified this afternoon of a possible close encounter with a piece of space debris. The time of closest approach of the debris is expected at 10:48 p.m. EST. NASA uses an imaginary “box” around the space station when assessing the risk of space debris passing close to [...]
The National Pages Blog (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
The Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) was a US spacecraft developed by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and launched November 1996. It began the United States’s return to Mars after a 10-year absence. It completed its primary mission in January 2001 and was in its third extended mission phase when, on November 2, 2006, the spacecraft failed to [...]
World UFO Space's Blog (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- News conferences, events and operating hours for the news center at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, Fla., are set for the upcoming launch of space shuttle Atlantis. The shuttle's STS-129 mission to the International Space Station is scheduled to lift off at 2:28 p.m. EST on Monday, Nov. 16. A NASA blog will update the countdown beginning Nov. 16 at 9:30 a.m. Originating from Kennedy,...
Astronomy (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Senior NASA and contractor managers assessed the risks associated with the mission and determined the shuttle's equipment, support systems, and procedures are ready.
NASA Watch (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Senate votes to restore NASA funding House cut, Houston Chronicle "In a strong show of support for President Barack Obama's vision for NASA and manned space missions, the Senate agreed Thursday to hand over all that he asked for: $4...
Houston Chronicle (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
The Senate agreed Thursday to hand over all that he asked for: $4 billion to build cutting-edge spacecraft as part of an $18.7 billion budget.
Nasa (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
NASA is accepting applications from students at U.S. colleges and universities who want to send their experiments to the edge of space on a high-flying scientific balloon.
Nasa (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
The 2009 edition of NASA's Spinoff, a publication that shows how NASA technology is being put to use in everyday life here on Earth, is available in print and online.
MSNBC.com: Space News (Free subscription) | yesterday
When a NASA spacecraft rammed into the moon in October, the event also stirred an observable cloud of public anxiety and protests in some quarters about "bombing" the moon.
USA Shopping Online @ 2dayplaza.com (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Shortly after the planets inside our own solar system were formed, they began wobbling about, and roaming around, far from being caught in the well-defined orbits we see today. This chaotic motion is mainly responsible for the formation of the Moon, after Earth collided with a Mars-sized object that was circling the Sun on about the same orbit. These chaotic times have been history for billions of...
Technoccult (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Vint Cerf, Google’s internet evangelist, has unveiled a new protocol intended to power an interplanetary internet. The Delay-Tolerant Networking (DTN) protocol emerged from work first started in 1998 in partnership with Nasa’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The initial goal was to modify the ubiquitous Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) to facilitate robust communications between celestial...
Tom's Astronomy Blog (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Image: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute – Cassini Cassini has weathered its Nov 2, 2009 flyby of the Saturn’s moon, Enceladus, in good shape. The flyby placed the spacecraft at about 100 km (60 miles) above the surface of Enceladus at its closest point, and directly through the plume you see imaged here in the south polar region. [...]
Wired Science (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Earlier this week, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft took its deepest dive ever through the center of the icy plume shooting out from the southern pole of Saturn’s moon Enceladus. NASA reports that the spacecraft survived Monday’s flyby in good health, and is now transmitting eagerly awaited data and images back to Earth. At its closest point, Cassini [...]
A Babe in the Universe (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Today's post was written at the Cafe Mediterranean, across Nasa Road One from Johnson Space Center. Frequently the Cafe hosts concerts by Max Q, the band made entirely of active duty astronauts! Left-right in front are Canadian Chris Hadfield on guitar, Educator Dottie Metcalf-Lunenbuyrger doing vocals, Dan Burbank on guitar. Not to worry, they've not quit their day jobs. Max Q is the point of maximum...
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youloveit | 04/08/2009
Plot: In a abroad galaxy eons prep earlier than the conception of the allegorical planet common conj at the chronology that Earth, vast civilizations obtain evolved, and finding the galaxy is an interstellar Empire created from the ruins of an Old Republic that held fluctuate for generations. It is a chronology of interior fighting, conj at the chronology that solar systems obtain burst at a distance...