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NASA Radar Finds Ice Deposits at Moon’s North Pole
March 2, 2010 - 3:57 pm
Tags: Moon, NASA, shuttle, Space, United States, universe, water
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Using data from a NASA radar that flew aboard India’s Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft, scientists have detected ice deposits near the moon’s north pole. NASA’s Mini-SAR instrument, a lightweight, synthetic aperture radar, found more than 40 small craters with water ice. The craters range in size from 1 to 9 miles (2 to15 km) in diameter. Although [...]
Making Mars the New Earth, What would it take to green the red planet? Warming
Could we “terraform” Mars—that is, transform its frozen, thin-aired surface into something more friendly and Earthlike? Should we? The first question has a clear answer: Yes, we probably could. Spacecraft, including the ones now exploring Mars, have found evidence that it was warm in its youth, with rivers draining into vast seas. And right here [...]
NASA Offers Shuttles at Clearance Prices, Is Investigating Cocaine Found in Hangar
January 20, 2010 - 12:17 pm
Tags: NASA, NASA headquarters, shuttle, Space, United States
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For nearly three decades (since 1981), the Space Shuttle was an iconic symbol of the American space program and the country’s primary way of reaching space. Now as the National Aeronautics and Space Administration is working on its replacement, it’s putting the famous spacecraft up for sale.
NASA in December 2008 first offered the Shuttles [...]
Endeavour’s payload shipped out to launch pad 39A
January 20, 2010 - 11:17 am
Tags: Endeavour, NASA, NASA space, shuttle, shuttle endeavour, Space, Tranquility module, United States
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The container with Tranquility is lifted into pad 39A’s gantry this morning. Credit: NASA-KSC
The Tranquility module that’ll be a new room with a view for the International Space Station was trucked to space shuttle Endeavour’s launch pad overnight, destined for blastoff next month.
Packed in a special transport canister shaped like the shuttle’s 60-foot-long payload [...]
For £17.7m, shuttle is a gift that’s out of this world
January 20, 2010 - 10:15 am
Tags: buy a shuttle, cheap shuttles, NASA, NASA space, rocket, shuttle, Space, United States
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The price of Nasa’s Space Shuttle fleet has just been slashed from £25.8m Credit: Getty
It flew faster and higher than any machine in history and was the was the ultimate boy’s toy, but at $42 million (£25.8 m) it was beyond most budgets. But now the price of Nasa’s soon-to-be redundant space shuttles has [...]
Has USA hit its final frontier in human space exploration?
January 20, 2010 - 1:17 am
Tags: cooperative space exploration, NASA, NASA space, shuttle, Space, United States
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Still hoping for that Jetsons future?
Ruh-roh, as the Jetsons’ dog, Astro, might put it.
Just six years ago, President Bush laid out a vision of space exploration that harked back to NASA’s halcyon days built on astronauts as explorers. Bush wanted to sling them from low Earth orbit to a base on the moon and then, [...]
NASA’s Rosetta “Alice” Spectrometer Reveals Earth’s UV Fingerprint
January 20, 2010 - 12:21 am
Tags: Earth, Esa, Euro, Europe Space Agency, NASA, Rosetta, Space, ultra violet, United States, UV
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During the spacecraft’s approach, the Earth appeared as a crescent. This image of the Earth was taken around the same time by the OSIRIS camera on Rosetta. Credit: ESA 2009 MPS for OSIRIS Team MPS/UPD/LAM/IAA/RSSD/INTA/UPM/DASP/IDA
On November 13, the European Space Agency’s comet orbiter spacecraft, Rosetta, swooped by Earth for its third and final gravity assist [...]
If you want to watch a space shuttle launch, time’s running out
January 20, 2010 - 12:15 am
Tags: NASA, NASA space, shuttle, Space, spacewalk gloves
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This year begins a new decade, but it also will see the end of the United States’ trailblazing approach to manned spaceflight: the space shuttle program.
“In just five more flights, a chapter of history will be forever closed,” says Mike Mullane, a three-time NASA space shuttle astronaut and author of Riding Rockets. “It will be [...]
NASA helps Haiti disaster relief efforts
January 16, 2010 - 2:25 am
Tags: earthquake, Haiti, mission, NASA, satellite, shuttle radar, Space, topography
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An image of Haiti from the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission in 2000 Credit: NASA
NASA is helping provide information to support disaster recovery efforts in Haiti in the wake of Tuesday’s killer earthquake.
According to the space agency, two NASA Earth monitoring satellites — the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer, or ASTER, and NASA’s Earth [...]
2 Russian cosmonauts on International Space Station conduct spacewalk
January 16, 2010 - 2:22 am
Tags: Intern, International space station, ISS, Russia, Space, spacewalk
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Two Russian cosmonauts conducted a spacewalk on Thursday intended to activate a new segment on the International Space Station so it can dock Russian spacecraft.
The effort was expected to last nearly six hours, and Americans Jeff Williams and Timothy J. Creamer and Soichi Noguchi of Japan were supporting the mission from inside the space station.
Cosmonauts [...]