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Colliding Galaxies Swirl in Dazzling New PhotoA spectacular new image of two colliding galaxies shows a cosmic region teeming with stellar activity. Sunday, 8 August 2010 | Hits: 21 |
Senate Approves NASA Bill, Extra Space Shuttle FlightThe U.S. Senate passed a NASA authorization bill Thursday that would add a space shuttle flight to the manifest next year, and require the space agency to get started immediately on a heavy-lift rocket capable of supporting manned missions beyond low-Earth orbit. Sunday, 8 August 2010 | Hits: 16 |
Solar Tsunami Revealed in New PhotoA dramatically vivid new image of the sun shows the Aug. 1 solar eruption in the star's northern hemisphere that blasted charged particles in Earth's direction, triggering stunning aurora displays and geomagnetic storms that lasted about 12 hours. Sunday, 8 August 2010 | Hits: 12 |
Looking for the Moon? It Rises at DawnMany stargazers enjoy the challenge of spotting the moon in the evening twilight sky as soon after its dark new moon phase as possible. But this month, moon lovers should rise at dawn. Sunday, 8 August 2010 | Hits: 17 |
Space Station Crew Safe From Sun's Wrath as Flare StrikesA solar flare from the sun this week poses no threat to astronauts on the International Space Station or plans for vital spacewalk repairs on the orbiting lab, NASA officials have said. Sunday, 8 August 2010 | Hits: 7 |
Poll: Do We Need A New International Space Station?A major malfunction of the International Space Station's cooling system has pushed the 12-year-old orbiting laboratory into the spotlight. Does the ISS need replacing? Sunday, 8 August 2010 | Hits: 13 |
NASA: Third Spacewalk Required to Fix Space Station Cooling SystemAstronauts on the International Space Station will have to perform a third unplanned spacewalk beyond two already set to replace a broken cooling system pump. Sunday, 8 August 2010 | Hits: 14 |
Record-Setting Spacewalk at Space Station Falls Short on RepairsTwo
astronauts took an extra-long spacewalk outside the International Space Station
Saturday to repair a crucial cooling system, but ran out of time before they
could replace a broken ammonia pump - their primary goal. Sunday, 8 August 2010 | Hits: 13 |
Graphic: NASA's Space Station Cooling System Malfunction ExplainedThis SPACE.com graphic explains the International Space Station's cooling system and its pump malfunction. S Sunday, 8 August 2010 | Hits: 7 |
Excellent Perseid Meteor Shower Expected Aug. 11-13This reliable annual meteor shower should put on a very strong display this year. Sunday, 8 August 2010 | Hits: 14 |
FAQ: International Space Station Cooling System Pump FailureNASA is forging ahead with a plan to send astronauts on two emergency spacewalks outside the International Space Station to fix a major malfunction in the orbiting laboratory's cooling system. Here are some frequently asked and their answers. Sunday, 8 August 2010 | Hits: 0 |
FAQ: How Do Astronauts Take Spacewalks?From EVAs to EMUs, spacewalks are a tricky business. Sunday, 8 August 2010 | Hits: 1 |
Graphic: Inside and Out: The International Space StationFollow the International Space Station's (ISS) construction and development history from this infographic provided by Space.com. Read about the construction of the most complex space project ever undertaken. Sunday, 8 August 2010 | Hits: 1 |
Solar Sail Spacecraft Steers with Sunlight for First TimeJapan's solar sail uses a novel on-and-off reflection technique to steer solely by the pressure of sunlight. Sunday, 8 August 2010 | Hits: 1 |
Look Up! Rare 3-Planet Sky Triangle Plus Stellar Meteor ShowerThis weekend marks the peak of a beautiful alignment of the planets Venus, Mars and Saturn in the evening sky. This impressive gathering comes ahead of the annual Perseid meteor shower, a shooting star fest that will be at its best Aug. 11 to 13. Sunday, 8 August 2010 | Hits: 1 |
NASA Rocket Lights Up Predawn Sky Above VirginiaA suborbital NASA rocket lit up the predawn sky above Virginia early Wednesday during a demonstration flight to test its new motor. Sunday, 8 August 2010 | Hits: 0 |
UA-Operated Stereo Camera Selected for Mars Mission(PhysOrg.com) -- The UA's High Resolution Stereo Color Imager was selected as one of five instruments for the first joint mission to Mars by NASA and the European Space Agency. HiSCI is designed to uncover interactions between the Red Planet's surface and atmosphere. Sunday, 8 August 2010 | Hits: 0 |
MetOp-B module passes crucial vacuum test(PhysOrg.com) -- The Payload Module of ESA's latest meteorological satellite, MetOp-B, has been hauled out of the largest vacuum chamber in Europe: its ability to operate in the harsh conditions of space has been proved. Sunday, 8 August 2010 | Hits: 0 |
Neil Armstrong, first man on the moon, to turn 80Neil Armstrong, who turns 80 on Thursday, became the first human to set foot on the moon on July 20, 1969, before the eyes of hundreds of millions of television viewers worldwide, who gazed in awe. Sunday, 8 August 2010 | Hits: 0 |
NASA plans two challenging spacewalks to fix ISS pump (Update)NASA teams raced Monday to get ready for two challenging spacewalks to fix a pump module on the International Space Station's cooling system that dramatically failed last week. Sunday, 8 August 2010 | Hits: 0 |
STAR TRAK: August 2010Every three years, the same phase of the moon happens on about the same date of each month. The annual Perseid meteor shower of August last happened in a moonless sky in 2007, so this year if the sky is clear when the Perseids peak before dawn on Aug. 12 and 13, there will be an unhindered display of silent fireworks. Sunday, 8 August 2010 | Hits: 0 |
Aurora alert: The Sun is waking up (w/ Video)Sky viewers might get to enjoy some spectacular Northern Lights, or aurorae, tomorrow. After a long slumber, the Sun is waking up. Early Sunday morning, the Sun's surface erupted and blasted tons of plasma (ionized atoms) into interplanetary space. That plasma is headed our way, and when it arrives, it could create a spectacular light show. Sunday, 8 August 2010 | Hits: 0 |
Martian Face Turns Out to be a Rocky Mesa(PhysOrg.com) -- In 1976, the Viking spacecraft, flying above Mars, captured an image of what appeard to be a large face on the surface of the planet. The face appeared, to many, as proof that a Martian civilization existed; beings not unlike humans must have populated Mars at one time. The famous "face on Mars" is located in the Cydonia region of Mars. Sunday, 8 August 2010 | Hits: 0 |
Taking a Shot at the Sun(PhysOrg.com) -- This July, for a thrilling eight minutes, NASA researchers will get a peek at one of the sun's most mysterious regions. Sunday, 8 August 2010 | Hits: 1 |
Safe and efficient de-orbit of space junk without making the problem worseGlobal Aerospace Corporation (GAC) announced that Dr. Kristin L. Gates will present a paper on de-orbiting space junk at the August 2 Artificial and Natural Space Debris session of the AIAA Astrodynamics Specialists Conference in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Dr. Gates will describe GAC's Gossamer Orbit Lowering Device (GOLD) for safe and efficient removal from Low Earth Orbit (LEO) of dangerous space objects. The patented GOLD system concept uses a very large ultra thin balloon envelope to increase the aerodynamic drag by a factor of several hundred. This will cause the space junk to enter the earth's atmosphere quickly and burn up. It will reduce the natural orbit decay of some objects from centuries to months. The computer-generated figure illustrates a GOLD system de-orbiting a large scientific observatory. Sunday, 8 August 2010 | Hits: 1 |
Instruments selected for MarsESA and NASA have selected the scientific instruments for their first joint Mars mission. Scheduled for 2016, it will study the chemical makeup of the martian atmosphere, including methane. Discovered in 2003, methane could point to life on the Red Planet. Sunday, 8 August 2010 | Hits: 1 |
NASA's First Robotic Crew Member To Tweet From Space Station(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Robonaut 2 has no voice but is ready to tell you its story -- in 140 characters or less. The prototype robot will travel to space this fall to give NASA a deeper understanding of human-robotic interaction. Sunday, 8 August 2010 | Hits: 0 |
Space station cooling system suddenly shuts down(AP) -- Half of the International Space Station's cooling system suddenly shut down during the weekend, forcing the astronauts to power down equipment and face the likelihood of urgent spacewalking repairs. Sunday, 8 August 2010 | Hits: 0 |
NASA's Hibernating Mars Rover May Not Call Home(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA mission controllers have not heard from the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit since March 22, and the rover is facing its toughest challenge yet -- trying to survive the harsh Martian winter. Sunday, 8 August 2010 | Hits: 0 |
NASA's ATHLETE Warms Up for High Desert Run (w/ Video)Engineers from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory are currently putting their All-Terrain, Hex-Limbed, Extra-Terrestrial Explorer (ATHLETE) through a series of long-drive tests on the long, dirt roads found adjacent to JPL. Sunday, 8 August 2010 | Hits: 0 |
Cassini images rule out rings around Rhea(PhysOrg.com) -- Something unknown is causing a strange, symmetrical structure in the charged-particle environment around Rhea, Saturn's second-largest moon. But contrary to 2008 reports, it's not a system of rings. Sunday, 8 August 2010 | Hits: 0 |
Blowing in the Wind: Cassini Helps with Dune Whodunit(PhysOrg.com) -- The answer to the mystery of dune patterns on Saturn's moon Titan did turn out to be blowing in the wind. It just wasn't from the direction many scientists expected. Sunday, 8 August 2010 | Hits: 0 |
James Webb Space Telescope Completes Cryogenic Mirror TestRecently, six James Webb Space Telescope beryllium mirror segments completed a series of cryogenic tests at the X-ray & Cryogenic Facility at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. Sunday, 8 August 2010 | Hits: 0 |
Greening the Moon and MarsFuture missions to the Moon or Mars could use plants as bio-harvesters to extract valuable elements from the alien soils. Sunday, 8 August 2010 | Hits: 0 |
Rocks on Mars may provide link to evidence of living organisms 4 billion years agoA new article in press of the journal Earth and Planetary Science Letters unveils groundbreaking research on the hydrothermal formation of Clay-Carbonate rocks in the Nili Fossae region of Mars. The findings may provide a link to evidence of living organisms on Mars, roughly 4 billion years ago in the Noachian period. Sunday, 8 August 2010 | Hits: 0 |
400 years, 7,500 words: A history of planetary scienceIn the four centuries since Galileo pointed his handheld cardboard-and-glass telescope skyward and Johannes Kepler described two laws of planetary motion, humans have come to know our solar system almost as intimately as we know our hometowns. So, consider the challenge in reviewing all of planetary science since 1610 ... in 4,000 words or fewer. Sunday, 8 August 2010 | Hits: 1 |
GRAIL Spacecraft Takes Shape(PhysOrg.com) -- Engineers have conducted a fuel tank check of one of NASA's GRAIL mission spacecraft, scheduled for launch in 2011. Sunday, 8 August 2010 | Hits: 0 |
3rd spacewalk needed to restore cooling system(AP) -- A pair of space station astronauts had to hammer loose a stuck connector during an urgent spacewalk to restore a crucial cooling system Saturday, then an ammonia leak erupted and hampered the entire repair effort. Sunday, 8 August 2010 | Hits: 0 |
Space station astronauts fall short on repairs(AP) -- A pair of space station astronauts had to hammer loose a stuck connector Saturday during an urgent spacewalk to restore a crucial cooling system, and ran out of time before they could remove a broken pump. Sunday, 8 August 2010 | Hits: 0 |
US astronauts begin key ISS repair spacewalkTwo International Space Station astronauts set out Saturday on the first of two spacewalks to fix a cooling pump that dramatically failed last week. Sunday, 8 August 2010 | Hits: 0 |
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08.08.10
A spectacular new image of two colliding galaxies shows a cosmic region teeming with stellar activity.
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08.08.10
The U.S. Senate passed a NASA authorization bill Thursday that would add a space shuttle flight to the manifest next year, and require the space agency to get started immediately on a heavy-lift rocket capable of supporting manned missions beyond low-Earth orbit.
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08.08.10
A dramatically vivid new image of the sun shows the Aug. 1 solar eruption in the star's northern hemisphere that blasted charged particles in Earth's direction, triggering stunning aurora displays and geomagnetic storms that lasted about 12 hours.
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08.08.10
Many stargazers enjoy the challenge of spotting the moon in the evening twilight sky as soon after its dark new moon phase as possible. But this month, moon lovers should rise at dawn.
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08.08.10
A solar flare from the sun this week poses no threat to astronauts on the International Space Station or plans for vital spacewalk repairs on the orbiting lab, NASA officials have said.
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08.08.10
A major malfunction of the International Space Station's cooling system has pushed the 12-year-old orbiting laboratory into the spotlight. Does the ISS need replacing?
read full article -
08.08.10
Astronauts on the International Space Station will have to perform a third unplanned spacewalk beyond two already set to replace a broken cooling system pump.
read full article -
08.08.10
Two astronauts took an extra-long spacewalk outside the International Space Station Saturday to repair a crucial cooling system, but ran out of time before they could replace a broken ammonia pump - their primary goal.
read full article -
08.08.10
This SPACE.com graphic explains the International Space Station's cooling system and its pump malfunction. S
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