Fingernail-sized Satellites to Plow New Ground in Space
Courtesy: Cornell University/Provided Courtesy: Cornell University/Provided Onboard space shuttle Endeavour — on target for launch this Friday — thin, one-inch square chips are headed for mounting on the International Space Station. Developed by...China Seeks Name/Logo for Its Space Station
Credit: CMSEO The director of the China Manned Space Engineering Office (CMSEO) has called upon Chinese people around the world for a logo and a distinctive name for that country’s first crewed space station. CMSEO’s Wang Wenbao announced the plan to have ideas and...NASA Medical Breakthroughs Spotlighted on HowStuffWorks.com
Credit: NASA Spinoff HowStuffWorks.com has posted an impressive listing of what breakthroughs in medicine came from NASA. The roster of medical advances that came at least in part from NASA research includes: Cool suit to lower body temperature in treatment of...Proposed Legislation Would Direct U. S. Return to the Moon
A recently introduced House bill, the Reasserting American Leadership in Space Act, would require the United States to resume efforts to return human explorers to the moon, this time by 2022, and establish a “sustained presence.” The legislation, H. R....Book Review: Exoplanets
Exoplanets, Edited by Sara Seager; University of Arizona Press; Tucson, Arizona; $35.00 (Cloth); 2011. The editor of this volume, Sara Seager, is the Ellen Swallow Richards Professor of Planetary Science and Professor of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of...Happy Birthday! Hubble
The Hubble Space Telescope, among the best known and most accomplished spacecraft ever launched, will mark its 21st birthday on Sunday. The 350 mile high observatory, which has been upgraded five times by space shuttle crews since its April 24, 1990 launching aboard...Satellite Data Yields New Tool for Hurricane Forecasters
Atmospheric sciences professor Stephen Nesbitt, left, and graduate student Daniel Harnos analyzed passive microwave satellite data to identify telltale structural rings in tropical storms that are about to intensify into hurricanes. Photo courtesy Univ. of Illinois/L....NASA Sun-Watching Observatory Monitors Birth of a Sunspot
NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory has been used to monitor the birth of a sunspot over a period of eight hours. Researchers at the University of Central Lancashire made use of the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) to observe the growth of the sunspot. How sunspots...President Signs Compromise 2011 Budget Continuing Resolution, Including $18.485 billion for NASA
President Obama has signed into law the 2011 budget continuing resolution, a deficit cutting compromise with the House and Senate that funds the federal government through Sept. 30 and includes $18.485 billion for NASA. The measure, which is $239 million less for the...Space Talk
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El Telescopio Espacial #NancyGraceRoman ¡Ya está en camino! El pasado 30 de agosto la #NASA lanzó un nuevo telescopio espacial a bordo de un #FalconHeavy de 'SpaceX', desde el Centro Espacial Kennedy, en Florida.
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A fiery farewell from orbit. 🔥🌅
Seen from the ISS, a Progress resupply spacecraft burns up in Earth’s atmosphere as the Sun rises over the Pacific. After delivering supplies, Progress vehicles are deliberately deorbited.
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NASA is about to get a much bigger view of the universe. The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope can capture at least 100 times more sky than Hubble in a single observation, while still delivering similarly sharp infrared images. Its… #NASA #Space #Astronomy #Hubble #SpaceTech
Star trails from the ISS! 🌌 Stars sweep into arcs as the station races around Earth, while city lights streak below, lightning flashes purple and a faint red atmospheric glow hugs the horizon. Surreal!
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