Aug 31, 2010 | Education, Exploration, International Space Station, Mars, The Moon
. While the White House and Congress debate the nation’s future course in the exploration of space, NASA is preparing its engineers and scientists to carry out their decision, whether it be ambitious missions to the moon, the asteroids, or Mars. And this year,...
Aug 29, 2010 | International Cooperation, International Space Station, Mars, NASA, The Moon
Early this week, a small team of experts from NASA’s Johnson Space Center will head for Chile under the sponsorship of the U. S. State Department to assist officials with what’s expected to be a long running effort to rescue 33 miners trapped a half-mile...
Aug 19, 2010 | European Space Agency, International Cooperation, International Space Station, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), NASA, Space Research
Activities aboard the International Space Station resumed normal operations on Thursday, following a near three week campaign to overcome an external pump motor failure that crippled half of the orbiting lab’s cooling system. Back to normal meant that all...
Aug 17, 2010 | European Space Agency, International Space Station, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), NASA, Space and Science
Spacewalking astronauts Doug Wheelock and Tracy Caldwell Dyson completed repairs to the crippled cooling system aboard the International Space Station on Monday, with their third spacewalk in 10 days. Mission managers believe the station’s vital thermal control...
Aug 12, 2010 | International Space Station, NASA, Uncategorized
NASA astronauts Doug Wheelock and Tracy Caldwell Dyson will float outside the International Space Station for a third time on Monday in a bid to wrap up repairs to the orbiting laboratory’s external cooling system. Half of the system that circulates ammonia coolant...
Aug 10, 2010 | International Space Station, NASA
The International Space Station’s mission management team signed off Tuesday on two new spacewalks by NASA astronauts Doug Wheelock and Tracy Caldwell Dyson in their bid to recover a vital external cooling system. The first of the two six to seven hour excursions is...
Aug 8, 2010 | European Space Agency, International Space Station, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), NASA
Spacewalking astronauts Doug Wheelock and Tracy Caldwell Dyson wrestled with balky fluid lines and leaking ammonia on Saturday as they began a series of excursions to replace a failed cooling system pump outside the International Space Station. Saturday’s spacewalk...
Aug 5, 2010 | International Cooperation, International Space Station, NASA
International Space Station mission managers decided Thursday to wait until Saturday for the first of two spacewalks to repair the orbiting laboratory’s cooling system, which was hobbled by an electrical short in an external pump module assembly on July 31. The...
Aug 4, 2010 | International Space Station, NASA, Uncategorized
Two NASA astronauts expect to repair the external cooling system aboard the International Space Station with a pair of upcoming spacewalks, following a serious malfunction late on July 31. The first spacewalk by Doug Wheelock and Tracy Caldwell Dyson to replace a...
Jul 29, 2010 | International Space Station, NASA, Our Solar System, Why Space
HONOLULU, Hawaii — There is a rapid emergence of citizen science and social networks that yields an exciting new means to become better stewards of our planet. It’s called Community Remote Sensing (CRS) – a new field that combines remote sensing with...