CSExtra-Wednesday, May 19, 2010
Wednesday’s space news scan: A top Russian officials proposes closer cooperation with the United States for deep space exploration. More comment on U. S. space policy and NASA’s future. The Atlantis astronauts embark on the second spacewalk of their...Biotech Companies: Making Money in Space?
Paul Livingstone, Senior Editor at R&D Magazine has written an interesting update on NASA, university and industry looks at space-based research. Livingstone’s article is as follows, reprinted here with permission: Space biotech: growing industry or space shot?...A New Clue to Explain Existence
Source: The New York Times Physicists at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory are reporting that they have discovered a new clue that could help unravel one of the biggest mysteries of cosmology: why the universe is composed of matter and not its evil-twin...Phoenix Mars Lander Gets Last Chance to Rise From the Dead
Source: Space.com NASA has given its long-silent Phoenix Mars Lander one last chance to rise again this week, and has ordered a workhorse orbiter around the red planet to listen for any beeps of life from the arctic Martian probe. From May 17 to 21, Odyssey will...Space Station Experiment: Breaking the Data Logjam
The International Space Station (ISS) is being used as a test-bed platform to help break the data logjam from Earth-orbiting satellites. NASA’s “Materials on the International Space Station Experiment” (MISSE) program, under the direction of the Naval Research...CSExtra–Tuesday, May 18, 2010
Tuesday’s CSExtra: Apollo astronauts Neil Armstrong and Gene Cernan are scheduled for a Congressional encore as they head for a House hearing on space policy next week. More discussion of NASA’s future from The Space Review. Aboard the International...CSExtra–Monday, May 17, 2010
Monday’s CSExtra leads with NASA’s continued work on the Ares 1 rocket, though the Constellation program is facing cancellation. More on space policy and NASA’s future. Meanwhile, shuttle Atlantis docked with the International Space Station on...CSExtra–Sunday. May 16, 2010
Sunday’s CSE Extra. Shuttle Atlantis closes in on the International Space Station. Docking expected Sunday at 9:27 a.m., CDT. The Link up will start a one week visit that will unite 12 U.S. Russian and Japanese astronauts on the station for the installation of a...Japan Ready to Launch Venus Orbiter, Solar Sail
Japan is ready to launch its Venus Climate Orbiter “Akatsuki” as well as a small solar power sail demonstrator, the IKAROS. The two payloads will be lofted via Japan’s H-2A booster from the Tanegashima Space Center. Liftoff is slated for Monday, May 17 at 5:45 pm east...Space Talk
The Universe is full of invisible radiation …but this is the tiny part we can actually see. ��🌌
Visible light is only a small part of the electromagnetic spectrum, yet it reveals stars, galaxies, nebulae, and planets directly to our eyes and telescopes.
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Sometimes, you don’t need an escape from the world—just a quiet moment to get lost in your own thoughts. 📚🎧#learning #space #nasa #isro
No, sending 6 people to Mars or to the Moon is not a a good investment. Specially since those billions could be use to provide Medicare for all Americans. Benefit millions of people or give a rocket ride to 6 people. Oh yeah, the inventions only help corporations not us #NASA 🤷♂️
Infrared lets us see what visible light can’t. 🌌
It can pass through cosmic dust and reveal hidden stars, warm dust, and regions where new stars are being born….giving us a different view of the Universe.
#space #spacetechnologies #nasa #astrophysics #physics #Astrología
