Book Review: Space – From Earth to the Edge of the Universe
Space – From Earth to the Edge of the Universe by editors Carole Stott, Robert Dinwiddie, David Hughes and Giles Sparrow; Dorling Kindersley(DK) Publishing; New York, New York; $40.00 (hard cover); 2010. Space is big…but so is this large format book. This is a...Rim Shots! Mars Rover Examines Fresh Crater
NASA’s Opportunity Mars rover is busy examining Santa Maria crater within Meridiani Planum. The wheeled robot is inspecting the relatively fresh and large crater that’s about 312 feet (95 meters) in diameter. “We’ve been doing a lot of imaging of it from a set of...Book Review: Confronting Space Debris – Strategies and Warnings from Comparable Examples Including Deepwater Horizon
Confronting Space Debris – Strategies and Warnings from Comparable Examples Including Deepwater Horizon by Dave Baiocchi and William Welser IV; RAND Corporation; Santa Monica, California; $21.60 (paperback/special web discount); 2010. This is an absorbing and...Japan’s Next Asteroid Mission Receives Financial Green-light
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has received financial backing to proceed on development of Hayabusa 2 – a spacecraft designed to collect samples of asteroid 1999JU3. The Hayabusa 2 is a follow-on probe to Hayabusa 1 that surveyed asteroid Itokowa in...Meteorite Hunters: On the Ice!
A team of newly arrived rock hounds are on the ice! They are researchers taking part in the Antarctic Search for Meteorites (ANSMET) program. Their job during the 2010-2011 field season is to recover meteorite samples from the Antarctic. ANSMET field work has been...Wanted! Stamp of Approval for Moon Landing Postal Stamp
Let your fingers do the moonwalking – and pick the U.S. Postal Office’s Moon Landing stamp! The federal post office agency wants help on selecting an iconic stamp to represent the USA in an upcoming international gallery being built – and on the list is the classic...Citizen Call: Join the Planet Hunters
Dive in on data gleaned by NASA’s Kepler mission – on the lookout for planets beyond our own solar system – and help professional astronomers in their search for Earth-like planet. Web users around the globe can join a new online citizen science project. The effort is...NASA’s Voyager 1: Reality Check on Solar Wind Speed
Launched back in 1977, the 33-year odyssey of NASA’s Voyager 1continues, chalking up another milestone. The spacecraft has reached a distant point at the edge of our solar system where there is no outward motion of solar wind. Voyager 1 has crossed into an area where...Japan’s Venus Orbiter: Not Injected into Planned Orbit
Japan’s Venus orbiter — the AKATSUKI spacecraft — has failed to reach an intended orbit insertion around the veiled planet. Officials at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) have announced that the planned December 7 injection into Venus orbit was...Space Talk
LIVE: Watch as the unpiloted Progress 95 resupply spacecraft docks to the @Space_Station after a successful liftoff on April 25. Docking is set for 8pm ET (0000 UTC April 28).
@NASA @NASAArtemis Watch a livestream of the unloading and transporting of the core stage to the VAB beginning at approximately 8 a.m. April 28:
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The Exp 74 crew worked eye checks, vein scans, and new medical tech as a Progress 95 cargo spacecraft packed with food, fuel, and supplies orbits Earth toward the station for a docking at 8 p.m. EDT on Monday, April 27. More... https://go.nasa.gov/3QO3ubT
That feeling when your package finally shows up. 📦🚀
After a 900-mile trip from Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans, @NASA's Pegasus barge has arrived at Kennedy with the @NASAArtemis III SLS (Space Launch System) core stage aboard.
Tomorrow, teams begin offloading and