Dec 14, 2010 | Our Solar System, Planet Earth, Space and Science, Space Research, Uncategorized
Soon, NASA will have its first chief science officer in five years. Waleed Abdalati, director of the University of Colorado’s Earth Science and Observation Center, will take the NASA post, effective Jan. 3. Abdalati, a 10-year NASA veteran will serve as a top...
Nov 25, 2010 | International Space Station, Space Shuttle, NASA, Uncategorized
NASA shuttle managers sounded a cautious note on Wednesday, as they announced further delays in efforts to launch the shuttle Discovery on the senior orbiter’s final flight, an 11-day assembly mission to the International Space Station. The soonest Discovery could...
Nov 24, 2010 | Benefits of Space Exploration, NASA, Planet Earth, Space and Science, Uncategorized
Traditional collaborations between U. S. federal agencies on space and Earth science projects can lead to increased rather than lower costs, the National Research Council concludes in a new report. The Congressionally-chartered think tank urged the White House and...
Nov 9, 2010 | Exploration, International Cooperation, NASA, Space Research, Uncategorized
Astronomers using the Fermi Gamma-ray Telescope have discovered a pair of globe-like features at the center of the Milky Way Galaxy. Though their origin is unknown, the two near identical globes that extend 25,000 light years north and south of the galactic center...
Nov 9, 2010 | Education, Exploration, International Space Station, Space Shuttle, NASA, Uncategorized
School children seem a natural mix, when it comes to growing plants in space. The European Space Agency plans to make a little hay of its own with the pairing when Italian Paulo Naspoli heads for the International Space Station in mid-December. Students from 12 to...
Nov 4, 2010 | International Space Station, Space Shuttle, NASA, Uncategorized
Stormy weather across Florida on Thursday prompted NASA to postpone efforts to launch the shuttle Discovery on her 39th and final flight, an 11-day mission to the International Space Station. The space agency will try again on Friday. The forecast for the planned...
Nov 3, 2010 | International Space Station, Space Shuttle, NASA, Uncategorized
Shuttle Discovery’s final mission has been postponed until no earlier than Thursday to permit additional trouble shooting of a rocket engine computer that displayed some unexplained power readings during routine countdown testing on Tuesday. A launching of...
Oct 22, 2010 | International Space Station, Space Shuttle, NASA, Uncategorized
The U. S.-led International Space Station is on the brink of achieving a pair of momentous milestones. On Saturday, the 15-nation station partnership will set a new record for a continuous human presence in space, snapping the 3,644 days logged by Russia’s...
Sep 25, 2010 | International Space Station, NASA, Uncategorized
International Space Station crew members Alexander Skvortsov and Mikhail Kornienko of Russia and Tracy Caldwell Dyson on NASA made a safe descent to Earth early Saturday, touching down in north central Kazakhstan to end a 176 day mission. The Soyuz carrying the three...
Sep 17, 2010 | International Space Station, NASA, Planet Earth, Space and Science, Uncategorized
The Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico came alive this week with multiple hurricanes, with two of the tropical cyclones reaching Category 4 force at one point — a rare occurrence. Cameras aboard the International Space Station captured close up images of Igor,...