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BBC News Astronauts ready for risky Hubble mission MSNBC - 1 hour ago By Tariq Malik Seven NASA Astronauts are eagerly looking forward to a risky, but pivotal, shuttle flight to the Hubble Space Telescope this fall. NASA’s Constellation has a hiccup: First flight delayed to 2014 TG Daily NASA Considers Springs to Dampen Vibrations on Ares I Rocket DailyTech InformationWeek - Discovery Channel - FOXNews - BBC News all 228 news articles ... Source: www.msnbc.msn.com --- 96 days ago
Water has been found conclusively for the first time inside ancient moon samples brought back by Apollo Astronauts. The Discovery may force scientists to rethink the lunar past and future, although uncertainty remains about how much water exists and whether future explorers could extract it. ... Source: news.google.com --- 98 days ago
Calgary Herald Evidence of moon water found Los Angeles Times - 58 minutes ago Scientists test the interior of tiny rocks collected by Astronauts in the 1970s and find hydrogen. The Discovery challenges theories on how the moon formed. A lunar landmark: Scientists find evidence of ancient water on moon Minneapolis Star Tribune New scans show evidence of water on the moon Reuters Wired News - MSNBC - BBC News - National Geographic all 86 news articles ...
Source: blog.wired.com --- 35 days ago
There's a fresh victim of last month's brief but intense war between Russia and Georgia, Discovery.com reports. With the collapse of Russian and U.S. cooperation, for a five-year period, the U.S. will have no way to get Astronauts up to... ... Source: blogs.discovery.com --- 11 days ago
This week's Science Saturday over at Blogging Heads TV has me chatting up Cosmic Variance's Julianne Dalcanton about her Discovery of a comet, the Hubble space telescope and its failed repair mission, how Astronauts train for that kind of delicate... ... Source: blogs.discovery.com --- 16 days ago
Heard the big news? No, not the Great Government Bailout of 2008. A real-live capitalist, using his own money and moxie, racked up the first successful flight of a rocket he's been developing to change the game in space. The dude is Elon Musk, of Pay-Pal fame and fortune, who has been picking away at the not insubstantial barriers to entry into the commercial space arena. "That was freakin' awesome," Musk said after the launch Sunday night. The Falcon 1 booster lifted off from Omelek Island at Kwajalein Atoll in the central Pacific Ocean. It was Musk's fourth attempt to reach orbit. The battle is far from over. With a successful launch on the books, Musk told me in an interview last week that he's going to make a bid for ferrying Astronauts to and from the space station after the shuttle is retired. Technical know-how, Musk has now demonstrated. As for the political battles to come, the challenges may just be beginning. Check back at space.Discovery.com on Monday for an exclusive Q&A with Musk. Here's a really good account of the launch on SpaceflightNow.com . And here's a Discovery News story about what this launch might mean for NASA and the U.S. space program ...
Source: www.boingboing.net --- 37 days ago
Gavin sends us "An article that I wrote for Wired (and Playboy) a few years back that never ran in either magazine. I just put it up on my website and it seems right up BB's alley: A rundown of futurism, going through nine sets of predictions on what the world would be like by the year 2000, from Megatrends (1988) to Glimpses of the Future (1888--and an amazing amount of correct material!), including best/worst predictions (my favorite: two Astronauts will have a gunfight in outer space over a woman) and accuracy rates for each futurist." Most of the futurists I read focused on the rise and fall of governments, and especially, the progress of technology and the sciences. The future of art and literature got short shrift, as did sex and religion. At first, I thought this was because too many of the predictors considered their readership to be drawn from the business community. But that didn’t wash: an accurate prediction of fashion trends, or societal attitudes towards sex, would be immensely valuable to any savvy investor or corporate type. Would-be prophets avoid arts and entertainment because they seem too difficult to pin down, too trend-driven. Science provides the illusion that progress occurs in an orderly fashion: Mendel’s pea-plants to the Discovery of DNA to the Human Genome Project to a cure for cancer, all in a tidy line. Welcome to the Future (Thanks, Gavin!)... ...
Source: aboutspace.magnify.net --- 90 days ago
Shuttle Discovery Astronauts go on the final spacewalk of their mission at the International Space Station. (June 9) ... Source: www.newlaunches.com --- 67 days ago
This video which is reportedly shot by Astronauts onboard the Discovery while orbiting the earth is a Sci-Fi enthusiasts dream come true. Firstly it shows a UFO near the earths atmosphere and secondly it is being attacked by a Star-Wars styled missile defense base from good old Planet Earth. Mind you this video is from 1991, so 17 years down the line think of the advancements in missile technology. According to the source following this episode future live satellite... ...
Source: www.moldova.org --- 14 days ago
The U.S. space agency has assigned the crew for space shuttle Discovery's STS-129 mission, which is targeted for launch in October 2009.The National Aeronautics and Space Administration said STS-129 will deliver two experiment racks to the International Space Station.The space agency said U.S. Marine Col. Charlie Hobaugh will command the mission, with U.S. Navy Capt. Barry Wilmore serving as the pilot. Astronauts on the mission will be Robert Satcher, Navy Capt. Michael Foreman, Marine Lt. Col. Randy Bresnik and Leland Melvin. Wilmore, Satcher and Bresnik will be making their first trips into space, NASA said. ... Source: www.fazed.org --- 24 days ago
This is exactly why we send Astronauts to risk their life to service Hubble: in a paper published last week in the Astrophysical Journal, scientists detail the Discovery of a new unidentified object in the middle of nowhere. I don't know about you, but when a research paper conclusion says "We suggest that the transient may be one of a new class" I get a chill of oooh-aaahness down my spine. Especially when after a hundred days of observation, it disappeared from the sky with no explanation. Get your tinfoil hats out, because it gets even weirder. Comments ... Source: www.gizmodo.com.au --- 31 days ago
This is exactly why we send Astronauts to risk their life to service Hubble : in a paper published last week in the Astrophysical Journal, scientists detail the Discovery of a new unidentified object in the middle of nowhere. I don't know about you, but when a research paper conclusion says "We suggest that the transient may be one of a new class" I get a chill of oooh-aaahness down my spine. Specially when after a hundred days of observation, it disappeared from the sky with no explanation. Get your tin foil hats out, because it gets even weirder. ...
Source: blogs.discovermagazine.com --- 98 days ago
It’s almost as if lunar researchers got jealous of all the attention their Martian colleagues have been receiving for their Discovery of water ice on Mars, and decided to compete: Lunar researchers say they’ve discovered trace amounts of water inside some moon rocks brought back by NASA’s Apollo Astronauts. A new study of volcanic glass pebbles [...] ... Source: www.balancednewsblog.com --- 98 days ago
Water has been found conclusively for the first time inside ancient moon samples brought back by Apollo Astronauts. The Discovery may force scientists to rethink the lunar past and future, although uncertainty remains about how much water exists and whether future explorers could extract it. ... Find more results for Discovery Astronauts on RSSMicro.com |
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SPACE.com - Water has been found conclusively for the first time inside ancient moon samples brought back by Apollo Astronauts. The Discovery may force scientists to rethink the lunar past and future, although uncertainty remains about how much water exists and whether future explorers could extract it. ...
This is exactly why we send Astronauts to risk their life to service Hubble : in a paper published last week in the Astrophysical Journal, scientists detail the Discovery of a new unidentified object in the middle of nowhere. I don't know about you, but when a research paper conclusion says "We suggest that the transient may be one of a new class" I get a chill of oooh-aaahness down my spine. Especially when after a hundred days of observation, it disappeared from the sky with no explanation. Get your tinfoil hats out, because it gets even weirder. The object also appeared out of nowhere. It just wasn't there before. In fact, they don't even know where it is exactly located because it didn't behave like anything they know. Apparently, it can't be closer than 130 light-years but it can be as far as 11 billion light-years away. It's not in any known galaxy either. And they have ruled out a supernova too. It's something that they have never encountered before. In other words: they don't have a single clue about where or what the heck this thing is. The shape of the light curve is inconsistent with microlensing. In addition to being inconsistent with all known supernova types, is not matched to any spectrum in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey database. The only thing the astronomers—working on the Supernova Cosmology Project—can tell is that it appeared all of the sudden in the direction of a cluster with the catchy name of CL 1432.5+3332 ...
By ‘eck. There’s trouble at t’Hubble Old and weary, the Hubble space telescope was set to get a new lease of life on October 14th, when Astronauts from space shuttle Atlantis planned to fit out the 18-year old telescope with lots of new kit, and repair numerous broken bits. But then, at the last minute, Hubble stopped sending data from its data formatter and the telescope put itself into ‘safe mode’ and stopped work. To fix this bug would require expertise that those Astronauts charged with carrying out the repairs don’t yet have. As a consequence the Shuttle trip to Hubble has been delayed until February next year at the earliest – which is when Discovery, the other shuttle, is going to be ready to act as a back up in case of emergency. The Astronauts were supposed to be going to visit Hubble for 11 days, to do 5 spacewalks. The telescope does have back up modes, but they haven’t been used for years says the Houston Chronicle . The story has been widely picked up ( LA TImes , New York Times , BBC – it seems that the telescope that has been sending us stunning images from space for the past 18 years has a special place in the hearts of the public. Image: NASA ...
Highly Recommended The Show: I may have missed the whole space race of the 1960's, but I have always been fascinated by it. NASA's space program, flights to the moon and anything involving Astronauts continue to hold my interest long into adulthood. If there's a shuttle flight, I'm watching it, and if there's news regarding some Discovery made by the Hubble Telescope, you'd better believe that I'm paying attention. Because of this I make it a point to watch shows such as Earth to the Moon and many of the documentary series involving space. The latest title released by Discovery, When We Left Earth , just so happens to be one of the best ever put together. Originally airing in June of 2008, When We Left Earth is a in depth look at the NASA program from its brave first s... Read the entire review ...
Awe-inspiring space missions NASAs Greatest Missions, showing Sunday September 28th on Discovery at 9:00pm Commemorating NASA's 50th birthday, this documentary series presents the dramatic story of the space agency's pioneering, awe-inspiring missions. From the early quest of the Mercury program to put a man in space, to the historic moon landings and the first un-tethered space walk by Bruce McCandless, see these historic events as the world has never witnessed them before. For 50 years America has led the world in space exploration, yet the boundless void that begins just 62 miles above us has been visited by no more than 500 people. Featuring vintage footage filmed by the Astronauts themselves which can be seen in HD for the first time, this series reveals the incredible story of humankind's greatest adventures as they happened, told by the people who were actually there. View the full review Get a reminder when NASAs Greatest Missions starts... ...