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Twenty two years ago, one of the most tragical aeronautical accidents in the history of mankind took place. After only 73 seconds into flight, the space shuttle Challenger suffered a catastrophic malfunction, leading to the disintegration of the vehicle and the death of its crew of seven. Challenger was originally sc... |
28 January 2008
05:01 GMT |
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No more delays, says NASA! The space shuttle Atlantis will liftoff on Thursday 7 February from the Kennedy Space Center at 20:24 CET, and will dock to the International Space Station two days later, on 9 February at 18:23 CET. Atlantis is scheduled to return back to Earth of February the 18th, somewhere around 15:57 ... |
28 January 2008
03:33 GMT |
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How many of us have actually seen Mercury the way it really looks like? Most of the images available are black and white pictures. I don't really understand why this is, color photography wasn't invented yesterday, but I'm pretty sure there is a good reason for this. Last week, NASA's MESSENGER sp... |
23 January 2008
10:10 GMT |
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The MESSENGER spacecraft made a successful fly-by of the planet Mercury last week, taking more than 1,200 pictures of the surface, some of them showing what seems to be evidence of past lava flows. Planetary scientist David Rothery said that the lava flow actually sits on top of the original surface crust that formed... |
22 January 2008
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The next generation of rockets that are currently being designed by NASA, to launch vehicles into space during future manned lunar and Martian missions, are looking kind of shaky. Literally! They shake so violently in the launch process that the rocket will probably disintegrate long before getting into the Earth�... |
22 January 2008
02:32 GMT |
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NASA has succeeded in doing what nobody has tried before, by putting colored images of the skies at the fingertips of more than 10 million visually impaired people living on the territory of the United States. Some of the best images of the night sky ever taken have been made available for the blind into a 60-page bo... |
21 January 2008
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It's no secret that the virtual world is slowly taking over the real life (I should say "unfortunately" here, right?). And since the folks from NASA probably know that way better than everybody else, they are considering now to create a MMO game to appeal to the next generation of game-addicted scientists and e... |
21 January 2008
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The already busy schedule of building the International Space Station is about to get busier soon, due to British scientists and engineers proposal to launch two separate habitable modules by the year 2011. However, the ISS partnership between NASA, ESA and a few other countries has not approved the project so far, n... |
18 January 2008
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Apollo 5 represented NASA's first unmanned flight that had the purpose of testing the Lunar Module meant for use in the mission to take the first man on the Moon's surface. Built by the Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation, the Lunar Module had the task of successfully landing two men on the surface of ... |
15 January 2008
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The beginning of the New Year brought a new set of features and content for Sky in Google Earth. A magnificent sight, truly, and the value of it is even greater, because most of the new images, views and sounds have been developed by the Sky community. "Using NASA's space telescopes, you can view how the univers... |
10 January 2008
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We've looked and searched our extraterrestrial cousins throughout the whole solar system, and found no evidence that life may exist in our solar system, beyond the borders of our atmosphere. Only one body seems to present a final hope. One of Jupiter's many moons, Europa. The European Space Agency and NASA ... |
8 January 2008
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Since space shuttles cannot be flown into space whenever it is necessary, as we all saw during the Atlantis liftoff attempts early this month, which was scheduled to take the European module Columbus to the International Space Station, and due to the fact that NASA does not own a freight transport vehicle that coul... |
27 December 2007
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More than three decades have passed since the last manned mission to the Moon and NASA hopes to change that within the next decade. Officials have revealed recently that they plan to send a manned mission to the moon by the year 2020. In order to do so however, they need a new lunar lander, previously referred to as ... |
15 December 2007
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Though being shot more than 40 years ago, during the 1960's when no more than five spacecrafts orbited the moon, these images have provided valuable data for the planing of the next manned mission to the moon. In the course of a year, spanning from August 1966 to August 1967, NASA's orbiter has taken an exc... |
4 December 2007
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The Moon base has been specially designed for future moon explorers, and resembles a structure similar to an inflatable backyard bounce for children. It will head the South Pole, for a so-called Antarctic test run, to start early next year. The prototype has been demonstrated by NASA on Wednesday at ILC Dover's ... |
19 November 2007
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NASA and Google forged a partnership two years ago and their common goal was to spawn a new era of innovation in Silicon Valley with supercomputing, biotechnology and nanotechnology, the study of extremely small devices.Despite the two big names involved, both examples of ingenuity and continuous evolving, nothing a... |
15 November 2007
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As if NASA didn't have enough problems with an already tight schedule, now another incident brings up the problem of the spacesuits the astronauts wear while on spacewalk missions. During a test in a pressure-chamber on Earth, a trainee smelled traces of smoke inside his spacesuit. So far, the source of the smok... |
14 November 2007
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Remember the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs and almost wiped all life from the face of the Earth? NASA says there is no immediate risk of that happening in the near future, although there might be a lot of such objects in the near vicinity of our planet that could intersect Earth's orbit and cause havoc, wh... |
9 November 2007
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MER-A or Martian Exploration Rover-A also known as Spirit is the first of the two Martian Exploration Rovers sent by NASA on the Red Planet, it has reached Mars in January 2004 and has continued to function over thirteen times longer than the expectations of NASA's engineers. The second one, MER-B, known as Oppo... |
8 November 2007
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After the successful launch last week, and the end of the space mission, the Discovery shuttle is ready to come back to the Earth's surface. The controversial thermal shield has been inspected with great care, and they have found that it is in perfect condition, good news for the crew of the shuttle after the in... |
29 October 2007
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Google and NASA published some new high resolution photos on the official page of Google Moon as well as several detailed photos especially captured for Google Earth. As PC World reports, the new Moon imagery includes panoramic photos as well as videos and audio files recorded during the Apollo missions. If you didn&... |
24 September 2007
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Larry Page and Sergey Brin, the two billionaires who own the super giant Google, agreed to pay $1.3 million to NASA in order to allow them to land on an airport located near the company's headquarters. It seems like the two parts first planned to keep the agreement in secret but, after the Internet users spotted... |
13 September 2007
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When it comes to computer chips, few things are more damaging than excessive heat, and cooling solutions that attempt to bring the temperatures down at low or at least manageable levels are now having an industry of their own. What if a computer chip could run at temperatures so high that would normally fry any other... |
12 September 2007
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NASA took the decision to publish an impressive collection of pictures on the Internet in order to allow the free download of every user who is interested in seeing moon missions or other space photos. The entire process will be enhanced by Internet Archive which will cover all the costs of the operation as numerous ... |
30 August 2007
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Following the recent release of Sky in Google Earth, the Mountain View company makes a new move that might support its efforts to conquer the space. Ed Lu, a famous NASA astronaut who spent no less than 6 months in space, will join the Googleplex very soon and, according to Wired, it will work on Google Sky, Google S... |
29 August 2007
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Users around the world are now able to access an extensive collection of imagery of the Endeavour shuttle, courtesy of Microsoft and NASA. Via Microsoft's Photosynth, the Redmond company has set up a 3D model of the shuttle and the launchpad using traditional 2D photographs. Through Photosynth - Microsoft's... |
6 August 2007
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DUI (Driving Under the Influence - of Alcohol) is a serious offense that will leave you without a license when caught and could even put you in jail. It seems astronauts were not landing anywhere, but they were allowed to launch, while drunk, on at least two occasions, said an independent panel by NASAAviation Week ... |
27 July 2007
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NASA reported an act of sabotage aiming for the launch of the ISS this fall, as a computer was deliberately damaged by a space program worker, who knew that it was heading for the station via the shuttle Endeavour.The worker was not employed directly by the space agency, but for a NASA subcontractor and he cut wires... |
27 July 2007
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NASA's idea of next-generation technology is based on a Linux system. According to CNNMoney.com, NASA has selected a record-setting SGI Altix supercomputer in its evaluation to meet future high-performance computing (HPC) requirements. A single Linux OS would stand behind this system, which will be the largest ... |
26 July 2007
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You would think that NASA, one of the best guarded government agencies in the world, would a have a security so tight, that not even a fly could pass by undetected. It may be true for flies, but it sure isn't for office equipment, that miraculously gets lost, year after year.Could a black hole explain the $94 m... |
26 July 2007
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On July 20, 1969, 38 years and one day ago, Neil Armstrong became the first person to walk on the lunar surface, while in command of the Apollo 11 mission. One of the defining moments of human history, the event is best remembered through Armstrong's words on his first stepping onto the Moon's surface: Tha... |
21 July 2007
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The Mountain View company and NASA partnered to bring impressive new imagery into the famous Google Earth mapping tool. Basically, the new update is divided into three parts: astronaut photography of Earth, satellite imagery and earth city lights. According to Wei Luo, Senior GIS Specialist the first layer of the new... |
20 July 2007
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The next NASA rover to go to Mars is the Mars Science Laboratory, planned to be launched in December 2009 and to land on the red planet in October 2010. The design of this rover is slightly different than that of current rovers on the surface, Spirit and Opportunity.Most likely, it will be altered, so that it will n... |
14 July 2007
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Columbus is the European module for the International Space Station to be launched aboard Atlantis this year and is a science laboratory designed to be a part of the International Space Station (ISS). Named after the famous explorer, the 12.8 tonne is now completely outfitted and ready to enter Atlantis' payloa... |
13 July 2007
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NASA's Phoenix Mars lander is ready to launch and agency officials presented August 3 as the earliest possible launch date, despite a hardware glitch that caused one of its cameras to malfunction and the massive Mars storm that is currently affecting the other two probes on the surface, Mars Spirit and Opportun... |
10 July 2007
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NASA and one of its many contractors are planning a future Moon base, an outpost that could be reused by the crews of the next lunar missions to land on the surface in the next decades. This base camp will house astronauts, allowing them to use the moon's natural resources, conduct scientific experiments and eve... |
9 July 2007
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NASA created a new office, the Einstein Probes Office, in Greenbelt, Maryland, hosted by the Goddard Space Flight Center, which will study some of the strange phenomena of the Universe, ranging from black holes and cosmic microwave background radiation to the elusive dark energy.It will host many science missions t... |
9 July 2007
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NASA declared that the existing space on the International Space Station is not enough for all the research and wants twice as much. That's why the agency is searching for partners to share the new space.The ISS, orbiting Earth at an average altitude 235 km (205 mi) is still being assembled, with a projected co... |
26 June 2007
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NASA has just released a spectacular photo of thousands of galaxies gathered in a sort of family album. This picture is a symbol of the technology being used by astronomers worldwide to capture a glimpse of the vast universe that surrounds us, and of the progress mankind has made in the last centuries. There are pro... |
19 June 2007
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Intel Corp. introduced last year a new technology that allows authorized personnel to power up and repair turned-off PCs within the corporate network at virtually any time, in emergency situations, like when the computer suffered a major meltdown, caused by a failure of the operating system or by a virus that crashe... |
18 June 2007
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NASA's space program is not the only one to carry people and equipment into orbit. There is also the spy-satellite program, which is not so exposed to the media, and not much is disclosed about the secret cargo of some rockets that also take off from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.As secret as t... |
16 June 2007
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Yesterday, two of the astronauts on board the International Space Station floated outside to work on the retraction of the starboard solar array. They helped fold up an old solar wing and to resurrect a rotating joint that will make the new pair of solar arrays follow the Sun.Last week, two Russian cosmonauts on bo... |
14 June 2007
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NASA finally seems interested in a scientific proposition that was mainly laughed at in the past: a radio observatory on the Moon. The idea is not new, earlier this year an American astronomer proposing that we build a giant liquid-mirror telescope on the Moon, saying that it will be hundreds of times more accurate ... |
11 June 2007
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It seems that working at NASA is not all it's crancked up to be. Although most people are ecstatic when hearing the words "rocket scientist," for these guys there seems to be no break. Three dozen NASA workers at JPL wrote letters to their congressman in recent months, protesting against the new security checks... |
7 June 2007
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NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is a planned space infrared observatory, intended to be a significant improvement on the aging Hubble Space Telescope, which is about to be decommissioned, after successfully serving its purpose since 1990. The agency is considering equipping the telescope with a grapple... |
1 June 2007
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How can astronomers perceive depth in space when determining the distance to certain mysterious bodies in and around our Milky Way galaxy? Well, using only one telescope doesn't really do the job so they use a mathematical solution that looks more like an optical illusion.Astronomers use NASA's Spitzer... |
31 May 2007
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NASA tested a new reusable solid rocket motor last week at the Utah test facility. It was a full scale 2-minute test that would help the development of new engines for the next generation of space shuttles, possibly even the one that will carry the next human spacecraft to the moon.It was a static firing, the engine... |
28 May 2007
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NASA's internal procedure for tracking potentially dangerous asteroids that could hit Earth and for countermeasures designed to deflect the space objects is deeply flawed and heavily criticized because it exaggerates the cost and difficulty of the program.The agency had one year to prepare plans for a survey th... |
22 May 2007
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NASA astronauts are preparing for manned missions on the Moon and possibly even on Mars in a more earthly environment. An underwater lab provides the best and least expensive training grounds due to the increased density and lift force water provides.Located 18 meters (6 feet) under the surface, the lab is testing t... |
18 May 2007
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It's been called "Home Plate" and it's a rocky outcrop presenting unusual layered features that has the shape of a baseball home plate. This weird feature on Mars' surface has puzzled astronomers ever since its discovery and now MER-A (Mars Exploration Rover - A), known as Spirit, the first of the tw... |
4 May 2007
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