|
Home > News > Tags > station
|
|
30
Have you ever found yourself interested in a radio show that you accidentally heard while driving? Or discovered a really great radio station? Although you are curious to listen to it again, you forget about it, or you are always busy when the show airs and so on. Radioshift solves all these problems by recordin... |
4 November 2008
06:01 GMT |
 |
|
Many might remember fragments of discussions from their childhood between their parents, while being in the back seat of the car, about whether to go left or right, checking road maps and most important, about stopping, rolling down the window and asking some complete strangers for directions. I know I do and it alwa... |
8 November 2007
04:45 GMT |
|
|
There are maybe two kinds of people in the world, those who simply love laptops, notebooks and all the avatars of mobile computing and those who consider that the real computer must reside on a desk and come with a fully functional keyboard and mouse and not only a smaller version of them.For the second kind of users... |
22 August 2007
09:08 GMT |
|
|
A recent independent panel report regarding astronauts drinking heavily before launch for the International Space Station creates numerous aftershocks, after NASA officials dismissed the allegation. Now, the Russians are also denying the events.The panel reported that astronauts had been drinking less than 12 hours ... |
30 July 2007
02:52 GMT |
|
|
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
02:51 GMT |
|
|
The next space station crew which is ready to embark on the journey aboard the Russian Soyuz space is full of surprises, being not only one of the most nationally and ethnically diverse, but it also features some world premieres.The first would be the fact that NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson will be the first female c... |
24 July 2007
02:51 GMT |
|
|
It's true, the three members of the crew on the International Space Station will have some nasty work to do during a spacewalk scheduled for July 23, because NASA realized it was time for a bit of cleaning, so they're getting rid of more than 730 kg (1600 pounds) of obsolete gear in and around the station.... |
20 July 2007
09:05 GMT |
|
|
Spacewalks may provide a unique experience and only astronauts know what it feels like to know there is nothing between you and the Earth or how it feels to look at the Moon and at an entire continent the next moment.It's also true that only they know how much work a spacewalk is all about, as station Cmdr. Fyo... |
18 July 2007
09:46 GMT |
|
|
The space shuttle Endeavour is getting ready for the next mission at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, after a nearly five-year wait. A fuel tank and the booster rockets were mounted on it, in preparation for the mission, scheduled on August 7.The mission will send seven crew members to the Intern... |
12 July 2007
05:48 GMT |
|
|
Robotic applications like those seen in the sci-fi movies will soon become a reality, as future robots could take over some human professions, like low-tech construction workers, medical nurses, doing the chores for people or helping them in extreme environments.The latest development in that direction is the Eurobo... |
7 July 2007
06:03 GMT |
|
|
Astronauts will really have something to smile about. Believe it or not, nature's calls can't be ignored in space, so that's why the latest space toilet project will cost around $19 million. While normally you don't see or hear much on the news about physiological needs in space, the question of ... |
6 July 2007
05:01 GMT |
|
|
It's official. The winner of the wackiest competition organized by the ESA is a 14-year-old girl. The competition was proposed by the agency two months ago to see what kind of music the astronauts on board the ISS should be listening to.People were asked to send a playlist containing 10 of their favorite tunes... |
3 July 2007
09:54 GMT |
|
|
Yesterday, the space shuttle Endeavour rolled out of the hangar and was taken to the vehicle assembly building at Kennedy Space Center in Florida, where a fuel tank and the booster rockets were mounted on it, in preparation for the next mission, scheduled on August 7.Endeavour, one of the original five spaceships i... |
3 July 2007
02:50 GMT |
|
|
A privately owned and built prototype space station was successfully launched into orbit from a Russian missile base Yasny, by a Dnepr booster. The base is a former strategic launch area for intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs - nuclear weapons), converted to a spacecraft launch site for private companies.Big... |
29 June 2007
04:28 GMT |
|
|
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
05:03 GMT |
|
|
Yesterday, the space shuttle Atlantis undocked from the International Space Station and began the journey home, after delivering to the ISS new solar power wings and a fresh crew member. The problem is that, for now, thunderstorms and low clouds are threatening to prevent it from landing.The shuttle already missed t... |
21 June 2007
11:07 GMT |
|
|
Sunita Williams is now officially holding the record for the longest duration spaceflight for a woman. This morning, she broke the old record, held by Shannon Lucid and established 11 years ago, of 188 days and 4 hours. Sunita Lyn "Suni" Williams was assigned to the International Space Station as a member of Expedit... |
20 June 2007
05:06 GMT |
|
|
Yesterday, a final test performed on the main control computers aboard the ISS showed that they were OK, so the astronauts can now control the outpost's orientation. This means that the Atlantis space shuttle is cleared to disconnect from the station and return to Earth.It seems that after careful examination o... |
19 June 2007
02:43 GMT |
|
|
After all six main control computers on the Russian side of the ISS shut down at the same time, leaving the space station almost "dead in the water," NASA is considering the options of a general evacuation in case of emergency.A malfunction caused the shutdown of two key computers that control navigation and oxygen p... |
16 June 2007
04:45 GMT |
|
|
A malfunction caused the shutdown of two key computers that control navigation and oxygen production on the Russian side of the International Space Station. Later, all six main control computers reported a glitch that forced astronauts on Thursday to turn off equipment in the docked shuttle Atlantis to conserve ener... |
15 June 2007
04:24 GMT |
|
|
Pandora, the Music Gnome Project, is now restricted outside the US after the international licensing guidelines forced the producers to allow only local listeners. In an email sent today, Pandora informed me about the new limitation, sustaining UK might be the only country to be allowed to connect to the service. "Du... |
3 May 2007
02:32 GMT |
|
|
Yet another patent filing from Apple Inc. reveals the Mac-maker's intentions of simplifying wireless Wi-Fi networking by using RFID transceivers in routers. The patent filing is titled "RFID network arrangement" and documents a system in which a wireless router holds a RFID transceiver. This transceiver would ho... |
10 March 2007
05:16 GMT |
|
|
|
|
