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Yesterday morning, NASA finally tested its alternate launch abort system, at the Wallops Flight Facility, in Wallops Island, Virginia. The Max Launch Abort System, or MLAS, simulated flight took place at 6:26 am local time, and ran smoothly, officials confirm. The device offers more security and survivability to astr... |
9 July 2009
03:04 GMT |
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According to officials at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), in Pasadena, California, the Martian rovers' twin test brother is finally located in its sandbox at the laboratory, ready to begin its investigations into how to extract Spirit from its sandy trap. Since May 6th, the most battered rover of the MER mi... |
1 July 2009
04:51 GMT |
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According to a press release published recently on NASA's official website, the agency will perform a full external tank loading test tomorrow (July 1st), in order to accurately assess if the repairs made on the space shuttle Endeavor's external hydrogen tank were successful. The importance of these tests c... |
30 June 2009
02:39 GMT |
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In two new, large and randomized clinical trials, experts Otis W. Brawley, MD, from the American Cancer Society, Donna Ankerst, PhD, and Ian M. Thompson, MD, from the University of Texas Health Science Center, in San Antonio, have discovered that the efficiency of prostate cancer (PC) tests is limited at best, and no... |
29 June 2009
06:09 GMT |
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With NASA's Spirit rover stuck in loose Martian soil since May 6th, its mission control team at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, in Pasadena, California, is working around the clock to recreate the exact conditions on the Red Planet inside a test sandbox, using an exact replica of the MER rover. Because engineers ... |
27 June 2009
04:12 GMT |
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According to a new scientific study, it may be that longer, high-pressure aptitude tests do not necessarily imply people will get lower grades than in shorter ones. If any, chances are that the people taking the test will actually score better, as the brain finds its working rhythm, and starts tackling the issues at ... |
1 June 2009
06:57 GMT |
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On May 25th, seismographs in Japan picked up shock waves traveling through the Earth's crust, similar to those created by a nuclear explosion. Mounting pieces of evidence pointed at the fact that North Korea again tested such a device on its own territory, suspicions that were confirmed when Pyongyang substantia... |
27 May 2009
18:31 GMT |
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The successful completion of the Orion spacecraft is paramount for NASA, on account of the fact that, as soon as it has a working prototype, the shorter the time span it will have to wait until it can resume spaceflights. With the three-shuttle fleet due to be retired at the end of 2010, the Americans find themselves... |
10 April 2009
03:17 GMT |
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The most recent parachute test that NASA conducted in the Arizona desert, near Yuma, was meant to test the parachute system on a 50,000-pound booster. Although the payload was a dummy, the heft it carried was not, and officials at the space agency and the US Air Force were anxious to see whether the lifting devices w... |
14 March 2009
04:27 GMT |
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Australian researchers from the University of Queensland have just recently released a new study, which seems to point out the fact that children whose fathers are older tend to score less in IQ tests than their peers, who were parented at an earlier age. The findings have been immediately contradicted by numerous p... |
12 March 2009
09:00 GMT |
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All new potential drugs or therapies for cancer, and for a lot of other diseases too, actually, go through three stages of testing, ranging from in vitro simulations, to testing the product on animals and, finally moving up to clinical tests. The results that science teams get from their studies on mice are crucial f... |
29 October 2008
05:15 GMT |
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