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Astronauts Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper and Steve Bowen completed the first of four spacewalks scheduled for Endeavour’s mission to the International Space Station yesterday.
This spacewalk was the 115th in support of ISS construction. The majority of the six hour and 52 minute spacewalk was spent focusing on one of the station’s Solar Alpha Rotary Joints (SARJ).
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Combining refurbished machinery and modern day technology, NASA was able to take a restore photographs of the Earth rising above the lunar surface in 1966. This time with better resolution.
“The Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project, located at NASA’s Ames Research Center at Moffett Field, Calif., is taking analog data from original recorders used to […]
The Phoenix Mars Mission is officially over. The lander was powered by solar panels, and the approaching Martian winter has basically cut off its power supply. The craft is not expected to last through the winter. But Phoenix lasted two months longer than anticipated, so the $475 million was worth it - […]
San Francisco’s Morrison Planetarium, the new $20 million dollar facility that’s a part of the recently reopened California Academy of Sciences, is a technological marvel.
The Morrison Planetarium allows “astronomers not only to show traditional star charts, but to guide visitors through an immersive fly-through of our universe – realistically rendered in real-time. ”
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The Phoenix Mars Mission has been a shining success for NASA. Not only did the craft reach Mars and land successfully, it also found ice in the martian soil and saw snow in the sky. But the Phoenix is now racing against time to complete more of its groundbreaking research before the […]
Here’s a photograph that three University of Toronto scientists were able to capture images of the star 1RXS J160929.1-210524 from a distance of about 500 light years away. This image is making history as the first ever photograph of a planet in an alien solar system around a sun-like star.
This photograph will challenge currently accepted […]
A new map based on early results from the spacecraft formerly known as GLAST is revealing the probe’s potential for unraveling some of the most perplexing problems in astrophysics.
The Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope was today officially dubbed the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope in honor of Nobel prize-winning physicist Enrico Fermi. The probe was launched […]
A white arrow points to a faint object detected by chance in 2006 as astronomers scanned the skies for distant supernovae.
The object, which resembles a tailless comet, traces a long, elliptical orbit that takes it as much as 150 billion miles (241 billion kilometers) from Earth, astronomers announced in August 2008.
The object, dubbed 2006 SQ372, […]
Space-industry belt-tightening and ever shrinking technology are combining to give tiny satellites a big future, scientists say.
Sometimes as small as softballs, the little orbiters are cheaper and quicker to build than the megabuck, monster-size satellites that have dominated for decades.
“In the last ten years small satellites have started to take off across different industries and […]
NASA has put off the planned launch of its next-generation Orion spacecraft for a year, a setback to efforts to fly a successor to its aging space shuttles, the space agency announced Monday.
“September 2014 is when we are saying we will launch the first crew on the Orion,” program manager Jeff Hanley told reporters in […]