WASHINGTON — NASA’s 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA) with space shuttle Discovery mounted atop will fly approximately 1,500 feet above…
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Northeast Coast of U.S. to get rare opportunity to see rocket launch
UPDATE – Countdown to Begin For Five Sounding Rockets to Illuminate Eastern U.S. Night Sky 03.20.12 – NASA managers have…
Hubble Telescope makes over one million observations
This is an artist’s concept of that planet, HAT-P-7b. It is a “hot Jupiter” class planet orbiting a star that…
Satellites show cold snap in Europe..its COooooooold!
(Source NASA) – Rare snowstorms in Rome and Tripoli and mounting death tolls from exposure were among the consequences of…
NASA spinoffs, better firefighting, jet fuel savings, fitness monitoring and more
NASA Spinoff 2011 Unveils Benefits of NASA Technologies on Earth WASHINGTON — NASA’s Spinoff 2011 publication, now available online, reveals…
First Samples of Interstellar Material Beyond Earths Solar System
Interstellar Wind Makeup NASA – NASA’s Interstellar Boundary Explorer , known as IBEX for short, methodically measures samples of the…
Newt Gingrich, Advocate of Space, Moon base, but NASA?
Lofty goals such as manned moon base by 2020, but are they real? Editorial – With the election campaign in…
JAXA HAYABUSA asteroid sample return analysis beginning
Source (JAXA) – HAYABUSA is a space science mission launched in 2003 by Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency JAXA. The challenge…