STS-1: A Monumental Spaceflight Milestone Recalled
Posted by brandoniswrite on January 31, 2011
It was 30 years ago this week that NASA ushered in a new era of spaceflight with the inaugural launch of space shuttle Columbia on April 12, 1981, setting the pace for three decades of monumental leaps in environmental and space science achievements. Thirty years and 133 missions later, NASA is winding down the space [...]
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Do Cosmic Strings of Gas Come From Sonic Booms?
Posted by brandoniswrite on January 23, 2011
The Herschel Space Observatory has revealed that clouds between stars contain networks of tangled gaseous filaments. Intriguingly, each filament is approximately the same width, hinting that they may result from interstellar sonic booms throughout our Milky Way galaxy. The filaments are huge, stretching for tens of light years through space, and Herschel has shown that [...]
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Geomagnetic Storm Subsiding
Posted by brandoniswrite on January 21, 2011
UPDATE: A geomagnetic storm that sparked auroras around the Arctic Circle and sent Northern Lights spilling over the Canadian border into the United States on April 12, 2011 is subsiding. NOAA forecasters estimate a 25% chance of more geomagnetic activity during the next 24 hours. April 12, 2011: A G1-class geomagnetic storm is in progress, [...]
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WISE Delivers Millions of Galaxies, Stars, Asteroids
Posted by brandoniswrite on January 19, 2011
Astronomers across the globe can now sift through hundreds of millions of galaxies, stars and asteroids collected in the first bundle of data from NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) mission. “Starting today thousands of new eyes will be looking at WISE data, and I expect many surprises,” said Edward (Ned) Wright of UCLA, the [...]
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Techs to Perform Payload and Spacecraft Inspections
Posted by brandoniswrite on January 17, 2011
Launch Pad 39A crews at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida are preparing for the payload installation into space shuttle Endeavour’s cargo bay scheduled . Today, technicians will open the payload bay doors and perform inspections on the spacecraft and payload. Meanwhile, the STS-134 crew will practice flying techniques in their T-38 training aircraft today [...]
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GOES-13 Satellite Animation Shows U.S. Severe Storms and Tornado Outbreak
Posted by brandoniswrite on January 11, 2011
The GOES-13 satellite captured images of the powerful weather system that triggered severe weather in the southern U.S. this weekend, and NASA created an animation to show its progression. GOES-13 satellite data showed the strong cold front as it moved eastward from Saturday through Monday and generated tornadoes before moving off-shore into the Atlantic Ocean. [...]
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One NASA engineer who changed how America landed on the moon
Posted by brandoniswrite on January 1, 2011
If there was one person who pushed NASA to ensure America could reach the moon before 1970, and save both billions of dollars and two years of time involved, it was one engineer.One man at NASA pushed his plan to have two space craft head to lunar orbit, land one and have the two redock [...]
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