New Space Station Camera Reveals the Cosmic Shore

Posted by brandoniswrite on November 30, 2011

Part of human fascination with space is the chance to look back at our own planet from afar. The unique vantage from the International Space Station affords a vista both breathtaking and scientifically illuminating. Here on Earth, both scientists and spectators rely on the station’s crew to record and transmit images and videos of what [...]

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A Timeline to Launch for the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer

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  AMS, foreground, on the International Space Station National    Trent Martin explains installation sequence to Department of Energy representatives and NASA’s Bill Gerstenmaier, June 2010. (NASA)     AMS-02 Ready for Launch in Endeavour’s Payload Bay, April 2011. (AMS Collaboration)   The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer, or AMS, was carried into orbit on STS-134 on [...]

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Tags: Alpha, launch, Magnetic, Spectrometer, Timeline

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