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Intense Testing Paved Phoenix Road to Mars Pasadena CA (JPL) May 11, 2008 
When NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander descends to the surface of the Red Planet on May 25, few will be watching as closely as the men and women who have spent years planning, analyzing and conducting tests to prepare for the dramatic and nerve-wracking event known as EDL - Entry, Descent and Landing. For after all their hard work, they know that landing on Mars is not a walk in the park. Less ... read more |
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Planets By The Dozen
Huntsville AL (SPX) May 12, 2008You know the planets of our solar system, each a unique world with its own distinctive appearance, size, and chemistry. Mars, with its bitter-cold, rusty red sands; Venus, a fiery world shrouded in thick clouds of sulfuric acid; sideways Uranus and its strange vertical rings. The variety is breathtaking. Now imagine the variety that must exist in hundreds of solar systems. There may be ... more STS-124 Astronauts Wrap Up Launch Rehearsal 
Cape Canaveral FL (SPX) May 12, 2008The seven-member STS-124 crew participated Friday in a launch dress rehearsal at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Part of the three-day terminal countdown demonstration test, the rehearsal called for the astronauts to be fully suited for liftoff as they simulated the final hours of the countdown. They concluded the event by practicing an emergency escape from Launch Pad 39A. ... more Space Station Tricorder 
Huntsville AL (SPX) May 12, 2008Any Trekkies out there? Remember the tricorder? Dr. McCoy and Mr. Spock both carried them, and they came in mighty handy exploring "strange new worlds ...where no one has gone before." On the International Space Station, astronauts are carrying an experimental device that looks strikingly similar: LOCAD-PTS, short for Lab-On-a-Chip Application Development Portable Test System. ... more Exploration Scientist Joins The NASA Space Race 
Canberra, Australia (SPX) May 12, 2008CSIRO and NASA are collaborating to develop exploration technologies currently used by the Australian minerals industry, for use on the Moon and Mars CSIRO Exploration and Mining scientist, Dr Brent McInnes - who recently worked at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Centre - says there is huge potential for US-Australian collaboration in lunar and planetary exploration technology. "My work with ... more NASA Awards Contract For Ares I Mobile Launcher 
Cape Canaveral FL (SPX) May 09, 2008NASA's Kennedy Space Center has awarded a contract to Hensel Phelps of Orlando, Fla., for the construction of the Ares I mobile launcher for the Constellation Program. Ares I is the rocket that will transport the Orion crew exploration vehicle, its crew and cargo to low Earth orbit. The contract includes an option for an additional Ares I mobile launcher. It is a firm fixed-price contract ... more |
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Mountain View, Calif. (UPI) May 7, 2008 U.S. scientists, searching for signs of life from faraway planets, are building hundreds of radio telescopes in Northern California, their leader says. Jill Tarter, director of the Center for SETI Research at the SETI Institute, said 42 of the planned 350 telescopes have been built in a mostly uninhabited area about 300 miles northeast of San Jose, Calif., the San Jose Mercury News repo ... more Students to call long distance to the ISS 
Washington (UPI) May 8, 2008 Students from New York and California will make a really long long-distance phone call next week to speak with an International Space Station's crew member. NASA said students and educators from a Richmond Hill, N.Y., community center and the Valley Christian Elementary School in Bellflower, Calif., will participate in the Monday event from 1 ... more NASA's WMAP Poses For ESA's Gaia 
Paris (SPX) May 09, 2008Sebastien Bouquillon, Ricky Smart and Alexandre Andrei have used the 2.2m telescope of the European Southern Observatory at La Silla, Chile, to take several photographs of NASA's Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) satellite in its orbit, which is about 1.5 million kilometres from Earth. Perhaps surprisingly, they did so as part of the preparations for ESA's Gaia mission, which sci ... more Cassini Imaging Lead Scientist To Provide Cosmic Perspective For Millions Around The Globe 
Boulder, CO (SPX) May 09, 2008When the worldwide film event known as Pangea Day launches this Saturday, May 10, Cassini imaging team leader and veteran imaging scientist, Carolyn Porco, will be present to provide an inspiring perspective on humanity's place in the cosmos. Pangea Day is a global event intended to bring the world together through film and will link six locations around the world for a live program of pow ... more |
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Kourou, French Guiana (SPX) May 08, 2008The launch vehicle for Ariane 5's third flight of 2008 is now under Arianespace responsibility after its delivery by prime contractor Astrium at the Spaceport in French Guiana. Handover of the heavy-lift Ariane 5 ECA occurred with its transfer yesterday (May 6) from the Launcher Integration Building - where Astrium performed the vehicle's build-up, to the Final Assembly Building - where Ar ... more NASA-TV to televise ISS cargo ship arrival 
Houston (UPI) May 7, 2008 The U.S. space agency says it will televise the arrival of an unpiloted cargo spacecraft when it docks at the International Space Station. NASA controllers in Houston said the Progress 29 Russian spacecraft carrying a shipment of food, fuel and supplies is to automatically dock with the ISS at 5:37 p.m. EDT, May 16. ... more Phoenix Landing Area Viewed By Mars Color Imager 
Pasadena CA (JPL) May 08, 2008NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander is scheduled to land on the Martian northern plains near 68 degrees north latitude, 127 degrees west longitude on May 25, 2008. In preparation for the landing, NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has been monitoring weather in the region around the landing site. On April 20, 2008, the orbiter's Mars Color Imager camera captured this view of a large region of north ... more Suits For Shenzhou 
Sydney, Australia (SPX) May 05, 2008In the last months before China's first spacewalk, facts about the mission are slowly trickling out. China has been coy about releasing precise information on the spacesuit to be used or the tethering system to be used for the spacewalker. Other details, such as the number of astronauts who will be exposed to vacuum in the orbital module, are also hard to find in official statements. ... more
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