| May 10, 2009 |  |
tomorrow's transport today |
|
High stakes in NASA's last visit to Hubble Washington (AFP) May 9, 2009 
NASA will Monday launch the shuttle Atlantis and seven astronauts into orbit on a high-risk last service mission to one of the greatest scientific instruments ever, the space telescope Hubble. There is no room for error, the US space agency warned this week, in the fifth and final maintenence operation on the Hubble before the shuttle fleet is retired. If all goes well, NASA says the tel ... read more
|
| |||||||||||||||
| Previous Issues | May 07 | May 06 | May 05 | May 04 |
Shuttle Atlantis set for Monday launch: NASA
Washington (AFP) May 8, 2009NASA said Friday that conditions were favorable to launch its final shuttle mission to the Hubble space telescope on May 11. All systems were go, according to Jeremy Graeber, assistant NASA test director at the John F. Kennedy Space Center, near Cape Canaveral, Florida. Shuttle weather officer Kathy Winters told reporters there was an 80 percent chance of favorable meteorological condit ... more Obama orders review of NASA's shuttle replacement 
Washington (AFP) May 7, 2009President Barack Obama on Thursday ordered a review of a problem-plagued rocket that NASA hopes will replace its shuttle fleet, but the agency insisted the future of manned US space flights was safe. "NASA will review US post-shuttle human space flight activities this summer," Obama's new budget said, sparking questions over the future of the Constellation project and its ambition to take ... more New dinner table top priority as ISS expands 
Star City, Russia (AFP) May 7, 2009Astronauts set to blast off for the International Space Station said Thursday that constructing a new dinner table would be a top priority as its permanent crew expands to six. The three-man crew will travel into orbit on a Soyuz capsule later this month, joining an existing three-person team on the ISS and for the first time raising its permanent crew to six. "We are now going to have ... more NASA Announces Fiscal Year 2010 Budget 
Washington DC (SPX) May 08, 2009Washington DC (SPX) May 08, 2009 NASA announced Thursday an $18.69 billion budget for fiscal year 2010 to advance Earth science, complete the International Space Station, explore the solar system and conduct aeronautics research. The budget request represents an increase of $903.6 million, or 5 percent, above funding provided in the fiscal year 2009 Omnibus Appropriations Act. All totaled ... more Outer Space Oreos 
Moffett Field CA (SPX) May 08, 2009Outer space is known to be unfriendly to biology, but it has been hard to determine just how long it takes for life and life-related compounds to be negatively affected. A new research project plans to monitor samples of organic compounds and living organisms as they orbit the Earth in a small satellite. The hope is that this will give astrobiology researchers vital data about chemical evo ... more |
nasa:
 exo-life:  asteroid:  |
Capa Canaveral FL (SPX) May 07, 2009Final prelaunch operations are under way at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida as workers at Launch Pad 39A prepare space shuttle Atlantis for flight. The team is performing final closeouts of the main propulsion system, as well as pressurization of the orbital maneuvering system and reaction control system. At NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, Atlantis' seven astronauts are cond ... more Delta II Launch Successful 
Vandenberg AFB CA (AFNS) May 07, 2009Teams from the 30th Space Wing and various agencies successfully launched a Delta II rocket from Vandenberg's Space Launch Complex-2 at 1:24 p.m May 5. The rocket carried an experimental satellite for the Missile Defense Agency's Space Tracking and Surveillance System Advanced Technology Risk Reduction mission. At approximately one hour after liftoff, with confirmation of the payload ... more Orion Launch Abort Jettison Motor Delivered To White Sands 
Sacramento CA (SPX) May 08, 2009Aerojet has announced that it has shipped the first jettison motor for NASA's Orion crew exploration vehicle to the U.S. Army's White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. This first jettison motor shipment increases the technical readiness of the Launch Abort System (LAS) and is a major operational accomplishment as the first full-scale rocket propulsion element to proceed into a system-level flig ... more NASA, ESA And A Trip To Mars 
Moffett Field CA (SPX) May 08, 2009NASA has selected two science investigations that will aid in the interior examination of Mars and probe the tenuous atmosphere of Mercury. The projects, valued at approximately $38 million, also establish new alliances with the European Space Agency, or ESA. "The selections will further advance our knowledge of these exciting terrestrial planets," said Jim Green, director of NASA's Planet ... more |
nasa:
 shuttle:  shuttle:  |
Pasadena CA (SPX) May 08, 2009NASA has received two Webby awards for excellence on the Internet. NASA's main Web site won the People's Voice award for best government Web site. The Cassini mission Web site received a Webby award for best science site. The People's Voice award is the second for NASA's Web site, which also won in 2003. More than 500,000 people cast votes this year. "We're extremely happy to be hono ... more Lawmakers To Honor Space Pioneers 
Washington DC (SPX) May 08, 2009This coming July 20 marks the 40th anniversary of men first landing on another celestial body. And in looking back at this historic time, lawmakers from the state that's home to Kennedy Space Center ( KSC ) want the nation to honor two major firsts from the early days of America's space program, starting with the lunar landing. Florida's two U.S. senators, joined by three of their House co ... more Michigan Astronomer To Search In Space For Precursors Of Life 
Ann Arbor MI (SPX) May 07, 2009Many of the organic molecules that make up life on Earth have also been found in space. A University of Michigan astronomer will use the Herschel Space Observatory to study these chemical compounds in new detail in the warm clouds of gas and dust around young stars. They hope to gain insights into how organic molecules form in space, and possibly, how life formed on Earth. "The chemi ... more Russian Space Freighter Progress M-66 Undocks From ISS 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) May 07, 2009Russia's Progress M-66 cargo spacecraft undocked on Wednesday from the International Space Station to become a temporary space lab before being "buried" in the Pacific Ocean, Mission Control said. The freighter docked with the orbital station on February 13, bringing 2.4 tons of supplies, including oxygen, food, clothes and medical equipment for the ISS crew. "The command for undocki ... more
|
robot:
 robot:  satellite-tech:  |
|
| Previous Issues | May 07 | May 06 | May 05 | May 04 |
| The contents herein, unless otherwise known to be public domain, are Copyright 1995-2007 - SpaceDaily. AFP and UPI Wire Stories are copyright Agence France-Presse and United Press International. ESA Portal Reports are copyright European Space Agency. All NASA sourced material is public domain. Additional copyrights may apply in whole or part to other bona fide parties. Advertising does not imply endorsement, agreement or approval of any opinions, statements or information provided by SpaceDaily on any web page published or hosted by SpaceDaily. Privacy statement |
