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Dedication And Perspiration Builds The Next Generation Life Support System
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Sep 18, 2007Marshall Center employees are back at it -- donating time and energy -- exercising on treadmills, bikes, and other equipment to test aspects of a life support system that could someday provide drinking water to people living on the moon or Mars. For almost 20 years, NASA engineers at Marshall have led the design and development of the International Space Station life support system, called the ... more Japan says lunar orbiter launch a success 
Tokyo (AFP) Sept 14, 2007Japan's first lunar orbiter successfully blasted into space Friday on the most extensive mission to investigate the moon since the US Apollo programme began nearly four decades ago, officials said. A domestically developed rocket launched with no glitches from a small island in southern Japan at 10:31 am (0131 GMT) carrying the country's hopes of restoring pride in its troubled space ... more Google offers reward to land robot on moon 
New York (AFP) Sept 13, 2007Internet search giant Google on Thursday offered 30 million dollars in prize money for companies to land a robot camera to roam on the moon and send back high-resolution snaps and data. Google launched Google Moon, a page on its site with images mapping out stretches of the orb's pock-marked surface. They are compiled from photographs taken by previous moon missions including the historic ... more Saturn's Moon Iapetus Is The Yin-And-Yang Of The Solar System 
Pasadena CA (SPX) Sep 13, 2007Scientists on the Cassini mission to Saturn are poring through hundreds of images returned from the Sept. 10 flyby of Saturn's two-toned moon Iapetus. Pictures returned late Tuesday and early Wednesday show the moon's yin and yang--a white hemisphere resembling snow, and the other as black as tar. Images show a surface that is heavily cratered, along with the mountain ridge that runs ... more Japan postpones lunar mission launch
Tokyo (AFP) Sept 11, 2007Bad weather has forced Japan to postpone the launch of a lunar orbiter that aims to collect data for research on the moon's origin and evolution, the country's space exploration agency said Tuesday. The launch from the Space Centre on the small island of Tanegashima off the southern tip of Kyushu island has been delayed by one day until 10:31 am (0131 GMT) on Friday, said a spokeswoman for ... more |
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Washington DC (SPX) Aug 30, 2007Some in the aerospace community believe that unless NASA sends astronauts back to the Moon and conducts extensive exploration, it is in danger of disappearing as a government agency. What is the basis for this fear? The last time astronauts began a mission to the Moon was December 7, 1972. Until the Clementine lunar mission in 1994, a leftover spacecraft from a DOD program, robotic ... more Russia plans manned Moon mission by 2025 
Moscow (AFP) Aug 31, 2007Russia plans to send a manned mission to the Moon by 2025 and wants to build a permanent base there shortly after, the head of Russian space agency Roskosmos said Friday. "According to our estimates we will be ready for a manned flight to the Moon in 2025," Anatoly Perminov told reporters. An "inhabited station" could be built there between 2027 and 2032, he said. ... more HiRISE Confirms Existence of 'Pit Craters' On Mars 
Tuscon AZ (SPX) Aug 30, 2007The High Resolution Imaging Experiment (HiRISE) has confirmed that a dark pit seen on Mars in an earlier HiRISE image really is a vertical shaft that cuts through lava flow on the flank of the Arsia Mons volcano. Such pits form on similar volcanoes in Hawaii and are called "pit craters." The HiRISE camera, orbiting the red planet on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, is the most ... more Boeing Selected To Build NASA's Upper Stage For Ares I 
St. Louis MO (SPX) Aug 29, 2007Boeing has been awarded a NASA contract valued at approximately $514.7 million to produce the upper stage of the Ares I crew launch vehicle. This element provides the navigation, guidance, control and propulsion required for the ascent of the second-stage Ares I into low-Earth orbit. The Ares I launches the Orion crew exploration vehicle, which will be joined with other elements of NASA's ... more |
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Berkeley CA (SPX) Aug 24, 2007As the rings of Uranus swing edge-on to Earth - a short-lived view we get only once every 42 years - astronomers observing the event are getting an unprecedented, glare-free view of the rings and the fine dust that permeates them. The rings were discovered in 1977, so this is the first opportunity astronomers have had to observe a Uranus ring crossing and perhaps to discover a new moon or two ... more Gulf Coast Key To Future NASA Exploration Plans 
Huntsville AL (SPX) Aug 24, 2007Future NASA astronauts who land on the moon will owe their success in part to the men and women of the Gulf Coast, who are already at work on the next generation of space travel. NASA's Stennis Space Center in Mississippi and NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans both will have critical roles in the Constellation Program, which aims to land astronauts on the moon by the end of the next ... more Total Lunar Eclipse Draws Attention Back To The Moon 
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Aug 22, 2007As August draws to an end, watchers of the night sky will be in for a treat. In the early morning hours of August 28, sky watchers across much of the world can look on as the Moon crosses in to the shadow of the Earth, becoming completely immersed for one-hour and 30 minutes, a period of time much longer than most typical lunar eclipses. In fact, this eclipse will be the deepest and longest in ... more Frigid Enceladus: An Unlikely Harbor For Life 
Champaign IL (SPX) Aug 23, 2007A new model of Saturn's icy moon Enceladus may quell hopes of finding life there. Developed by researchers at the University of Illinois, the model explains the most salient observations on Enceladus without requiring the presence of liquid water. Orbiting Saturn since June 30, 2004, the Cassini spacecraft has revealed a south polar region of Enceladus with an elaborate arrangement of fractures ... more
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