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India to announce lunar mission date this month
Bangalore, India (AFP) Feb 13, 2008India will announce the date of its first lunar mission by the end of this month, the head of the country's space agency said Wednesday. A report in the Times of India Wednesday said that the launch of Chandrayaan-1, originally planned for April, had been "tentatively postponed" until June or July because of technical reasons. But Indian Space Research Organisation chairman ... more Titan's Surface Organics Surpass Oil Reserves On Earth 
Laurel MD (SPX) Feb 14, 2008Saturn's orange moon Titan has hundreds of times more liquid hydrocarbons than all the known oil and natural gas reserves on Earth, according to new Cassini data. The hydrocarbons rain from the sky, collecting in vast deposits that form lakes and dunes. The new findings from the study led by Ralph Lorenz, Cassini radar team member from the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory ... more Scientists Study The Plumbing Of The Enceladus Plumes 
Potsdam, Germany (SPX) Feb 14, 2008Scientists on the Cassini mission have become out-of-this world "plumbers" as they try to piece together what's happening inside the "pipes" feeding the plumes of Saturn's moon Enceladus. Enceladus is jetting out giant geysers three times the size of the moon, and now scientists are beginning to understand how the ice grains are created and how they might have formed. Knowing the process ... more NASA Recruiting Volunteers For Out Of This World Jobs 
Peterson AFB CO (SPX) Feb 08, 2008Only 12 human beings have set foot on the moon. You could be the thirteenth ... if you make the cut. NASA's current recruiting effort for a new class of astronaut candidates specifies that the International Space Station and the return to the moon are part of the agency's goals, and this class will be the first to be trained to achieve them. Interested? ... more Search For Extreme Organisms In Antarctica 
Huntsville AL (SPX) Feb 07, 2008In early February, NASA's Richard Hoover will lead a team of world class explorers to a remote location in Antarctica to search for unique, never-before identified microbes. NASA and its partner organizations study the potential for life in such extreme zones to help understand the limitations of life on Earth, and to prepare human explorers to search other worlds for signs of life in the univer ... more |
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Los Angeles CA (SPX) Feb 04, 2008Scientists and space policy experts say they will debate whether President George Bush's call for a return to the moon and voyage to Mars is feasible. Hundreds of millions of dollars were spent the last four years to design, build and test spacecraft in the program dubbed Constellation, The Washington Post reported Saturday. The program, however, has not caught the public's imagi ... more NASA Issues Environmental Impact Statement For Constellation 
Washington DC (SPX) Jan 31, 2008NASA issued an environmental impact statement for the Constellation Program Jan. 10. NASA's Constellation Program is developing a space transportation system that is designed to return humans to the moon by 2020. The Final Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement concludes that localized and global environmental impacts associated with implementing the program would be comparable to past or ... more NASA Uses Vertical Treadmill To Improve Astronaut Health In Space 
Washington DC (SPX) Jan 31, 2008NASA is using a new treadmill that allows people to run while suspended horizontally to help astronauts prepare for long-duration missions to the moon and beyond. A team of engineers at NASA's Glenn Research Center in Cleveland built the Standalone Zero Gravity Locomotion Simulator to imitate conditions astronauts experience while exercising in space. Exercise in microgravity helps lessen the ... more NASA Scientists Get First Images Of Earth Flyby Asteroid 
Pasadena CA (SPX) Jan 29, 2008Scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., have obtained the first images of asteroid 2007 TU24 using high-resolution radar data. The data indicate the asteroid is somewhat asymmetrical in shape, with a diameter roughly 250 meters (800 feet) in size. Asteroid 2007 TU24 will pass within 1.4 lunar distances, or 538,000 kilometers (334,000 miles), of Earth on Jan. 29 at 12 ... more |
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Carpenteria CA (SPX) Jan 23, 2008Four specialized antennas built by Northrop Grumman Corporation for the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) are functioning as expected after deploying successfully onboard the SELenological and ENgineering Explorer "KAGUYA" (SELENE), Japan's first large lunar explorer. The four dipole antennas deployed to their 15-meter (49.5 feet) full design length Oct. 31. Manufactu ... more Near-Earth Asteroid 2007 TU24 To Pass Close To Past Earth On Jan 29 
Pasadena CA (SPX) Jan 23, 2008Asteroid 2007 TU24, discovered by the Catalina Sky Survey on October 11, 2007 will closely approach the Earth to within 1.4 lunar distances (334,000 miles) on 2008 Jan. 29 08:33 UT. This object, between 150 and 600 meters in diameter, will reach an approximate apparent magnitude 10. 3 on Jan. 29-30 before quickly becoming fainter as it moves further from Earth. For a brief time the asteroid wi ... more Amateur Radio Operators Asked To Tune Into Lunar Radar Bounce 
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 18, 2008Scientists at the Air Force/Navy High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP) in Alaska and the Long Wavelength Array (LWA) in New Mexico back in October, 2007 received what is believed to be the lowest frequency RF echo off the lunar surface. They are set to best that this weekend with yet another lunar echo experiment, and they are asking help from Amateur Radio operators the world over to tune in. ... more ISRO Planning To Launch Satellite To Study The Sun 
Bangalore, India (PTI) Jan 18, 2008In the midst of the buzz about Chandrayaan, the moon mission, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is planning to launch a satellite to study the sun. 'Aditya' should be up in space by 2012 to study the dynamic solar corona, the outermost region of the sun. This fiery region has temperatures of over one million degrees, with raging solar winds that reach a velocity of up to 1000 km a se ... more
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