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Inhaling For Exploration As Scientists Test Lunar Breathing System Houston TX (SPX) May 08, 2008 Imagine yourself hip-to-hip, shoulder-to-shoulder, inside a room the size of a walk-in closet for eight hours with five people you just met. Does that make you sweat? Or maybe make your breathing a little more animated? For three weeks, 23 volunteers dedicated time to do just that - sweat and breathe - inside a test chamber so NASA scientists at Johnson Space Center in Houston could meas ... more Send Your Name To The Moon With New Lunar Mission Washington DC (SPX) May 04, 2008 NASA invites people of all ages to join the lunar exploration journey with an opportunity to send their names to the moon aboard the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, spacecraft. The Send Your Name to the Moon Web site enables everyone to participate in the lunar adventure and place their names in orbit around the moon for years to come. Participants can submit their information the we ... more A Glorious Saturn Steps Into The Spotlight In New York City New York NY (SPX) May 06, 2008 In the four years since NASA's Cassini-Huygens spacecraft arrived at Saturn and began snapping pictures, Cassini's cameras have sent nearly 140,000 images back to researchers on Earth. The data and images -- as well as data from infrared, radar and ultraviolet detectors on the orbiter and images from the Huygens probe on the surface of the planet's moon Titan -- have given researchers ... more The eta Aquarid Meteor Shower Washington DC (SPX) May 05, 2008 The eta Aquarid meteor shower peaks this year on Tuesday, May 6th. The best time to look, no matter where you live, is during the hours immediately before sunrise. If you can, get away from city lights; you will see more meteors from the dark countryside. 2008 should be a good year for the eta Aquarid meteors. The Moon is new, which means no lunar glare, and Earth is expected to pass ... more ULA To Launch GRAIL Denver CO (SPX) May 05, 2008 NASA has designated the Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) mission to fly aboard a United Launch Alliance Delta II Heavy rocket. The launch will be provided under terms of a launch service agreement procured previously by NASA for this vehicle. The liftoff will occur from Space Launch Complex 17B, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., in the third quarter of 2011. Part of ... more |
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Fairfax VA (SPX) Apr 23, 2008 QinetiQ North America has announced its Missions Solutions Group (MSG) has been awarded a five-year, $190 million contract with the National Aeronautical and Space Administration. Under this contract, QNA will provide a wide range of environmental test and integration services to support projects at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. Such projects include the Hubble Space Telescope, the ... more Moondust And Duct Tape Huntsville AL (SPX) Apr 22, 2008 At this year's Great Moonbuggy Race in Huntsville, Alabama, Prof. Paul Shiue of Christian Brothers University was overheard joking that duct tape was his team's "best engineering tool." Others felt the same way. The sound of gray tape being torn from rolls practically filled the race course as dozens of college and high school student engineers busily assembled and repaired their homemade moonbu ... more New NASA Moon Mission Begins Integration Of Science Instruments Greenbelt MD (SPX) Apr 22, 2008 Several instruments that will help NASA characterize the moon's surface have been installed on the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO. The powerful equipment will bring the moon into sharper focus and reveal new insights about the celestial body nearest Earth. Engineers and technicians on the LRO Integration and Test Team work almost around the clock in a clean room at NASA's Goddard ... more KAGUYA Captures First Successful Shooting Of A Full Earth-Rise Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Apr 23, 2008 The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation) successfully captured a movie of the "Full Earth-Rise"*1 using the onboard High Definition Television (HDTV) of the lunar explorer "KAGUYA " (SELENE) on April 6, 2008 (Japan Standard Time, JST, all the following dates and time are JST.) The KAGUYA is currently flying in a lunar orbit at an altitude of about 10 ... more |
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Huntsville AL (SPX) Apr 15, 2008 Engineers have begun preparations to renovate the historic, 360-foot-high Saturn V Dynamic Test Stand at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville. The test stand, used in the 1960s to test the Apollo-era Saturn V rocket and later the integrated space shuttle system, soon will be used for the integrated vehicle ground vibration test of the nation's new Ares I rocket and Orion crew capsul ... more Moondust In The Wind Huntsville AL (SPX) Apr 14, 2008 Moondust is dry, desiccated stuff, and may seem like a dull topic to write about. Indeed, you could search a ton of moondust without finding a single molecule of water, so it could make for a pretty "dry" story. But like the dust in your mother's attic, moondust covers something interesting - the moon - and even the dust itself has curious tales to tell. A group of NASA and University of ... more NASA Sets Sights On Lunar Dust Exploration Mission Washington DC (SPX) Apr 10, 2008 NASA is preparing to send a small spacecraft to the moon in 2011 to assess the lunar atmosphere and the nature of dust lofted above the surface. Called the Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE), the mission will launch before the agency's moon exploration activities accelerate during the next decade. LADEE will gather detailed information about conditions near the surface ... more NASA Spacecraft Images Mars Moon In Color And In 3D Pasadena CA (SPX) Apr 10, 2008 A new stereo view of Phobos, the larger and inner of Mars' two tiny moons, has been captured by a NASA spacecraft orbiting Mars. The High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter took two images of Phobos 10 minutes apart on March 23. Scientists combined the images for a stereo view. "Phobos is of great interest because it may be rich in water ic ... more |
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