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Psychologists Show New Ways To Deal With Health Challenges In Space
Boston MA (SPX) Aug 18, 2008As NASA prepares to send humans back to the moon and then on to Mars, psychologists are exploring the challenges astronauts will face on missions that will be much longer and more demanding than previous space flights. Psychologists outlined these mental health challenges Thursday at the American Psychological Association's 116th Annual Convention, and introduced a new interactive computer ... more Cassini Pinpoints Source Of Jets On Saturn's Moon Enceladus 
Pasadena CA (SPX) Aug 15, 2008In a feat of interplanetary sharpshooting, NASA's Cassini spacecraft has pinpointed precisely where the icy jets erupt from the surface of Saturn's geologically active moon Enceladus. New carefully targeted pictures reveal exquisite details in the prominent south polar "tiger stripe" fractures from which the jets emanate. The images show the fractures are about 300 meters (980 feet) deep, ... more Psychologists Show New Ways To Deal With Health Challenges In Space 
Boston MA (SPX) Aug 15, 2008As NASA prepares to send humans back to the moon and then on to Mars, psychologists are exploring the challenges astronauts will face on missions that will be much longer and more demanding than previous space flights. Psychologists outlined these mental health challenges Thursday at the American Psychological Association's 116th Annual Convention, and introduced a new interactive computer ... more Cassini Begins Transmitting Data From Enceladus Flyby 
Pasadena CA (SPX) Aug 13, 2008Shorty after 9:03 p.m. Pacific Time, the Cassini spacecraft began sending data to Earth following a close flyby of Saturn's moon Enceladus. During closest approach, Cassini successfully passed only 50 kilometers (30 miles) from the surface of the tiny moon. Cassini's signal was picked up by the Deep Space Network station in Canberra, Australia, and relayed to the Cassini mission control a ... more A Flash Of Insight: LCROSS Mission Update 
Huntsville AL (SPX) Aug 12, 2008There are places on the Moon where the sun hasn't shined for millions of years. Dark polar craters too deep for sunlight to penetrate are luna incognita, the realm of the unknown, and in their inky depths, researchers believe, may lie a treasure of great value. NASA is about to light one up. Sometime between May and August 2009, depending on launch dates, the booster stage for NASA's ... more |
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New Delhi (RIA Novosti) Aug 08, 2008The launch of India's first unmanned mission to the Moon has been postponed until the middle of October, the head of the Indian space program has said. The launch of the Chandrayaan I lunar orbiter by the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) was originally planned for September 19 but scientists have yet to conduct the thermo-vacuum testing of a Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) ... more Cracking The Question Of Extraterrestrial Life 
Moscow ID (SPX) Aug 08, 2008With average temperatures of minus 260 degrees Fahrenheit, an almost nonexistent atmosphere and a complex web of cracks in a layer of ice encompassing the entire surface, the environment on Jupiter's moon Europa is about as alien as they come. So are the enormous forces behind the surface display, namely an ocean beneath the ice nine times deeper than Earth's deepest ocean trench and ... more Indian Moon Mission Likely In October 
Chennai, India (PTI) Aug 07, 2008India's "ambitious" unmanned lunar mission 'Chandrayan' is likely to soar into the skies in October second week, Indian Space Research Organisation Chairman G Madhavan Nair said on Wednesday. "The satellite integration is almost complete. And we would be entering the thermovac in about a week's time. It takes about 45-50 days for the launch after thermovac, after which we would declare the ... more Inspire Interns Help Design Next-Gen Space Fleet 
Huntsville AL (SPX) Aug 05, 2008When high school and college students around the country are toiling back in the classroom over those "How I Spent My Summer Vacation" essays in coming weeks, some will have unique stories to share. For instead of tanning at the beach or holding down traditional summer jobs, they've spent two months conducting cutting-edge research and working to send American astronauts to the moon and beyond. ... more |
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Moffett Field CA (SPX) Aug 01, 2008NASA hosted a meeting of space agencies from nine countries last week to discuss the next steps in the ongoing scientific exploration of the moon. The meeting laid the groundwork for a new generation of lunar science. Discussions, led by NASA Headquarters officials, were held at NASA's Lunar Science Institute, located at the Ames Research Center at Moffett Field, Calif. Representatives ... more NASA Lunar Science Institute Names First International Partner 
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Aug 01, 2008NASA's Lunar Science Institute at Moffett Field, Calif., has announced its first international affiliate partner for conducting lunar science activities. Canada's University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, will represent the Canadian lunar science community as part of the newly established Canadian Network for Lunar Science and Exploration. "We are tremendously excited about this ... more NASA Confirms Liquid Lake On Saturn Moon 
Pasadena CA (SPX) Aug 01, 2008NASA scientists have concluded that at least one of the large lakes observed on Saturn's moon Titan contains liquid hydrocarbons, and have positively identified the presence of ethane. This makes Titan the only body in our solar system beyond Earth known to have liquid on its surface. Scientists made the discovery using data from an instrument aboard the Cassini spacecraft. The instrument ... more Mars Express Acquires Sharpest Images Of Martian Moon Phobos 
Paris, France (ESA) Jul 31, 2008Mars Express closed in on the intriguing martian moon Phobos at 6:49 CEST on 23 July, flying past at 3 km/s, only 93 km from the moon. The ESA spacecraft's fly-bys of the moon have returned its most detailed full-disc images ever, also in 3-D, using the High Resolution Stereo Camera on board. Phobos is what scientists call a 'small irregular body'. Measuring 27 km � 22 km � 19 km, it is on ... more
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