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NASA Goddard To Purge Rocket-Bursting Bubbles On Ares-1
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Apr 17, 2009Greenbelt MD (SPX) Apr 17, 2009 Of all the things that can bring down a rocket, bubbles seem the most unlikely. They are a threat to rockets that use very cold liquid fuels, like the upper stage of NASA's new Ares 1 rocket, which will carry astronauts to the space station and join up in orbit with spacecraft carried by the larger Ares 5 rocket for missions to the moon and beyond. Bubbles ... more US scientists plan greenhouses on the Moon 
Tucson, Arizona (AFP) April 15, 2009Astronauts' meals have come a long way from the freeze-dried powders and semi-liquid pastes of decades ago: now US scientists want to grow vegetables in mini-greenhouses on the Moon. Although space fare has steadily improved over time, a team of scientists says the best is yet to come. They look forward to when residents of future lunar or even Martian outposts can dine on luxuries such ... more Indian Lunar Orbiter Sends Back Images To Establish Water Presence On Moon 
New Delhi (XNA) Apr 16, 2009A radar imaging camera on board Indian lunar orbiter, Chandrayaan-1, has sent back some amazing images which will give scientists definite clues about the presence or absence of water on the Moon surface, according to a report by local tabloid Mail Today Friday. The camera, known as Mini- SAR, is one of the key payloads of the mission and has been developed by scientists from the United St ... more NASA Selects Material For Orion Spacecraft Heat Shield 
Houston TX (SPX) Apr 14, 2009NASA has chosen the material for a heat shield that will protect a new generation of space explorers when they return from the moon. After extensive study, NASA has selected the Avcoat ablator system for the Orion crew module. Orion is part of the Constellation Program that is developing the country's next-generation spacecraft system for human exploration of the moon and further destinati ... more NASA Twin Spacecraft May Reveal Secret Of Lunar Origin 
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Apr 14, 2009Two identical NASA spacecraft are preparing to enter a point in the universe that may eventually answer the question of how our moon was born. The spacecraft duet, called Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory, or Stereo, are nearing a zone known as the Lagrangian points. At these points, the gravity of the sun and Earth combine to form gravitational wells where asteroids and space dust t ... more |
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Pasadena CA (SPX) Mar 25, 2009"Fly me to the moon" - to Saturn's moon Titan, that is. New Titan movies and images are providing a bird's-eye view of the moon's Earth-like landscapes. The new flyover maps show, for the first time, the 3-D topography and height of the 1,200-meter (4,000-foot) mountain tops, the north polar lake country, the vast dunes more than 100 meters (300 feet) high that crisscross the moon, and the ... more NASA And Microsoft To Make Universe Of Data Available To The Public 
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Mar 25, 2009NASA and Microsoft Corp. announced Tuesday plans to make planetary images and data available via the Internet under a Space Act Agreement. Through this project, NASA and Microsoft jointly will develop the technology and infrastructure necessary to make the most interesting NASA content - including high-resolution scientific images and data from Mars and the moon - explorable on WorldWide T ... more Quadruple Saturn Moon Transit Snapped By Hubble 
Baltimore, MD (SPX) Mar 19, 2009On February 24, 2009, the Hubble Space Telescope took a photo of four moons of Saturn passing in front of their parent planet. In this view, the giant orange moon Titan casts a large shadow onto Saturn's north polar hood. Below Titan, near the ring plane and to the left is the moon Mimas, casting a much smaller shadow onto Saturn's equatorial cloud tops. Farther to the left, and off Saturn ... more NASA Moon Mission Brings Divergent Passions Together 
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Mar 18, 2009Growing up in the rural Appalachian foothills of the Ohio Valley, John Marmie developed a passion for music. When he combined that passion with his enthusiasm for space exploration, he was inspired to write an original song, 'Water on the Moon.' As the deputy project manager for the Lunar CRater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) mission at NASA's Ames Research Center, Moffett Fiel ... more |
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Hampton VA (SPX) Mar 14, 2009NASA is working on the building blocks to return humans to the Moon by 2020, then send them onto Mars. It's part of the national Vision for Space Exploration established five years ago. Just what is America's plan and is it the right one? Four international experts will address those questions and others in a special Moon-Mars Forum, March 17, from 7-9 p.m. at the Virginia Air and Space Center ... more New Horizons Detects Neptune's Moon Triton 
Baltimore MD (SPX) Mar 13, 2009Add another moon to the New Horizons photo gallery: the spacecraft's Long Range Reconnaissance Imager detected Triton, the largest of Neptune's 13 known moons, during the annual spacecraft checkout last fall. New Horizons was 2.33 billion miles (3.75 billion kilometers) from Neptune on Oct. 16, when LORRI, following a programmed sequence of commands, locked onto the planet and snapped away ... more NASA's Ares I Rocket First Stage Igniter Tested 
Huntsville AL (SPX) Mar 12, 2009NASA has completed a successful test firing of the igniter that will be used to start the Ares I rocket first stage motor. The March 10 test paves the way for the initial ground test of the Ares I first stage later this year. Ares I is the first launch vehicle in NASA's Constellation Program family of space vehicles that will transport astronauts and cargo to the International Space Statio ... more HiRISE Camera Captures Subtle Colors of Mars' Tiny Moon Deimos 
Tempe AZ (SPX) Mar 12, 2009The High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment, or HiRISE, run from The University of Arizona, has produced new images that show subtle color differences across the smooth surface of Deimos, the smaller and outer tiny moon of Mars. The HiRISE camera aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter captured two images of Deimos using near-infrared, red and blue-green filters on Feb. 21, 2009. ... more
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