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• in Technology
  ISS Delivery Launch Day for Space Shuttle Atlantis
  The space shuttle Atlantis launches today to supply the International Space Station
  by breetreport / on Nov 16, 2009
• in Lifestyle
  Two Buckets Of Water For $79 Million
  What is behind door number two for $79 million dollars?
  by breetreport / on Nov 13, 2009
• in Technology
  NASA Impact Probe Kicks Up Water on Moon
  Lunar impacts analyzed by researchers indicate that water is contained in shadowed lunar craters.
  by Bugger4 / on Nov 13, 2009

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “Nasa”

• Giant Iceberg Heading for Australia Seen from Space

  
  International Space Fellowship — Authority: 581
  Icebergs frequently calve off Antarctica’s ice shelves, and they often get swept up in strong circumpolar currents that carry them around the icy continent. Occasionally icebergs drift northward, out of the continent’s orbit. Only rarely, however, do icebergs drift as far north as Australia without melting, which ...
  8 hours ago

• Orion Launch Abort System Attitude Control Motor Test-fired

  
  International Space Fellowship — Authority: 581
  On Tuesday, Dec. 15, NASA, Alliant Techsystems (ATK) and Lockheed Martin celebrated a major milestone with a ground test of a full-scale attitude control motor (ACM) for the Orion crew exploration vehicle’s launch abort system (LAS).“The completion of the Demonstration Motor 1 hot-fire test is a substantial ...
  8 hours ago

• Station Crew Busy with Science and Maintenance

  
  International Space Fellowship — Authority: 581
  Expedition 22 Commander Jeff Williams and Flight Engineer Max Suraev of the International Space Station crew were focused on scientific experimentation and maintenance Wednesday. Williams worked with the Advanced Plant EXperiments on Orbit – Cambium (APEX-Cambium) experiment. APEX-Cambium uses willow plants flown on ...
  8 hours ago

• NASA Transfers Kepler Mission Management to Ames Research Center

  
  International Space Fellowship — Authority: 581
  NASA today transferred management of all operations for the Kepler Mission from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), Pasadena, Calif., to NASA’s Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif. JPL managed the mission through development, launch and the start of science operations. The spacecraft was launched March ...
  9 hours ago

• NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Resumes Observations

  
  International Space Fellowship — Authority: 581
  Researchers are receiving new science data from NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter after the spacecraft’s six science instruments resumed observations today. Observations had been suspended since a computer reset Aug. 26. During the time since then, engineers analyzed a series of previous computer resets by the ...
  9 hours ago

• Hubble Space Telescope Images Add Realism to AstroZapper App for iPhone

  
  iPhone News at Desinformado.com | The Complete Source for iPhone News — Authority: 150
  Thomas Brown today released AstroZapper 2.0 for iPhone and iPod Touch users. Zap dangerous, oncoming asteroids in space. Users have a choice of three different ships to use, all of which have weapons to blast away the danger and avoid getting hit. The incorporation of real Hubble Space Telescope, Chandra X-Ray ...
  9 hours ago

• Saturn’s Hexagon and the Bulava Spiral: Nota Bene #2009-45

  
  Scholars and Rogues — Authority: 594
  “Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.” Who said it? The answer is at the end of this post. Now on to the links! … “What’s taken place in the year since Obama won the presidency has turned out to be one of the most dramatic political about-faces in our history” … ...
  11 hours ago

• Children 1, Astronaut 0

  
  Gambit — Authority: 407
  An astronaut has resigned his long-running chess game with a group of Washington school children.
  13 hours ago

• NASA - The Dark Side of Carbon

  
  ?????-Tumblr — Authority: 136
  NASA - The Dark Side of Carbon
  13 hours ago

• Satellites weigh California water

  
  Innovation Toronto — Authority: 143
  Image via Wikipedia Nasa satellites have weighed the water lost by the US State of California’s heartland since 2003. The Sacramento and San Joaquin River Basins which support the highly productive Central Valley have shed over 30 cubic km of water in that time. The data comes from the Grace mission which ...
  14 hours ago

• What Happened on Impact Night?

  
  Lunar Pioneer — Authority: 481
  Paul D. Tompkins LCROSS Flight Directors Blog "The LCROSS mission was ultimately focused on the final four minutes of flight, starting at the time of the Centaur impact, and ending with the impact of the Shepherding Spacecraft. During that time, the Payload Engineer and the Science Team took operational center ...
  15 hours ago

• NASA’s Path? Wait Until February

  
  Parabolic Arc — Authority: 529
  Altair on the moon Looks like there was not any real news generated by today’s meeting between President Barack Obama and NASA Administrator Charles Bolden at the White House. Space News reported via Twitter: A senior NASA official reiterated today that the WH intends to wait until the February budget rollout ...
  16 hours ago

• Explore the Surface of Mercury

  
  MetaFilter — Authority: 732
  NASAs MESSENGER team (previously: 1 , 2 , 3 ) , with help from the U.S. Geological Survey, released yesterday the first global map of the planet Mercury . The map stitches together images from MESSENGERs three recent flybys of the planet with those from Mariner 10 , which saw about 45% of the planet in the ...
  19 hours ago

• NASA releases new information on their upcoming MMO

  
  Massively — Authority: 651
  Back in November , we talked about an exciting space MMO in the works from NASA , called Astronaut: Moon, Mars, and Beyond . The information they had at the time was pretty extensive, and left us anxious to find out more and try it out. Were getting our wish, as NASA has announced that Moonbase Alpha , a ...
  20 hours ago

• SUNDANCE, KIDS The NASA space shuttle Atlantis and the Hubble...

  
  BLOGGING via TYPEWRITER. — Authority: 724
  SUNDANCE, KIDS The NASA space shuttle Atlantis and the Hubble Space Telescope are seen in silhouette, side by side during solar transit on May 13, 2009, from west of Vero Beach, Florida in this image released by NASA May 14. The two spaceships were at an altitude of 600 km (375 miles) and they zipped across the sun ...
  20 hours ago

• Epic Photo: Stars from Hubble

  
  Just South of North — Authority: 145
  Found this on Huckleberries. This image provided by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope Tuesday shows hundreds of brilliant blue stars wreathed by warm, glowing clouds. The festive portrait is the most detailed view of the largest stellar nursery in our local galactic neighborhood. The massive, young stellar ...
  21 hours ago

• Hubble Finds Smallest Kuiper Belt Object Ever Seen

  
  International Space Fellowship — Authority: 581
  Like finding a needle in a haystack, the Hubble Space Telescope has discovered the smallest object ever seen in visible light in the Kuiper Belt. While Hubble didn’t image this KBO directly, its detection is still quite impressive. The object is only 975 meters (3,200 feet) across and a whopping 6.7 billion ...
  21 hours ago

• Mayon at the NASA Earth Observatory

  
  The Volcanism Blog — Authority: 472
  Quick work from the NASA Earth Observatory team: they have posted an image of Mayon captured yesterday, 15 December 2009, by the Advanced Land Imager on NASA’s Earth Observing-1 ( EO-1 ) satellite. A plume is visible emerging from Mayon’s summit crater and blowing away to the west. The close proximity of the ...
  22 hours ago

• Secrets of noctilucent clouds unlocked by NASA’s AIM satellite

  
  Eideard — Authority: 149
  AIM satellite deepens understanding of noctilucent clouds.
  23 hours ago

• Hubble Space Telescope Captures Massive Star-forming Region of Deep Space

  
  CafeSentido.com — Authority: 135
  The above image, captured by and transmitted from the Hubble Space Telescope, in orbit around the Earth, shows the largest star-forming region in the vicinity of our Milky Way galaxy . According to NASA: “The massive, young stellar grouping, called R136, is only a few million years old and resides in the 30 Doradus ...
  1 day ago

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