During the six-hour, 33-minute spacewalk, Garan and fellow astronaut Mike Fossum exchanged a depleted Nitrogen Tank Assembly for a new one, removed thermal covers and launch locks from the Kibo laboratory, reinstalled a repaired television camera onto the space station’s left P1 truss,and retrieved samples of a dust-like substance from the left Sol
What’s the world’s most complex space robot doing up there? Last week, Dextre was imaged moving atop the Destiny Laboratory Module of the International Space Station (ISS), completing tasks prior to the deployment of Japan’s Kibo pressurized science laboratory.
Variable star V838 Monocerotis lies near the edge of our Milky Way Galaxy, about 20,000 light-years from our sun. Still, ever since a sudden outburst was detected, this enigmatic star has taken the center of an astronomical stage.Light from the outburst echoes across pre-existing dust shells around V838 Mon, illuminating ever more distant regions.
The GLAST satellite will observe the deaths of massive stars and might even pin down the nature of dark matter
Sergey Brin has made a $5 million down payment to book a seat on a future flight to the space station
If the proposal is accepted, strapping an ultraviolet laser to the ISS could allow unbreakable communications over thousands of kilometres
You heard it right … book now! Previous flights have only cost $20 million and could only take one person… maybe with 2 or more people it will drop by more than half. Its beginning!
Plutoid is the new term to be used to describe such dwarf planets as Pluto … as set forth by the International Astronomical Union (IAU). .
Presumptive Republican White House nominee John McCain said Thursday he would like to see a manned mission to Mars as part of a “better set of priorities” for NASA that would better engage the public.He said he “would be willing to spend more taxpayers’ dollars” to continue the program, something that Obama does not want to do.
New experiments are being proposed to test a big unknown in physics: how antimatter reacts to gravity
