Nasa’s Atlantis space shuttle lifts off
November 16, 2009 – 5:22 pm
Nasa shuttle carries spare parts for the International Space Station. Read More at Daily Telegraph…
Monthly Archives: November 2009
NASA launches space shuttle Atlantis
November 16, 2009 – 5:18 pm
The US space shuttle Atlantis has lifted off its seaside launch pad at the Kennedy Space Centre near Florida’s Cape Canaveral, loaded with spare parts to keep the International Space Station flying after the shuttles are retired next year. Read More at Australian Broadcasting Corporation…
NASA launches shuttle Atlantis to space station
November 16, 2009 – 5:11 pm
The U.S. space shuttle Atlantis lifted off its seaside launch pad on Monday, loaded with spare parts to keep the International Space Station flying after the shuttles are retired next year. Read More at Reuters via Yahoo! News…
The best mad scientist memoir of the year
November 15, 2009 – 8:25 am
Zuppero’s zingy tale of space travel and bonkers weaponry Book review The best mad scientist autobiography this year, perhaps the only one, is Tony Zuppero’s To Inhabit the Solar System . Better still, it’s free and in time for holiday reading. It’s a long but definitely not windy 391 pages.? The power of collaboration within [...]
Water Found on the Moon!!
November 13, 2009 – 1:07 pm
Shortly after NASA’s LCROSS probe slammed into a crater in the polar region of the Moon, the Agency held a press conference to announce that it had obtained significant amounts of data from the collision. Unfortunately, to the frustration of many present, it wasn’t ready to interpret that data. That reticence ended today, as NASA [...]
Will Russia’s Next Rocket be Nuclear?
November 4, 2009 – 4:59 pm
Russia’s space agency chief is proposing to build a new spaceship with a nuclear engine. Reportedly, Anatoly Perminov told a government meeting Wednesday that the preliminary design could be ready by 2012. It would take about nine more years and 17 billion rubles (about $600 million or 400 million euros) to build the ship. [...] [...]
The Ares Liftoff: Learning from Space Shuttle Mistakes
November 4, 2009 – 4:56 pm
NASA’s new generation of deep-space rockets is a back-to-Apollo design. But will it get enough funding to significantly move exploration forward? Read More at Time Magazine…
Japanese ship to try to shoot down missile
November 3, 2009 – 9:00 am
LIHU?E ? A Japanese navy ship with a state-of-the-art, American-built, missile-defense system will attempt to shoot a target missile out of the sky this afternoon. Read More at The Garden Island…
Aerial video provides view of Ares 1-X parachute trouble
November 3, 2009 – 8:52 am
NASA released spectacular footage Monday from an aircraft stationed near the landing site of the Ares 1-X first stage booster, showing remarkable views of liftoff, the botched parachute deployment and splashdown. Read More at Spaceflight Now…