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Shuttle delivers Japanese lab to space station
Washington (AFP) June 2, 2008The US shuttle Discovery linked up smoothly with the International Space Station on Monday, delivering a bus-sized Japanese laboratory to expand research, and badly-needed parts for a troublesome toilet. After a two-day trip around Earth, Discovery docked with the orbiting station 338 kilometers (210 miles) above the south Pacific. Two hours later, the shuttle's seven astronauts floated into ... more NASA sets Thursday for GLAST launch 
Cape Canaveral, Fla. (UPI) Jun 2, 2008 The U.S. space agency has scheduled Thursday for the launch of its Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope, or GLAST. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration said GLAST will be launched aboard a United Launch Alliance Delta II rocket. The launch window extends from 11:45 a.m. to 1:40 p.m. EDT daily through Aug. 7. The GLAST liftoff date, originally set for Tuesday, was res ... more Japan's laboratory ready to join space 'family' 
Washington (AFP) June 2, 2008The US shuttle Discovery delivered a large Japanese laboratory to the International Space Station on Monday that will give the Asian power a permanent outpost to carry out experiments in space. Mission specialists Mike Fossum and Ron Garan will venture out of the ISS Tuesday on the first of three planned spacewalks to unlock the lab from the shuttle's payload bay so it can be installed on the orbi ... more Indonesian capital braces for tidal flood: officials 
Jakarta (AFP) June 2, 2008Indonesia's capital is putting the finishing touches on coastal defences to hold back peak tides this week that experts fear could inundate much of the city, an official said Monday. Authorities in the capital have put up barriers and repaired pumps along the city's north coast to fend off expected high tides on Tuesday and Wednesday nights, Jakarta public works agency technical head Fakhrur ... more Energy Levels Reach Record Low For Fading Spirit Of Mars 
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jun 03, 2008Energy production reached a record low for Spirit this past week. On Sol 1560 (May 23, 2008), solar array input was 220 watt-hours (enough energy to light a 100-watt bulb for two hours and 12 minutes). On sol 1563, Spirit expended the highest amount of energy yet on running heaters to maintain minimum temperatures for batteries (30.6 watt-hours) and the miniature thermal emission spectrometer (5 ... more |
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St. Louis MO (SPX) Jun 02, 2008Astronomers have used ultrasharp images obtained with the Keck Telescope and Hubble Space Telescope to determine for the first time the masses of the coldest class of "failed stars," a.k.a. brown dwarfs. With masses as light as 3 percent the mass of the sun, these are the lowest mass free-floating objects ever weighed outside the solar system. The observations are a major step in tes ... more NASA to launch 'Buzz Lightyear' into space 
Washington (UPI) May 29, 2008 The U.S. space agency says Saturday's liftoff of space shuttle Discovery will involve seven trained astronauts and one toy astronaut named Buzz Lightyear. The launch of Discovery to the International Space Station kicks off a new education initiative between the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and Disney Parks. The 12-inch-tall Buzz Lightyear action figure will be carried ... more Astronomers Find Tiny Planet Orbiting Tiny Star 
St. Louis, MO (SPX) Jun 02, 2008An international team of astronomers led by David Bennett of the University of Notre Dame has discovered an extra-solar planet of about three Earth masses orbiting a star with a mass so low that its core may not be massive enough to maintain nuclear reactions. This result is being presented in a press conference at the AAS meeting in St. Louis, MO. The planet, referred to as MOA-2007-BLG-1 ... more Knocking Back Rocks From Outerspace 
Ames IA (SPX) Jun 03, 2008An Asteroid Deflection Research Center (ADRC) has been established on the Iowa State University campus in the United States. The ADRC will bring together researchers from around the world to develop asteroid deflection technologies. The center was signed into effect in April by the Office of the Executive Vice President and Provost. "In the early 1990s, scientists around the world initiate ... more Phoenix Scoops Up Some Martian Soil 
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jun 02, 2008One week after landing on far-northern Mars, NASA Phoenix spacecraft lifted its first scoop of Martian soil as a test of the lander's Robotic Arm. The practice scoop was emptied onto a designated dump area on the ground after the Robotic Arm Camera photographed the soil inside the scoop. The Phoenix team plans to have the arm deliver its next scoopful, later this week, to an instrument tha ... more |
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Tucson AZ (SPX) Jun 03, 2008Scientists have discovered what may be ice that was exposed when soil was blown away as NASA's Phoenix spacecraft landed on Mars last Sunday, May 25. The possible ice appears in an image the robotic arm camera took underneath the lander, near a footpad. "We could very well be seeing rock, or we could be seeing exposed ice in the retrorocket blast zone," said Ray Arvidson of Washington Univ ... more Discovery heads to space station with Japanese lab 
Cape Canaveral, Florida (AFP) June 1, 2008The US shuttle Discovery carrying a Japanese research laboratory raced toward the International Space Station Sunday after a successful launch from Florida. "A huge day for the space station partnership, for the Japanese space agency, for NASA and, really, for the people who hoped to see the space station do what it was designed to do, to be a place in orbit where we can learn to live and wo ... more Mars probe Phoenix flexes robotic arm 
Washington (AFP) May 29, 2008NASA's Phoenix Mars lander flexed its robotic arm Thursday in a successful test of the key element in the probe's mission to investigate the Red Planet's soil for conditions conducive to life, NASA said. "The arm is ready to go," said Matt Robinson of the US space agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, where the Phoenix mission is managed. "Yesterday we sent commands ... more NASA seeks lunar surface concept proposals 
Washington (UPI) May 29, 2008 The U.S. space agency said it's seeking ideas for its lunar surface systems concept to help it develop plans for a return to the moon by 2020. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration said it will hold a June 6 discussion at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in Washington and is inviting interested institutions, industry and academia to attend and submit proposals. ... more NASA packs new toilet parts on shuttle for ISS 
Washington (AFP) May 28, 2008NASA stowed replacement parts aboard the Discovery shuttle Thursday to be sent up to the International Space station to fix its broken Russian toilet, the US space agency said. After the main ISS toilet broke down Tuesday, forcing the three astronauts aboard to use the facility on the Soyuz capsule moored at the orbiting station, Russian and US space officials moved quickly to get the spare ... more
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