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02.25.10 NASA’s Space Shuttle Program conducted the final test firing of a reusable solid rocket motor Feb. 25 in Promontory, Utah. Final test firing of reusable solid rocket motor FSM-17 on Feb. 25 in Promontory, Utah. Image Credit: NASA The [...]  By Irene Klotz CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) – Astronauts aboard space shuttle Endeavour closed its cargo bay doors in preparation for landing on Sunday, though poor weather may prompt NASA to keep the ship in orbit for [...] 
By MARCIA DUNN CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The most advanced solar observatory ever built rocketed into space Thursday on a five-year quest to shed light on Earth’s star. It was NASA’s second launch in four [...]  A debate on the pros and cons of commercializing the cosmos; valuing asteroids at $20 trillion each. Taylor Dinerman makes a case against private space. FEBRUARY 13, 2010 President Barack Obama’s proposed plan for NASA bets [...]  Experts Say Florida Was Carefully Chosen by NASA Despite Fickle Weather By CHRIS GAYLORD If the space shuttle Endeavour lifts off in the early hours of Feb. 7, it will be the first shuttle launch in more than [...]  AP Getting to space is about to be outsourced. The Obama administration on Monday will propose in its new budget spending billions of dollars to encourage private companies to build, launch and operate spacecraft for NASA and others. The [...] ORLANDO SENTINEL EXCLUSIVE By Robert Block and Mark K. Matthews NASA’s plans to return astronauts to the moon are dead. So are the rockets being designed to take them there — that is, if President Barack [...] Stuck NASA rover will still do science, though, if it survives winter on Mars. Victoria Jaggard The Mars rover Spirit is putting down roots. After months of trying to wiggle the rover out of a sand trap on [...] December 30th, 2009 Russia is considering sending a spacecraft to deflect a large asteroid and prevent a possible collision with Earth, according to a radio interview by the head of the country’s space agency. Anatoly Perminov [...] Source: Aerospacenews.com NASA says their new Ares I-X rocket launched at 11:30 a.m. EDT 28 October 2009 from Kennedy Space Center in Florida for a two-minute test flight. The mission lasted about six minutes. Lift off occurred at newly-modified Launch Complex [...] Source: NASA NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has made the first unambiguous detection of high-energy gamma-rays from an enigmatic binary system known as Cygnus X-3. The system pairs a hot, massive star with a compact object — either a neutron star [...] Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy Text Source: USA Today CAPE CANAVERAL (AP) — Space shuttle Atlantis and its seven astronauts are [...] By ALICIA CHANG (AP) – 31 minutes ago LOS ANGELES — It turns out there’s lots of water on the moon — at least near the lunar south pole. Associated Press ABOVE ANTARCTICA — Hoping to better understand how a melting Antarctica could swamp the planet, a NASA plane outfitted with lasers and ground-penetrating radar made its first flight over the icy continent on Friday. The DC-8 left Punta Arenas, [...] News Releases REDONDO BEACH, Calif., Oct. 9, 2009 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Astronomers and space enthusiasts worldwide cheered as the Lunar CRater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) successfully impacted the moon’s Cabeus crater this morning at 4:31 a.m. Pacific Daylight Time. LCROSS [...] Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy Scientists will scan giant debris plumes for signs of water ice A NASA spacecraft and its [...] Divya Gandhi BANGALORE: Speculation is rife among space scientists that the quest for water on the moon may have reached a climactic end with the discovery of “a lot of water” by an instrument on board Chandrayaan-I. A report by the online [...] By Andrea Thompson The coldest place in the solar system might be closer to home than we thought. New data from NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) suggests that permanently shadowed craters at the moon’s south pole [...] |
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