Category Archives: NASA

NASA may try Monday for shuttle launch

By doris | Published: April 29, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.com NASA hopes to try again Monday for one of the highest-profile space shuttle launches, after delaying the mission Friday due to a problem with a heater in one of Endeavour’s auxiliary power units. The countdown was called off even as the shuttle’s six-man crew was heading for Launch Pad 39A. Liftoff [...]

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Triple delight in the Milky Way

By doris | Published: November 11, 2009

Full Story at msnbc.com NASA has blended three views of our home galaxy’s turbulent core to produce a picture filled with scientifically significant snap, crackle and pop. And the deeper you go into the image, the more you learn. The composite picture of the Milky Way’s center draws upon near-infrared data from the Hubble Space [...]

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NASA’s prototype rocket set for Tuesday launch

By doris | Published: October 26, 2009

Full Story at msnbc.com CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – A prototype version of NASA’s newest rocket is ready for its planned Tuesday launch, mission managers said Friday. NASA is set to test the design of its next-generation rocket, Ares I, during a demonstration liftoff called Ares I-X. The launch, slated for 8 a.m. ET on Oct. [...]

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NASA finally sees plume from moon impact

By doris | Published: October 19, 2009

Full Story at msnbc.com NASA scientists have finally seen in their data a debris plume created by the impact of a moon probe last week. The faint plume was seen in the data from the engineered crash one week after the impact of the LCROSS probe. Scientists are hoping that analysis of the plume will [...]

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Astronomy fans left disappointed after much-touted lunar impact

By doris | Published: October 10, 2009

Full Story at CNN.com “We saw nothing,” he said. Samuels is vice president of the Fremont Peak Observatory near Monterey, California, which had invited members of the public to watch Friday’s NASA mission through its telescopes. The lunar strike happened shortly after 4:30 a.m. on the West Coast (7:30 a.m. ET). NASA had encouraged everyone [...]

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Scientists discover massive ring around Saturn

By doris | Published: October 7, 2009

Full Story at CNN.com The ring’s orbit is tilted 27 degrees from the planet’s main ring plane. The bulk of it starts about 3.7 million miles (6 million km) away from the planet and extends outward another 7.4 million miles (12 million km). Its diameter is equivalent to 300 Saturns lined up side to side. [...]

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Buzz Aldrin to accept NASA’s Emmy award

By doris | Published: August 19, 2009

Full Story at msnbc.com LOS ANGELES – Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin is taking a trip to the Emmys. The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences said Tuesday that Aldrin, part of the 1969 moon mission, will accept the Philo T. Farnsworth Award on NASA’s behalf at the Emmy engineering awards on Saturday. The award, [...]

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President faces a Kennedy decision on space

By doris | Published: June 24, 2009

Full Story At msnbc.com CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – When the Soviet Union was beating America’s pants off heaving cosmonauts into orbit, a young president named John Fitzgerald Kennedy called a handful of top space experts in and decided Americans would walk on the moon. Kennedy wanted to win the space race with the Russians — [...]

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NASA set for dramatic shuttle rescue

By doris | Published: May 11, 2009

Full Story At  msnbc.com HOUSTON – As NASA prepares for its final service call to the Hubble Space Telescope, it’s also preparing for something never attempted in the history of the shuttle program: a rescue operation so dramatic that Hollywood would be hard-pressed to come up with a more outlandish plot. If the Hubble repair [...]

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