Space
Hermes Spacecraft Looking to Bring Personal Space Travel to the Masses
PRESS RELEASE Date Released: Wednesday, August 20, 2008 Source: Hermes Spacecraft Hermes Spacecraft Looking to Bring Personal Space Travel to the Masses 'Shuttle for Everyone' Prototype on Display at Intel Developer Forum Like many Americans coming of age during the time of the Apollo missions,... Read more…
Cracking the Question of Extraterrestrial Life
PRESS RELEASE Date Released: Wednesday, August 20, 2008 Source: University of Idaho Cracking the Question of Extraterrestrial Life MOSCOW, Idaho - With average temperatures of minus 260 degrees Fahrenheit, an almost nonexistent atmosphere and a complex web of cracks in a layer of ice encompassing... Read more…
Rosetta spacecraft meets asteroid Steins
PRESS RELEASE Date Released: Monday, August 25, 2008 Source: European Space Agency Rosetta spacecraft meets asteroid Steins ESA's Rosetta spacecraft will make a historic encounter with asteroid (2867) Steins on 5 September 2008. Read more…
Hubble Sees Magnetic Monster in Erupting Galaxy
PRESS RELEASE Date Released: Wednesday, August 20, 2008 Source: The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope Hubble Sees Magnetic Monster in Erupting Galaxy The Hubble Space Telescope has found the answer to a long- standing puzzle by resolving giant but delicate filaments shaped by a strong magnetic field... Read more…
NASA Ames Hosts Three Day Lunar Science Conference Vodcast
PRESS RELEASE Date Released: Thursday, August 21, 2008 Source: NASA Lunar Science Institute NASA Ames Hosts Three Day Lunar Science Conference Vodcast Play Vodcast Now Greg Schmidt, Deputy Director, NASA Lunar Science Institute: We're at the NASA Ames Research Center, at the very first NASA Lunar... Read more…
Arctic sea ice melts to second worst on record (AP)
AP - New satellite measurements show that crucial sea ice in the Arctic Ocean has plummeted to its second lowest level on record. Read more…
New space telescope begins to comb the cosmos (AFP)
AFP - A new space telescope revealed the glowing gas of the Milky Way, pulsating stars and a flaring faraway galaxy as it began its mission to unveil the mysteries of cosmic gamma rays, NASA said. Read more…
McCain to Bush: Keep Space Shuttle Options Open (SPACE.com)
SPACE.com - WASHINGTON ? Acknowledging that a NASA authorization bill is unlikely to be enacted this year, three Republican senators ? including presidential candidate John McCain (R-Ariz.) ? have written President George W. Bush imploring him to direct NASA to hold off for at least a year taking any action that would preclude the agency from flying space shuttles beyond 2010. Read more…
Mars rover leaving crater after yearlong probe (AP)
AP - The plucky Mars rover Opportunity is driving out of a giant crater nearly a year after a dangerous descent to examine exposed bedrock. Read more…
Mars Rover Begins Climb Out of Vast Crater (SPACE.com)
SPACE.com - NASA's Opportunity rover is slowly but surely hauling itself out of a vast Martian crater after nearly a year plumbing the interior for secrets of the red planet's ancient past. Read more…
