Editor’s Note: A detail from this larger panoramic image: www.flickr.com/photos/28634332@N05/4554348391/ Volcanoes near Usulutan, El Salvador are featured in this image photographed by an Expedition 23 crew member on the International Space Station. The Pacific coastline of much of Central America is marked by a line of active and quiescent volcanoes known to geologists as the [...]
Volcanoes near Usulutan, El Salvador are featured in this image photographed by an Expedition 23 crew member on the International Space Station. The Pacific coastline of much of Central America is marked by a line of active and quiescent volcanoes known to geologists as the Central American Volcanic Arc, or CAVA. The volcanoes result from [...]
United Launch Alliance successfully launched NASAs latest scientific exploration mission, the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), aboard an Atlas V rocket from Space Launch Complex-41 at 10:23 am EST Feb. 11, 2010. This was ULAs first launch of 2010 and marked the 100th use of the commercial Atlas Centaur launch vehicle since its first launch on [...]
Today marked a new era for the Japanese space program as the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) launched its new H-2B heavy lift rocket carrying the H-2 Transfer Vehicle (HTV) to the International Space Station.