Tag: nasa

First International Space Crew Reunites for Mission’s 35th Anniversary – Yahoo! News

Just sad that this reunion feel like a giant advertisement from Omega watches. “First International Space Crew Reunites for Mission’s 35th Anniversary – Yahoo! News” http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20100716/sc_space/firstinternationalspacecrewreunitesformissions35thanniversary

Cassini Gets Life Extension to Explore Saturn Until 2017

To make up for the moon? It’s good to extend use of equipment already deployed, but it lack vision. Cassini Gets Life Extension to Explore Saturn Until 2017 NASA extends the Cassini mission, the groundbreaking exploration of Saturn and its satellites, by 6 ½ years on Wednesday.

Mars Rover Spirit is Now a Stationary Research Platform

It will never move again! From: NASA Science News NASA Science News for January 26, 2010NASA announced today that Spirit cannot be freed from its Martian sandtrap. Now the rover will begin a second career as a stationary science platform. FULL STORY at http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2010/26jan_spirit.htm?list934087

NASA’s Scrubbed Escape Pod Glides to New Home

To the future and ……. …… The museum? NASA’s Scrubbed Escape Pod Glides to New Home NASA’s cute, wingless escape pod for the International Space Station, which was in development until 2002, finally has a home. Sadly, it’s not in space, but in Ashland, Nebraska at the Strategic Air and Space Museum.

Comet carries a building block of life

This news resurface all the time!  Comet carries a building block of lifeLife on earth came, if not from ancient astronauts, in part from outer space. NASA astronauts have discovered an amino acid, glycine, essential for life on earth, on a comet, confirming a long-held theory that the building blocks for life came from outer…

We need more nuke. Please

Why do I feel we are going backward sometime! http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/b5zKGZ73loo/nasa-running-out-of-fuel-for-deep-space-missions-because-nobody-makes-nukes-anymore Supplies of NASA’s go-to fuel for space exploration , plutonium-238, are dwindling. The U.S. stopped making it 20 years ago and now NASA’s Russian suppliers are running out after production shut down. The problem? Nobody makes nukes anymore. Deep space probes beyond Jupiter can’t use…

The new hitchhiker guide to the galaxy?

From Yahoo news: Astronaut Class of 2009 Has No Spaceship WASHINGTON – Nearly five decades after announcing the seven original Mercury astronauts, NASA is again set to reveal a new class of spaceflyers. But the 2009 astronaut class will be the first in nearly 30 years that will enter training without the prospect of flying…