NASA detects water on the surface of the Moon
A White House panel composed of experts in the area believes that the current plan for NASA to return to the moon is not feasible. The NASA has released no less than 1 500 images of the surface in March. Collected by the spacecraft Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) - in orbit around the planet since 2006 - and the camera at high resolution HiRISE (High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment) between April and August 2009, this crop of images in addition [...] This image provided by NASA shows a close-up view of the unpiloted Japanese H-II Transfer Vehicle (HTV) in the grasp of the International Space Station’s robotic Canadarm2. NASA astronaut Nicole Stott, Canadian Space Agency astronaut Robert Thirsk and European Space Agency astronaut Frank De Winne, all Expedition 20 flight engineers, used the station’s robotic arm [...] The international scientific conference “Russia: imaginary space / space of the imagination” is organized by the Institute Likhachev’s cultural and natural heritage of Russia with the support of the Franco-Russian Center for Research in Humanities and Social Sciences in Moscow .The symposium will take place on 27-28 March 2008 in the Conference Room of the [...] The images were taken three days ago by the Opportunity rover, with the help of the U.S. orbiter Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO), launched in August 2005 and arrived this week in its permanent orbit around Mars. Victoria Crater is probably the largest crater that will be studied by NASA with its two rovers deployed on [...] World - If from the mainland, the lighting of large cities can be a source of light pollution disturbing observation of stars, it takes quite a different appearance as seen from space.Immortalized from the International Space Station (ISS), capitals and major cities of the world offer an impressive sight. But if the result is certainly [...] MOSCOW, September 14 - RIA Novosti. The Russian Soyuz 2.1b responsible for orbitaliser the first weather satellite next generation Russian Meteor-3M and five other small satellites will be drawn Tuesday from Baikonur (Kazakhstan) said Monday the Russian Space Agency (Roskosmos). Japan will launch late Thursday its first unmanned spacecraft to transport HTV-1 to the International Space Station (ISS), announced Monday the spokesman of the Center for Russian flight control (tsoop). The Chinese space program has selected 45 candidates to become “astronauts”, which for the first time women. They must attend a training program within one year after the first spacewalk conducted by China. Read Designed to map the cosmic background radiation emitted about 380,000 years after the “birth” of the observable universe, the Planck satellite works perfectly. He proves it by delivering the first images showing part of the sky is clear on which a portion of the Milky Way in the field of microwaves. At the Baikonur Cosmodrome continued intensive preparations for the launch of space rocket “Proton-M with Briz-M” and the Canadian telecommunications spacecraft Nimiq 5. Yesterday in the assembly and test facility area 92A50 specialists Khrunichev Khrunichev and Space Systems / Loral began joint operations to assemble the space warhead missiles. The spacecraft docked with the transition [...] In the assembly / test building sites are working with the third satellite Glonass-M “- today it installed storage tanks and supply of xenon, which are part of the propulsion system. Continued electrical tests of the spacecraft. At the launch vehicle Proton-M run standalone tests, dock electrical connections of the first and second stages, are [...] At Plesetsk begins a campaign for the launch vehicles “Rokot” with two European spacecraft SMOS ( «SIOS) and Proba 2 (” Sample 2 “), which is scheduled for November 2. One of the two spacecraft, a technology demonstrator “Proba-2″, today was brought to the Plesetsk. Check spacecraft “SIOS” at the cosmodrome is planned in mid-September. [...]
The surface of the moon, which until now was considered a body completely dry, it actually contains thin layers of water.
This is the surprising finding that has just revealed a study released today by the journal Science, based on observations from NASA instruments
The surface of the moon, which until now was considered a body completely dry, it actually contains thin layers of water. This is the surprising finding that has just revealed a study released today by the journal Science, based on observations from NASA instruments aboard India's Chandrayaan-1 probe. Although the amount of water found is small, the finding may be useful in case of new manned travel to the moon. NASA program to send drives ‘Taxi’ to space
An old proposal for a "taxi" company space Northrup Grumman / AP REUTERS | CAPE CANAVERAL The NASA is ready to take advantage of growing interest in space tourism, for which a new service plans to boost commercial transport of passengers traveling in 'Taxi' beyond the atmosphere. To develop your project, the space agency has announced it will invest $ 50 million from federal funds. The first step to realize its ambitious initiative is to find companies aspiring to develop vehicles that carried out flights. The candidates, all Americans, have 45 days to submit their proposals, which will be evaluated competitively. Before the end of September, the company's best ideas will receive a prize.Experts Plan to return to the moon is inadequate
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Money is the problem. The panel estimated it would cost approximately 3,000 million dollars a year additional to current budget for the space agency of 18,000 million dollars annually.
“Under the [...]NASA publishes over 1,500 new images of the Martian surface
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Russia: imaginary space / space of the imaginary
New images of Mars novel.
Photographed from the ISS, discover the great cities seen from space at night
Russia’s first weather satellite launched new generation of September 15
Japan will launch its first unmanned cargo to the ISS September 10
“The firing of the launcher Japanese H-IIB with the first cargo unmanned HTV-1 is scheduled for September 10 at 17h01 GMT, from the Tanegashima Space Center [...]China: women candidates for space missions
‘Dialogue on the Armenian taboo’, Ahmet Insel and Michel Marian Planck delivers its first images of the cosmic microwave!
The insertion of a Planck [...]At Baikonur is the installation spacecraft Nimik-5 “on the upper stage” Briz-M
At Baikonur preparing to launch the rocket Proton-M with three spacecraft GLONASS-M.
Cosmodrome Plesetsk today delivered the spacecraft Proba 2
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