STS-100 Status Report
With the Kennedy Space Center reporting cloud cover, showers and gusty winds and with forecasters calling for more of the same for the rest of the week, flight controllers decided to bring Endeavour home to a landing at Edwards Air Force Base later today.
Two opportunities to land at Edwards are available today. For the first, the deorbit burn would occur at 10:03 a.m. central time with landing at 11:11 a.m. The second would see a deorbit burn at 11:39 a.m. and touchdown at 12:47 p.m. Forecasters said weather at Edwards is ideal.
Endeavour, which was launched April 19, brought an advanced and more powerful
Herschel Telescope: first results of its tracking the star formation
For nearly a year since the telescope European Space Herschel was launched. The first phase of observations gives way to the first scientific results was presented May 6, 2010 at a press conference ESA'S European Space Research and Technology Center Norwalk in Holland. Thanks to them, (more...)
Comet McNaught was really huge
Taking advantage of the passage of space probes in the
environment of certain comets , British scientists have found a new method to
measure the size. C/2006 P1 which is topped their charts, a star who lit up the
sky hair three years ago.
So far we evaluated the importance of comets by measuring the size of their
tails [...]
Pancakes stellar origin of some gamma ray bursts?
The Bursts Gamma fall mostly into two broad classes, one
caused by hyper novae, The other by collisions neutron stars. According to
simulations Digital Mathieu Brassard and Jean-Pierre Lumina, Observatories de
Paris-Mendon, some bursts be explained by the effect of tidal of black holes
where galactic star passing near their horizon is flattened twice before being
shredded by a thermonuclear [...]
Due to bad weather landing of the U.S. Space Shuttle Discovery postponed
On Tuesday, April 20, the National Aerospace Agency of the
United States prepares to land the shuttle Discovery with seven astronauts on
board the landing strip at Kennedy Space Center in Florida and Edwards Air Force
Base in California.
At Discovery discovered damage
NASA experts discovered that the shuttle Discovery fault
antenna centimeter, which provides high-speed transfer of data to Earth,
including television signals, and is used in docking with the International
Space Station. If the specialist flight control will not be able to repair the
antenna, docking will be used spare system.
American shuttle docked to the ISS
Space Shuttle Discovery, setting off into orbit on April 5,
docked to the International Space Station. Informs tape. Py "referring to the
coordinator NASA Public Affairs at the Mission Control Center outside Moscow
Sergey Paranoia.
In 1969, the moon was almost gone woman
Published statistics of medical tests of women astronauts who
were on the eve of NASA manned missions to Earth’s satellite.
The idea to use women in the space program based on practical
Mutations may make it impossible interplanetary flights - scientists
Scientists argue that biological organisms, mutations of
astronauts, as well as a variety of bacteria and microbes may give up on
interplanetary flights, and the more flights beyond the solar system
ESA and NASA have agreed to explore Mars together
American and European space agencies signed an agreement on
joint exploration of Mars. The agreement was signed in Washington by Charles
Boldenom head of NASA and ESA director Jean-Jacques Dordenom, reports BBC News.
The lunar probe photographed the landing site of Apollo 11 “
In the Network have posted photos of the landing site of
Apollo 11 "made by the lunar probe Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO). Snapshot
in good resolution and its description are available at NASA.
Land missed with an unknown asteroid
NASA experts have discovered a previously unknown asteroid
about 15 hours before its closest approach to Earth. This was reported on the
website of the American space agency.
Hydrogen Economy
JB: This is Earth and Sky. Some experts believe that, in the 21st century, humanity’s need for energy will exceed our ability to find and extract fossil fuels.
Warming Atmosphere?
DB: This is Earth and Sky for Friday, August 6. Yesterday we spoke of an important prediction of most climate models — that is, because of the greenhouse effect,
Physical Characteristics of Celestial Bodies-Moon & planets
The physical similarities of the Earth and the planets became important only after Copernicus put forth the theory that the Earth and all the planets are in motion around the Sun.
