Member 4161Galaxy's youngest known supernova is 140 years old (AP)15-05-2008 05h16AP - Astronomers have discovered the youngest known supernova in the Milky Way galaxy, still just a baby at 140 years old. The scientists, who announced their findings Wednesday, used a radio observatory in New Mexico and NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory in space to identify when the supernova, or stellar, explosion occurred. They put the star-dying event at sometime around 1868. Phoenix lander set for May 25 touchdown on Mars: NASA (AFP)14-05-2008 14h46AFP - A US space probe sent to Mars to dig for signs of life is nearing the end of its nine-month voyage and should touch down on the Red Planet on schedule, NASA said Tuesday. NASA Rolls Out Space Shuttle Tires for Loan (SPACE.com)14-05-2008 07h32SPACE.com - When space shuttle Discovery touched down in December 2006 after spending 13 days in space traveling 5.3 million miles, it came to rest on four main landing gear and two nose gear tires. Although not much larger than a truck tire, just one of Discovery's main gear tires could carry three times the load of a Boeing 747 tire or the entire starting line-up of a NASCAR race 40 race cars all hitting the pavement at 250 miles per hour. NASA probe closing in on Mars, but will it land? (Reuters)14-05-2008 06h33Reuters - Nine months ago, NASA's Phoenix probe blasted off for Mars with an unprecedented mission to sample water on another world. Phoenix Spacecraft on Track for Mars Landing (SPACE.com)14-05-2008 02h46SPACE.com - WASHINGTON With just 12 days to go until its Mars arrival, NASA's Phoenix lander is functioning well and on course to be the first mission to land in the frigid, arctic regions of the red planet, NASA officials said today. Data from Columbia disk drives survived the shuttle accident (AP)10-05-2008 14h03AP - Jon Edwards often manages what appears impossible. He has recovered precious data from computers wrecked in floods and fires and dumped in lakes. Now Edwards may have set a new standard: He found information on a melted disk drive that fell from the sky when space shuttle Columbia disintegrated in 2003. A crash course in true political science (AP)10-05-2008 07h11AP - Daniel Suson has a doctorate in astrophysics and has worked on the superconducting super collider and a forthcoming NASA probe. Now he's heading back to school to take on an even trickier task getting elected to public office. U.S. space shuttle crew practices for launch (Reuters)10-05-2008 04h14Reuters - Seven astronauts climbed inside the space shuttle Discovery on Friday as part of a dress rehearsal for a May 31 mission to deliver a Japanese laboratory to the International Space Station. Shuttle Astronauts Rehearse Launch Day (SPACE.com)10-05-2008 01h45SPACE.com - The crew of the space shuttle Discovery successfully completed a dress rehearsal today for their upcoming launch. They capped off their practice run at Cape Canaveral with a simulated countdown to liftoff at 11:00 a.m. EDT. <<< Prev member Next member >>> Randon Members Member 577 Member 1863 Member 5004 Member 4492 Member 1608 Member 952 Member 4003 Member 4956 Member 5261 Member 3649 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 | |
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