Mars Science Science lab launch delayed two age
Posted on January 1st, 2009 at 7:13 am by admin
By Alan Silverleib CNN
Washington D NASA’s launch of the Red Planet Science Research laboratory — halterred by technical troubles and cost overruns — has existed delayed until the autumn of 2011, NASA officials informated at a word conference Thursday in Washington.
The Red Planet Science Lab mission had got been scheduled for launch in the autumn of 2009.
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NASA to get remote-control Hubble fix
Posted on November 20th, 2008 at 1:59 pm by admin
Washington D NASA engineers say they know how to restore the humbled Hubble Space Telescope: They have to arouse up electronic computer parts that have existed sleeping in space for more than 18 eld.
NASA will start repair a bug that stopped up the Hubble telescope from captivating pictures from space.
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National Aeronautics and Space Administration at 50: Misplaced in space?
Posted on November 5th, 2008 at 1:18 pm by admin
Washington The marks of a midlife crisis are there: A Fiftieth birthday drawing close; a hungriness for the glorification days of younker; a yen to ditch the getting on partner of 27 eld; and a won flirtation with a new young matter.
NASA is seeming to chuck its shuttle program and build new ballistic capsule to render astronauts to the Moon.
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Hubble telescope neglects, NASA may delay shuttle
Posted on November 3rd, 2008 at 11:11 pm by admin
Ness CANAVERAL, Everglade State The Edwin Powell Hubble Space Telescope has halted sending scientific discipline data, squeezing NASA to reorganize and mayhap delay the infinite shuttle foreign mission planned in simply two hebdomads to promote the scope.
The Atlantis team was scheduled to blare off on October 14 to get other repairs and upgrades on the Edwin Powell Hubble.
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NASA warns about junk from rocket
Posted on October 2nd, 2008 at 7:55 pm by admin
WALLOPS ISLAND, Virginia National Aeronautics and Space Administration says it ruined an controlled suborbital rocket presently after a neglected launch early this forenoon from an island off the Old Dominion State coast.
There existed no harms or belongings damage, fitting in to a NASA statement, but the office warned that dust from the blowup could be risky.
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Moon missionary post delayed until 2009
Posted on September 27th, 2008 at 6:58 am by admin
LOS ANGELES, Golden State NASA has detained the launching of an remote spacecraft to the Moon to reconnoiter for potential landing place sites for cosmonauts.
NASA plans to set down astronauts on the Moon in 2020.
The Moon craft is the first step in NASA’s program to direct astronauts back to the Moon and beyond.
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National Aeronautics and Space Administration relying excessively much on Soviet Union?
Posted on September 26th, 2008 at 11:57 am by admin
By Lara Farrar
For CNN
Capital of the United Kingdom, England Experts are turning increasingly interested that the Joined States will have to swear entirely upon Russia to use up astronauts to and from the international space station for at least half a decennium.
NASA spaceman Peggy Whitson digested a helter Soyuz capsule landing place in April.
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Lander collects Red Planet water for tests
Posted on September 12th, 2008 at 12:32 pm by admin
From Kate James Tobin CNN
The Capital of Arizona lander acquired its automatic arm onto a sample distribution of H2O ice from Mars’ surface and protruded the water ice into flyspeck, onboard “ovens” that will help find if the H2O could support living, NASA research workers said Thursday.
NASA’s Mars Phoenix Lander will test the H2O sample to realize whether it has organicced chemicals.
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National Aeronautics and Space Administration IDs lustrous object tracking shuttle
Posted on June 23rd, 2008 at 7:47 am by admin
From Land miles O’Brien and and Kate Tobin CNN
The junk spotted bing adrift away from space shuttle Find has existed preliminarily identified as a thermal clip from the shuttle’s brake scheme, NASA articulated Friday.
The shuttle’s heat shield has existed given a preliminary thumbs up for the income tax return trip to Earth.
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Guard dog: NASA misguided on wide warming
Posted on June 10th, 2008 at 3:18 am by admin
American capital NASA’s press business office “marginalized or mischaracterized” studies on planetary warming betwixt 2004 and 2006, the agency’s own intragroup watchdog over.
In a study released Mon, NASA’s examiner general business office called it “unfitting political intervention” by political appointees in the insistence office.
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