Our intent is to keep our eye on the ball and launch in ‘09,” said Doug McCuistion, director of NASA’s Mars Exploration Program, after a meeting today with NASA Administrator Mike Griffin. Additional funds will be needed to meet this launch date. “We haven’t fully resolved where the money will come from,” said McCuistion, who [...]
Future flights of China’s Shenzhou spaceship will include spacewalks – a prelude to rendezvous and docking in Earth orbit. This artist’s conception provides a cutaway view of the spacecraft’s modules, showing how the trio of Chinese astronauts would be positioned.
“The high cost of space transportation has been the biggest obstacle to the exploration of space [...]
This animation of wind circulation on Venus is composed of images taken by the Visual and Infrared Thermal Imaging Spectrometer (VIRTIS) on board ESA’s Venus Express between April 2006 and June 2007.
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Recognized as a terrestrial planet, Venus has the highest atmospheric density of all the terrestrial planets consisting mainly of carbon dioxide. Called the sister [...]
“This mission will provide the first direct measurements ever taken to address key scientific questions about Mars’ evolution,” said Doug McCuistion, director of the Mars Exploration Program at NASA Headquarters in Washington. “The loss of Mars’ atmosphere has been an ongoing mystery. MAVEN will help us solve it.”
The choice of the University of Colorado by [...]
“We are not going to be done with this before the winter shutdown, so there will be no more beam in the LHC this year,” Gillies told The Associated Press. “The winter shutdown will go according to schedule, which means that we start up the accelerator complex in the spring months.”
The latest notice from CERN [...]
Now that the sun is not constantly above the horizon at our landing site we are generating less power every sol,” said Phoenix project manager Barry Goldstein of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. “When we landed in late May, and through much of our mission, we generated about 3,500 watt-hours every sol [or [...]
“With more commercial satellite launches and space tourism, we need a more efficient way of maintaining safety,” says Daniel Murray, an air traffic specialist at the FAA in Washington DC.
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Before embarking on the subject of trash in space, let’s look at the overload of trash on Earth that we cannot solve the problem of eliminating [...]
“These solar cells would have lower efficiencies compared to devices currently used on Earth,” Freundlich is quoted as saying. “But by using such a large surface area, we could eventually generate enough electricity to supply a lunar base, support lunar manufacturing or colonies.”
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It is being planned for returning astronauts to go for missions of [...]
“The objective is to provide an analog close to space where the consequences are really life and death,” said Marc Reagan, mission commander for NASA’s sixth Extreme Environment Mission Operations program or NEEMO. “Rookies can make their mistakes before they get to space.”
On July 23, 2004, an astronaut by the name of Dave Williams was [...]
Seventy-nine year old Professor Peter Higgs believes that the God-Particle will be found by the simple act of switching on the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at the European Organization for Nuclear Researcher (CERN), located below the Franco-Swiss border. And now that the switch has been turned on, he still feels it is necessary to understand [...]
