Solar Probe+ is a heat resistant spacecraft that will plunge directly into the atmosphere of the Sun, prepared to sample the solar wind and magnetism that very little is known about—hopefully beginning its mission around 2015. With NASA making this a seven-year mission, the probe is still in pre-phase A stage with a lot [...]
With so much attention on Mars and the return to the Moon, the Sun is considered one of the last unexplored regions of the entire solar system, yet it has had a 400-year historical love-affair with hundreds of astronomers. The solar corona is one of the most important regions in space to better understand the [...]
The Martian area by the name of “Wonderland” received the attention of the NASA Phoenix Mars Lander on Tuesday, which began digging by taking its first scoop of soil from the NASA called “national park” regions which the mission scientists have been preserving for science.
The test trench, “Snow White” was created by the robotic arm [...]
Seven hours outside the International Space Station may not seem like much, but to veteran spacewalker Fossum and first timer Garan, it probably seems like forever. Wearing the spacesuit with red stripes, Fossum is the lead spacewalker reports, ” “Our biggest task on EVA 1, our first spacewalk, is really preparing the space station to [...]
John Learned and colleagues of the University of Hawaii has just changed the rules for how extraterrestrials will be communicating with us in the near future—instead of photons as originally thought, the evidence will come through with neutrinos. Their theory is pretty simple, actually, as any communication coming from an advanced civilization means they [...]
One of the major achievements ever developed by man is the International Space Station, the only space station in orbit with people solving problems and people learning to work together as a team—on an international basis—with better results than on Earth. And now another problem is being worked on, originally found last October by spacewalker [...]
The Hubble overhaul mission for August has been cancelled for the space shuttle Atlantis and its crew of seven, instead shooting for October 8, 2008. The Hubble Space Telescope’s five week cancellation is due to external fuel tank delays, according to NASA mission managers. NASA also has set a new date for the [...]
“At oil approaching $130 a barrel, if you can strip weight off, you could save money,” said researcher Ian Bond, a materials scientist at the University of Bristol in England.
Nature has always been the finest of teachers, and what better knowledge to have than to mimic her special healing processes for NASA’s damaged aircraft? [...]
At a recent U.S. Senate hearing on space and aeronautics, many representatives demonstrated concern over what Russia may charge the United States for transportation of astronauts to the International Space Station, once the shuttle fleet is retired in 2010. Additionally, they are concerned about the difficult relationship that is already present between the two [...]
New science technologies are being prepared by NASA researchers to allow spaceships to fly in magnetic formation, instead of the traditional old-fashioned “jets of gas and Newton’s Third law old-fashioned thrusters”. By using new methods of superconducting magnets that will replace the older formation methods, arrays of solar cells will provide power for the [...]
