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10 Mar 2011
- 15:44 UTC Great Moonbuggy Rac... March Madness -- Moonbuggy-style March is rolling right along, and a total of 82 teams are getting ready for the trip to Huntsville. Here's the latest from two of our teams.
- 15:43 UTC Discovery News - Sp... Space Music: Gary Numan, Asperger Syndrome and Roswell Re... Several bits of cool space music entered the atmosphere this week. So pop on those headphones, slide into your favorite void suit and prepare to drift off into the wild ...
- 15:42 UTC Starry Critters Gaggle of Martian Tadpoles What looks like a gaggle of Martian tadpoles turns out to be a series of lava tubes on Pavonis Mons, a volcano on Mars, in this image from the European ...
- 15:34 UTC HobbySpace RLV Spac... Skylon article Some publicity for Reaction Engines and the Skylon project: 'Skylon' space plane aims to fill void left by Discovery - CNN.com.
- 15:31 UTC HobbySpace RLV Spac... Discovery prompts some Congressional response Jeff Foust reports on some space policy comments from Congresspersons in response to the Discovery landing: Congressional commentary on Discovery’s return - Space Politics
- 15:30 UTC Parabolic Arc Republicans Appeal Asteroid Defense Bill, Earth Doomed Republicans Vote To Repeal Obama-Backed Bill That Would Destroy Asteroid Headed For Earth The Onion In a strong rebuke of President Obama and his domestic agenda, all 242 House Republicans ...
- 15:26 UTC HobbySpace RLV Spac... Briefs: Randal Clague interview, Pt.2; GLXP Team Plan B In the second part of his interview with Moonandback, Randall Clague talks about some of the drama behind the scenes in Masten Space's successful win of the Lunar Lander Challenge ...
- 15:05 UTC Meteorwatch Supermoon Nonsense Originally posted on Dark Sky Diary by Steve Owens @darkskyman There seems to be a growing excitement about the “Supermoon” that is due to occur on 19 March 2011, when ...
- 15:00 UTC Popular Astronomy Vesta – an asteroid in 3D German Aerospace Center (DLR): What might asteroid Vesta look like? In a new animation, researchers at the German Aerospace Center have recreated the asteroid in 3D. In the animation, the ...
- 14:51 UTC Chandra X-ray Obser... An Active Black Hole in the "Eye of Sauron" This composite image shows the central region of the spiral galaxy NGC 4151, dubbed the "Eye of Sauron" by astronomers for its similarity to the eye of the malevolent character ...
- 14:48 UTC The Flame Trench Endeavour Roll On Despite Daytime Rain NASA expects rainy weather to clear this evening and aims to roll Endeavour out to Kennedy Space Center's launch pad 39A in advance of its 24th and final flight.Running 24 ...
- 14:47 UTC The Flame Trench NASA names Glory investigation board NASA has named the board that will investigate the failure of the March 4 launch of NASA's Glory satellite, the second consecutive satellite lost atop a Taurus XL rocket. NASA ...
- 14:42 UTC Universe Today Astronomers Continue to Monitor Asteroid Apophis Asteroid Apophis continues to be an object of interest for astronomers. Even though the possibility of the an Earth impact of the now-famous asteroid has been ruled out during its ...
- 14:41 UTC HobbySpace Blog Astronaut during EVA imaged with amateur telescope Thierry Legault, amateur astrophotographer extraordinaire, has done it again. His latest image of the ISS and Discovery shows astronaut Steve Bowen during the EVA on February 28th: /-- Discovery spacewalk ...
- 14:10 UTC The Flame Trench Weather looks great for Delta IV on Friday Despite miserable conditions today, near-perfect weather is expected for Friday's planned pre-sunset launch of a spy satellite from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. A United Launch Alliance Delta IV rocket ...
- 14:07 UTC Parabolic Arc Arizona Mulls Tax Credits to Attract Aerospace, Defense F... Tax credits urged for defense, aerospace The Arizona RepublicTax cuts recently enacted by the state Legislature are a good start, but they do little to immediately help aerospace and defense ...
- 13:58 UTC Centauri Dreams The Rhetoric of Interstellar Flight Isn’t it fascinating how the Voyager spacecraft keep sparking the public imagination? When Voyager 2 flew past Neptune in 1989, the encounter was almost elegaic. It was as if we ...
- 13:56 UTC NASA NES Teacher's ... NES Recognition Opportunity Awareness Session Today Get answers to your NES Recognition Opportunity questions
- 13:36 UTC Atra Materia Space Oddities After the Top 10 Astronomy pictures of 2010, here is a selection of unusual objects populating our Universe. You will find after the video a detailed description of each picture, ...
- 13:32 UTC Spaceports Soyuz TMA-21 Gagarin Prepared for Flight The Soyuz TMA-21 Gagarin capsule is prepared for spaceflight launch March 30, 2011 from the spaceport Baikonur. The Gagarin will carry three astronauts and cosmonauts to the International Space Station ...
- 13:22 UTC In the Dark Sentimental Education We’ve now reached the half-way point of the Spring Semester, which means that my teaching load has just doubled; I do the “Particle” bit of a third-year module on “Nuclear ...
- 13:14 UTC Einstein@Home Space-Time Quest Our LIGO/GEO Colleagues at the University of Birmingham have just released a free and fun interactive computer game called "Space-Time Quest". It is available from this web site. There is ...
- 13:00 UTC Parabolic Arc Rocket Exec to NASA: Pick a Direction Soon or Risk Crisis UTC unit sees crisis in U.S. space industrial base ReutersThe U.S. space industrial base is facing a crisis unless NASA soon unveils a plan for developing new spacecraft after its ...
- 13:00 UTC Popular Astronomy Impact of space weather threat examined Science and Technology Facilities Council News and Press Releases: Professor Mike Hapgood, Head of the Space Environment Group at STFC's RAL Space, looks at the impact of space weather in ...
- 12:50 UTC Astronomy Weather B... An Image of the ISS and Discovery Silhouetted against the... Quick-thinking amateur astronomer Alan Friedman hurried to be in an exact location in the Florida Keys to capture a rare glimpse of the International Space Station (ISS) and Discovery silhouetted ...
- 12:42 UTC NASA NES Teacher's ... Robotics Contest: Watch, Cheer and Send Questions Teams put their software-enabled, battery-powered LEGO robots against the clock.
- 12:30 UTC Coalition for Space... CSExtra – Thursday, March 10, 2011 To subscribe to CSExtra via RSS feed click here. If you would prefer to receive CSExtra in e-mail format, e-mail us at Info@spacecoalition.com with the word SUBSCRIBE in the subject ...
- 12:15 UTC Parabolic Arc Medvedev Signs Russia-Ukraine Space Cooperation Agreement President of Russia PAO — Dmitry Medvedev signed the Federal Law On Ratification of the Agreement between the Government of the Russian Federation and Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine on ...
- 12:09 UTC Mars and Me Spirit Sol 776 Eager Ashley has already planned out a cromulent 30m-plus-autonav drive for us. We never execute it, because it turns out we somehow all forgot to do the long-baseline stereo observations ...
- 12:00 UTC Space Politics Congressional commentary on Discovery’s return The space shuttle Discovery landed at the Kennedy Space Center yesterday, wrapping up its 39th mission—and also its final one, as the shuttle program approaches its end later this year. ...
- 12:00 UTC Discovery News - Sp... Saturn's Ice Moon Cranks Up the Heat Enceladus is pumping out enough heat energy to match the output of 20 coal-fired power plants.
- 11:10 UTC PeteUplink's Univer... Behind the Webb Show 10: Wax On, Wax Off The making of... Behind the Webb Show 10: Wax On, Wax Off The making of Webb’s mirrors is a complex process. It requires painstaking work to fine-tune each surface to capture and direct ...
- 10:36 UTC Orbiting Frog Did you replace Lookup with another site? The iOS web app, LookUp has moved to http://lookup.orbitingfrog.com
- 10:15 UTC New Scientist Eight extremes: The roundest thing in the universe Does anything live up to the medieval notion of the music of the spheres?
- 09:29 UTC NASA Astrobiology Testing Mars Missions in Morocco A group of scientists recently gathered in a remote region of Morocco to test instruments being developed for a mission to Mars. The arid and varied Morocco landscape provides plenty ...
- 09:04 UTC PeteUplink's Univer... Since People were Asking I’ve been asked a particular question over the time I’ve been posting to my blog, and it usually goes something like this: “If you’re an amateur astronomer, why do you ...
- 09:00 UTC The Daily Galaxy New Discovery: Most Ancient Cluster of Galaxies Ever Foun... "We have measured the distance to the most distant mature cluster of galaxies ever found", says the lead author of the study in which the observations from ESO's VLT in ...
- 08:49 UTC PeteUplink's Univer... Rho Ophiuchus region Image Credit: Phillip L. Jones... Rho Ophiuchus region Image Credit: Phillip L. Jones (VisualUniverse) Location: Fort Davis, TX
- 08:46 UTC PeteUplink's Univer... Discovery in Twilight Image Credit: Tamas Ladanyi (TWAN) Discovery in Twilight Image Credit: Tamas Ladanyi (TWAN)
- 08:16 UTC The Daily Galaxy NASA Scientist's Claim of Extraterrestrial Life Kicks Hor... Last week, NASA scientist Richard Hoover at the Marshall Space Flight Center near Huntsville, Alabama, published a paper in the Journal of Cosmology claiming that fragments collected from the Orgueil ...
- 08:14 UTC The Daily Galaxy Image of the Day: Fiery Remnants of Cosmic Objects Ripped... "Observations like this [image], over a range of wavelengths, are really the only way to understand what's going on close to the black hole," says Andreas Eckart of the University ...
- 08:06 UTC The Daily Galaxy The Daily Flash -Eco, Space, Tech (3/10) Humans came from southern Africa – maybe If reports this week are to be believed, the entire anatomically modern human population descends from ancestors who lived in southern Africa. This ...
- 08:05 UTC The Discovery Enter... 2012: Science or Superstition? Today on Discovery Enterprise we present, for your entertainment, another pseudoscientific documentary about the alleged end of the world that is supposed to occur on December 21st, 2012.As I have ...
- 07:42 UTC Space Fellowship SpaceX Expanding Texas Operations New Lease Gives Company Space to Grow in McGregor McGregor, TX– Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) and the City of McGregor today signed a lease agreement allowing SpaceX to expand the ...
- 07:39 UTC Space Fellowship MESSENGER Poised for Mercury Orbit Insertion After more than a dozen laps through the inner solar system, NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft will move into orbit around Mercury on March 17, 2011. The durable spacecraft--carrying seven science instruments ...
- 07:36 UTC Space Fellowship Space Shuttle Discovery Returns Home After Final Mission CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Space shuttle Discovery and its six-astronaut crew ended a 13-day journey of more than five million miles and concluded the spacecraft's illustrious 27-year career with an ...
- 07:34 UTC Space Fellowship Kepler Mission Manager Update The Kepler project team had an exciting month in February. Besides recovering the spacecraft from a Safe Mode event, the team released Kepler’s Quarter 2 science data to the public ...
- 07:26 UTC Space Fellowship Prolific NASA Orbiter Reaches Five-Year Mark PASADENA, Calif. -- NASA's versatile Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, which began orbiting Mars five years ago tomorrow, March 10, has radically expanded our knowledge of the Red Planet and is now ...
- 07:01 UTC EarthSky Tonight Moon shines close to Pleiades star cluster on March 10 The moon shines fairly close to the Pleiades star cluster on March 10. On a dark night, most people see the Pleiades as a tiny dipper-shaped formation made of six ...
- 06:52 UTC Lights in the Dark An Opportunity From Above The eye in the sky sees all…especially when that eye is the HiRISE camera on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter! Here’s another great image – this time in color! – of ...