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15 Dec 2010
- 23:17 UTC PeteUplink's Univer... NASA - Building Blocks of Life Created in "Impossible" Pl... GREENBELT, Md. — NASA-funded scientists have discovered amino acids, a fundamental building block of life, in a meteorite where none were expected. “This meteorite formed when two asteroids collided,” said ...
- 23:14 UTC NASA: Earth Observa... Heavy Rains in Central and South America This color-coded image shows rainfall amounts in andaround Panama from December 6 to December 12, 2010.
- 23:09 UTC Sky and Telescope Night Lights Make Smog Worse
- 23:09 UTC Cosmic Variance Farewell, Pioneer Anomaly? Here’s an excellent article in Popular Science about the Pioneer anomaly. (Via Dan Vergano on Twitter.) The Pioneer spacecraft, launched in the early 1970’s, have been moseying through the outer ...
- 23:06 UTC HobbySpace RLV Spac... Briefs: Selling Iridium on a space tug; VG in Orbital tea... Colin Doughan and Jon Goff lay out the case for and against offering Iridium a space tug service for its satellite constellation: Servicing Iridium's Satellite Constellation: Business Case (Part 1) ...
- 23:03 UTC Parabolic Arc Senate’s NASA Funding Bill Provisions DRAFT SENATE APPROPRIATIONS BILL NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATIONSUMMARYThe agreement provides $18.9 billion for NASA, $186 million above the Fiscal Year 2010 level and $90 million less than the President’s ...
- 22:51 UTC The Planetary Socie... Door 15 in the 2010 advent calendar Time to open the fourteenth door in the advent calendar. Until the New Year, I'll be opening a door onto a different landscape from somewhere in the solar system. Where ...
- 22:49 UTC PeteUplink's Univer... Coleman, Crew Members Fly to ISS Expedition 26 Flight Eng... Coleman, Crew Members Fly to ISS Expedition 26 Flight Engineers Cady Coleman, Paolo Nespoli and Dmitry Kondratyev liftoff in their Soyuz TMA-20 spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at ...
- 22:35 UTC Cosmic Log Microbe makes hydrogen out of air An ocean microbe may open a new frontier in the search for clean, renewable energy: In a sense, it makes hydrogen — a clean-burning fuel — out of the air. ...
- 22:30 UTC NASA Watch Aerospace Sector Did Well in 2010 Aerospace Industries Association: Solid 2010 Results for Aerospace "With another solid financial performance in 2010, the aerospace industry has again demonstrated its vital importance to the U.S. economy. "Aerospace has ...
- 22:25 UTC NASA Watch New Chairman for Commercial Spaceflight Federation Commercial Spaceflight Federation Elects Eric C. Anderson as Next Chairman "The Commercial Spaceflight Federation, representing 37 companies employing thousands of Americans nationwide, has selected its next Chairman of the Board, ...
- 22:11 UTC The Launch Pad Team FREDNET and Team Barcelona Moon Featured on GLXP You... The two latest video interviews feature Team FREDNET -- a veteran open source team with members in over 60 countries -- and Team Barcelona Moon, a team based in Spain ...
- 21:58 UTC The Space Buff 4 Sale: Moonship & Dairy Queen An ad in the Wall Street Journal caught my attention. Someone is selling a boilerplate Apollo command module. Unless it’s a scam, it seems to be a real Apollo spacecraft, ...
- 21:47 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... Lunar Eclipse, the Moon’s Interior, and the Holy GRAIL In addition to the awesome views they offer, lunar eclipses have always provided scientific clues about the moon's shape, location and even surface composition. By Sami Asmar In addition to ...
- 21:44 UTC Discovery News - Sp... Is There an Ice-Spewing Volcano on Titan? : Big Pic NASA's Cassini Equinox mission may have spotted a volcano on Saturn's moon Titan. But this volcano vents slushy ice, not molten rock.
- 21:40 UTC The Planetary Socie... Opportunity within 20 meters of Santa Maria, spots alliga... Today Opportunity has driven to within 20 meters of Santa Maria crater, and the blocks around it are really, really cool-looking. This one is a dead ringer for the severed ...
- 21:34 UTC Parabolic Arc ESA, CSA Renew Cooperation Agreement ESA PRESS RELEASE Today, Jean-Jacques Dordain, Director General of ESA, and Steve MacLean, President of the Canadian Space Agency, signed a new Cooperation Agreement between ESA and Canada that will ...
- 21:12 UTC astropixie bourbon slushies some time ago it became a tradition in my family (on both sides) to serve bourbon slushies at holiday gatherings. the drink is typically such a success that it has ...
- 21:00 UTC Bad Astronomy The shadow of a moon goes passing by The Viking 1 space probe settled into orbit around Mars in 1976, dropping a surface lander in the process. The probe stayed in orbit to monitor the planet, returning thousands ...
- 20:33 UTC HobbySpace RLV Spac... Soyuz sets off for the ISS A Soyuz TMA-20 spacecraft with three new crew members for the ISS was successfully launched today: Russia's Soyuz Blasts Off With New Crew for Space Station - SPACE.com.
- 20:32 UTC Universe Today Lunar Dust Transport Still a Mystery There are times when Moon appears to have a tenuous atmosphere of moving dust particles that are leaping up from and falling back to the Moon’s surface. First seen during ...
- 20:28 UTC NASA Watch Ralph Hall Wants It Both Ways Ralph Hall gearing up for new role as chairman of House Science and Technology Committee, Dallas Morning News "Hall is steeped in the legislative battles around those issues. But in ...
- 20:24 UTC HobbySpace RLV Spac... Briefs: Anderson to lead CSF; Moon vs RLV first; Orbital ... Eric Anderson, co-founder and chairman of Space Adventures, has been selected as head of the Commercial Spaceflight Federation: Commercial Spaceflight Federation Elects Eric C. Anderson as Next Chairman - CSF. ...
- 20:16 UTC The Witty Astronome... A Special Star Sailor Podcast – Questions of a Stellar Na... As promised (if slightly delayed), here is the ‘video’ version of our recent contribution to 365 Days of Astronomy. Hannah and I would like to thank both Dr. Robert Simpson ...
- 20:11 UTC PeteUplink's Univer... Expedition 26/27 Crew Launched NASA - Newest Space Station Crew Members Launch From Kazakhstan NASA astronaut Cady Coleman, Russian cosmonaut Dmitry Kondratyev, and European Space Agency astronaut Paolo Nespoli launched to the International Space ...
- 20:06 UTC PeteUplink's Univer... NASA - Newest Space Station Crew Members Launch From Kaza... NASA - Newest Space Station Crew Members Launch From Kazakhstan: NASA astronaut Cady Coleman, Russian cosmonaut Dmitry Kondratyev, and European Space Agency astronaut Paolo Nespoli launched to the International Space ...
- 19:54 UTC Parabolic Arc Eric Anderson Elected New Chairman of Commercial Spacefli... CSF PRESS RELEASE The Commercial Spaceflight Federation, representing 37 companies employing thousands of Americans nationwide, has selected its next Chairman of the Board, Eric C. Anderson, who holds the position ...
- 19:54 UTC Universe Today Spectacular Night Launch for Soyuz Crew With a spectacular night launch, the remainder of the Expedition 26 crew are now headed to the International Space Station on board a Soyuz TMA-20 spacecraft. NASA astronaut Cady Coleman, ...
- 19:50 UTC The Daily Planet The Astronaut’s Husband The second half of the space station Expedition 26 crew headed off to work this afternoon, as Russian Dmitry Kondratyev, Italian Paolo Nespoli, and American Cady Coleman were launched on ...
- 19:48 UTC The Planetary Socie... Phobos Photobomb Don't blink when you play the video below -- it's only 15 seconds long, but it's so cool. It's an animation composed of Viking 1 Orbiter images. It shows a ...
- 19:44 UTC Hayden Planetarium ... The Known Universe, One Year Later One year ago, we released a short video called "The Known Universe," a six-minute journey from Mt. Everest to the farthest reaches of the observable universe. Since then, the video ...
- 19:31 UTC NASA Watch Soyuz TMA-20 with Expedition 26 on its way to ISS A Russian Soyuz rocket lifted off at 2:09 p.m. EST with the Expedition 26 crew onboard headed to the International Space Station. The crew includes Russian cosmonaut Dmitry Kondratyev, American ...
- 19:29 UTC Astro Bob Beacon in the chill light of dawn You just can’t miss it. Venus. With sunrises coming so late, the planet shines high in the southeastern sky around 7 a.m. and competes well against the bright blue twilight. ...
- 19:24 UTC collectSPACE.com: T... TMA-20 lifts off A Russian cosmonaut, an American astronaut, and an Italian flying for the European Space Agency (ESA) are now on their way to live aboard the International Space Station. Dmitry "Dima" ...
- 19:18 UTC The Flame Trench New Crew Sets Sail For International Space Station A new multinational crew is en route to the International Space Station today after a night-owl launch from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.Strapped into a Soyuz spacecraft atop a Soyuz booster, ...
- 18:47 UTC Dear Astronomer Astronomy Question: Meteor Showers? G.S asks: Dear Astronomer, my friends and I keep talking about going out and catching a meteor shower but it’s hard to figure out when they are and what nights/times ...
- 18:36 UTC Tom's Astronomy Blo... When The Wind Stops Pretty amazing stuff! I remember these guys going by the outer planets and watching the images coming in on my ham radio with a Robot SSTV unit. Good times. So ...
- 18:32 UTC AmericaSpace Commentary: Gov-Elect Scott sees “opportunity” as USA for... USA's severance package requires former shuttle workers not find employment around Kennedy Space Center. Image Credit: USA Gov-Elect Rick Scott stated recently that the cuts to the nation’s space program ...
- 18:29 UTC PeteUplink's Univer... Live coverage of Soyuz launch Expedition 26 to ISS Launch... Live coverage of Soyuz launch Expedition 26 to ISS Launch: 15 December at 20:09 CET (19:09 UT/GMT) Source: Spaceflight Now
- 18:16 UTC NASASpaceFlight.com LIVE: Soyuz TMA-20 set to launch to begin busy period on ... The Russian Soyuz TMA-20, also known by its US designation of 25S, is set to liftoff from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan today at 7:09:25 PM GMT. Following a two-day ...
- 18:15 UTC The Flame Trench KSC Visitor Complex releases $100M plan to display retire... The Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex today announced plans to build a $100 million exhibit featuring a flown shuttle orbiter -- assuming NASA awards one to the Space Coast. The ...
- 18:13 UTC The Flame Trench New Space Station Crew Strapped In For 2:09 P.M. Launch A multinational crew is strapped into a Soyuz spacecraft at a central Asian spaceport as final preps continue for a planned launch toward the International Space Station.Russian cosmonaut Dmitry Kondratyev, ...
- 18:00 UTC Meteorwatch A Fantastic Geminid Shoots Across The Sky This full frame image was taken on the 14th of December from Cemaes Bay on Anglesey looking East by Kev Lewis Canon 5D MkII and Canon 24mm f1.4L lens shooting ...
- 17:55 UTC The Sky Above 18th Month This is my boyfriend’s gift for our 18th month. It shows our love written in the stars.
- 17:53 UTC Dear Astronomer Kepler Mission Update From a NASA Press Release: During a regularly scheduled contact with the Kepler spacecraft on Dec. 13, 2010, the project team discovered Kepler had experienced an anomaly. Kepler was found ...
- 17:48 UTC HobbySpace Blog Pioneer Anomaly update Here's an extended report on the latest studies into the so-called Pioneer Anomaly, which probably will have a mundane explanation: The Pioneer Anomaly, a 30-Year-Old Beloved Cosmic Mystery, May Be ...
- 17:45 UTC HobbySpace RLV Spac... Briefs: Downmass options for STS-135; Next big planetary ... If the additional Shuttle flight is approved, it could be used to bring back some large pieces of equipment for examination: STS-135: Downmass requests build with ISS interest in returning ...
- 17:43 UTC Astronomy in Lipan ... METEOR SHOWERS The last 3 months have been very slow for me as far as astronomy activity goes. I have been away from my home location and even tho I had my ...
- 17:42 UTC PeteUplink's Univer... Cold Case - Possible Ice Volcano on Titan Cassini super s... Cold Case - Possible Ice Volcano on Titan Cassini super sleuths have found the best case yet of an ice volcano in the outer solar system. Source: NASA
- 17:41 UTC HobbySpace RLV Spac... Briefs: Senate NASA budget; Rick Tumlinson interview pt. ... Jeff Foust highlights some key numbers in the NASA budget as given in the proposed omnibus appropriations bill: Senate releases draft omnibus appropriations bill - Space Politics === Here's the ...