Wondering why the rollback of the Rotating Service Structure was delayed last night? Here’s your answer! NASA photographer Bill Ingalls captured part of the lightning storm that delayed the rollback until nearly midnight local time at Kennedy Space Center. It was originally slated to start at about 7 pm. But the late rollback went off [...]
Home SpaceRef Commercial Space OnOrbit SpaceRef Europe Astrobiology Sign In This is not a NASA Website . You might learn something . It's YOUR space agency . Get involved . Take it back . Make it work for YOU . Important Disclaimer nasawatch spaceref.com Voice 1.703.787.6567 RSS Feed Twitter Advertising Archives Support Endeavour Launch Scrubbed for at Least 72 Hours By Marc Boucher on April 29, 2011 7:57 AM 8 Comments Space Shuttle Endeavour on Track for a 3:47 Launch This morning at 6:22 p.m . EDT the loading of the space shuttle's external tank with 500,000 gallons of liquid oxygen and hydrogen began and the topping off of the tank's propellants will continue until launch time . All systems onboard Endeavour are functioning normally . There is a 70 percent chance of favorable weather
Over the next few weeks, skywatchers will have excellent viewing opportunities for the NanoSail-D solar sail. The satellite is coming to the end of its 95-day mission to test the viability of de-orbiting decommissioned satellites or space debris. NanoSail-D is now de-orbiting and slowly losing altitude in the Earths thin upper atmosphere. (...)Read the rest [...]
Home SpaceRef Commercial Space OnOrbit SpaceRef Europe Astrobiology Sign In This is not a NASA Website . You might learn something . It's YOUR space agency . Get involved . Take it back . Make it work for YOU . Important Disclaimer nasawatch spaceref.com Voice 1.703.787.6567 RSS Feed Twitter Advertising Archives Support Big Brush Fire at KSC Update By Marc Boucher on April 27, 2011 2:19 PM 1 Comment Brush Fire at KSC Near Media Center , SpaceRef A small brush fire started shortly before 1:00 pm near the Kennedy Space Center media center . At present KSC fire personnel have responded to the fire and a NASA PAO representative has said they expect to have it under control soon . As you can see by these pictures fire personnel have been stationed near the media center . Inside the media center
, Subscribe Give a Gift Archives Customer Service SEARCH Health Medicine Mind Brain Technology Space Human Origins Living World Environment Physics Math Video Photos Podcast RSS Congress to NASA : go to the Moon Talk at Ohio State University April 28 Goodnight , Earth If we didn’t go into space , we’d never see such beauty as this Sunset over Bolivia , as seen by astronauts aboard the International Space Station . Click it to get the glorious full size . version And you know , this isn’t the reason to go into space , but it’s not a bad one . Not a bad one at . all April 27th , 2011 9:30 AM Tags : Bolivia International Space Station sunset by Phil Plait in NASA Piece of mind Pretty pictures Space 9 comments RSS feed Trackback 9 Responses to Goodnight , Earth” 1. Messier Tidy Upper Says :
Subscribe Give a Gift Archives Customer Service SEARCH Health Medicine Mind Brain Technology Space Human Origins Living World Environment Physics Math Video Photos Podcast RSS Australian outback time lapse Dammit , Jim , I am a doctor Happy Earth Day Home Image credit : NASA April 22nd , 2011 8:30 AM Tags : Earth MODIS Terra by Phil Plait in Cool stuff Pretty pictures 34 comments RSS feed Trackback 34 Responses to Happy Earth Day” 1. Nanobot101 Says : April 22nd , 2011 at 8:34 am Quite a home , out beautiful little planet called Terra . I remember a friend of mine in high school that wanted to get that for post card , and send it to me with the caption Wish you were here 2. shane Says : April 22nd , 2011 at 9:17 am Be it eva so umble 3. Joel Says : April 22nd , 2011 at 9:33 am The Pacific