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Home Science News Articles Videos Cinema Archives About Contact You are here : Home The Moon as you’ve never seen it before Today is The Moon as you’ve never seen it before Posted on February 28, 2011 by Ashley Corbion Einstein said : I like to think that the Moon is there , even if I am not looking at it” . Everyone has already stared at the Moon for at least a few seconds , especially when it’s full , and seen some of the lunar maria , those dark , basaltic plains formed by ancient volcanic . eruptions If you are lucky enough to own a telescope , the Moon can be a really wonderful object to observe even a simple pair of binoculars can reveal beautiful details of our satellite’s surface Recently , NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter LRO created the most accurate map ever of the near side
, Home About Links People’s History Mars NASA current featured history moon private Feb 28, 2011 Posted by Ray Katz in NASA current End of the Shuttle , Foam and Nerves The Space Shuttle : Nixon's folly , ably flown by NASA I always thought the shuttle was a mistake . Too many parties made demands on NASA . So we got a deadly combo : crew and heavy lift vehicle combined—with virtually no crew safety . systems The Pentagon wanted this to launch big satellites and have a large stable manned spying platform . James Beggs , the NASA administrator back then , should have said no . But he gave them what they asked for and made impossible promises of cheap , frequent manned . spaceflights We lost two crews and shuttles.at this late date , I am fearful about losing a third . It will probably be
Skip to content Parabolic Arc Space Tourism and Much More News Search About Me Archives Parabolic Reading List Polls Archive XCOR Announces Suborbital Payload Integration . Space Show Covers Next-Generation Suborbital Researchers Conference Posted by Doug Messier on February 28, 2011, at 6:08 am in News Comments : no responses 0 Comments The Space Show for this week SPECIAL TIME : Monday , Feb . 28, 2011 6:30-7:30 PM PST : Live from the Next Gen Suborbital Conference in Orlando , Florida , our guests are David McBride Director , NASA Dryden Spaceflight Center where CRuSR is managed and Dr . Alan Stern NSRC meeting organizer SPECIAL TIME : Tuesday , March 1, 2011, 5:00-6:00 PM PST : Live from the Net Gen Suborbital Conference in Orlando , Florida , our guests are Brett Alexander , President
Skip to content Parabolic Arc Space Tourism and Much More News Search About Me Archives Parabolic Reading List Polls Archive Astrogenetix Continues Work on Staphylococcus . Space Show Covers Next-Generation Suborbital . XCOR Announces Suborbital Payload Integration Network Posted by Doug Messier on February 28, 2011, at 5:03 am in News Tags : Lynx XCOR Comments : no responses 0 Comments XCOR PR February 28th , 2011, Orlando , FL , : USA At the commencement of the 2011 Next-Generation Suborbital Researchers Conference NSRC being held in Orlando , Florida , XCOR Aerospace announced its initial team of suborbital payload integration specialists who will begin taking orders and facilitating experiment development and integration for commercial , educational and government suborbital research
Observation of spacecraft with amateur telescopes gets better and better. Today's Space Weather report includes several images taken from the ground of Discovery approaching the ISS, including the image shown below from amateur astronomer Rob Bullen of Gloucestershie, England and his 8-inch telescope:
As we know, Jupiter’s Southern Equatorial Belt has been missing beneath its icy clouds for almost a year now. While astronomers are able to use instruments like Keck – complete with infrared and adaptive optics – we here on Earth have to take our views of Jupiter a little more naturally. (...)Read the rest of [...]
The Sun continues to be active! A large-sized (M 3.6 class) flare occurred near the edge of the Sun on February 24, 2011, and it blew out a gorgeous, waving mass of erupting plasma that swirled and twisted over a 90-minute period. This event was captured in extreme ultraviolet light by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory [...]
: skip to main skip to sidebar February 25, 2011 Self-Templating of Metal-Driven Supramolecular Self-Assembly : A General Approach toward 1D Inorganic Nanotubes Chemistry of Materials Self-Templating of Metal-Driven Supramolecular Self-Assembly : A General Approach toward 1D Inorganic Nanotubes The rational design of one-dimensional 1D inorganic nanomaterials directed by self-assembled soft matters is one of the most attractive subjects in modern chemistry . In this work , the self-templating approach based on metal−cholate supramolecular self-assemblies is reported , which is distinct from the traditional soft template method . Under the framework of self-templating , metal ions can serve as both the inorganic precursor and constituent of the template additional precursors which may
skip to main skip to sidebar February 25, 2011 Penn Physicists Develop Scalable Method for Making Graphene New research from the University of Pennsylvania demonstrates a more consistent and cost-effective method for making graphene Other methods make expensive custom copper sheets in an effort to get them as smooth as possible defects in the surface cause the graphene to accumulate in unpredictable ways . Instead , Johnson’s group electropolished” their copper foil , a common industrial technique used in finishing silverware and surgical tools . The polished foil was smooth enough to produce single-layer graphene over 95 of its surface area . Chemistry of Materials Effect of Substrate Roughness and Feedstock Concentration on Growth of Wafer-Scale Graphene at Atmospheric Pressure The
Overcoming a down-to the-last second problem, space shuttle Discovery made history today, launching on its final mission to orbit. The most-traveled orbiter is carrying a crew of six astronauts and one human-like Robonaut, along with a new permanent storeroom and supplies for the International Space Station. After waiting nearly four months following the detection of [...]
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 Blogs Bad Astronomy Creationists suffer defeat in Oklahoma How far away is the Moon Discovery waits for her final flight NASA just posted this lovely picture of the Space Shuttle Discovery sitting on its pad , awaiting the command to light her engines and take her final flight into . space Click to embiggen . The picture was taken a couple of weeks ago note the thin crescent Moon on the left . In fact , the sight of the Moon and the Orbiter together makes me a little sad . The Shuttles can’t get Americans back there , and barring this and one more flight of Endeavour later this year , it’ll be a while before we can
ISEC is very pleased to announce that Robert “Skip” Penny has joined its Board of Directors effective immediately. A brief bio:
Robert E. “Skip” Penny, Jr. graduated from the US Air Force Academy in 1970 with a Bachlor of Science degree. Over his 20 year Air Force career, he held a breadth of command and staff [...]
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 Blogs Bad Astronomy MESSENGER’s family portrait Lovely , frigid ripples Discovery’s last voyage is go for February 24 The last scheduled launch of the Space Shuttle Discovery has been set for February 24 at 16:50 Eastern time . You can keep up with the latest info and NASA’s launch blog on their Shuttle website The launch will be live , as usual , on NASA TV As it happens I’ll be on a plane traveling to Florida to visit family at that time , so ironically I’ll be headed toward the launch but won’t be able to see it . The launch window is a very short ten minutes , so if they delay it at all maybe it’ll be for a day
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 Blogs Bad Astronomy Dialing in a radio eclipse Discovery’s last voyage is go for February 24 MESSENGER’s family portrait On March 17, just a month from now , NASA’s MESSENGER probe is scheduled to enter orbit around Mercury , the smallest planet in the solar system . No other mission from Earth has ever done this , and for the first time we’ll get high-resolution maps of the entire . globe On its way down , the spacecraft was commanded to turn around and look outward , toward space . It took a series of images of what it saw this astonishing family portrait of the solar system Click it to ensolarsystemate it and see
I am very happy to announce that the International Space Elevator Consortium (ISEC) has released its first ISEC Report (formerly known as ISEC Red Team Studies). In our first strategic plan (2010), we set out a goal of releasing a report every year addressing the ISEC Theme for the year. In 2010, our theme was [...]
In 2010, ISEC announced the Yuri Artsutanov & Jerome Pearson prizes, prizes established to foster research into Space Elevator related topics. There were no winners in 2010, though we had two papers that qualified for Honorable Mentions in the Artsutanov Prize.
The Pearson Prize, sponsored by the Leeward Space Foundation, is open to all Undergraduate students. [...]
By Amy Mainzer
With WISE, I roamed the skies — seeing everything from the closest asteroids to the most distant galaxies. When I was a kid, maybe 6 or 7, I remember reading the encyclopedia about Andromeda, Mars and Jupiter. After that, I spent a lot of my free time (and a fair amount of gym [...]
I was somewhat surprised that my earlier Dual-Fluid Depot post generated as much interest as it did. I didn’t think there were many people who cared about depots who hadn’t read any of the papers by Frank Zegler, Bernard Kutter, or myself on the topic. But I wanted to include an intro just for sake [...]