Skip to content Parabolic Arc Space Tourism and Much More News Search About Me Archives Parabolic Reading List Polls Archive NASA CCDev Update : Three Down , Two to Go SpaceX Opens Office in Northern Virginia Posted by Doug Messier on January 31, 2011, at 7:19 am in Elon Musk News and SpaceX Tags : Elon Musk SpaceX Comments : no responses 0 Comments The static test of a Falcon 9 rocket on Dec . 4, 2010. Credit : SpaceX SPACEX PRESS RELEASE Today SpaceX announced it is opening a new office in Chantilly , VA to serve customers looking for reliable , affordable launch solutions . The community is home to some of the world’s leading Internet and high-tech . companies SpaceX is a leader in launch services with a family of rockets and spacecraft that increase the reliability and performance of
: skip to main skip to sidebar Monday , January 31, 2011 IAU names craters to honor Columbia crew This crater grouping on the southeastern side of the immense and deep Apollo basin has been preliminarily designated after the astronauts of Space Shuttle Columbia who perished during re-entry February 1, 2003. Though some in the group seem to be large secondary craters resulting from the same event , Husband formerly designated Borman L is far older than the rest . For scale , Borman , named after Frank Borman , commander of Apollo 8, is roughly 50 km from rim to rim LROC WAC PDS Interface Arizona State University Keith Cowing , posting at the Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Program LOIRP website Moonviews reports a crater grouping in Apollo basin 35.7°S , 208.0°E has been provisionally
Kentucky Space: The HTV-2 berthed with the ISS on Thursday and is currently disgorging tons of supplies, as well as three CubeLabsm research modules. Working in strategic partnership with NanoRacks, LLC, Kentucky Space is bringing affordable, repeatable microgravity research to the International Space Station. Amazing picture, that. Wayne
, Skip to content Parabolic Arc Space Tourism and Much More News Search About Me Archives Parabolic Reading List Polls Archive Mars500 Diary : Approaching the Red Planet NASA CCDev Update : Three Down , Two to Go Bigelow Signs MOU to Create Human Spaceflight Program for Dubai , UAE Posted by Doug Messier on January 31, 2011, at 5:58 am in bigelow aerospace human spaceflight and space station Tags : bigelow aerospace Dubai Robert Bigelow space station UAE Comments : 2 responses 2 Comments Bigelow Aerospace's planned Sundancer space station EIAST PRESS RELEASE The Emirates Institution for Advanced Science and Technology EIAST and Bigelow Aerospace LLC , an organisation dedicated to providing affordable options for spaceflight to national space agencies and corporate clients , have signed a
: Home Carnival of Space Contact Us Forum Guide to Space Subscribe Universe Today Tweet More Space Anniversaries : Apollo 14 and Ham by Nancy Atkinson on January 31, 2011 Forty years ago today , the Apollo 14 crew launched on their Saturn V rocket , the 6th human flight to the Moon and the third that landed . Following the heart-stopping problems of Apollo 13, almost ten months elapsed before Commander Alan Shepard the first American in space Command Module Pilot Stuart Roosa , and Lunar Module Pilot Edgar Mitchell set off on January 31, 1971. They reached the Moon on February 5, and Shepard and Mitchell walked the Fra Mauro highlands , originally been the target of the aborted Apollo 13 mission . The two astronauts had to scrap a planned rock-collecting trip to the 1,000 foot wide Cone
: Home About Us Consortium Members Talent Development Capabilities Missions Near Space Sub-Orbital Orbital Space Station Space Apps Space Innovation Lab ISS Contact Us Latest News Valley Christian High School's San Jose plant growth CubeLab is one of the research projects JAXA recently loaded aboard HTV-2 for a trip to the ISS on Jan . 20 Pic : Solar Sailor IKAROS with Venus in background At Centauri Dreams , Paul Gilster writes about two solar sailors IKAROS and the three unit CubeSat , NanoSail-D , posting a really incredible picture of the former with its destination , Venus , in the picture . The spacecraft has liquid crystal devices on its 20-meter diagonal sail that can be turned off and on to vary the sail's reflectivity , enabling the craft to maneuver . The Japanese team is
: Skip to content Parabolic Arc Space Tourism and Much More News Search About Me Archives Parabolic Reading List Polls Archive Blue Origin Files for Patent on Reuseable Booster . Bigelow Signs MOU to Create Human Spaceflight . Mars500 Diary : Approaching the Red Planet Posted by Doug Messier on January 31, 2011, at 4:46 am in ESA Mars Mars 500 and News Tags : ESA Institute for Biomedical Problems Mars Mars500 Comments : no responses 0 Comments Whole Mars500 crew in portrait , September 2010 : clockwise from top left Sukhrob Kamolov , Romain Charles , Diego Urbina , Yue Wang , Alexandr Smoleevskiy and Alexey Sitev . Credit : ESA In this 11th Mars500 Mission Diary , Diego Urbina writes about the preparations for the arrival’ at Mars on 1 February and about his feelings now that the action is
Home Links About jump to navigation Blogging about Pan-STARRS January 31, 2011 Posted by Niall in Uncategorized trackback The Pan-STARRS 1 dome at sunrise . Photo Credit : Rob Ratkowski , PS1SC So for the last year I’ve been involved in exploiting data from the Pan-STARRS 1 telescope . PS1 is the first telescope of the larger Pan-STARRS Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System project to survey the sky constantly searching for asteroids that may pose a threat to the Earth . The data from PS1 will also be used to do a whole range of diverse science from the icy bodies of the Kuiper Belt , to probing the dark energy which is though to make up over 70 of the . Universe So as well as chasing brown dwarfs in the data I’ve also been involved in setting up a blog for the PS1 Science
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Engineers have inscribed the periodic table on a shaft of hair snipped from the frizzy mop of Nottingham University's Martyn Poliakoff.
The ubble Space Telescope has outdone itself by catching sight of what may be the ost distant galaxy ever seen, lying about 13.2 billion light-years from Earth. f the observations hold up, they would one-up another galaxy that made headlines last October when r hellip;
Home Sci-Tech Science and Society Science and Society The Latest Developments in Science and Technology Ned Potter is the science correspondent for ABC's World News with Diane Sawyer . He has reported on such topics as space exploration , the human genome and climate change . Subscribe to this blog's feed RECENT POSTS Who Owns the Sun Spanish Woman Lays Claim Smoke and Mirrors Tucson Tragedy : An Astronaut's Burden Obama : No New Offshore Oil Drilling in East Air Force X-37B Baby Space Shuttle' Coming Home Fake Watches , Fake Websites Japanese Probe Returns from Space With Asteroid Samples Space Shuttle Discovery Delayed , Again , by Rain Close Shave : Asteroid Passes a Tenth of Distance to Moon Red River : Hungary Toxic Spill , Visible from Space MONTHLY ARCHIVES January 2011 December
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On the Planetary Society web site: Planetary Society Congratulates NanoSail-D Team