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, JOBS CARS REAL ESTATE APARTMENTS RENTALS FORECLOSURES MARKETPLACE MORE HOME NEWS WEATHER SPORTS MONEY ENTERTAINMENT TRAVEL LIFE FAMILY HEALTH BLOGS Main Space shuttle Discovery in great shape no foam concerns While Discovery’s in space , Endeavour gets ready for April launch ISS Kennedy Space Center STS-134 Uncategorized posted by richardtribou on February , 28 2011 11:10 AM Discuss This : Comments(0 Add to del.icio.us Digg it Space shuttle Endeavour on the move Monday , Feb . 28, 2011 from the Orbiter Processing Facility to the Vehicle Assembly Building to be readied for its final flight . Red Huber , Orlando Sentinel Space shuttle Endeavour has begun the march to its final destination , beginning today with the rollover from the Orbiter Processing Facility to the Vehicle Assembler .
about word list privacy policy E-cards star cards matching games search Home Bugs , birds and other animals Carnival of Space Eyes in the Sky Fantasy Creatures General Numbers Letters Plants Flowers Water Creatures Bird in the hair by CritterKeeper on Feb.28, 2011, under Bugs , birds and other animals Credit : ESO NASA JPL-Caltech S . Kraus A winged bird alights in the hair of a face in this nebula captured by NASA’s Spitzer Space . Telescope Explore this region of gas and dust . Share stories of what you see below . A huge star IRAS 13481–6124 formed from this nebula The star surrounded by the gas and dust that helped it form , is about 20 times more massive than our sun and five times bigger around . This offers scientists their first look at the birth of a massive star Spitzer
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
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
Method Russia Grounds Launches Of Rokot Carrier Rocket Home add your blog Archives Search Contact RSS FEED This site is an rss xml news reader containing our favorite feeds . All articles are the copyrighted material of the blogs that wrote them . The First Stage Of Project On Mes-System Mcis Fulfilled post from Space Tourism , Space Transport and Space Exploration News on 28 February 2011 07:16:20 AM . Space Tourism , Space Transport and Space Exploration News Moscow , Russia SPX Feb 28, 2011 The pilot project of a manufacturing execution system implementation specially developed by Siemens AG for discrete manufacture has come closer to its basic operating stage by breadboard model delivery on Proton-PM Perm Motors Public Corporation , one of the largest enterprises of the space and
Method PS1 Telescope Establishes Near-Earth Asteroid Discovery Record Home add your blog Archives Search Contact RSS FEED This site is an rss xml news reader containing our favorite feeds . All articles are the copyrighted material of the blogs that wrote them . Discovery docks with International Space Station post from Space Tourism , Space Transport and Space Exploration News on 28 February 2011 07:16:20 AM . Space Tourism , Space Transport and Space Exploration News Washington AFP Feb 26, 2011 The US space shuttle Discovery docked with the International Space Station on Saturday for a final time before it retires , carrying a new module and a robot to the orbiting research lab . NASA's oldest and most heavily traveled shuttle linked up with the ISS at 2:14 pm 1914 GMT as the space
Method If not now , when Home add your blog Archives Search Contact RSS FEED This site is an rss xml news reader containing our favorite feeds . All articles are the copyrighted material of the blogs that wrote them . Record number of asteroids spotted post from Space Tourism , Space Transport and Space Exploration News on 28 February 2011 07:16:20 AM . Space Tourism , Space Transport and Space Exploration News Honolulu UPI Feb 25, 2011 Astronomers using a telescope on the island of Maui in Hawaii said they discovered 19 near-Earth asteroids Jan . 29, the most ever found in a single night . Scientists at the Pan-STARRS PS1 telescope on Haleakala , Maui , said the record demonstration of the year-old telescope's capabilities was made possible by recent software improvements and refinements
Method This microbe's for you Home add your blog Archives Search Contact RSS FEED This site is an rss xml news reader containing our favorite feeds . All articles are the copyrighted material of the blogs that wrote them . Discovery crew begins first workday post from Space Tourism , Space Transport and Space Exploration News on 28 February 2011 07:16:20 AM . Space Tourism , Space Transport and Space Exploration News Cape Canaveral , Fla . UPI Feb 25, 2011 The crew of space shuttle Discovery began its first full workday in space after Thursday's blastoff from Kennedy Space Center for the orbiter's final flight . The mission's first wake-up song was beamed up from Mission Control in Houston at 6:53 a.m . EST as Discovery flew 143 miles over the Pacific west of Chile , Florida Today reported
Method Social robots Home add your blog Archives Search Contact RSS FEED This site is an rss xml news reader containing our favorite feeds . All articles are the copyrighted material of the blogs that wrote them . Russia To Probe Major Planets Before 2023 post from Space Tourism , Space Transport and Space Exploration News on 28 February 2011 07:16:20 AM . Space Tourism , Space Transport and Space Exploration News Moscow XNA Feb 28, 2011 Russia will launch probes to several planets and their satellites , Russia's Federal Space Agency Roscosmos said Thursday . The probes are expected to study the moon and the Martian satellite Phobos , as parts of a dozen of projects in astrophysical and solar research before 2023, Roscosmos said . The federal space program stipulates five planetary
Method FAA OKs iPad for Pilots Charts Home add your blog Archives Search Contact RSS FEED This site is an rss xml news reader containing our favorite feeds . All articles are the copyrighted material of the blogs that wrote them . Russia Grounds Launches Of Rokot Carrier Rocket post from Space Tourism , Space Transport and Space Exploration News on 28 February 2011 07:16:19 AM . Space Tourism , Space Transport and Space Exploration News Moscow XNA Feb 28, 2011 Russian Space Forces have grounded launches of Rokot light-class carrier rocket after its failed launch with military satellite Geo-IK-2, local reports said on Monday . The launches have to be halted until the completion of a investigation on Rokot's failure on Feb . 1, in which the rocket's Briz-KM upper stage failed to place the
Method That's no way to start your morning Home add your blog Archives Search Contact RSS FEED This site is an rss xml news reader containing our favorite feeds . All articles are the copyrighted material of the blogs that wrote them . Full house at space station as Discovery docks post from Space Tourism , Space Transport and Space Exploration News on 28 February 2011 07:16:19 AM . Space Tourism , Space Transport and Space Exploration News Washington AFP Feb 26, 2011 The US shuttle Discovery docked Saturday for its final visit at the orbiting International Space Station , where all five of the world's participating space agencies now have vehicles or equipment . This is the first time all visiting vehicles have something represented , NASA mission control in Houston said , after the
Method Stretched Rubber Offers Simpler Method for Assembling Nanowires Home add your blog Archives Search Contact RSS FEED This site is an rss xml news reader containing our favorite feeds . All articles are the copyrighted material of the blogs that wrote them . NASA Assessing New Launch Dates For The Glory Mission post from Space Tourism , Space Transport and Space Exploration News on 28 February 2011 07:16:19 AM . Space Tourism , Space Transport and Space Exploration News Washington DC SPX Feb 28, 2011 Preparations for the launch of NASA's Glory mission from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California have been suspended temporarily . Engineers continue to troubleshoot a malfunction in ground support equipment associated with the Taurus XL rocket . On Feb . 23, a false indication was
Method Russia To Probe Major Planets Before 2023 Home add your blog Archives Search Contact RSS FEED This site is an rss xml news reader containing our favorite feeds . All articles are the copyrighted material of the blogs that wrote them . NASA Readies For World's Largest Can Crusher Test post from Space Tourism , Space Transport and Space Exploration News on 28 February 2011 07:16:19 AM . Space Tourism , Space Transport and Space Exploration News Huntsville AL SPX Feb 28, 2011 Place a soda can on the floor in an upright position and then stand on it gradually applying weight until the can ripples and collapses . It's similar to what a team of NASA engineers will do to an immense aluminum-lithium rocket fuel tank in late March their hope is to use data from the test to generate new
, Method FAA OKs iPad for Pilots Charts Home add your blog Archives Search Contact RSS FEED This site is an rss xml news reader containing our favorite feeds . All articles are the copyrighted material of the blogs that wrote them . ISRO Tests Rocket Motor , Delays Satellite Launch post from Space Tourism , Space Transport and Space Exploration News on 28 February 2011 07:16:19 AM . Space Tourism , Space Transport and Space Exploration News Chennai PTI Feb 28, 2011 After 16 successful launches of its workhorse rocket Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle PSLV in the last 17 years , the Indian space agency is now testing a key component to re-qualify its on-flight performance parameters to avoid any unpleasant surprises . The Indian Space Research Organisation ISRO is testing the gas motor which
Method Gene fuelled transporter causes breast cancer cells to self-destruct Home add your blog Archives Search Contact RSS FEED This site is an rss xml news reader containing our favorite feeds . All articles are the copyrighted material of the blogs that wrote them . PS1 Telescope Establishes Near-Earth Asteroid Discovery Record post from Space Tourism , Space Transport and Space Exploration News on 28 February 2011 07:16:19 AM . Space Tourism , Space Transport and Space Exploration News Honolulu HI SPX Feb 28, 2011 The Pan-STARRS PS1 telescope on Haleakala , Maui , discovered 19 near-Earth asteroids on the night of January 29, the most asteroids discovered by one telescope on a single night . This record number of discoveries shows that PS1 is the world's most powerful telescope for this
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Kepler Discoveries Suggest a Galaxy Rich in Life (from Planetary News)
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 [...]