• This Week at NASA Recap for Friday, June 29, 2012

    Updated: 2012-06-30 14:12:50
    In This Week at NASA Senator Barbara Mikulski, chairwoman of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies, was joined by officials from NASA, Orbital Sciences Corporation and others at the Wallops Flight Facility for an update of Orbital's Antares rocket and the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport's new pad, from which the vehicle will launch and more.

  • Kennedy Space Center at 50

    Updated: 2012-06-29 16:21:16
    <a href="http://spaceref.com/missions-and-programs/nasa/kennedy-space-center-50th-anniversary-video.html"Kennedy Space Center 50th Anniversary Video, NASA KSC "To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) NASA has released this video montage of highlights. From Kennedy's speech, Glen's Friendship 7 flight, the Apollo years, unmaned launches, the Shuttle era and through to the transformation of KSC for the next era of U.S. human spaceflight, watch it all."

  • Shenzhou-9 Lands Safely

    Updated: 2012-06-29 16:06:28
    Home About SpaceRef NASA Watch OnOrbit Commercial Space Watch SpaceRef Canada SpaceRef Europe SpaceRef Asia Astrobiology Loading Missions Space Station Calendar News Archives Space Weather Space Quarterly Magazine Mercury Venus Earth Moon Mars Jupiter Saturn Pluto Asteroids Comets Shenzhou-9 Lands Safely By Keith Cowing Posted June 29, 2012 12:06 PM View Comments XINHUA Shenzhou-9 Crew At Thee Landing Site China is celebrating the safe return of three astronauts , who successfully completed a mission that included the country's first manual docking in space and the first Chinese woman astronaut . Live television images of the Shenzhou-9 spacecraft's return were broadcast around China . Friday After re-entering earth's atmosphere , a red and white striped parachute slowed the capsule so

  • Protecting Astronauts from Solar Storms

    Updated: 2012-06-29 15:52:15
    Home About SpaceRef NASA Watch OnOrbit Commercial Space Watch SpaceRef Canada SpaceRef Europe SpaceRef Asia Astrobiology Loading Missions Space Station Calendar News Archives Space Weather Space Quarterly Magazine Mercury Venus Earth Moon Mars Jupiter Saturn Pluto Asteroids Comets Protecting Astronauts from Solar Storms By Keith Cowing Posted June 29, 2012 11:52 AM View Comments With the impending solar maximum expected to bring heightened rates of flares and coronal mass ejections CMEs putting at risk an ever-increasing human presence in space , Oh et al . designed and assessed a prediction system to keep astronauts safe from these solar . storms During a solar flare or CME , particles from the Sun can be accelerated to very high energies-in some cases travelling near the speed of light .

  • Kennedy Space Center 50th Anniversary Video

    Updated: 2012-06-29 15:46:47
    To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) NASA has released this video montage of highlights. From Kennedy's speech, Glen's Friendship 7 flight, the Apollo years, unmaned launches, the Shuttle era and through to the transformation of KSC for the next era of U.S. human spaceflight, watch it all.

  • China's Success

    Updated: 2012-06-29 13:31:30
    Home SpaceRef Commercial Space Watch OnOrbit NASA Hack Space SpaceRef Canada Astrobiology Newsletter 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 Popular : Categories Budget Congress Commercialization Election 2012 ISS News Policy China's Success By Keith Cowing on June 29, 2012 9:31 AM View Comments China's giant , quiet step in space Leroy Chiao , CNN I have seen China's space technology . It is impressive . What the Chinese lack is operational experience . In that , we are still far ahead . But we in the know hear footsteps . It's time not for another government space race , but for

  • lrsp-2012-3

    Updated: 2012-06-29 01:00:00
    Coronal Mass Ejections: Observations by: David F. Webb and Timothy A. Howard Solar eruptive phenomena embrace a variety of eruptions, including flares, solar energetic particles, and radio bursts. Since the vast majority of these are associated with the eruption, development, and evolution of coronal mass ejections (CMEs), we focus on CME observations in this review. CMEs are [...]

  • NASA Denies Mike Griffin's Claims About GRC Cuts

    Updated: 2012-06-28 20:38:18
    Home SpaceRef Commercial Space Watch OnOrbit NASA Hack Space SpaceRef Canada Astrobiology Newsletter 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 Popular : Categories Budget Congress Commercialization Election 2012 ISS News Policy NASA Denies Mike Griffin's Claims About GRC Cuts By Keith Cowing on June 28, 2012 4:38 PM View Comments NASA rebuts Cuyahoga County GOP claim of pending cuts at Cleveland's Glenn Research Center The Republican group's news release also cited former NASA administrator Mike Griffin as a source on the layoffs . The fact that the Obama administration is seriously

  • Thais Think That NASA Wants To Spy On Them (Update)

    Updated: 2012-06-28 20:13:50
    Home SpaceRef Commercial Space Watch OnOrbit NASA Hack Space SpaceRef Canada Astrobiology Newsletter 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 Popular : Categories Budget Congress Commercialization Election 2012 ISS News Policy Thais Think That NASA Wants To Spy On Them Update By Keith Cowing on June 28, 2012 4:13 PM View Comments Nasa says study open to inspection Bangkot Post After fears were raised that the plan might be a cover for a spying mission Hal Maring , the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration's lead planner for the project , issued the invitation . He told the

  • NAC Technology & Innovation Committee: Do As We Say, Not As We Do

    Updated: 2012-06-28 16:27:12
    : , Home SpaceRef Commercial Space Watch OnOrbit NASA Hack Space SpaceRef Canada Astrobiology Newsletter 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 Popular : Categories Budget Congress Commercialization Election 2012 ISS News Policy NAC Technology Innovation Committee : Do As We Say , Not As We Do By Keith Cowing on June 28, 2012 12:27 PM View Comments Keith's : note If you look over at the calendar on the right side of NASA Watch you'll note that the NASA Advisory Council and all of its committees are meeting toward the end of July . NASA has expanded the audience for these public meetings

  • ATK Liberty Updates

    Updated: 2012-06-28 16:01:21
    ATK Makes Progress with the Liberty Launch System, Commercial Space Watch (With video) "In a trio of media releases ATK announced today that is has signed a deal with NanoRacks, completed a milestone for its contract with NASA for the Commercial Crew Development Program (CCDev) and that partner EADS Astrium has completed tests on tank structures for the Liberty rocket second stage."

  • Weather Satellite Delays and Cost Overruns

    Updated: 2012-06-28 14:43:13
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  • B612 Foundation Announces First Privately Funded Deep Space Mission

    Updated: 2012-06-28 14:13:58
    Home About SpaceRef NASA Watch OnOrbit Commercial Space Watch SpaceRef Canada SpaceRef Europe SpaceRef Asia Astrobiology Loading Missions Space Station Calendar News Archives Space Weather Space Quarterly Magazine Mercury Venus Earth Moon Mars Jupiter Saturn Pluto Asteroids Comets B612 Foundation Announces First Privately Funded Deep Space Mission By Keith Cowing Posted June 28, 2012 10:13 AM View Comments B612 Foundation B612 Foundation Sentinel Spacecraft In a press conference at the California Academy of Sciences Thursday morning , the B612 Foundation unveiled its plans to build , launch , and operate the first privately funded deep space mission SENTINEL a space telescope to be placed in orbit around the Sun , ranging up to 170 million miles from Earth , for a mission of discovery and

  • Hubble Captures Dramatic Changes on a Faraway Planet

    Updated: 2012-06-28 13:45:00
    Home About SpaceRef NASA Watch OnOrbit Commercial Space Watch SpaceRef Canada SpaceRef Europe SpaceRef Asia Astrobiology Loading Missions Space Station Calendar News Archives Space Weather Space Quarterly Magazine Mercury Venus Earth Moon Mars Jupiter Saturn Pluto Asteroids Comets Hubble Captures Dramatic Changes on a Faraway Planet By Marc Boucher Posted June 28, 2012 9:45 AM View Comments NASA Artist . illustration An international team of astronomers using data from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has detected significant changes in the atmosphere of a planet located beyond our solar system . The scientists conclude the atmospheric variations occurred in response to a powerful eruption on the planet's host star , an event observed by NASA's Swift . satellite The exoplanet is HD 189733b ,

  • CASIS: It Takes More Than Golf to Utilize the ISS

    Updated: 2012-06-28 03:52:13
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  • White House Responds to NASA Budget Increase Petition

    Updated: 2012-06-27 23:54:59
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  • MESSENGER Completes Its 1,000th Orbit of Mercury

    Updated: 2012-06-27 16:12:57
    Home About SpaceRef NASA Watch OnOrbit Commercial Space Watch SpaceRef Canada SpaceRef Europe SpaceRef Asia Astrobiology Loading Missions Space Station Calendar News Archives Space Weather Space Quarterly Magazine Mercury Venus Earth Moon Mars Jupiter Saturn Pluto Asteroids Comets MESSENGER Completes Its 1,000th Orbit of Mercury By Keith Cowing Posted June 27, 2012 12:12 PM View Comments MESSENGER completed its 1,000th orbit of the planet closest to the Sun at 11:22 p.m . EDT on 22 June 2012. Reaching this milestone is yet another testimony to the hard work and dedication of the full MESSENGER team that has designed , launched , and operated this highly successful spacecraft , says the mission trajectory lead Jim McAdams of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel

  • Curiosity On Track For Mars

    Updated: 2012-06-27 15:56:52
    Home About SpaceRef NASA Watch OnOrbit Commercial Space Watch SpaceRef Canada SpaceRef Europe SpaceRef Asia Astrobiology Loading Missions Space Station Calendar News Archives Space Weather Space Quarterly Magazine Mercury Venus Earth Moon Mars Jupiter Saturn Pluto Asteroids Comets Curiosity On Track For Mars By Keith Cowing Posted June 27, 2012 11:56 AM View Comments A maneuver on Tuesday adjusted the flight path of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft for delivering the rover Curiosity to a landing target beside a Martian . mountain The car-size , one-ton rover is bound for arrival the evening of Aug . 5, 2012, PDT early Aug . 6, EDT and Universal Time The landing will mark the beginning of a two-year prime mission to investigate whether one of the most intriguing places on Mars ever

  • NASA Mars Planning Report Is Online

    Updated: 2012-06-26 19:27:07
    Home About SpaceRef NASA Watch OnOrbit Commercial Space Watch SpaceRef Canada SpaceRef Europe SpaceRef Asia Astrobiology Loading Missions Space Station Calendar News Archives Space Weather Space Quarterly Magazine Mercury Venus Earth Moon Mars Jupiter Saturn Pluto Asteroids Comets NASA Mars Planning Report Is Online By Keith Cowing Posted June 26, 2012 3:27 PM View Comments A recent workshop conducted for NASA by the Lunar and Planetary Institute LPI in Houston , marked a key step in the agency's effort to forge a new Mars strategy in the coming decades . A report that summarizes the wide range of cutting-edge science , technology and mission concepts discussed is available . online Held in Houston June 12-14 and attended by scientists and engineers worldwide , the meeting was held to seek

  • CASIS & ISS National Lab: Still Ignoring Their Own Stuff

    Updated: 2012-06-26 15:27:31
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  • Video: Everyone Wants To Go (Back) To The Moon

    Updated: 2012-06-26 14:53:39
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  • NASA's SDO Show's Dancing Plasma on the Sun

    Updated: 2012-06-26 13:28:13
    NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) captured approximately 18 hours of video for this dancing plasma from June 24 through June 25. Suspended in twisted magnetic fields, the hot plasma structure is many times the size of planet Earth. Prominences are huge clouds of relatively cool dense plasma suspended in the Sun's hot, thin corona. At times, they can erupt, escaping the Sun's atmosphere. Emission in this spectral line shows the upper chromosphere at a temperature of about 50,000 degrees Kelvin (or 90,000 degrees Farenheit). Magnetic fields built up enormous forces that propelled particles out beyond the Sun's surface.

  • NASA Thinks Webb's Construction Is A Good Example To Emulate

    Updated: 2012-06-26 00:04:08
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  • Commercial Crew Partner Videos Released

    Updated: 2012-06-25 21:48:07
    NASA Releases Breakout Videos for the Commercial Crew Program, Commercial Space Watch "Five of NASA's industry partners participated in the production of breakout videos that highlight the systems they're creating in collaboration with the Commercial Crew Program during Commercial Crew Development Round 2. Included videos come from: ATK, Boeing, Sierra Nevada, SpaceX and ULA."

  • The Challenge of Landing on Mars

    Updated: 2012-06-25 17:25:26
    Team members at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory share the challenges of the Curiosity Mars rover's final minutes to landing on the surface of Mars. The newest Mars rover is expected to touch down on Mars on Monday, August 6 at approximately 1:30 a.m. EDT for people on the east coast and 10:30 p.m. PDT on Sunday, August 5th on the west coast.

  • This Week at NASA Recap for Friday, June 22, 2012

    Updated: 2012-06-23 13:14:22
    On This Week at NASA we have the following stories: The International Space Station and its benefit to science as the world's only laboratory in microgravity is highlighted on Capitol Hill. Also, NASA administrator Charles Bolden Finds NEEMO; JPL has its annual Open House; Cleveland HUBZone; African Cosmos; Aerospace Scholars; NASA Now Emmy; SOI; and more!

  • Astronomy 101 Stars Astronomy Magazine

    Updated: 2012-06-14 03:31:47
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  • Episode 16 Letters from viewers Astronomy Magazine

    Updated: 2012-06-09 11:45:57
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