, , Search Skip to content Home About the Coalition Benefits of Space Newsroom Legislative Activity Blog Education Station Related Links Contact Us Blog Follow : us Sally Ride , America’s First Female Astronaut , to Receive Presidential Medal of Freedom 0 Comments May 21, 2013 Education Exploration International Space Station , Space Shuttle , NASA Planet Earth Space and Science Space Research Dr . Sally Ride , American’s first female astronaut , will be honored posthumously with the Presidential Medal of Freedom at the White House later this year , President Obama announced . Monday Astronaut Sally Ride aboard shuttle Challenger in 1983. Photo Credit NASA photo The announcement coincided with a tribute to Ride on Monday night at the John F . Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in .
Bob Moler's Ephemeris Blog Thoughts on Life , the Universe and Everything Home About Comments Policy Home Conjunction Planets 05 21 2013 Ephemeris Dances with Planets 05 21 2013 Ephemeris Dances with Planets May 21, 2013 bobmoler Leave a comment Go to comments Ephemeris for Tuesday , May 21st . Today the sun will be up for 15 hours and 2 minutes , setting at 9:10. The moon , 3 days past first quarter , will set at 4:17 tomorrow morning . Tomorrow the sun will rise at 6:07. Over the next week there will be a planet grouping low in the west about 10 p.m . as Jupiter continues it slide toward the sun while Venus and Mercury move away from the sun . Mercury will earn its title as the messenger of the gods , and fastest planet by overtaking Venus and Jupiter on consecutive nights . The group
collectSPACE.com: Today In Space History: Before the public is let in on Friday, take a first look at the historic F-1 engines now being conserved at the Kansas Cosmosphere's SpaceWorks facility. Raised off the seafloor by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos' expedition team, the Saturn V first stage engines are being stabilized, preserved and documented before they move to museums for exhibit. The Cosmosphere's new observation gallery provides an up-close view of conservators as they work to conserve the F-1 engines for future generations.
Space Fellowship: This Hubble image shows the galaxy cluster Abell S1077. Galaxy clusters are large groupings of galaxies, each of them including millions of stars. They are the largest existing structures in the Universe to be held together by their gravity. The amount of matter condensed in such groupings is so high that their gravity is enough to warp the fabric of spacetime, distorting the path that light takes when it travels through the cluster. In some cases, this phenomenon produces an effect somewhat [...]
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