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Opportunity's Second Martian Birthday At Cape Verde
Pasadena CA (SPX) Nov 08, 2007A promontory nicknamed "Cape Verde" can be seen jutting out from the walls of Victoria Crater in this approximate true-color picture taken by the panoramic camera on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity. The rover took this picture on martian day, or sol, 1329 (Oct. 20, 2007), more than a month after it began descending down the crater walls - and just 9 sols shy of its second Martian birth ... more Shuttle Discovery heads home after ambitious, risky mission 
Washington (AFP) Nov 5, 2007The US shuttle Discovery undocked from the International Space Station on Monday, wrapping up a complex mission marked by a daring spacewalk to repair a torn solar array. After saying goodbye to their space station colleagues and closing the hatches, Discovery crew members smoothly sailed away from the ISS at 5:32 am (1030 GMT) before a scheduled landing set for Wednesday at 1802 GMT in Flor ... more Opportunity Studies Rock Composition And Changes In Atmosphere 
Pasadena CA (SPX) Nov 06, 2007Though atmospheric dust has returned to nearly pre-dust storm levels, Opportunity's solar arrays are still dustier than before the storm, keeping power levels about 200 watt-hours lower than pre-storm levels. Opportunity continues to generate solar power levels of more than 600 watt-hours per Martian day, or sol (100 watt-hours is the amount of energy required to light a 100-watt bulb for one h ... more Spirit To Head North For The Winter 
Pasadena CA (SPX) Nov 05, 2007With Martian winter approaching, the science and engineering teams have been hard pressed to select a site where Spirit can spend the winter. After previously narrowing the list of candidates to two sites, Spirit's handlers decided to send the rover to the northern edge of the elevated plateau known as "Home Plate," which Spirit has been exploring for many months now. ... more Embry-Riddle And Zero Gravity To Collaborate On Weightless Flights 
Daytona Beach FL (SPX) Nov 05, 2007Researchers, teachers and students will have access to weightless and variable-gravity conditions under a new agreement between Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University and Zero Gravity Corp. (Zero-G). Embry-Riddle and Zero-G will work together to integrate weightless flights and space science workshops for K-12 teachers, develop experiment programs for high school and college students, and expand m ... more |
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Washington (AFP) Oct 31, 2007Two astronauts will try to fix a torn solar panel on the International Space Station during a space walk that has become crucial for the orbiting laboratory's mission, NASA said Wednesday. NASA plans to send the astronauts, members of the shuttle Discovery crew who arrived at the station last week, outside the orbiting laboratory on Friday to repair a solar wing that ripped when it was deplo ... more Panel on space station solar antenna rips
Washington (AFP) Oct 30, 2007NASA scientists were Tuesday examining the damage to a panel on a solar antenna on the International Space Station which ripped as it was repositioned by the crew of the shuttle Discovery. "The team is meeting right now to look at these many pictures and try to decide what exactly is causing the problem," said Mike Suffredini, the manager of the orbiting space station. "We don't clearly ... more US shuttle mission to ISS extended 
Washington (AFP) Oct 30, 2007NASA said on Tuesday it would extend the space shuttle Discovery's mission by one day to allow for a closer inspection of a flawed rotary joint that turns the solar arrays aboard the International Space Station. The decision was taken by the director of the orbiting space lab, Mike Suffredini, on Monday and relayed Tuesday to the Discovery crew by mission control in Houston. As the US sp ... more Spirit Continues Studies Of Rocks On Home Plate 
Pasadena CA (SPX) Oct 31, 2007Spirit is healthy and continues to investigate "Home Plate." After completing extensive studies of "Site 3" using the Moessbauer spectrometer and other instruments, the rover proceeded toward "Site 4." Meanwhile, it's already time for Spirit to start thinking about winter again. Over the coming weekend, the rover was scheduled to acquire long-baseline stereo images of Home Plate and surrounding ... more |
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Moscow (RIA Novosti) Oct 29, 2007What is most appealing about Oriental martial arts is the precise manner in which a set mission is accomplished, with an almost total lack of publicity. On October 4, with Russia and the U.S. apparently unable to do more than talk about flights to the Moon, China, strictly on schedule, launched a Long March 3A rocket carrying the satellite Chang-e 1 on a mission to map the Moon's surface. The sp ... more NASA crew completes second space walk, discovers damage 
Washington (AFP) Oct 28, 2007US astronauts completed the second of five spacewalks Sunday, beginning the relocation of a key supporting truss but also detecting a problem with one of the mechanisms supporting an key energy unit of the International Space Station. Damage was discovered in a joint supporting the station's solar arrays, a problem that NASA engineers will now have to solve. US astronaut Daniel Tani not ... more Mars Ice Shaken Not Stirred 
Boulder, CO (SPX) Oct 28, 2007Mars, like Earth, is a climate-fickle water planet. The main difference, of course, is that water on the frigid Red Planet is rarely liquid, preferring to spend almost all of its time traveling the world as a gas or churning up the surface as ice. That's the global picture literally and figuratively coming into much sharper focus as various Mars-orbiting cameras send back tomes of unprecedented ... more Discovery docks with International Space Station
Washington (AFP) Oct 25, 2007The US shuttle Discovery docked with the International Space Station on Thursday for a complex construction mission to pave the way for the installation of European and Japanese laboratories. The mission is also making space exploration history as shuttle Commander Pam Melroy, 46, and the station's crew chief, Peggy Whitson, 47, became the first women to hold the reins of the two spacecraft ... more
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