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Saturday
Mar 13 2010
14:28 UTC

Space tweeting

... few weeks ago, International Space Station astronaut Soichi Noguchi took an amazing picture of Endeavour re-entering Earth's atmosphere. He has been busily snapping away at the Earth and posting the pictures on his Twitter feed. You really should be following him!Recently, he unknowingly did me a big favor by posting this incredible shot of

Posted by Bad Astronomy

Friday
Mar 12 2010
14:24 UTC

Sandswept world

Hot on the heels of the post the other day about the winds on Mars blowing the sand dunes and visibly moving them across the planet's surface comes this new satellite image of a huge sandstorm raging across the planet:Of course, I'd forgive you if you interpret my saying "the planet" as meaning Mars. However,

Posted by Bad Astronomy

Thursday
Mar 11 2010
07:42 UTC

NASA manager says Shuttle Extension Possible; Key Issue Is Money not Safety

NASA Shuttle program manager John Shannon said on Tuesday (Mar 9) that the Space Shuttle Program can indeed be safely extended beyond the existing plan to retire the fleet after completing the four missions currently remaining to fly by the end of 2010. The key issue now is money not safety. Where the

Posted by Universe Today

Wednesday
Mar 10 2010
08:30 UTC

Estensione del programma Space Shuttle, nessun problema tecnologico

... proposta di bilancio NASA per il 2011. Alcuni senatori e membri del Congresso hanno per espresso il loro supporto per estendere i voli della navetta spaz

Posted by News Spazio

Tuesday
Mar 09 2010
19:17 UTC

Launch Pad 2010 open for, um, launch

... year, I attended the NASA-sponsored Launch Pad Workshop, a week-long camp in Laramie, Wyoming, to help science fiction authors learn astronomy. That way, they can get ideas and write more accurate stories! It was a lot of fun, and I had a fantastic time. Registration is open again for Launch Pad 2010, with guest speaker

Posted by Bad Astronomy

Monday
Mar 08 2010
15:50 UTC

Obama to Unveil "Ambitous" Plan for NASA

... "ambitious plan for NASA that sets the agency on a reinvigorated path of space exploration," according to a press release from the White House. The President will host a conference on April 15, inviting space officials and leaders to discuss the new budget and plan

Posted by Universe Today

Monday
Mar 08 2010
10:00 UTC

Ad aprile conferenza del Presidente americano Barak Obama sullesplorazione spaziale

... intende tracciare per la NASA dopo la presentazione della proposta di Budget 2011 dello scorso febbraio. Il Presiendente americano Barak Obama terrà il 15 aprile prossimo una conferenza in Florida per discutere l'approccio della sua amministrazione verso l'esplorazione spaziale americana. La Casa Bianca ha dichiarato che il Pre

Posted by News Spazio

Monday
Mar 08 2010
04:03 UTC

Kepler Anniversary

On March 6, 2009, the Delta II launch vehicle carrying Kepler lifted off from Launch Complex 17-B at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. Please visit OrbitalHub to read more...

Posted by OrbitalHub

Saturday
Mar 06 2010
05:06 UTC

Bolden: There is No "Plan B" In Development

... the newly proposed NASA budget after members of Congress indicated they wanted to reject a White House proposal to cancel the Constellation program and hire private companies to bring astronauts to the ISS.

Posted by Universe Today

Friday
Mar 05 2010
15:25 UTC

Podcast: Behind the Scenes at NASA TV

... back home watching on NASA

Posted by Universe Today

Friday
Mar 05 2010
00:59 UTC

Delta 4 Launch of GOES-P

SLC-37B, Cape Canaveral, Florida -A Delta 4 rocket carrying the GOES P weather satellite has lifted off from the Cape. The rocket at 6:57 p. m. (2357 GMT) after upper level winds and a last-minute technical problem delayed the launch by 40 minutes. After reaching orbit, GOES-P will become GOES-15. The satellite will be used to monitor

Posted by SpaceNut

Thursday
Mar 04 2010
18:33 UTC

Just In Time For the Last

The best Shuttle launch photo ever taken.

Posted by wanderingspace

Thursday
Mar 04 2010
15:00 UTC

JWST shade in the made

... Space Telescope is NASA's successor to Hubble. Mind you, it's not a replacement: JWST will see in the infrared, peering deeper into the Universe with its ginormous 6 meter unfoldable mirror than Hubble can. But that infrared part is important. Objects that are warm give off IR light, and if you don't cool

Posted by Bad Astronomy

Thursday
Mar 04 2010
13:00 UTC

BLUE MARBLE NEXT GENERATION, la nostra Terra dallo spazio ad altissima definizione

... spettacolari provengono dal NASA Goddard Space Flight Center e sono le più dettagliate mai prodotte in precedenza, all'interno del programma chiamato "Blue Marble Next Generation". Le prime fotografie dell'intero globo terrestre e che gli valsero il soprannome di "Blue Marble" furono scattare negli anni '60 dagli astronauti del progetto Apollo. Adesso per i dettagli e la risoluzione sono tali da rendere le nuove immagini davero meravigliose. Esse sono

Posted by News Spazio

Thursday
Mar 04 2010
09:00 UTC

Programma Space Shuttle: addio oppure no?

(Immagine, fonte NASA)NEWS SPAZIO :- Nel dibattito politico americano non è mai cessata la discussione se permettere al programma Space Shuttle di concludersi quest'anno come pianificato (con gli ultimi 4 voli rimasti) oppure se continuare a volare. Nella proposta di Budget 2011 presentata dall'amministrazione del Presidente Barak Obama lo scorso febbraio viene confermato il pensionamento della navetta americana a fine 2010. Chiudere il programma Shuttle significa non avere più un ac...

Posted by News Spazio

Wednesday
Mar 03 2010
22:42 UTC

Spirit Hunkered Down for Winter; Stuck Forever ? Maybe Not !

The plucky Mars rover Spirit´ may yet rove again !She´ll just have to outwit and outlast the unavoidably harsh cold and desperately low power levels of the looming winter in Mars southern hemisphere. Rather long odds to be sure – but she´s done it before. Remember – at this moment

Posted by Universe Today

Wednesday
Mar 03 2010
15:00 UTC

Three iPhone science apps

Three iPhone apps recently came out that pertain to some favorite topics on this blog, so here's a quick roundup of them. 1) John Cook, like me, got tired of hearing the same old long-debunked claims from global warming deniers being used over and over again, so he created an app debunking these claims. Called Skeptical

Posted by Bad Astronomy

Wednesday
Mar 03 2010
02:49 UTC

Buzz Aldrin Says We Can Get to Mars by 2019

... budget/direction for NASA. But, now, Buzz wants to add a little "oomph" to the underlying goal of getting to Mars by providing one thing that many think is missing from President Obama's proposed budget: heavy

Posted by Universe Today

Tuesday
Mar 02 2010
15:00 UTC

Centinaia di milioni di tonnellate di ghiaccio dacqua sulla Luna, by NASA Mini-SAR

... lunare dallo strumento NASA Mini-SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar) ospitato a bordo della sonda lunare indiana Chandrayaan-1 durante la sua missione dell'anno scorso. Sebbene la quantità totale di ghiaccio d'acqua dipenda dalla profondità di ciascun cratere è stato stimato che

Posted by News Spazio

Tuesday
Mar 02 2010
07:50 UTC

Phoenix Still Silent as Martian Ice Recedes

... long silent vehicle. NASA´s attempts to reestablish contact with Phoenix were restarted in January 2010 and timed to coincide with the onset of springtime and disappearance of ice at her location in the

Posted by Universe Today

Monday
Mar 01 2010
22:59 UTC

LPSC: NASA Night

Live blogging will begin here at 5:30pm5:10pm A presentation will be by Dr Laurie Leshin, Deputy Associate administrator, Exploration Systems Mission Directorate. Title : “New Oppurtunities in the President's FY2011 Budget”5:12pm Speaker is not dressed in back. While there are people downstairs pre-lecture drinking in the bar, I don't think it will be

Posted by Star Stryder

Monday
Mar 01 2010
22:50 UTC

It’s been quiet…too quiet

... haven't been able to post over the weekend as I've been pretty busy. On Friday, I was at a Forensics tournament and on Saturday, I was at Science Olympiad Regionals. During the time I went “quiet” on the internet a lot has gone on! So I'm not going to try and talk about everything,

Posted by SpaceNut

Monday
Mar 01 2010
15:00 UTC

Should the Shuttle program be extended?

... delays). After that, NASA will rely heavily on private companies to ferry cargo to orbit, and eventually humans as well. My

Posted by Bad Astronomy

Monday
Mar 01 2010
02:48 UTC

STS 130: Cool Night Landing Video from the Shuttle Strip

For my farewell from the Cape (for now) and STS 130 coverage, please check out this cool video of the STS 130 Night Landing which took place exactly 1 week ago on Sunday night, Feb 21. It´s been a pleasure and an honor to work as a team for Universe Today; Nancy Atkinson and Ken

Posted by Universe Today

Sunday
Feb 28 2010
00:34 UTC

KSC Workers Rally to Continue Constellation and Extend Shuttle

About 2,000 people turned out for a "Save Our Space Exploration" jobs rally in Titusville, Florida on Saturday. Organized by union leaders, the event focused on preserving jobs at Kennedy Space Center, vital to the economy on the Space Coast. "Canceling the Constellation program is a movement away from what we Floridians

Posted by Universe Today

Saturday
Feb 27 2010
15:46 UTC

X-37 B, lo spazioplano militare americano arriva al sito di lancio a Cape Canaveral

(Immagine, fonte US Air Force)NEWS SPAZIO :- X-37B è il nome di un progetto militare americano per un veicolo spaziale "unmanned" e riusabile la cui forma ricorda parecchio un piccolo Space Shuttle. Luned scorso il primo veicolo di test orbitale (OTV, Orbital Test Vehicle) ha raggiunto Cape Canaveral in Florida in previsione del primo lancio programmato per il prossimo 19 Aprile 2010 alle ore 10 PM EDT (equivalenti alle quattro di mattina del giorno dopo qui in Italia). X-37B è lungo...

Posted by News Spazio

Saturday
Feb 27 2010
08:22 UTC

NASA ed ASI annunciano che sarà il modulo MPLM LEONARDO a restare permanentemente sulla Stazione Spaziale Internazionale come PMM

... 26 Febbraio 2010 la NASA e l'Agenzia Spaziale Italiana (ASI) hanno annunciato ufficialmente che uno dei tre moduli logistici MPLM (Multi Purpose Logistic Module) realizzati dall'Italia per l'Agenzia Spaziale Americana diventerà parte integrante e permanente della Stazione Spaziale Internazionale, cambiando denominazione in PMM (Pressurized Multipurpose Module). Avevo già scritto vari post su quella che fino ad ora era solo una propostahttp://newsspazio. blogspot. com/2009/09/m

Posted by News Spazio

Friday
Feb 26 2010
21:45 UTC

Improving the Conversation: NASA Begins Upgrade to Deep Space Network

All the robotic missions to various points in our solar system wouldn't be possible if not for the Deep Space Network. It's not just sending commands and receiving data, but also orbit determination, or keeping track of where the spacecraft are with radiometric tracking data so that spacecraft navigators can get probes exactly where the

Posted by Universe Today

Thursday
Feb 25 2010
14:09 UTC

Happy anniversary, Terra!

... Terra the satellite. NASA's Earth-observing bird first opened its eyes on February 24, 2000, and for the past decade has been dutifully watching our planet. It has looked upon us at different wavelengths, different resolutions, at different times of day, and different times of year. It has tracked changes, and

Posted by Bad Astronomy

Wednesday
Feb 24 2010
14:08 UTC

NASA talks global warming

The Earth is warming up. That's a fact. Denialists will deny (and no doubt will amp up the noise in the comments below) but the truth is the Earth has warmed on average over a degree Fahrenheit in the past century or so, and the past decade, 2000 – 2009, was the warmest on record.

Posted by Bad Astronomy

Tuesday
Feb 23 2010
22:34 UTC

GOES-P Set for Launch

... satellites built for NASA by

Posted by SpaceNut

Tuesday
Feb 23 2010
15:00 UTC

La NASA presenta la Previsione di Bilancio 2011

... per ogni Direttorato NASA comprese le richieste di budger presentate recentemente dal Preside

Posted by News Spazio

Tuesday
Feb 23 2010
02:25 UTC

NASA: Can The iPhone Keep The Vision Alive? Yes It Can!

... probably the best move NASA has made since launching a web page to prove why the agency was still relevant. While that last manuver obviously failed (as Obama is outsourcing the Moon to the private sector), their latest iPhone app may help show the public how fun (not to mention difficult) it is

Posted by Colony Worlds

Monday
Feb 22 2010
20:47 UTC

Could the Space Shuttle Program Be Extended to 2015?

... $200 million to the NASA budget for 2010 and between $1. 5 – $2 billion a year

Posted by Universe Today

Monday
Feb 22 2010
20:45 UTC

Pic of the Shuttle reentry... from space!

The Space Shuttle mission STS-130 ended last night with the Orbiter Endeavour safely landing in Florida at 10:20 p. m. Eastern time yesterday. I live-tweeted the event, and so I was too busy to pay much attention to the Twitter feed from Soichi Noguchi, an astronaut onboard the the International Space Station. I wish I had,

Posted by Bad Astronomy

Monday
Feb 22 2010
19:30 UTC

Falcon 9 getting ready for maiden voyage

President Obama's plan for NASA in the future is to rely heavily on private industry. One of the companies preparing for this is Space X, which has tested its first generation Falcon 1 rocket successfully. The Falcon 9 is a much larger rocket capable of carrying a much heavier payload, but has not yet flown.

Posted by Bad Astronomy

Monday
Feb 22 2010
07:21 UTC

Touchdown of Endeavour (STS-130)

Space shuttle Endeavour is home after two weeks in space, having delivered the final U. S. module and a “room with a view” to the International Space Station. STS-130 Commander George Zamka guided Endeavour to a landing at the Kennedy Space Center's Shuttle Landing Facility at 10:20 p. m. EST, to wrap up a 5. 7 million mile

Posted by SpaceNut

Sunday
Feb 21 2010
04:13 UTC

Endeavour Crew Preps for Sunday Landing as Showers Threaten Delay

(Editor's Note: Ken Kremer is at the Kennedy Space Center for Universe Today covering the flight of Endeavour)The crew of Endeavour is packing up their gear in the crew cabin and preparing for a Sunday evening (Feb. 21) landing at the Shuttle Landing Facility at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida as a forecast

Posted by Universe Today

Friday
Feb 19 2010
18:00 UTC

Volcano on volcano action

... know I just posted a volcano image from the Terra Earth-observing satellite, but another just came in and it's so beautiful I can't help myself. So here's a little bit of awesome for your Friday afternoon. Behold!See? Told you. What we have here are two volcanoes on February 13 erupting simultaneously in Kamchatka. The

Posted by Bad Astronomy

Friday
Feb 19 2010
11:30 UTC

75 milioni di dollari NASA per finanziare esperimenti su veicoli suborbitali commerciali

... proposta del Budget NASA per il 2011 il Presidente americano BaraK Obama ha infatti stanziato 75 milioni di dollari da utilizzare in cinque anni proprio per il Commercial Reusable S

Posted by News Spazio

Thursday
Feb 18 2010
22:38 UTC

Bolden Visits

... questions and concern about NASA's new direction. One woman, a senior engineer with Orion, was in tears asking, "Did you fight for us?" With the end of the shuttle program, many were concerned about jobs and expertise that would be lost. Bolden tried to reassure everyone that human spa

Posted by GM=tc^3

Thursday
Feb 18 2010
17:14 UTC

Jurassic Space: Ancient Galaxies Come Together After Billions of Years

Credit: NASA, ESA, S. Gallagher (The University of Western Ontario), and J. English (University of Manitoba)Imagine finding a living dinosaur in your backyard. Astronomers have found the astronomical equivalent of prehistoric life in our intergalactic backyard: a group of small, ancient galaxies that has waited 10 billion years to come together. These "late bloomers" are on their way to building a large elliptical galaxy. Such encounters between dwarf galaxies are normally seen billions of light-

Posted by astronomy cmarchesin

Thursday
Feb 18 2010
11:00 UTC

SpaceX, primo volo inaugurale del nuovo razzo commerciale Falcon 9 il 22 Marzo?

NEWS SPAZIO :- Lo scorso 11 Febbraio 2010 la società SpaceX ha annunciato che tutto il "flight hardware" per il lancio inaugurale del razzo Falcon 9 è arrivato al sito di lancio, lo SLC-40 (Space Launch Complex 40) al Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. Dopo il completamento dell'integrazione di tutto il veicolo (47 metri di lunghezza per 3,6 metri di diametro) vi sarà la preparazione al primo lancio di test, che potrà avvenire anche il prossimo mese. Una prim...

Posted by News Spazio

Thursday
Feb 18 2010
01:01 UTC

How would you “Open NASA”?

... each agency, including NASA, has been given an “IdeaScale” site

Posted by The Martian Chronicles

Wednesday
Feb 17 2010
22:00 UTC

Rocket launch blows away the sky

Perched on top of an Atlas V rocket, on February 11 the Solar Dynamics Observatory launched into space. About a minute after leaving the Earth, the rocket did two things: it passed the speed of sound, and screamed past a sundog, a rainbow-colored optical effect in the sky caused by ice crystals. And when it did,

Posted by Bad Astronomy

Tuesday
Feb 16 2010
22:36 UTC

Ustream chat with Lou Friedman and Bill Nye

Ah, how I have fallen in love with the Planetary Society and their Blog! They have not only a very nicely designed website but fantastic blog entries daily, that give me a fill of my Astrogoodness. Anyways, according to Emily Lakdawalla on Thursday (February 18) at 11:00 Pacific (19:00UTC) there will be a live

Posted by SpaceNut

Tuesday
Feb 16 2010
14:52 UTC

Wait, how big is NASA´s budget again?

... is. You might think NASA gets a huge amount of money — a lot of people do — but in fact

Posted by Bad Astronomy

Monday
Feb 15 2010
21:54 UTC

CICLOPS Releases Latest Images of Mimas & Calypso

... latest images from NASA´s Cassini spacecraft of Saturn's moons, Mimas and Calypso. Mimas is best known for its enormous crater on one side, which astronomers have calculated was just a little smaller than would have been necessary to completely destroy the moon. The images are available

Posted by SpaceNut

Monday
Feb 15 2010
18:29 UTC

Our Future in Space

Depends on Growing NASA AnewThis image of the space shuttle is one of the most evocative and beautiful I've ever seen taken on orbit. It says volumes about our ability to regularly visit space and establish a threshold beyond the confines of our home planet. What does this image say to you? If you are one

Posted by TheSpacewriter's Ramblings

Monday
Feb 15 2010
16:54 UTC

Cupola Bay Window bolted to face Earth; Stunning 38 Second Video

The Cupola, which is akin to a bay window´ in a house back on earth, was relocated overnight to the Tranquility modules Earth-facing (nadir) port and put in place at 1:25 AM EST this morning. The so called Room with a View´ was then securely latched and bolted into place. Cupola is

Posted by Universe Today

Monday
Feb 15 2010
13:30 UTC

Mars Rover Spirit parcheggiato per linverno marziano

(Immagine, fonte NASA/JPL-Caltech)NEWS SPAZIO :- Continuamo a parlare del Mars Exploration Rover Spirit (ormai Stationary Scientific Platform), insabbiato da più di 10 mesi nella regione Home Plate di Marte. Dopo aver deciso di concludere i tentativi per liberarlo dalle sabbie di Marte e trasformarlo cos in una piattaforma scientifica stazionaria i tecnici di missione hanno concluso anche le manovre per "parcheggiarlo" per tutto l'inverno che ormai è prossimo. Nessun altro comando d...

Posted by News Spazio

Monday
Feb 15 2010
12:29 UTC

Shuttle Silhouette

Sorry for the lack of updates in the past week. Things are a bit busy right now as I try to crunch numbers in time to finish a poster for a conference and finish a fellowship renewal (luckily they rely on the same results). Meanwhile, enjoy this excellent photo of the space shuttle taken from

Posted by The Martian Chronicles

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