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Today, July 29th, is the 58th anniversary of NASA’s creation. continue reading...
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Early this morning, the final mission of NASA’s 30 year shuttle program began with the lift off the Atlantis space shuttle. continue reading...
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WISE is expected to find thousands of asteroids, dozens of brown dwarfs and some say maybe a new planet! continue reading...
This is amazing footage! Click here for more info on the project. Watch: continue reading...
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Good call Buzz. From The Tech Herald:
Legendary Moon walker and NASA spaceman Buzz Aldrin has said the race to establish a permanent Moon base should be the result of international cooperation with the real focus on a manned mission to Mars. continue reading...
It’s new and clever, ScienceStage.com is a new-style online portal for science, academic teaching and practice, bridging significant gaps in scientific learning and a great research tool for students just returning to school or for people who are just eager to learn more.
“ScienceStage.com is a virtual conference room, lecture hall, laboratory, library and meeting venue all in one. It offers new methods of scientific presentation, scientific discourse and academic knowledge transfer by using video clips, audio extracts and text features. Research groups can be formed in the interests of academic networking. Science is thereby linked to a global network, and finally made accessible to a broader worldwide public.” continue reading...
NASA has put off the planned launch of its next-generation Orion spacecraft for a year, a setback to efforts to fly a successor to its aging space shuttles, the space agency announced Monday.
“September 2014 is when we are saying we will launch the first crew on the Orion,” program manager Jeff Hanley told reporters in a conference call Monday. continue reading...
Virgin Galactic’s Sir Richard Branson and Scaled Composites’ Steve Rutan walk past EVE, the newly christened WhiteKnightTwo carrier aircraft.
The commercial plane—unveiled on July 28, 2008, in California—will carry a six-passenger SpaceShipTwo craft up to 50,000 feet (15,240 meters) before releasing it to continue the journey into space under its own power. continue reading...
