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Thursday, 16 October 2008 |
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NASA has increased the maximum ordering value of a contract with Stinger Ghaffarian Technologies (SGT) Inc., by $49.2 million to support the Applied Engineering and Technology Directorate at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. |
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Thursday, 16 October 2008 |
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NASA will host a media teleconference today beginning at approximately 4 p.m. EDT, to discuss issues recently experienced with the Hubble Space Telescope. |
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Thursday, 16 October 2008 |
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All ISS systems continue to function nominally, except those noted previously or below. |
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Thursday, 16 October 2008 |
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SPACE.com Image of the Day
NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander uncovers an ice layer in this 3D image.  |
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Thursday, 16 October 2008 |
 European space scientists are getting closer to unravelling the origin of Mars? larger moon, Phobos. Thanks to a series of close encounters by ESA?s Mars Express spacecraft, the moon looks almost certain to be a ?rubble pile?, rather than a single solid object. However, mysteries remain about where the rubble came from. |
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Thursday, 16 October 2008 |
 The foreseen 27 October launch date of GOCE has had to be postponed to allow the enquiry board time to conclude its work.
A new launch date will be announced here as soon as possible. |
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Wednesday, 15 October 2008 |
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NASA Advisory Council Chairman Harrison "Jack" H. Schmitt announced Thursday he was leaving the council. Fellow council member Kenneth Ford will succeed him as chairman effective immediately. |
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Wednesday, 15 October 2008 |
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About three times a second, a 10,000-year-old stellar corpse sweeps a beam of gamma-rays toward Earth. |
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Wednesday, 15 October 2008 |
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The following is a statement by NASA Administrator Michael Griffin after the signing by the president of the NASA Authorization Act of 2008 |
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Wednesday, 15 October 2008 |
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All ISS systems continue to function nominally, except those noted previously or below. |
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Wednesday, 15 October 2008 |
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SPACE.com Image of the Day
NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope takes two views of Comet Holmes.  |
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Wednesday, 15 October 2008 |
 Climate change is one of the greatest environmental threats facing the planet and is driving biodiversity loss, affecting both individual species and their ecosystems. |
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Wednesday, 15 October 2008 |
 The Eighth European Mars Conference (EMC 8) will take place at the University of Antwerp, Belgium, on 17 and 18 October. The theme of the conference is Columbus, Quest for a New World, looking forward to a time when humans will escape the bonds of Earth and venture forth to explore distant worlds. |
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Tuesday, 14 October 2008 |
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The astronauts, cosmonauts and spaceflight participant aboard the International Space Station will participate in a news conference at 12:20 p.m. CDT, Monday, Oct. 20. Reporters at participating NASA centers may ask questions. |
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Tuesday, 14 October 2008 |
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Space shuttle Atlantis is scheduled to roll back from Launch Pad 39A to the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Monday, Oct. 20, to await launch on its mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope. |
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Tuesday, 14 October 2008 |
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SPACE.com Image of the Day
A second-generation spaceflyer blasts off on a Russian Soyuz spacecraft.  |
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Tuesday, 14 October 2008 |
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Saturn?s serene appearance belies the roiling atmosphere beneath the clouds that is producing features such as cyclones. |
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Tuesday, 14 October 2008 |
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Soyuz TMA-13/17S docked smoothly at the FGB nadir port at 4:26am EDT, seven minutes ahead of time, with Expedition 18 crewmembers CDR-18 Michael Fincke, Soyuz CDR/FE-1-18 Yuri Lonchakov, and SFP Richard Garriott. |
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Tuesday, 14 October 2008 |
 ESA astronaut Frank De Winne is currently in training ahead of his long-duration mission to the International Space Station scheduled for next year. Accompanied by André Kuipers, his back-up for the mission, De Winne was recently at the European Astronaut Centre in Cologne, Germany, to receive experiment training. View photos of the training in the special minigallery. |
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Tuesday, 14 October 2008 |
 One of the major events of the space calendar, the 59th International Astronautical Congress (IAC), was held in Glasgow, Scotland, between 28 September and 3 October. Joining more than 2,000 space professionals from around the world who attended the conference were 26 students sponsored by the ESA Education Office. |
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Tuesday, 14 October 2008 |
 Amongst the supplies and equipment delivered to the International Space Station today with the successful docking of the Russian Soyuz TMA-13 spacecraft is BIO-4, a set of four ESA biology experiments. |
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Monday, 13 October 2008 |
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All ISS systems continue to function nominally, except those noted previously or below. Columbus Day - off-duty for CDR Volkov, FE-1 Kononenko, FE-2 Chamitoff. |
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Monday, 13 October 2008 |
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SPACE.com Image of the Day
A star-forming cloud is revealed in infrared, visible light and X-ray.  |
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Monday, 13 October 2008 |
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NASA will hold a series of news briefings on Monday, Nov. 3, to preview the upcoming space shuttle Endeavour mission that will outfit the International Space Station for six-person crews. |
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Monday, 13 October 2008 |
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This month we have a trick -- and a treat! |
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Monday, 13 October 2008 |
 Gamma-ray bursts, powerful glares of high-energy that wash through the Universe once every day or so are, for a brief time, the brightest objects in the gamma-ray sky. ESA?s Integral gamma-ray observatory has observed several low-luminosity gamma-ray bursts, confirming the existence of an entire population of weaker bursts hardly noticed so far. |
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Friday, 10 October 2008 |
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Friday, 10 October 2008 |
 Today, the last day of World Space Week, marked the official opening of the exhibition 'Space ? the last frontier' by the Portuguese Minister of Science, Technology and Higher Education, Jose Mariano Gago. One of the most impressive exhibits is a 1:10 scale model of the International Space Station, lent for the occasion by ESA. |
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Friday, 10 October 2008 |
 Four teams of students sponsored by ESA are jubilant after their experiments returned safely to Earth at the end of the latest Balloon Experiments for University Students (BEXUS) campaign inside the Arctic Circle. After many months of hard work and preparation, the successful conclusion was well worth waiting for. |
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Friday, 10 October 2008 |
 Scientists using ESA?s Venus Express are trying to observe whether Earth is habitable. Silly, you might think, when we know that Earth is richly stocked with life. In fact, far from being a pointless exercise, Venus Express is paving the way for an exciting new era in astronomy. |
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Thursday, 09 October 2008 |
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NASA EDGE does a few laps on the ISS, the moon and Mars with NASA Glenn Research Center?s Exercise Countermeasures Team. |
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Thursday, 09 October 2008 |
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Dust devils have been photographed raging across the arctic plains of Mars. They were captured by NASA’s Phoenix Mars Lander, which saw at least six of the whirlwinds. The dust devils often occur when the Sun warms Mars’ surface.
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