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Thursday, 25 September 2008 |
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The planet Venus is now visible very low in western sky right after sundown. This evening appearance of Venus will become even better in coming weeks as the planet rises higher and higher each night throughout the fall and winter. The brilliant “evening star” will be at its brightest on Feb. 19.
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Thursday, 25 September 2008 |
 Today, one year after, the intriguing story of the second Young Engineers Satellite (YES2) experiment has reached its conclusion. After a lengthy investigation, European engineers are now confident that they have solved most of the mysteries surrounding the fate of the student mission. |
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Thursday, 25 September 2008 |
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Returning for his fourth summer at JPL, Victor Mejia knows his way around the Lab. This year's focus: Writing software for JPL scientists. |
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Thursday, 25 September 2008 |
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As a college student, Gisselle Cunningham studies robotics and computer engineering. Her summer stint on a JPL robotics project was the perfect fit. |
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Wednesday, 24 September 2008 |
 Following a first stage of psychological testing, there are now only 192 highly talented individuals still in with a chance of becoming the new astronauts in ESA's European Astronaut Corps. |
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Tuesday, 23 September 2008 |
 Artemis, ESA's data relay satellite, successfully answered the call for emergency services from the ATV Control Centre due to anticipated outages at the NASA Space Centre in Houston, Texas. |
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Monday, 22 September 2008 |
 In a world in which human activity is beginning to alter atmospheric composition with substantial implications for climate and air quality, it is more pressing than ever that the scientists of tomorrow understand atmospheric processes and how the processes may change in order to anticipate the effects and minimise potential dangers. |
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Friday, 19 September 2008 |
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Friday, 19 September 2008 |
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Friday, 19 September 2008 |
 Space is a source of inexhaustible fascination, discoveries and research. For four years 'Space' has reported on a wide variety of extraterrestrial developments. Some of these themes are explored again in a special programme, the 100th edition. |
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Thursday, 18 September 2008 |
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The Milky Way galaxy is part of a group of galaxies, including several small “dwarf galaxies,” that interact with one another. The outer portion of the Milky Way, called its “halo,” is filled with clouds of gas, star clusters, dark matter and streams of stars gathered from those dwarf galaxies by the power of the Milky Way’s gravity. The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) revealed these multiple, previously unknown streams.
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Thursday, 18 September 2008 |
 ESA has released a new educational DVD and a 3-D Teaching Tool, adding to the suite of human spaceflight related education products available for school teachers to use in the classroom. |
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Wednesday, 17 September 2008 |
 School children aged 6-12 are invited to take part in a competition to design a t-shirt for ESA astronaut Frank De Winne to wear during his mission to the International Space Station next year. The winner, and all their classmates, will get to talk to De Winne in space. |
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Tuesday, 16 September 2008 |
 The new name of the European GMES Programme (Global Monitoring for Environment and Security) has been unveiled: Kopernikus. The European Commission Vice President Günter Verheugen announced the name today at the GMES 2008 Lille forum. |
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Sunday, 14 September 2008 |
 Space technology is now being used to help Spanish ham experts ensure that hams awarded the highly prized ?jamon? label are worthy of the name. Technology used to measure the liquid shift that occurs in an astronaut?s body in microgravity has been developed to measure the water retention in cured hams. |
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Friday, 12 September 2008 |
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All ISS systems continue to function nominally, except those noted previously or below. |
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Friday, 12 September 2008 |
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NASA to Offer Rare and High-Potential Technologies Related to Sensing, Global Positioning and Computer Systems at Ocean Tomo's October 30th Live Intellectual Property Auction |
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Friday, 12 September 2008 |
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Weldon Says Russian Waiver Means Pink Slips for KSC |
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Friday, 12 September 2008 |
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NASA Spaceline Current Awareness 22 August 2008 |
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Friday, 12 September 2008 |
On Friday, Sep. 19, see the moon moving in front of the Pleiades cluster. |
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Friday, 12 September 2008 |
What has UV radiation meant to life on Earth? |
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Friday, 12 September 2008 |
Learn more about NASA's STS-125 mission to revamp the Hubble Space Telescope. |
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Friday, 12 September 2008 |
A scientist has used radio waves to transmit solar power between two islands. |
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Friday, 12 September 2008 |
Dust devils raging across the arctic plains of Mars were caught on film by NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander. |
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Friday, 12 September 2008 |
A U.S. Senator is pushing to extend NASA seats on Russian spacecraft. |
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Friday, 12 September 2008 |
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Friday, 12 September 2008 |
Hurricane Ike has delayed a cargo ship's arrival at the space station. |
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Friday, 12 September 2008 |
NASA moved shuttle Endeavour closer to launch while JSC closed for a hurricane. |
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Friday, 12 September 2008 |
Swedish researchers are developing a submersible to explore thick ice caps. |
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Friday, 12 September 2008 |
Gamma-ray burst most distant object visible to naked eye, revises theory of formation. |
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Friday, 12 September 2008 |
A spectacular nearby star explosion observed in 1843 is now thought to be related to a class of distant supernova imposters that seem to explode periodically yet remain intact. |
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Friday, 12 September 2008 |
NASA's Ares I moon rocket passed a key review late Wednesday. |
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