News Topic: Nasa

Wednesday November 25 2009

Shuttle Atlantis Leaves Space Station, Headed Home

Shuttle Atlantis Undocked From The International Space Station Early Wednesday, Headed Home With One Astronaut Eager To Hold His Newborn Daughter For The First Time And Another... more »
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By (AP) CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.
Tuesday November 24 2009

Shuttle, Station Crews Seal Hatches For Departure

After A Week Together, The Crews Of Shuttle Atlantis And The International Space Station Said Goodbye Tuesday And Closed The Hatches Between Them Atlantis Will... more »
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By (AP) CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida
Monday November 23 2009

Astronaut Suit Problem Delays Spacewalk No. 3

The Third And Final Spacewalk Of Space Shuttle Atlantis' Mission Is Being Held Up By A Suit Problem A Valve On The Drink Bag In Astronaut Robert Satcher Jr... more »
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By (AP) CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida

Astronauts Take Spacewalk No. 3 After Suit Snag

The Third And Final Spacewalk Of Space Shuttle Atlantis' Mission Is Finally Under Way Monday's Spacewalk Was Delayed An Hour By Problems With An Astronaut's... more »
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By (AP) CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.
Sunday November 22 2009

Aldrin Over The Moon At NASCAR Race

Apollo 11 Astronaut Buzz Aldrin Checked Out A New Kind Of Orbit: Watching Some Spins On A Nascar Track Aldrin, The Second Man To Walk On The Moon, Served As... more »
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By (AP) HOMESTEAD, Fla.

Astronaut’s Wait Over As Daughter Born Back Home

Astronaut Randolph Bresnik Is A New Dad Again, After Launching Into Space And Taking A Spacewalk, All For The First Time He Announced The Birth Of His Daughter,... more »
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By (AP) CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida.

Astronaut’s Baby Daughter Born As He Circles Earth

Astronaut Randolph Bresnik Jubilantly Welcomed His New Daughter Into The World Sunday As He Floated 220 Miles Above It Abigail Mae Bresnik Was Born As Her Father... more »
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By (AP) CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.
Saturday November 21 2009

Baby Can Wait As Expectant Dad Finishes Spacewalk

A Spacewalking Astronaut Put Aside The Impending Birth Of His Daughter And Blazed Through His First-ever Venture Outside The International Space Station On Saturday ... more »
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By (AP) CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.

Atlantis Astronauts Take 2nd Spacewalk Of Mission

Atlantis' Astronauts Are Taking Another Spacewalk Outside The International Space Station One Of The Spacewalkers, Randolph Bresnik, Is Still Awaiting Word... more »
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By (AP) CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida

Astronauts Finish Another Spacewalk, Still No Baby

A Spacewalking Astronaut Put Aside The Impending Birth Of His Daughter And Blazed Through His First-ever Venture Outside The International Space Station On Saturday ... more »
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By (AP) CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.
Friday November 20 2009

Astronauts Await Word Of Baby Girl On Earth

Atlantis' Astronauts Anxiously Awaited Word On The Birth Of One Crewman's Daughter Friday, As They Moved More Supplies Into The International Space Station And Geared Up For... more »
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By (AP) CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.
Monday November 16 2009

Leonid meteor shower to peak Tuesday

This year's Leonid meteor shower will peak Tuesday, forecasters say, producing mild but pretty sparks over the United States and a more intense outburst over Asia. more »
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By CNN
Friday November 13 2009

NASA: Spacecraft Confirms Water on Moon

Satellite That Crashed Into Crater Yields Debris With Presence of Water.. more »
3:48 PM
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By Associated Press
Friday October 09 2009

Shoot The Moon

NASA probe hits moon south pole looking for water more »
6:03 AM
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By Associated Press
Sunday October 04 2009

Space Program Sees First Round Of Layoffs

More than 250 contract workers have lost their jobs in the first round of layoffs related to the planned shutdown of the space shuttle program by the end of 2010. more »
12:08 PM
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By Associated Press
Friday September 11 2009

Space Shuttle Lands In California

Space shuttle Discovery and its seven astronauts are back on Earth after stormy weather in Florida detoured the shuttle to California. more »
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By Associated Press
Saturday August 29 2009

Third Time’s A Charm

After three tries, the space shuttle Discovery is finally en route to the international space station. more »
12:00 PM
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By Associated Press
Monday August 24 2009

NASA Preps Space Shuttle For Early Morning Launch

NASA is putting the finishing touches on Discovery for an early morning flight to the international space station. more »
9:47 AM
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By Associated Press
Comment by ickthus: who pays for NASA????? who do you think they are??? how do you think you got to type on a puter?? where do you think most of the things we use as “high… 1 Responses »
Saturday July 25 2009

Hubble reawakens, snaps image of Jupiter Scar

Revamped Hubble telescope captured image of Jupiter's mysterious new scar more »
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By CNN
Comment by carl: An amateur astronomer with a 14 inch telescope had to bring it to their attention. Wish I had a 14 inch telescope! Got a couple of smaller ones but the… 1 Responses »
Tuesday July 21 2009

NASA Going To Mars And Beyond

NASA's new boss says he would be "incredibly disappointed" if people aren't on Mars - or even beyond it - in his lifetime. more »
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By The Associated Press
Monday July 20 2009

Massive Moon Pie Marks 40th Anniversary Of Moon Landing

The moon pie is 40 inches in diameter, six inches high and weighs 55 pounds. more »
10:07 AM
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By The Associated Press
Comment by Surf: GOOD GRIEF….whatever happened to cakes, just plain ole cakes..I guess since it was “moon landing”, they HAD to have a moon pie…..Freddie… 3 Responses »
Thursday July 16 2009

NASA Refurbishes Video Copies of Moon Landing

With the help of Hollywood, those historic, grainy images of the first men on the moon never looked better. more »
2:28 PM
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By The Associated Press
Comment by KxVicious: Fake! view »
Tuesday July 14 2009

Shuttle Launch Delayed… Again

Perhaps the 6th attempt will be successful for NASA's Space Shuttle Endeavour. more »
3:24 AM
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By Associated Press
Monday July 13 2009

Landing On The Moon

New website will recreate the Apollo 11 mission in real time, as the 40th anniversary of the launch approaches. more »
3:01 AM
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By Associated Press
Comment by baydream: It was a fantastic time, 1969. I was a teenager (15) and remember it well. I still have newspapers that I saved from the Gemini and Apollo spaceflights.… 5 Responses »
Wednesday July 08 2009

Arctic Ice Disappearing

Satellite shows big thinning of old Arctic sea ice more »
6:05 AM
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By Associated Press
Comment by alabamaoutlaw: Temps fluctuations of less than one degree is nothing to worry about.If you look at the data available.I remember in the seventies it was going to be another… 16 Responses »
Tuesday June 02 2009

Shuttle Lands In Florida Nine Days After Landing On Earth

The shuttle made the trip from California anchored to the top of a Boeing 747. more »
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By Jamie Burch
Monday June 01 2009

Shuttle Atlantis Begins Piggyback Ride Home

A NASA Boeing 747 carrying the shuttle took off from Edwards Air Force Base. Atlantis landed in California May 24 because of poor weather in Florida. more »
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By The Associated Press
Friday May 29 2009

NASA Marks 50th Anniversary Of Monkeys In Space

Able and Miss Baker were lofted from Cape Canaveral on May 28, 1959, in the nose cone of an Army Jupiter missile. They traveled 360 miles into space during the 16-minute mission. more »
10:17 AM
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By The Associated Press
Comment by ickthus: the time of the moon landing i should say. 2 Responses »
Wednesday May 27 2009

Russia Capsule Blasts Off For Space Station

A Canadian astronaut, a Russian cosmonaut and a Belgian will join the three crew members already on board the space station. It will be the first time the station has had six permanent members. more »
4:54 AM
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By The Associated Press
Tuesday May 19 2009

Astronauts Say Goodbye To Hubble For Good

Shuttle Atlantis' astronauts dropped the observatory back into orbit Tuesday morning after working on it for nearly a week. more »
9:19 AM
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By The Associated Press
Thursday May 14 2009

Former Astronaut Withdraws Insanity Plea

Lisa Nowak is accused of driving 1,000 miles to confront a romantic rival and wearing astronaut diapers so she wouldn't have to stop. more »
6:29 PM
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By The Associated Press
Comment by Mom2AngelBaby: ewww, thats nasty of a woman to do..but who cares what she wore.. view »
Monday May 11 2009

Shuttle Atlantis Blasts Off On Last Hubble Mission

The telescope is in need of a $1 billion repair job. Astronauts will conduct five spacewalks to install new cameras, batteries and gyroscopes, and attempt to fix two broken science instruments. more »
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By The Associated Press
Sunday May 10 2009

Atlantis Set For Launch

After some major delays the space shuttle Atlantis is now set to blast off Monday afternoon for the Hubble Space Telescope. more »
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By Associated Press
Wednesday April 15 2009

Colbert Name To Be Used By NASA

Stephen Colbert won't get room named after him on Space Station, but he'll still have a presence there. more »
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By Associated Press
Wednesday March 25 2009

Roy Anderson Corp. Teams Up With NASA

Gulfport company gets five year, multi-million dollar contract to build test stand for space program. more »
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By Associated Press
Tuesday March 24 2009

Colbert In Space?

Write-in votes pushed "Colbert" to top of the list for names for new room on international space station. more »
3:37 AM
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By Associated Press
Saturday March 21 2009

Astronauts Preparing For Spacewalk

Two astronauts are getting ready to go out on a spacewalk and do some chores at the international space station. more »
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By The Associated Press
Tuesday March 17 2009

Discovery To Dock Today

Space shuttle and crew should arrive at the international space station late this afternoon. more »
3:52 AM
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By Associated Press
Thursday March 12 2009

International Space Station Evacuated

The three crew members took refuge for 11 minutes in the Soyuz escape capsule. NASA officials were worried about a possible collision with a piece of space junk. more »
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By The Associated Press
Wednesday March 11 2009

Tonight’s Launch Of Shuttle Discovery Cancelled

NASA has postponed the launch of space shuttle Discovery because of a gas leak. They're now shooting for a launch on Thursday night. more »
1:02 PM
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By The Associated Press
Thursday March 05 2009

NASA Launching Planet Hunting Spacecraft

The spacecraft is named Kepler after the German 17th-century astrophysicist and it will be on the lookout for possible Earths in one faraway corner of the galaxy. more »
12:58 PM
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By The Associated Press
Wednesday March 04 2009

Phew! Asteroid Barely Misses Earth

An asteroid about the size of one that blasted Siberia a century ago just buzzed the Earth. more »
1:52 PM
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By The Associated Press
Comment by SamRock: Send up some Exxon personnel to drill a hole in it then plant explosives in it. Hey, sounds like a movie… 4 Responses »
Tuesday February 24 2009

Satellite Troubles

NASA global warming satellite has troubled launch. more »
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By Associated Press
Tuesday February 17 2009

Famous Rocket Scientist Dies

German rocket scientist Konrad Dannenberg, a member of the Wernher von Braun team that helped put man on the moon, has died at a Huntsville rehabilitation center. more »
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By The Associated Press
Comment by KxVicious: “Rocket Scientist”? What ever happened to “Aerospace Engineer” or “Aerospace Physicist”? view »
Friday February 13 2009

“Catastrophic” Space Crash Spews Debris

Space Junk Generated From Satellite Collision Could Threaten Other Satellites For 10,000 Years. more »
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By CBS Interactive
Comment by bobcat: This is a good reason for why the earth is round.  You can only see so far down the road so why worry about it when you’ll never know what hit… 5 Responses »
Wednesday February 11 2009

U.S. And Russian Satellites Collide

A commercial Iridium communications satellite collided with a Russian satellite or satellite fragment, Tuesday, creating a cloud of wreckage in low-Earth orbit more »
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By CBS Interactive
Comment by KxVicious: Can we see this from here? view »
Tuesday January 20 2009

Name The Next Mars Rover

Time is running out for school children who want to help NASA name its next robotic Mars explorer. more »
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By The Associated Press
Thursday January 15 2009

Methane Discovery Could Mean Life on Mars

Scientists have discovered methane in Mars' atmosphere, raising the possibility that life might exist on the planet. more »
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By CNN
Friday December 19 2008

Ice melting Across Globe at Accelerating Rate

Between 1.5 trillion and 2 trillion tons of ice in Greenland, Antarctica and Alaska have melted at an accelerating rate since 2003 more »
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By CNN
Comment by carl: It would sort of be like that movie"ON THE BEACH” wouldn’t it? if everyone believed the end was very near.It’d be no holds barred on… 8 Responses »
Sunday December 07 2008

More Delays For Endeavor

Space shuttle Endeavour has to wait another day to make its cross-country return trip to Florida. more »
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By Associated Press
Comment by A1C Jacob Parker: I’m forecasting the weather for this thing right now. 1 Responses »

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