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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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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 »
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 »
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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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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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 »
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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 »
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 »
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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 »
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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 »
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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 »
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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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 »
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 »
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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 »
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 »
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 »
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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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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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 »
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 »
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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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Tuesday March 17 2009

Discovery To Dock Today

Space shuttle and crew should arrive at the international space station late this afternoon. more »
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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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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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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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
Comment by A1C Jacob Parker: I’m forecasting the weather for this thing right now. 1 Responses »
Wednesday December 03 2008

Study Illuminates Star Explosion From 16th Century

More than 400 years after Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe challenged established wisdom about the heavens by analyzing a strange new light in the sky, scientists say they've finally nailed down just what he saw. more »
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Sunday November 30 2008

Endeavour Lands Safely

Space shuttle makes a successful touch down in California after bad weather scrubs Florida landing more »
Thursday November 27 2008

Astronauts Share Freeze-Dried Thanksgiving Feast

On the menu - smoked turkey, rehydrated green beans and cornbread. more »
Monday October 27 2008

Astronauts Vote From Outer Space

The nearest polling place is 200 miles away, but those on board the International Space Station aren't forgetting to cast a ballot this election. more »
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Comment by butterflykisser101: WOW!!! view »
Monday October 20 2008

NASA Sends Shuttle Atlantis Back To Hangar

The Hubble Space Telescope broke down and stopped sending data. Now astronauts will need time to train for a telescope repair they hadn't planned on. more »
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Tuesday October 14 2008

Keeping Track of Climate Change

It can often seem like hard work keeping track of the changes happening to our planet. Another day, another new prediction. Another week, another warning. more »
Comment by rosepetal: climate change is part of the earths cycle. man can not control nature. we have enough problems confronting us without spending billons on somethin that… view »
Monday September 29 2008

Hubble Telescope Fails; NASA to Delay Shuttle

NASA said Monday that it is delaying its mission to the Hubble Space Telescope until next year because of a serious breakdown of the observatory in orbit. more »
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Wednesday September 24 2008

Weak Sun?

Sun's wind and output on extended dimmer switch more »
Tuesday September 23 2008

Rubber Ducks Aid NASA Study

As an organization they're used to investing billions of dollars in scientific experiments that further our knowledge of earth and space. more »
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Wednesday September 17 2008

Next Shuttle Mission In Jeopardy

Telescope batteries need to be replaced. more »
Wednesday July 30 2008

UK Hacker Loses Appeal Against US Extradition

Gary McKinnon is accused of breaking into Pentagon and NASA computers. more »
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Monday June 23 2008

NASA Job Cuts

A NASA leader today told a U.S. Senate panel that the agency anticipates losing 3,000 to 4,000 jobs at its launching site once shuttles stop flying. more »
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Wednesday June 18 2008

Solstice Moon Illusion

Sometimes you just can't believe your eyes. This week is one of those times. more »
Comment by BamaBob: Love a big moon! view »
Monday June 16 2008

Repairing Shuttle Launch Pad Damage

More than two weeks after Discovery's blastoff battered the launch pad, NASA is close to nailing down its repair strategy. NASA insists the damage can be mended in time for the next shuttle flight in October. more »
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Wednesday June 04 2008

Toilet Troubles In Space

Two weeks after the only toilet broke aboard the international space station, Russian Mission Control has some welcome news for astronauts: you can "start using it." more »
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