No-go for ‘Fly About’ Photo-Op at Space Station
[/caption] The international partners have decided against an historic ‘fly-about’ of the International Space Station, which would have provided one-of-a-kind…
Look to Orion and Help Measure the Darkness of Your Night Sky
[/caption] How dark are your skies? GLOBE at Night wants to know! Join the 6th annual worldwide GLOBE at Night…
Endeavour Rolls to Vehicle Assembly Building for Final Flight
[/caption]NASA’s Space Shuttle Program is inexorably and swiftly headed towards its finale. With shuttle Discovery orbiting some 200 miles overhead…
Sky & Telescope Magazine Editor Emeritus, Leif J. Robinson, Passes Away,
[/caption] For those of us who have dreamed over the stars for years while reading Sky & Telescope magazine, we…
Unique Perspective: Shuttle Launch as Seen from Airplane, Balloon, and Freefall
I thought I had a great view of space shuttle Discovery's final launch, seeing it from the Kennedy Space Center…
Scientists to go Suborbital for Research
[/caption] Think again if you believe the suborbital space market is exclusively for well-heeled tourists. The Southwest Research Institute has…
Meteorites May Have Delivered First Ammonia for Life on Earth
Researchers have teased ammonia of a carbon-containing meteorite from Antarctica, and propose that meteorites may have delivered that essential ingredient…
Review: Apollo 12 On the Ocean of Storms
[/caption] As one chapter in manned space flight draws to a close, it is human nature to look back, to…
Incredible Video of Shuttle Approaching ISS, Taken from Earth
[/caption] Award winning photographer Theirry Legault sent us a note about some amazing new video he shot of the space…
Another Ceasing Cepheid
[/caption] Earlier this year, I wrote an article about a Cepheid variable star named V19 in M31. This Cepheid was…