Space Exploration
Plausibility Check – Habitable Planets around Red Giants
[/caption] While planets orbiting twin stars are a staple of science fiction, another is having humans live on planets orbiting…
45 Years of Rendezvous and Docking in Space
On Thursday, the European ATV Johannes Kepler will dock with the International Space Station. Rendezvous and docking in space has…
Movies of Comet Tempel 1 Encounter by Stardust-NExT
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmvm7cvaiKY&feature=related Want to know what it feels like at close range to ride on a spaceship past a zooming comet…
Discovery’s final crew arrives at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center
[/caption] CAPE CANAVERAL – Arriving in their trademark T-38 Talon jets, the crew that will fly the last mission of…
Spectacular ATV Kepler Launch Photo Captured from Orbiting ISS
[/caption] Have you ever seen a space launch from orbit ? Check out the spectacular launch photo (above) of the…
NASA Weighs Risks of Unique Photo-Op at Space Station
[/caption] If all goes well and space shuttle Discovery arrives at the International Space Station the end of February, there…
Sun Erupts with Enormous X2 Solar Flare
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5ZiLl8hMBs Just in time for Valentine’s Day, [and the Stardust flyby of Comet Tempel 1] the Sun erupted with a…
NASA’s Stardust Discovers Human made Deep Impact Crater on Comet Tempel 1
[/caption] NASA’s aging and amazing Stardust space probe has at last discovered the human made crater created on Comet Tempel…
Stardust-NExT zooms by Comet Tempel 1 for Cosmic Encounter
[/caption] NASA’s Stardust-NExT comet chaser successfully zoomed by Comet Temple 1 exactly as planned a short while ago at 11:37…
Romantic Valentines Day Encounter Looms with Icy Comet
[/caption] At last, NASA embraces a romantic rendezvous in the dark void of deep space. And soon the whole world…