The water on the planet Mars
Posted in Science on May 23rd, 2008 No Comments »
Satellite radar mapping of North Pole of the planet Mars has revealed ice cap age that was formed with 5 million years ago.
Substantial job cuts after the space shuttle retirement
Posted in Technology on Apr 3rd, 2008 1 Comment »
More than 8,000 NASA contractor jobs in the nation’s manned space program may possibly be eliminated after the space shuttle program is shut down in 2010.
The number of civil servants is expected to remain approximately the same, but dramatic job cuts are likely among private contractors as NASA transitions to the Constellation program programmed to [...]
First U.S. satellite was launched 50 years ago
Posted in Science on Feb 1st, 2008 No Comments »
On January 31, 1958 the first U.S. satellite was launched into Earth orbit atop a Jupiter C rocket developed beneath the direction of Wernher von Braun by the Army Ballistic Missile Agency.
Starting the era of space exploration for the United States, Explorer I was a 30.8 pound satellite that carried instruments to measure temperatures, micrometeorite [...]
NASA’s Gamma-Ray Large Area Space Telescope launching in May
Posted in Science on Jan 27th, 2008 No Comments »
NASA’s new Gamma-Ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST), scheduled for launch in May, can help scientists learn more about the strange gamma rays generated in staggeringly distant galaxies.
Gamma ray bursts, bursts of photons with billions of times more energy than ordinary light, were first observed in the 1960s by U.S. satellites looking for evidence of [...]
NASA Moon rocket Ares I could shake violently
Posted in Technology on Jan 24th, 2008 No Comments »
NASA is facing with a potentially dangerous trouble in a spacecraft, this time in a moon rocket that hasn’t even been built yet.
Engineers are concerned that the new rocket Ares I intended to replace the space shuttle and launch astronauts to the moon may possibly shake violently during the first few minutes of flight, possibly [...]