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Remember the Y2K scare? It came and went without much of a whimper because of adequate planning and analysis of the situation. Impressive movie special effects aside, Dec. 21, 2012, won’t be the end of the world as we know. It will, however, be another winter solstice. Much like Y2K, 2012 has been analyzed and

A European team of astronomers using ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) has measured the distance to the most remote galaxy so far. By carefully analysing the very faint glow of the galaxy they have found that they are seeing it when the Universe was only about 600 million years old (a redshift of 8.6). These

Image via Wikipedia Image by Matthew Simantov via Flickr Space shuttle Discovery is set to make one last trip to the launch pad late Monday (Sept. 20) to gear up for its final mission as NASA moves closer to retiring its orbiter fleet for good. The shuttle is slated to begin the hours-long launch pad

Image by Katie Stine via Flickr Two Small Asteroids to Pass Close by Earth on September 8, 2010 Image via Wikipedia Image via Wikipedia Image by cosmobc via Flickr NASA/JPL Near-Earth Object Program Office September 7, 2010 Image via Wikipedia Two asteroids, several meters in diameter and in unrelated orbits, will pass within the Moon‘s

Click on Nasa TV for live video NASA – NASA TV. Crew Conducts Second Spacewalk to Replace Coolant Pump Image above: The Soyuz TMA-19 spacecraft (foreground), docked to the Rassvet Mini-Research Module 1, and ISS Progress 37 resupply vehicle, docked to the Pirs Docking Compartment, are featured in this image photographed by an Expedition 24

The idea that the effort to place people back on the moon might be sidelined with the proposed cancellation of NASA’s Constellation program is disappointing. For many Americans who grew up in the 1960s and early 1970s and who were aware of the Apollo program, returning to the moon — and eventually moving beyond —

Image above: Expedition 24 Flight Engineers Doug Wheelock (left) and Tracy Caldwell Dyson work to remove a failed ammonia pump module on the International Space Station’s S1 Truss. Credit: NASA TV The next spacewalk to complete the removal of a failed ammonia pump module and installation and activation of a new pump module on the

By New Scientist – Jamie Condliffe Aug 2, 2010 11:20 PM Ever wanted to be an astronaut? You’re in good company: For many people, space represents the unexplored, a place free from boundaries. And space flight represents the extreme of human experience. So it’s not surprising that many of us harbour a burning passion to

Wow !! 5 x the speed of sound. Wonder what the gas mileage is? (Grin) The air-breathing scramjet engine, built by Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne, burned for more than 200 seconds to accelerate the U.S. Air Force’s X-51A vehicle to Mach 5, or five times the speed of sound. It broke the previous record for

This Sunday there will be a total solar eclipse over the south Pacific Ocean, Chile and Argentina. Watching solar eclipses from Earth is a rare occurrence. Watching them from space is extraordinarily rare. Here are the best photos and videos. The first time that a solar eclipse was observed from space was in November 1966,

In this image provided by NASA the Soyuz TMA-19 rocket launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Wednesday, June 16, 2010 carrying Expedition 24 NASA Flight Engineers Shannon Walker and Douglas Wheelock, and Soyuz Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin of Russia to the International Space Station. (AP Photo/NASA – Carla Cioffi) CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) –

A vast ocean covered the northern lowlands of Mars some 3.5 billion years ago, suggest planetary scientists. In the current Nature Geoscience journal, Gaetano Di Achille and Brian Hynek of the University of Colorado, Boulder, looked at Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter (MOLA) measurements made from NASA’s 1996 Mars Global Surveyor. The pair find 17 of

It seems years ago – November 29, 2005, to be exact – since a Japanese spacecraft named Hayabusa touched down on a small asteroid in the hope of grabbing samples of its dusty surface and returning them to Earth. Had the mission gone according to plan, the precious bits from asteroid 25143 Itokawa would have

KWANG-TAE KIM Published: 32 minutes ago South Koreans watch the much anticipated lift-off of a rocket carrying a weather satellite, Thursday, June 10, 2010, at the main train station in Seoul, South Korea. South Korea said the rocket that it sent into space Thursday carrying an observation satellite is believed to have exploded in flight.

IN THE FUTURE Prototypes of Bigelow Aerospace’s Sundancer habitat, which has an inflated volume of 180 cubic meters, at a hangar in North Las Vegas. More Photos By KENNETH CHANG Published: June 7, 2010 NORTH LAS VEGAS, Nev. — At the Bigelow Aerospace factory here, the full-size space station mockups sitting on the warehouse floor

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