Northeast Coast of U.S. to get rare opportunity to see rocket launch
UPDATE – Countdown to Begin For Five Sounding Rockets to Illuminate Eastern U.S. Night Sky 03.20.12 – NASA managers have given a “go” for a countdown leading to the launch…
UPDATE – Countdown to Begin For Five Sounding Rockets to Illuminate Eastern U.S. Night Sky 03.20.12 – NASA managers have given a “go” for a countdown leading to the launch…
NASA’s Chandra Finds Fastest Wind from Stellar Mass Black Hole WASHINGTON – Astronomers using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory have clocked the fastest wind yet discovered blowing off a disk around…
China placed a space lab Tiangong-1 int orbit last September 2011, were you paying attention? It has been on orbit and undergoing checkout operations. This August they have announced that…
Recent Video from SDO will make earthbound tornado chasers envious. SDO recently captured some astounding videos of tornados on the surface of the sun. These are caused by the plasma…
Tiny cube satellites or cubesats are making there way into orbit. The image above is typical of cubesats that are built with small payloads by colleges, private industry and even…
Fifty years ago Americas first astronaut went into space. On Feb. 20, 1962 at 9:47 am EST, Glenn launched from Cape Canaveral’s Launch Complex 14 to become the first American…
All-sky image of molecular gas and three molecular cloud complexes seen by Planck This all-sky image shows the distribution of carbon monoxide (CO), a molecule used by astronomers to trace…
NASA Budget to be proposed Monday On Capitol Hill Feb. 13, President Obama will ask for a $17.7 billion NASA’s 2013 budget sources said Friday. The proposal represents only a…