This Envisat radar image delineates the extent of Tokyo, the largest urban agglomeration in the world.…
Month: December 2004
SPACE SHUTTLE MILESTONE: ENGINES
NASA completed installation this week of the three main engines that will help launch Space Shuttle…
Arctic Space Launchers
European launchers have come to be associated with French Guiana – powerful large rockets that lift-off…
CSA Astronaut Bob Thirsk selected
Canadian Space Agency Astronaut Bob Thirsk has been selected as a backup mission specialist and is…
Roberto Vittori to fly to the ISS
ESA PR 64-2004. Roberto Vittori will be the next ESA astronaut to fly to the International…
European and Chinese space cooperation
China’s Prime Minister Jiabao Wen visited ESA’s research and technology centre (ESTEC), in Noordwijk, the Netherlands.…
EVOLVING PLANETARY SYSTEMS
Two of NASA’s Great Observatories, the Spitzer Space Telescope and the Hubble Space Telescope, have provided…
ADMINISTRATOR SEAN O’KEEFE RESIGNS
Administrator Sean O’Keefe, who over the past three years led the National Aeronautics and Space Administration…
ISS STATUS REPORT UPDATE: SS04-044
International Space Station crewmembers this week continued research and maintenance activities and prepared for arrival of…
SHUTTLE PROCESSING STATUS REPORT: S04-041
The Space Shuttle fleet is housed and processed at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC), Fla. The…