Less than a month after being hit by Hurricane Katrina, NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New…
Month: October 2005
Growing lettuce for Mars, Arctic style
The 2005 field season on Devon Island has been the smoothest since the start of the…
BIG BABY GALAXIES IN NEWBORN UNIVERSE
Two of NASA’s Great Observatories, the Spitzer and Hubble Space Telescopes, have teamed up to “weigh”…
The Next Giant Space Telescope
The Canadian Space Agency recently awarded a $26.2-million contract to the Space and Technology Group of…
PLUTO SPACE PROBE
NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft arrived at the Kennedy Space Center, Florida on Saturday for final preparations…
SMART-1 set for more lunar science
ESA’s SMART-1 mission in orbit around the Moon has had its scientific lifetime extended by ingenious…
Gourmet space dinner on Greenland icecap
French explorers Olivier Pezeron and Arnaud Fauvet enjoyed gourmet space food on their 20-day Greenland expedition…
World’s Largest Space Mirror
Much of our Universe has long remained invisible. Our eyes perceive only a fraction of the…
Mars Express mission extended
ESA’s Mars Express mission has been extended by one Martian year, or about 23 months, from…
Motorcyclists keep their cool
A motorcycling jacket using space technology is on hand to chill MotoGP riders racing in Malaysia…