TILT ROTOR JOINS MUSEUM COLLECTION

The XV-15 tilt rotor aircraft today took its place in what could be called “aviation’s hall…

NATIONAL SPACE EXHIBIT BLASTS OFF

The exhibition, “SPACE: A Journey to Our Future,” touches down at Seattle’s Pacific Science Center on…

EXPLORER SCHOOLS RECRUITMENT TAKES FLIGHT

NASA has launched the application season for its NASA Explorer Schools (NES) Program. Schools from across…

ED LU VISITS ALMA MATER VIA HAM RADIO

NASA International Space Station Science Officer Ed Lu, KC5WKJ, spoke September 4 with students at Cornell…

NASDA REPORT NO.133 NOW AVAILABLE

The National Space Development Agency of Japan, online version of the latest NASDA REPORT (No.134, 2003…

Burning oil cloud above northern Iraq

A burning oil pipeline in northern Iraq produced an immense cloud of black smoke that stretched…

HISTORIC GALILEO MISSION NEARS END

Following eight years of capturing dramatic images and surprising science from Jupiter and its moons, NASA’s…

LAB RESEARCH YIELDS THE BIGGEST CHILL

NASA-funded researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, Mass., have cooled sodium gas to…

FIRST PUBLIC MARS GLOBAL SURVEYOR IMAGE

If you were given a chance to aim the camera on NASA’s Mars Global Surveyor Mars…

Iinfrared Astronomy is a hot topic

ESA’s Herschel spacecraft will collect infrared radiation from some of the coldest and most distant objects…