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 Cape Canaveral, Florida (AFP) Aug 27, 2009 
NASA will wait until late Friday to make its fourth attempt to launch the space shuttle Discovery so mission specialists can review tests on a faulty valve, after a week of false starts for the US space agency. The decision to make the launch attempt a minute before midnight (0359 GMT Saturday), nearly a day later than planned, was issued after experts reviewed tests on a liquid hydrogen ... read more 
Cape Canaveral, Florida (AFP) Aug 27, 2009NASA on Thursday delayed the debut test of the first stage motor of the Ares 1 rocket, the launch vehicle for the space shuttle's successor, Orion, the space agency said. The static test, which was supposed to have been conducted at NASA's Promontory test center in Utah, was postponed indefinitely following a problem in an auxiliary motor that supplied hydraulic pressure, a NASA official sai ... more |
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Cape Canaveral, Florida (AFP) Aug 27, 2009NASA on Thursday delayed the launch of the space shuttle Discovery until 0359 GMT Saturday so mission specialists could review tests on a faulty valve, the US space agency said. The decision to make the launch attempt nearly 24 hours later than planned was issued after experts reviewed tests on a liquid hydrogen fill-and-drain valve that malfunctioned earlier in the week in Discovery's main ... more  
Moscow (AFP) Aug 27, 2009When Cirque du Soleil founder Guy Laliberte flies as the latest tourist to the International Space Station (ISS) next month, he promises to bring a comic touch to the mission. Already his screen saver pictures his mission colleagues - US astronaut Jeffrey Williams and cosmonaut Maksim Surayev - in space suits and red clown noses, and he says he will bring six more clown snouts to those now ... more  
Newcastle-Under-Lyme, England (UPI) Aug 27, 2009 British scientists are trying to determine why a Jupiter-style planet orbiting close to its sun has not spiraled into the star and burned up. Wasp-18b is so close to the star Wasp-18 that it completes its orbit in less than an Earth-length day, astrophysicists at Keele University in Staffordshire say. In an article in Nature, they say standard astronomical theories hold the planet shoul ... more |
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Moscow, Russia (RIA Novosti) Aug 28, 2009The National Aeronautics and Space Administration has invited Russia to carry out a joint manned flight to Mars, the head of NASA's Moscow office said on Tuesday. Russia is currently planning to send its own expedition to Mars some time in the future. Marc Bowman told an international aviation and space conference in Moscow that the Mars mission should take advantage of the achieveme ... more  
Berkeley CA (SPX) Aug 28, 2009With the casting of a 6.5-meter mirror in Arizona, Mexican and American astronomers have taken the first step toward creation of a major new telescope that will survey infrared objects in the northern sky with unprecedented sensitivity. The new mirror is destined for the planned San Pedro Martir Telescope, which would be built at the San Pedro M�rtir Observatory in Baja California, Mexico. ... more 
Pasadena CA (SPX) Aug 28, 2009The amount of electricity generated by the solar panels on Spirit has been declining for the past several Martian days, or sols, as a regional dust storm moved southward and blocked some of the sunshine at Spirit's location. The team operating the rover has responsively trimmed Spirit's daily activities and is keeping an eye on weather reports from observations by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbi ... more |
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