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Cassini Trick or Treats Around Saturn

The heavenly bodies have aligned for NASA's Cassini spaceprobe to swing by the Saturian moon of Enceladus for some scientific treats this Halloween. Earlier flybys dove through an icy geyser plume at the moon's pole to collect particle data. This ...

From LORETTA HIDALGO WHITESIDES, Wired,  31 Oct 2008
Related Topics: NASA

Hubble Back Online, But Danger Looms

The Hubble Space Telescope sent this spectacular image back to Earth to celebrate coming back online after nearly a month of down time following a mechanical breakdown. After a rocky start, Hubble's on-board back-up camera got up and running last week ...

From LORETTA HIDALGO WHITESIDES, Wired,  30 Oct 2008
Related Topics: NASA

Mercury as You've Never Seen It Before

New pictures of never-before-seen parts of Mercury taken by NASA's Messenger spacecraft are revealing surprises about the solar system's innermost planet. Usually the deepest craters are the biggest, but on Mercury there are two craters right next to ...

From LORETTA HIDALGO WHITESIDES, Wired,  29 Oct 2008
Related Topics: NASA,  Massachusetts Institute of Technology,  WIRED Magazine

Message From the Space Station: Vote.

The very first person to vote in space was Dave Wolf during a four month MIR mission in 1997. As it turns out, Texas legislators passed that law in 1997 because astronaut John Blaha did not turn in his absentee ballot before leaving for his four month ...

From LORETTA HIDALGO WHITESIDES, Wired,  28 Oct 2008

It's Hard up Here for a Blimp

For less than $500, you can take a flight on the the first zeppelin to touch down on American soil in more than seven decades. Housed in one an enormous hangar at NASA Ames in Mountain View, California, the 246-foot airship is the longest in the in the ...

From LORETTA HIDALGO WHITESIDES, Wired,  27 Oct 2008
Related Topics: Esther Dyson

Near Miss at $2-Million Lunar Lander Challenge

A team of rocket-vehicle designers came tantalizingly close to winning the $2-million this morning. The lunar lander built by Armadillo Aerospace managed to lift off vertically from a lunch and land on a second pad 100 meters away, but it was unable to ...

From LORETTA HIDALGO WHITESIDES, Wired,  24 Oct 2008
Related Topics: NASA,  John Carmack

Obamanauts Work to Turn Florida's Space Coast Blue

Sen. Barack Obama's support for space exploration has earned him the support of advocates on Florida's "Space Coast" who call themselves Obamanauts. With NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Orlando, space could play a role in the presidential race in a key ...

From LORETTA HIDALGO WHITESIDES, Wired,  22 Oct 2008
Related Topics: Barack Obama,  NASA,  John McCain,  George W. Bush,  Hillary Rodham Clinton

India Launches Lunar Probe, Hopes and a U.S. Ice-Hunting Radar

Chandrayaan's data may not conclusively locate ice, but the four missions collectively can build a very solid case for whether there is or is not water ice at the poles of the moon. The answer could make a difference for planning future ...

From LORETTA HIDALGO WHITESIDES, Wired,  21 Oct 2008
Related Topics: Abdul Kalam

IBEX Launches to Study Solar System Force Field

NASA's just-launched Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) mission will image the "force field" that protects our solar system from radiation. Galactic cosmic rays can hurt astronauts and electronics that venture beyond Earth's protective atmosphere. ...

From LORETTA HIDALGO WHITESIDES, Wired,  21 Oct 2008
Related Topics: NASA

Space Station Renovation: 6 bedrooms/2 baths

For much of the International Space Station's ten-year life it has been a cramped 3 bedroom/1 bath apartment. But by the end of this year's renovations it will be a substantial 6 bedroom/2 bath house with three lab spaces, a walk in closet and a back ...

From LORETTA HIDALGO WHITESIDES, Wired,  16 Oct 2008
Related Topics: NASA

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