Posts Tagged ‘NASA’

NASA-DLR SOFIA to provide details of galaxy

NASA-DLR SOFIA to provide details of galaxy

Thursday, August 26, 2010 17:19

NASA’s joint program with the German Aerospace Center (DLR), called SOFIA, is all set to provide answers to questions about our galaxy.

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Moon is shrinking, lunar images reveal

Sunday, August 22, 2010 19:47

Will Earth lose its moon soon? Though fears on that are a bit far fetched, chances are that the moon could be shrinking.

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NASA NEX: NASA Earth Exchange at Green earth

Friday, April 23, 2010 5:41

NASA has made Earth analysis a simpler and more collaborative process with the unveiling of its latest system that combines supercomputers with observations made through global satellites and complex models of the Earth.

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Barack Obama reveals his Mars plans for NASA

Saturday, April 17, 2010 7:44

President Barack Obama has announced his plans to send American astronauts to orbit Mars by the 2030s.

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Astronauts set up Tranquility module on International Space Station

Astronauts set up Tranquility module on International Space Station

Friday, February 12, 2010 20:47

Astronauts have set up a new room on the International Space Station (ISS). The work of installing the room took over 6 hours of spacewalk by astronauts and also efforts by robots.

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NASA ARES robotic rocketplane for Mars planned

NASA ARES robotic rocketplane for Mars planned

Thursday, November 26, 2009 18:41

The United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) plans to build what it calls a ‘robotic rocketplane’ – having the size of a light aircraft – and propel it into space to fly above Mars, the red planet.

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Tranquility module, Colbert treadmill: Names for space station components

Tranquility module, Colbert treadmill: Names for space station components

Wednesday, April 15, 2009 14:50

Space Station Tranquility module is finally the chosen name. NASA announced on Wednesday that the new module on the international space station (ISS) will be named Tranquility module, after the Sea of Tranquility where Apollo 11 landed on the moon for the first time.

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NASA Discovery launched delayed due to valve problem

Tuesday, February 24, 2009 11:32

NASA has delayed the launch of space shuttle Discovery, for the fourth time, to avoid any possibility of malfunction in the shuttle. The new launch date has not been announced as yet.

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NASA’s Axel Rover

Thursday, February 19, 2009 12:07

Axel, the new rover developed by the engineers from NASA’s Jet propulsion laboratory and students at the California Institute of Technology, will now explore terrains which earlier seemed impossible, said Issa A.D. Nesnas, of JPL's robotics and mobility section.

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