 Thank you, Sally RideCNN Editor's note: Meg Urry is the Israel Munson professor of physics and astronomy and chairwoman of the Department of Physics at Yale University, where she is the director of the Yale Center forAstronomy and Astrophysics. (CNN) -- Sitting in a meeting at NASA's Science Advisory Committee on Monday afternoon, I heard the news that Sally Ride had died. She was important to ... At NASA, in contrast, there was a 20-year gap between human (male) space flight and Ride's historic flight. iReport: Sally's first launch ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| NASA offers condolences on the passing of pioneering astronaut Sally Ride Astronomy Magazine "Sally Ride broke barriers with grace and professionalism — and literally changed the face of America's space program," said NASA Administrator Charles Bolden. "The nation has lost one of its finest leaders, teachers, and explorers. Our thoughts and prayers ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Solar coronal revealed in super-high definition Astronomy Magazine Astronomers have released the highest-resolution images ever taken of the Sun's corona, or million-degree outer atmosphere, in an extreme ultraviolet wavelength of light. NASA's High Resolution Coronal Imager (Hi-C), which was launched on a sounding ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| NASA successfully tests hypersonic inflatable heat shield Phys.Org A large inflatable heat shield developed by NASA's Space Technology Program has successfully survived a trip through Earth's atmosphere while travelling at hypersonic speeds up to 7600 mph. The Inflatable Reentry Vehicle Experiment (IRVE-3) was ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Former NASA Astronaut Steve Hawley Remembers Sally Ride's Dedication To ... U.S. Politics Today A veteran of five space shuttle flights, he left the agency in 2008 and now is Professor of Physics andAstronomy at the University of Kansas, Lawrence. (Logo:http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20081007/38461LOGO ). "Sally was a very private person who ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| AMS experiment marks one year in space Astronomy Magazine UTC Offset: Home » News & Observing » Astronomy News » AMS experiment marks one year inspace ... The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) yesterday marked the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer's (AMS) first year in space with a visit from the crew of the shuttle mission STS-134 that successfully delivered AMS to the International Space Station (ISS). Launched ... NASAin Houston receives and then relays the data to the AMS Payload Operations Control Centre (POCC) at CERN for analysis. See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Mars orbiter repositioned to phone home Mars landing Astronomy Magazine Two other Mars orbiters, NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter and the European Space Agency's Mars Express, also will be in position to receive radio transmissions from MSL during its descent. However, they will be recording information for later playback, ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| NASA says test flight of new heat shield a success Phys.Org ... is attempting to retrieve the 680-pound (310-kilogram) heat shield. The purpose of the launch was to determine whether a space capsule can use an inflatable outer shell to slow and protect itself as it enters an atmosphere at hypersonic speed during a planetary entry and descent. Copyright 2012 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. ... number of possible intelligent life in the universe... But then again all I have is a college level education. Can any one explain? More from Physics Forums - General Astronomy ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| The longest continuous view of Earth from space hits 40 Astronomy Magazine "Landsat has given us a critical perspective on our planet over the long term and will continue to help us understand the big picture of Earth and its changes from space," said NASA Administrator Charles Bolden. "With this view, we are better prepared to take ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| NASA: Apollo Moon flags still flying Examiner.com In an article posted on space.com, NASA has now revealed that most of the flags from the Apollo missions are, indeed, still standing, with the one exception being that of Apollo 11. Interestingly, Buzz... Bodzash Photography & Astronomy · Tweet · 0 Email ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| MSU's computer system for space attracts NASA attention Phys.Org NASA's Space Technology Program announced that the chosen projects offer innovative cutting-edge ideas and approaches that NASA needs for current and future missions in exploration, science and space operations. The projects also address high-priority technology needs identified in the recent National Research Council's Space .... why scientists are near definitive that it indeed happened? Please go as in depth, complex, or over the top as you need/want. More from Physics Forums - General Astronomy ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| OBIT: Sally Ride, first US woman in space, dies at 61 Delmarva Daily Times In this Oct. 7, 2009 file photo, former Astronaut Sally Ride speaks to members of the media as NASApersonnel set-up astronomy equipment on the South Lawn of the White House in preparation for an event with the President and the First Lady, in Washington ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| NASA's sighting of hot towers indicated Typhoon Vicente's rapid intensification Phys.Org Rapid intensification of tropical cyclones is still somewhat of a mystery to forecasters, but one marker that NASA scientists confirmed is when "hot towers" appear within a tropical cyclone as they did in Typhoon Vicente before it exploded in strength on July 23. Vicente made landfall in .... (Phys.org) -- Investigating extremely detailed images of Mars produced by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera – the largest ever carried on a deep space mission – researchers ...Space & Earth / Space ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| NASA's Mars Odyssey Satellite On The Move Discovery News Mars Odyssey's position won't directly impact the landing, just the time it takes for NASA to learn Curiosity's fate. Two other Mars orbiters, as well as the Earth-based Deep Space Network will be tuning in to monitor Curiosity's descent and landing, but only ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| NASA X-ray concept inspired from a roll of Scotch tape Phys.Org Markevitch and a team of X-ray optics experts at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., have begun investigating the feasibility of fashioning a low-cost mirror from plastic tape and tightly rolling it like the sticky adhesive commonly found in most homes and .... Additionally, for astronomy, he's not trying to gain information about the atoms in the rolls, but rather the galaxies and black holes and other interesting objects "out there," which is a potential problem because scattering modifies the wavelengths. See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Meet the Faces Behind the MIRI Part One Space Daily She leads the European consortium of institutes that have developed the MIRI instrument in a partnership with NASA's JPL. She is also a professor and research astronomer, who specializes in infrared observatories ... She's one of several astronomers who are co-investigators for the Spectral and Photometric Imaging Receiver (SPIRE) instrument on ESA's Herschel mission, which is currently the largest observatory in space. Earlier in her career, she worked at the United Kingdom Infrared Telescope on Mauna Kea ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| NMSU graduate student studies Martian dust storms through NASA fellowship Las Cruces Sun-News Robert Edmonds is the second graduate student in the Department of Astronomy to receive theNASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship for 2012. Candace Gray recently received the same fellowship to study how the nightglow changes after solar flares ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| NASA X-Ray Mirror Idea Inspired by Scotch Tape (No, Really!) Space.com The concept, dreamed up by NASA scientist Maxim Markevitch, is this: Instead of building an expensive telescope mirror to capture high-energy "hard" X-rays in space, why not create a mirror from tightly rolled plastic tape at a much lower cost? "I remember looking at a roll of Scotch tape and thinking, 'Was it possible to use the same ... If the tape does indeed work, it could be "game-changing for hard X-ray astronomy," Markevitch said. "It could significantly reduce the cost of building large mirrors, bringing within reach ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| A taste of solar maximum Phys.Org NASA's twin STEREO probes and the European Space Agency's Solar and Heliospheric Observatory monitored the CME as it billowed away from the sun. Using those data, analysts at ....Can any one explain? More from Physics Forums - General Astronomy ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| NASA Image Shows the Mayhem That Created Life on Earth Gizmodo That period of chaos is known as the Late Heavy Bombardment, and astronomers believe it was key to the formation of life in our planet. For the first time ever, scientists using NASA's Spitzer SpaceTelescope have found a star system in which this is ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Video of Sally Ride Talking About Her Historic Flight New York Times (blog) In an interview for NASA's 50th anniversary, Sally Ride spoke about her historic flight. As my colleague, Denise Grady reports Sally Ride, the first female American astronaut, died on Monday at her home in San Diego. She was 61. She flew on the shuttle Challenger on June 18, 1983, and on a second mission in 1984. At 32, she was also the youngest American in space. In 2009, Ms. Ride took questions via Twitter and Facebook and answered them in a YouTube video during an astronomynight at the White House. See all stories on this topic » | ||
| A pulsar with a tremendous hiccup Astronomy Magazine NASA/Fermi/Cruz de Wilde. Pulsars are superlative cosmic beacons. These compact neutron stars rotate about their axes many times per second, emitting radio waves and gamma radiation intospace. Using ingenious data analysis methods, researchers from the Max Planck institutes for Gravitational Physics (MPG) and for Radio Astronomy (MPIfR), in an international collaboration, dug a special gamma-ray pulsar out of data from the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. The pulsar J1838-0537 is radio-quiet, young ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| My friend Sally Ride's final mission: Making science cool Washington Post A ninth-grade science teacher had introduced her to physics and astronomy, and she intended to study the stars. After her retirement from NASA and academia, Sally, who died this past week at 61, turned her focus back to teachers — like the one she always credited with planting the seed that eventually got her to space. She hoped to motivate a new generation of teachers who might impart a love of science to their students. It wasn't until 1977, when she was completing her graduate work in physics at Stanford, that ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Russian cargo ship fails to dock at ISS: NASA Phys.Org "The re-docking of the Russian ISS Progress 47 resupply spacecraft to the International SpaceStation has been postponed due to an apparent failure in the new Kurs-NA rendezvous system,"NASA said in a statement on its website. A spokesman for the ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Astronomy: Planets on the spot Nature.com In exploring that, NASA's Kepler mission is transforming our understanding of planetary formation and evolution. Kepler targets a special category of planets ... The detection of sodium absorption in the atmosphere of a giant transiting planet by the Hubble Space Telescope seemed at first to be a singular observation, difficult to apply to other worlds. Now, the technique of transmission ... Drake Deming is in the Department of Astronomy, University of Maryland at College Park, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA. See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Washington: Former NASA Astronaut Steve Hawley Remembers Sally Ride's ... 7thSpace Interactive (press release) The following is a statement from former NASA astronaut Steve Hawley regarding the death of fellow astronaut Sally Ride. Hawley was selected into the astronaut corps in 1978 and was married to Ride from 1982 until 1987. A veteran of five space shuttle ... See all stories on this topic » |
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| Mars Mission Food Menu | David Reneke | Space and Astronomy ... By Dave Idiot's Guide to Astronomy ebook. Join my newsletter to stay up to date on all the latest space news. ...NASA Builds Menu For Planned Mars Mission in 2030s. NASA's Advanced Food Technology Project manager Michele Perchonok, right, and Lockeed Martin Sr. Research Scientist Maya Cooper, try a pizza recipe being tested in a kitchen at Johnson Space Center July 3 in Houston. Through a labyrinth of hallways deep inside a 1950s-era building that has housed research. David Reneke | Space and Astronomy News |
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| Today's NASA Breaking News July 19, 2012 - ScienceLine ... NASA managers are rescheduling the launch of an inflatable heat shield technology demonstration flight from the agency's Wallops Flight Facility on Wallops ... www.scienceline.eu/.../todays-nasa-breaking-news-july-19-20... |
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