Posts Tagged ‘NASA’

A recent radar experiment, which was being carried out aboard India’s Chandrayaan-1 Moon vehicle, has identified thick deposits of water-ice near to the Moon’s North Pole. According to bbc.co.uk, NASA’s Mini-Sar experiment found over 40 small craters that contained water-ice.  Read more  [Read more...]

Today was the day that the Endeavour space shuttle was due to be launched, on its two-week mission to the International Space Station. But according to npr.org, NASA was unfortunately forced to cancel the launch this morning, due to the weather.  Read more  [Read more...]

NASA have recently announced that it has launched an investigation, after a small amount of cocaine was found in a restricted area of a processing hangar for the space shuttle Discovery, at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.  Read more  [Read more...]

According to theregister.co.uk, NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, which is also known as WISE is finally up and running, after it was successfully launched at 14:09 GMT today, from the Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.  Read more  [Read more...]

As we mentioned earlier today, the Atlantis Space Shuttle was due to return to Earth today, after its 11-day mission to the International Space Station, where the shuttle and its six-member crew were delivering 15 tons of spare parts.  Read more  [Read more...]

It was only on Monday 16th November, that space shuttle Atlantis was launched. And according to reports from edition.cnn.com, the crew members are all ready to come home, as it is scheduled to land today, at 9:44 am ET.  Read more  [Read more...]

NASA are set to launch the space shuttle ‘Atlantis’ today at 2:28pm ET, with STS-129 crew members Commander Charles Hobaugh, Pilot Barry Wilmore, and astronauts Leland Melvin, Mike Foreman, Robert Satcher Jr., and Randy Bresnik with the mission of picking up and safe return of astronaut Nicole Stott. We also have the live video for you to watch. The...  Read more

NASA is all set to launch space shuttle Atlantis today, Monday November 16, 2009. There will be six astronauts on board who will be delivering a huge amount of spare parts for the International Space Station. Let us hope that they will have parts to help repair the water-recycling unit, as this broke down last week.  Read more  [Read more...]