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Team members, from left, Ed Weiler, Charles Elachi, Peter Smith and project manager Barry Goldstein conduct a news conference at Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. as they discuss NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander after it landed safely on Mars near its north pole, Sunday, May 25, 2008.
(photo: (AP Photo / Mark J. Terrill))
NASA wants high schoolers to design software for use on the International Space Station
The Examiner
| Attention high school students – NASA wants you;  and they’re inviting your high school teams to design software to program small satellites aboard the International Space Station.  | The competition centers on the Synchronized Position Hold, Engage, Reorient, Experimental Satellites, or SPH...
Astronaut Steve Swanson, STS-119 mission specialist, participates in the mission's first scheduled session of extravehicular activity (EVA) as construction and maintenance continue on the International Space Station. During the six-hour, seven-minute spacewalk, Swanson and astronaut Richard Arnold (out of frame), mission specialist, connected bolts to permanently attach the S6 truss segment to S5. The spacewalkers plugged in power and data connectors to the truss, prepared a radiator to cool it, opened boxes containing the new solar arrays and deployed the Beta Gimbal Assemblies containing masts that support the solar arrays.
(photo: Creative Commons / Alessio Rolleri)
'6 months in space make astronauts as weak as an 80-yr-old'
The Times Of India
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida: Astronauts can become as weak as 80-year-olds after six months at the International Space Station, according to a new study that raises serious health concerns as Nasa contemplates prolonged trips to asteroids and Mars. | Marquette University biologist Robert Fitts, who led ...
Here it is! Winds of up to 105mph as gigantic Hurricane Earl smacks into U.S. ...
The Daily Mail
| New York is bracing itself for the worst storm in 19 years this morning. | Hurricane Earl raked North Carolina's barrier islands with gusting winds, pounding surf and rain today as it took a swipe at the U.S. East Coast on an offshore path toward N...
Part 4 - 'Initiative 300' - UFOs, astronauts, and NASA
The Examiner
| UFO Sightings by America's Heroes in Space |      Astronauts have had personal encounters with extraterrestrial craft since the 1960's. In late 1973, NASA confirmed that 25 astronauts had seen UFOs during lunar missions. These highly trained an...
Astronauts tracking, photographing Hurricane Earl from space: high resolution photo
The Examiner
| As Hurricane Earl continues to bear down on the Atlantic coast, specifically Orcacoke Island ( a favorite haunt of the infamous pirate Blackbeard), astronauts in the International Space Station are keeping their eyes, and cameras, trained on the st...
Free films, special screenings Sept. 3-9
Kansas City Star
More News | FREE FILMS | "ANNE BASS: DANCING ACROSS BORDERS" Bass screens her new dance documentary at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Plaza Library. | SPECIAL SCREENINGS | "WE ARE FAMILY" "Stepmom," Bollywood style. Opens today at AMC Studio 30. | "CITY LIGHTS" ...
Astronaut Ron Garan during an ISS assembly spacewalk during STS-124.
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Space station cooling normally after spacewalk fix
Deccan Herald
Cape Canaveral, Aug 18 (AP): Thursday, August 19, 2010 --> | The International Space Station is operating normally again following a series of spacewalking repairs. | The crew inst...
Mural by Apollo 12 astronaut Alan Bean
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Feeling the heat: Astronauts successfully repair International Space Station cooling system after third spacewalk in ...
The Daily Mail
| These dramatic images show spacewalking astronauts as they managed to repair the International Space Station's cooling system. | Station flight engineers Doug Wheelock and Tracy ...
NASA, Partners Announce New Space Station Crew
redOrbit
| NASA and its international partners have assigned three new International Space Station crew members. They are targeted to launch to the station in November 2012 aboard the Russian Soyuz 33 spacecraft. | NASA astronaut and Statesville, N.C., native...
Earth observation aids disaster relief in Pakistan
PhysOrg
--> | This image shows a 100×500 km strip of the flood area in Pakistan. The image was generated from all-weather ESA's Envisat Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar (ASAR). The image illustrates the difference between 24 August and a reference image of ...
Space
Team members, from left, Ed Weiler, Charles Elachi, Peter Smith and project manager Barry Goldstein conduct a news conference at Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. as they discuss NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander after it landed safely on Mars near its north pole, Sunday, May 25, 2008.
(photo: (AP Photo / Mark J. Terrill))
NASA wants high schoolers to design software for use on the International Space Station
The Examiner
| Attention high school students – NASA wants you;  and they’re inviting your high school teams to design software to program small satellites aboard the International Space Station.  | The competition centers on the Synchronized Position Hold, Engage, Reorient, Experimental Satellites, or SPHERES. | SPHERES are bowling ball-sized spherical s...
Science
In this April 5, 2010 file photo, Astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, of England, presents a lecture titled, "Out of a Black Hole" at Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas.
(photo: AP / Dave Einsel, File)
Hawking outlines idea of God's redundancy in latest book
Irish Times
| LONDON - God did not create the universe and the Big Bang was an inevitable consequence of the laws of physics, the eminent British theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking argues in a new book. | In The Grand Design , co-authored with US physicist Leonard Mlodinow, and due to go on sale next week, Prof Hawking says a new series of theories made a c...



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