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NASA Shuttle Atlantis’ crew is wrapping up final preparations for its planned landing at 5:56:58 AM ET Thursday at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The crew has stowed the Ku-Band antenna, used for high-data rate communications and television from…
Here is President Obama’s statement on launch of the Space Shuttle Atlantis today, Friday. Today, Americans across the country watched with pride as four of our fellow citizens blasted off from the Kennedy Space Center in the Space Shuttle Atlantis,…
It looks like that the final NASA Space Shuttle launch will go on schedule Friday at 11:26 a.m. NASA reports: Space Shuttle Atlantis launch preparations continue on schedule despite inclement weather near the launch pad near midday Thursday. As engineers…
Join NASA in measuring an asteroid. On the evening of July 3 at 11:05:30 p.m. EDT — at a distance of 280 millon miles into space that poses no threat to Earth — a wide path of viewing opportunity will…
The National Science Foundation (NSF) will take the lead with NASA and two other federal agencies to support the administration’s National Robotics Initiative. The initiative complements the administrations’ Advanced Manufacturing Initiative and technology transfer efforts and supports the development and…
Summer Solstice in the Northern Hemisphere is on Tuesday (June 21) at 1:16 p.m. EDT (17:16 Universal Time ). According to space.com, “the sun will reach the point where it is farthest north of the celestial equator. To be more…
The first Lunar Eclipse of 2011 will be long. Not just few minutes like those of past events, but a whopping 1 hour and 40 minutes long. The eclipse can be viewed from beginning to end from eastern Africa, central…
Confinement of antihydrogen for 1,000 seconds by GB Andresen et al. (2011) Nature Physics (2011) doi:10.1038/nphys2025 Abstract: Atoms made of a particle and an antiparticle are unstable, usually surviving less than a microsecond. Antihydrogen, made entirely of antiparticles, is believed…
A test of several new rocket technologies will be conducted June 9 on a Terrier- Improved Orion suborbital sounding rocket from NASA’s Launch Range at the Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. The new technologies being tested include the Small Rocket/Spacecraft…
Students in the Department of Control Engineering at Prague’s Czech Technical University developed a robot or a machine that can juggle 5 balls all at once. Video description: The five ball juggling operation is the most difficult to control, because…