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Space Shuttle Endeavour Move: Photo Gallery
10.11.12 -
The driver of the Over Land Transporter is seen as he maneuvers the space shuttle Endeavour on the streets of Los Angeles as it heads to its new home at the California Science Center. Endeavour, built as a replacement for space shuttle Challenger, completed 25 missions, spent 299 days in orbit, and orbited Earth 4,671 times while traveling 122,883,151 miles. Beginning Oct. 30, the shuttle will be on display at the CSC.› GigaPan: Endeavour Flight Deck (Powered Down) › GigaPan: Endeavour Flight Deck (Powered Up)
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How to Hunt a Space Rock
10.12.12 -
A team of scientists from JPL needed some space. When a large fireball turned night into day over Battle Mountain, Nev. they knew they had their chance.
Find out how the meteorite hunters tracked down the cosmic debris to test a "lab on a chip" destined for future spacecraft. -
Robotic Exoskeleton Could Help in Space, on Earth
10.11.12 -
Marvel Comic's fictional superhero, Ironman, uses a powered armor suit that allows him superhuman strength.
While NASA's X1 robotic exoskeleton can't do what you see in the movies, the latest robotic, space technology, spinoff derived from NASA's Robonaut 2 project may someday help astronauts stay healthier in space with the added benefit of assisting paraplegics in walking here on Earth. -
ISS Crew Unloads Dragon, Finds Treats
10.10.12 -
Expedition 33 Commander Suni Williams and Flight Engineer Aki Hoshide spent much of Thursday unloading some of the 882 pounds of cargo that arrived to the International Space Station the prior day aboard the SpaceX Dragon. The two astronauts also uncovered a special treat in one of the commercial cargo craft’s freezer compartments along the way. -
Chandra Sees Planetary Nebula Quartet
10.10.12 -
A gallery from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory shows four planetary nebulas from the first systematic survey of such objects in the solar neighborhood.
A planetary nebula represents a phase of stellar evolution that the sun should experience several billion years from now. When a star like the sun uses up all of the hydrogen in its core, it expands into a red giant, with a radius that increases by tens to hundreds of times. -
NASA's Swift Satellite Discovers a New Black Hole
10.05.12 -
NASA's Swift satellite recently detected a rising tide of high-energy X-rays from a source toward the center of our Milky Way galaxy. The outburst, produced by a rare X-ray nova, announced the presence of a previously unknown stellar-mass black hole.
Ground-based observatories detected infrared and radio emissions, but thick clouds of obscuring dust have prevented astronomers from catching Swift J1745-26 in visible light. -
NASA Hits Key Spaceflight Milestones
10.02.12 - Over the next several months, Orbital plans a hot-fire test of the Antares, the maiden flight of an Antares rocket and a cargo delivery demonstration mission to the International Space Station as part of NASA's Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) Program.
Additionally, the largest and most powerful solid rocket booster ever built for flight is being assembled for NASA's Space Launch System at ATK Space Systems in Brigham City, Utah.› NASA Building a Better Solid Rocket Booster › Administrator: The Next Era of Space Exploration
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HS3 Mission Investigates Hurricane Nadine
10.05.12 -
HS3 scientists had a fascinating tropical cyclone to study in long-lived Hurricane Nadine. NASA's Global Hawk aircraft has investigated Nadine five times during the storm's lifetime. NASA's Global Hawk also circled around the eastern side of Hurricane Leslie when it initially flew from NASA's Dryden Research Flight Center, Edwards Air Force Base, Calif. to the HS3 base at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility, Wallops Island, Va. on Sept. 6-7, 2012 -
NASA Observatory Measures Expansion of Universe
10.03.12 -
Astronomers using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have announced the most precise measurement yet of the Hubble constant, or the rate at which our universe is stretching apart. -
Sigma 7: Wally Schirra's Mercury Flight
10.01.12 -
50 years ago, Wally Schirra became the fifth American in space, making the third orbital flight of the Mercury program.
Schirra piloted his Sigma 7 capsule on a six-orbit mission that lasted more than nine hours on Oct. 3, 1962.
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