US (English) ▼Wed, 28 Jul 2010 20:17:48 GMT
AP - The private contractor that handles the bulk of the work servicing NASA's space shuttle fleet is notifying 1,400 employees in Florida, Texas and Alabama that they will be laid off in the fall.
Wed, 28 Jul 2010 18:15:15 GMT
SPACE.com - Astronomy
has come a long way in the 401 years since Galileo turned his first primitive
telescope to the sky, so it may be no surprise we see a very different solar
system than the field's earliest pioneers did.
Wed, 28 Jul 2010 00:15:20 GMT
SPACE.com - More than 1,300 space shuttle workers received layoff notices this week from United Space Alliance, a NASA contractor that is cutting 15 percent of its 8,100-person workforce
ahead of the shuttle fleet's retirement next year.
Tue, 27 Jul 2010 20:15:21 GMT
SPACE.com - A giant black hole spouting energy from inside a galaxy is
acting like a cosmic magnifying glass, giving astronomers a clear view of an even
more distant galaxy behind it.
Tue, 27 Jul 2010 20:02:53 GMT
Reuters - NASA's prime space shuttle contractor, United Space Alliance, sent layoff notices this week to more than 15 percent of its 8,100-member shuttle work force, officials said on Tuesday.
Tue, 27 Jul 2010 16:45:29 GMT
SPACE.com - A large asteroid in space that has a remote chance of
slamming into the Earth would be most likely hit in 2182, if it
crashed into our planet at all, a new study suggests.
Tue, 27 Jul 2010 14:30:23 GMT
SPACE.com - BREMEN, Germany - In
three years, the European Space Agency will become the owner of what is
possibly the most dangerous piece of space debris circling the Earth for the
next 150 years: the 17,636-pound Envisat Earth
observation satellite.
Tue, 27 Jul 2010 11:15:50 GMT
SPACE.com - A lost tool and washer marred an otherwise routine spacewalk
by two Russian cosmonauts outside the International Space Station Tuesday.
Tue, 27 Jul 2010 11:14:57 GMT
AP - Two Russian cosmonauts on Tuesday completed a nearly 7-hour-long spacewalk to replace a video camera and improve cable connections to the orbiting laboratory's newest module.
Tue, 27 Jul 2010 07:15:16 GMT
SPACE.com - Two Russian cosmonauts have accidentally a tool and a small
item in space while spacewalking outside the International Space Station early
Tuesday.
Tue, 27 Jul 2010 05:00:06 GMT
SPACE.com - Two Russian cosmonauts have floated outside the International
Space Station to begin a spacewalk aimed at changing out a broken camera and
wiring up a new room so spaceships can park there on autopilot.
Mon, 26 Jul 2010 22:15:16 GMT
SPACE.com - BOULDER,
Colo. — Protecting Earth from menacing space rocks that could impact
our planet
should be designated a top-level NASA strategic goal, according to an
agency task
force. To achieve that goal, NASA should establish a
Planetary Defense
Coordination Office to oversee the effort, the task force said.
Mon, 26 Jul 2010 18:15:18 GMT
SPACE.com - An astronaut
living in orbit has delivered the International Space Station's first
address
to the deaf community.
Mon, 26 Jul 2010 16:00:32 GMT
SPACE.com - A pair of experimental U.S. missile defense satellites has passed a
series of vital tests in space, spotting three missile launches and
successfully relaying data about their trajectories to observers on Earth.
Sun, 25 Jul 2010 14:15:31 GMT
SPACE.com - NASA engineers are working to revive the space agency's
oldest spacecraft in orbit around Mars from an unexpected malfunction that stalled
its observations of the red planet.
Sun, 25 Jul 2010 14:15:30 GMT
SPACE.com - A
new planet-hunting technique that was used to detect an exotic alien world may
be sensitive enough to help astronomers search for Earth-sized planets that
orbit other stars, according to a new study.
Sun, 25 Jul 2010 03:15:24 GMT
SPACE.com - WASHINGTON
— A Senate panel approved a
$19 billion NASA budget Wednesday that would cut in half the U.S. space
agency's
2011 request for a new commercial crew initiative while pumping an
unsought $3
billion into continued development of the Orion Crew Exploration
Vehicle and a
heavy-lift rocket needed to launch it into deep space.
Sat, 24 Jul 2010 15:15:44 GMT
SPACE.com - For
skywatchers in the Northern
Hemisphere, late summer is usually regarded as the prime
"meteor-viewing
season," with one of the best displays of the year reaching its peak in
mid-August. But some lesser-known summer meteor displays can still
dazzle.
Fri, 23 Jul 2010 23:15:45 GMT
SPACE.com - NASA's
next-generation Mars rover took its first baby steps on Earth Friday a few
short drives that herald its upcoming mission to the red planet.
Fri, 23 Jul 2010 18:15:55 GMT
SPACE.com - Ever
wanted to explore the surface of Mars? Now you can at least virtually - thanks
to a powerful camera aboard a spacecraft in orbit around Mars that has made the
most accurate global map of the red planet in history.