Science & Technology
Atlantis Launch Begins Final Repair Mission for Space Telescope
May 11, 2009 Washington — Space shuttle Atlantis and its seven-member crew began the fifth and final repair mission for the nearly 20-year-old Hubble Space Telescope May 11 with a midafternoon launch from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. During the 11-day STS-125 mission, which will extend Hubble operations through 2014, astronauts will install two new,
Apollo 40th Anniversary
May 2009 It all started on May 25, 1961, when President John F. Kennedy announced the goal of sending astronauts to the moon before the end of the decade. Coming just three weeks after Mercury astronaut Alan Shepard became the first American in space, Kennedy's bold challenge set the nation on a journey unlike any before in human history.
U.S. Scientists Reach Out to North Korean Counterparts
February 20, 2009 Chicago — Even though the United States and North Korea maintain no diplomatic ties, a collaboration between students at Syracuse University in New York and Kim Chaek University of Technology in Pyongyang (KUT) might be the beginning of a scientific relationship between the two nations. At the annual meeting of the American Association for the ...
New NASA Spacecraft Dedicated to Studying Carbon Dioxide
January 30, 2009 Washington — NASA’s Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO) will launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California on February 23, the first U.S. spacecraft dedicated to studying atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2), the greenhouse gas that is warming the planet and changing global climate. The spacecraft will map the globe once every 16 days for at ...
