Space News
Gravity-type real-life disaster waiting to happen because of space junk, warns lawmakers
Tech Times - 10 May 2014 05:50
Problem of space junk takes center stage as experts testify before a U.S. House committee. Catastrophic collisions are a real risk, lawmakers hear.
Best Space Photos of the Week - May 10, 2014
SPACE.com - 10 May 2014 20:33
From a brilliant image of the Flame Nebula to magnetic 'fingerprints' of the Milky Way, don't miss these amazing space images of the week for May 10, 2014.
'Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey' -- "The Electric Boy" (Background for Sunday's Episode)
The Daily Galaxy - 10 May 2014 19:47
In this week's episode, "The Electric Boy", narrator Neil deGrasse Tyson, shows that without a magnetic field the rate of mutation amongst Earth's living organisms would increase significantly. New evidence for the exist...
IceBridge Completes Last Baseline Flight
SpaceRef - 10 May 2014 16:24
IceBridge continued its field campaign with surveys of northern Greenland's ice, flights along paths measured by satellites and a line connecting several ice core drilling sites, and completed the season's last remaining...
Globular Clusters Rotate at Heart
SpaceRef - 10 May 2014 16:20
Astronomers from the University of Texas at Austin and Germany's Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics (MPE) recently found a surprise when studying some of the oldest star clusters in our galaxy....
NASA ISS On-Orbit Status 8 May 2014
SpaceRef - 10 May 2014 16:00
Today: Direct Current Switching Unit (DCSU) 3A Trip: DCSU Channel 3A Remote Bus Isolator (RBI) 1 tripped open due to a negative current condition....
Mars One shortlists 44 Indians for one-way trip to Red Planet
Tech Times - 10 May 2014 14:52
From over a thousand aspirants who dared take the challenge of the one-way trip to Mars in 2025, the pool is now trimmed down to 705, and 44 of them are Indians.
This Week at NASA: NASA's Fleet of Satellites Help Understand Climate Change
SpaceRef - 10 May 2014 14:40
The third U.S. National Climate Assessment was released which took observations from NASA's fleet of satellites to help understand climate change in the United States....
Saturn Shines at Its Best Tonight: Watch It Live Online
SPACE.com - 10 May 2014 14:26
Saturn will shine at its best since 2007 Saturday (May 10) as it reaches opposition, the opposite side of Earth from the sun. See how to watch the celestial event live online here.
Boeing CST-100 Space Taxi Maiden Test Flight to ISS Expected Early 2017 - One on One Interview with Chris Ferguson, Last Shuttle Commander
Universe Today - 10 May 2014 04:43
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL – Boeing expects to launch the first unmanned test flight of their commercial CST-100 manned 'space taxi' in "early 2017," said Chris Ferguson, commander of NASA's final shuttle flight in an ex...
SpaceX Challenge to ULA Block Buy Could Hinge on Questions of Timing
Space News - 10 May 2014 01:01
With a temporary injunction barring United Launch Alliance from buying Russian-made engines for its Atlas 5 rocket now lifted, the case brought by Space Exploration Technologies Corp. challenging the U.S. Air Force's sol...
House Appropriators Meet NOAA Request for Satellites, Block Climate Sensor Plans
Space News - 10 May 2014 00:39
Of the roughly $5.3 billion approved for NOAA as part of a $52 billion Commerce, Justice, Science appropriations bill, about $2 billion would go toward satellite and ground systems procurement.
TRMM Sees Great Plains Storm Formation
SpaceRef - 10 May 2014 00:01
The Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission or TRMM satellite captured rainfall and cloud height information about the powerful thunderstorms and severe weather that affected the Great Plains over May 8 and 9....