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Popular Mechanics
May 2007
Thomas D. Jones |
Should We Repair Hubble? A plan to save the Hubble calls for five spacewalks and two shuttles. We asked a four-time shuttle astronaut if it's worth the risk.   |
CIO
October 1, 2001
Lafe Low |
This Isn't Houston Talk about a long-distance call -- astronauts aboard the International Space Station orbiting miles above Earth are now phoning home. ISS astronauts use Cisco Systems SoftPhone software running on flight-approved laptops through a voice-over-IP system... |
IEEE Spectrum
June 2011
James Oberg |
12 Space Shuttle Missions That Weren't A look at some of the gutsier (and goofier) proposed space shuttle missions |
Geotimes
February 2005
Naomi Lubick |
NASA Debates Hubble's Fate Without a replacement telescope in sight, NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe announced in the spring that a robotic mission would be sufficient to service Hubble, but now a group of scientists says that a robotic mission is too costly and uncertain. |
IEEE Spectrum
March 2013
Stephen Cass |
App Watch: The Final Frontier -- on Your Phone NASA brings its missions to the smallest screen |
InternetNews
July 5, 2005
Roy Mark |
NASA'S Comet Collision Explodes in 'Net Traffic Deep Impact's spectacular collision with the comet Tempel 1 resulted in an explosion of record traffic to the NASA Web site to see how it looked. |
Popular Mechanics
October 24, 2008
Andrew Moseman |
Scientists Fixing Hubble Contend With Antiquated Computers NASA scientists trying to find out what went wrong during last week's repair of the Hubble Space Telescope find themselves dealing with 486 processors and other outdated computer technology. |
Popular Mechanics
February 1, 2008
Thomas D. Jones |
5 Years Later, 5 Hard Lessons From the Columbia Shuttle Disaster: Resident Astronaut As NASA readies Atlantis for a Feb. 7 launch to the International Space Station, it observes a week packed with painful memories of three spaceflight tragedies: Apollo 1, Challenger and the fifth anniversary of the loss of Columbia. |
Geotimes
July 2005
Kathryn Hansen |
Discovery Returns to Flight The space shuttle Discovery and its seven member crew lifted off, successfully returning NASA to flight after a two-and-a-half-year hiatus. The launch follows a 13-day delay after a faulty fuel sensor halted the first launch attempt during countdown. |
Geotimes
September 2003
Fred Schwab |
Manned Space Exploration: Should We Give it Up? Do the risks of sending humans into space justify the ends? Is it time to de-emphasize "astronaut science," and to concentrate instead on unmanned missions into space |
Popular Mechanics
November 20, 2008
Andrew Moseman |
For 10th Anniversary, 10 Headaches and Near-Mishaps on the International Space Station It's not the fault of any single mishap, but today is the space station's 10th birthday and it's still not fully assembled. |
Wired
December 2004
Steven Kotler |
Next Stop, Europa The most promising place in the solar system to find life isn't Mars - it's Europa, one of 16 moons orbiting Jupiter. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
May 2007
John McHale |
Manned Space Missions, International Space Station, Get Increases in 2008 NASA Budget Request Officials at NASA are looking for increased funding for the International Space Station, manned space systems and other programs that fulfill President Bush's goal of reaching the Moon by the end of the decade. |
Geotimes
September 2005 |
Discovery Returns to Flight The space shuttle Discovery and its seven-member crew lifted off at 10:39 a.m. on July 26, successfully returning NASA to flight after a two-and-a-half-year hiatus. |
| AskMen.com |
NASA To Bomb The Moon A pair of unmanned science probes will help determine where astronauts could land and set up camp in years to come. |
Geotimes
July 2006
Jennifer Yauck |
Shuttle liftoff, despite early snags The space shuttle Discovery lifted off for the International Space Station on Tuesday, July 4. It was the first launch since the shuttle fleet was grounded last summer -- and the first-ever on Independence Day! |
Geotimes
May 2005
Naomi Lubick |
NASA on Deck As NASA prepares for the first space shuttle flight since the Columbia disaster on Feb. 2, 2003, the space agency remains in a transition stage. |
Geotimes
February 2004
Jan Childress |
Space-Based Teamplay At learning centers across the country, students are zooming to Mars and beyond while keeping alive the memory of the Challenger and Columbia disasters. |
Popular Mechanics
September 2007
David Noland |
The 'New Space' Race: Handicapping the Billionaire Rocketeers Fueled by interest in space tourism, as well as NASA contracts to replace the shuttle in 2010, the private "New Space" industry is finally looking like the real thing. |
IEEE Spectrum
June 2009
David A. Mindell |
The End Of The Cult Of The Astronaut How do you justify human spaceflight? |
Popular Mechanics
November 16, 2009 |
The Retirement of the Space Shuttle--And What's Next for NASA We look back at coverage of the technology behind the Constellation Program and the development of the International Space station as well as news surrounding the Space Shuttles |
Geotimes
February 2004
David Applegate |
Grand Plan for Another World NASA's new mission to the Moon and Mars could have significant implications for its mission here on Earth. |
IEEE Spectrum
June 2009 |
India Joins League of Lunar Nations Last November, India reached the moon, the fifth country to do so after the United States, Russia, Japan, and China. |
| AskMen.com |
Twitter & Robots: An Astronaut's Day Robotic arm maneuvers and social networking sites are taking center stage at the international space station and space shuttle complex. |
IEEE Spectrum
June 2009
Guterl & Heger |
Mars Is Hard Fifty years ago, space experts thought we'd be there by now. Here's why we're not |
Geotimes
December 2005 |
Highlights 2005 -- Space Rovers still trucking... New "planetary" neighbors... Back to space... |
CIO
December 15, 2003
Malcolm Wheatley |
A Visit to Europe's Mission Control AT 19:15 Greenwich Mean Time on June 2, 2003, after one Earth orbit, the space probe Mars Express separated from the final stage of the giant Soyuz-Fregat rocket launcher that had blasted off from the Baikonur Space Center in Kazakhstan. Europe's mission to Mars was under way. |
Wired
December 2004 |
After the X Prize Manned space travel's best hope is the private sector, not NASA. In the open market, entrepreneurs and space hobbyists will do in a decade what NASA couldn't do in 46 years: provide safe, reliable trips to the heavens for the cost of a Caribbean cruise. |
Popular Mechanics
February 2010
Erin McCarthy |
NASA's Hubble Is Ready for Its 3D Closeup (With Video!) During the past 20 years, the Hubble Space Telescope revealed the age of the universe (about 14 billion years), shed light on dark energy and captured galaxies in all stages of evolution. |
IEEE Spectrum
February 2007 |
Station Watching Packed with colorful, carefully annotated and detailed illustrations and photographs, Reference Guide to the International Space Station makes it easy to track both past and planned ISS evolution. |
Geotimes
September 2003
Naomi Lubick |
Final mission for Galileo A small, sturdy spacecraft known as Galileo will plunge into Jupiter's atmosphere this Sunday at about 4 p.m. EST, after eight surprisingly productive years of observing the giant gassy planet and its moons. |
| AskMen.com |
China Building Space Port China broke ground on its fourth space center Monday, highlighting the country's soaring space ambitions six years after it sent its first man into orbit. |
Science News
March 27, 2004
Ivars Peterson |
Pinpointing Killer Asteroids Astronomers have identified more than 230,000 asteroids in orbit around the sun, and the number is increasing daily. Some of these objects are on courses that could lead to a collision with Earth. If the asteroid is sufficiently large, the results could be catastrophic. |
InternetNews
July 26, 2005
Susan Kuchinskas |
Yahoo's Video Mission With NASA Portal will provide 24/7 streaming coverage of Discovery's return to space mission. No ads will be displayed alongside the streaming video. |
Popular Mechanics
September 10, 2009
Rand Simberg |
Risk Aversion and NASA Don't Mix: Augustine Report Analysis We now know the options that the Augustine panel is going to present to the administration for the future of NASA human spaceflight, because the summary was released on Tuesday. |
Popular Mechanics
June 2009
Joe P. Hasler |
17 Steps to the Moon and Back: Anatomy of a Moonshot Here are the critical events that had to go right with the Apollo 11 launch, and what would have happened had they gone wrong. |
Popular Mechanics
September 9, 2009
Joe Pappalardo |
4 Forgotten Facts About Combat UAVs One important fact is that UAVs aren't unmanned -- they're remotely controlled. |
IEEE Spectrum
June 2009
Olivier L. de Weck |
What To Pack For Mars A successful mission requires a well-planned supply strategy |
Popular Mechanics
January 23, 2009
Andrew Moseman |
The 5 Most Powerful Telescopes, and 5 That Will Define the Future of Astronomy Today's best telescopes are astounding feats -- and astronomers are improving them constantly. |
Popular Mechanics
December 2005
Aldrin & Noland |
Roadmap To Mars So far, NASA's plan to reach the red planet has been short on detail. Apollo astronaut Buzz Aldrin unveils his own step-by-step proposal for mankind's next giant leap. |
Science News
March 12, 2005
David Shiga |
The Zero Gravity Diet Having surveyed nutrition-related changes that occur in space travelers, including weight loss, NASA researchers plan further study of the potential problems from those changes. |
Geotimes
January 2005 |
Astronaut Geology Field Training The field trips in preparation for moon landings were designed as instruction about the specific landing site. We went to places that we thought would show geologic features and problems similar to those they would encounter on the moon, such as impact craters and volcanic areas. |
Popular Mechanics
July 2009
Glenn Harlan Reynolds |
Collision Course: The Need for Better Space Junk Regulations Space is getting crowded, and the problem urgently needs attention from all spacefaring nations, lest we find ourselves earthbound under a shroud of orbiting trash. |
Popular Mechanics
February 1, 2010
Joe Pappalardo |
5 Winners in Obama's Space Budget Obama's space budget is beneficial to certain projects such as the Kennedy Space Center among others. |
Popular Mechanics
July 29, 2008
Rand Simberg |
The Uncertain Future of the International Space Station: Analysis The International Space Station isn't scheduled to be completed for two more years, but a growing chorus of engineers and executives is already brainstorming about what to do with the ISS after its life span ends in 2015. |
Scientific American
July 2009
Yam & Wilcox |
Updates: Whatever Happened to Hubble's Last Fix? Also: updates on mercury in seafood, happiness and choices, and delisting the gray wolf |
Popular Mechanics
January 28, 2010
Rand Simberg |
End Of The Shuttle Era: 24 Years after Challenger Twenty-four years after the Challenger disaster, space analysts reflect on the influence of that failed launch on the future of private and public space flight. |
Chemistry World
December 2009
Jon Cartright |
Reading between the lines Since its emergence in the mid 19th century, spectroscopy has become the most important tool in astronomy, and in recent years there has been no end to its new discoveries. |
Popular Mechanics
September 2006 |
Scientists Are Finding Life In Earth's Coldest, Hottest, Weirdest Places By creating an alternative life chemistry in the lab, astrobiologist Steven Benner hopes to uncover a formula for alien microbes. How five big questions about life on our planet are shaping the search for it on other worlds. |
InsideFlyer
August 2014 |
Buy Miles No More at Miles & More In an unusual move for the industry, Lufthansa Miles & More no longer sells miles to members. |
