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In Focus: Shuttles Sail to Their New Homes

After NASA shut down the Space Shuttle Program, the remaining shuttles and replicas were divided among several cities, as museum displays. Over the past few weeks, two shuttles that never flew to space were transported by barge to their new homes. The Enterprise was sailed up the Hudson River to its new position aboard the U.S.S. Intrepid, part of the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum, and the shuttle replica named Explorer sailed from Florida to Houston, Texas, where it will be displayed at the Johnson Space Center.

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theeconomist: Tomorrow’s cover today: the world economy is in...

Thu, 07 Jun 2012 17:13:06 -0400

theeconomist:

Tomorrow’s cover today: the world economy is in grave danger. A lot depends on one woman.

n-a-s-a: Eclipsed Moon Over Wyoming Credit & Copyright:...

Wed, 06 Jun 2012 15:59:14 -0400

n-a-s-a:

Eclipsed Moon Over Wyoming

Credit & Copyright: Mack H. Frost

n-a-s-a: Live: Watching for Venus to Cross the Sun Image...

Tue, 05 Jun 2012 16:47:42 -0400

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Live: Watching for Venus to Cross the Sun

Image Credit: NASA/SDO & the AIA, EVE, and HMI teams

humor: The Wall: Part of the Journalists Memorial in...

Sat, 02 Jun 2012 07:18:10 -0400

humor:

The Wall:
Part of the Journalists Memorial in Washington DC’s Newseum, a large wall hanging depicts pictures of some of the 2084 people from around the world who have died while reporting the news.

humor: I can see you!

Sat, 02 Jun 2012 07:17:08 -0400

humor:

I can see you!

humor: More Nims and the Big Box

Sat, 02 Jun 2012 07:16:10 -0400

humor:

More Nims and the Big Box

humor: THE FAMOUS BEATLES PRINTS BY RICHARD AVEDON (1967)

Sat, 02 Jun 2012 07:15:29 -0400

humor:

THE FAMOUS BEATLES PRINTS BY RICHARD AVEDON (1967)

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Sat, 02 Jun 2012 07:14:17 -0400

barattoli:

Abbonati al nostro canale di informazioni. Noi pensiamo a te. Anzi, noi pensiamo al posto tuo

Errore

Sat, 02 Jun 2012 07:13:40 -0400

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Grazie per aver segnalato l’errore: tanto non serve a niente

Pazienza

Sat, 02 Jun 2012 07:13:37 -0400

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n-a-s-a: M51: The Whirlpool Galaxy Image Credit &...

Sat, 02 Jun 2012 07:12:38 -0400

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M51: The Whirlpool Galaxy

Image Credit & Copyright: Marco Burali, Tiziano Capecchi, Marco Mancini

scanzen: The Johnson Space Center forms the backdrop for this...

Fri, 01 Jun 2012 17:11:38 -0400

scanzen:

The Johnson Space Center forms the backdrop for this rare picture of the Shuttle Challenger, atop the NASA modified 747 being ferried to the Kennedy Space Center from its Calofirnia landing sight. Undated, unused NASA postcard, c1985.

n-a-s-a: Hubble Floats Free Credit: STS-125 Crew, NASA

Fri, 01 Jun 2012 17:11:23 -0400

n-a-s-a:

Hubble Floats Free

Credit: STS-125 Crew, NASA

the-star-stuff: NASA’s 10 Greatest Science...

Thu, 31 May 2012 17:58:47 -0400

the-star-stuff:

NASA’s 10 Greatest Science Missions

10. Pioneer

Pioneer 10 and Pioneer 11, launched in 1972 and 1973, respectively, were the first spacecraft to visit the solar system’s most photogenic gas giants, Jupiter and Saturn. Pioneer 10 was the first probe to travel through the solar system’s asteroid belt, a field of orbiting rocks between Mars and Jupiter.

9. Voyager

Shortly after the Pioneers made their flybys, the Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 probes followed. They made many important discoveries about Jupiter and Saturn, including rings around Jupiter and the presence of volcanism on Jupiter’s moon, Io. Voyager went on to make the first flybys of Uranus, where it discovered 10 new moons, and Neptune, where it found that Neptune actually weighs less than astronomers thought.

8. WMAP

The Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP), launched in 2001, may not be as well-known, but it measures with unprecedented accuracy the temperature of the radiation left over from the Big Bang.

7. Spitzer

Another spacecraft with a profound effect on cosmology and astrophysics is the Spitzer Space Telescope, which observed the heavens through infrared light. This light, which has a longer wavelength than visual light, is mostly blocked by Earth’s atmosphere.

6.Spirit & Opportunity

Intended for just a 90-day mission, these workhorse Mars rovers have far outdone themselves, and are still chugging away on the red planet more than five years after landing. Spirit and Opportunity, the twin Mars Exploration Rovers, landed on opposite sides of the planet in January 2004.

5. Cassini-Huygens

This joint NASA/ESA spacecraft, launched in 1997, reached its destination, Saturn, in 2004. Since then it has been in orbit around the ringed world, taking one stunning snapshot after another of the planets rings, moons and weather.

4. Chandra

Since 1999, the Chandra X-ray Observatory has been scanning the skies in X-ray light, looking at some of the most distant and bizarre astronomical events. Because Earth’s pesky atmosphere blocks out most X-rays, astronomers couldn’t view the universe in this high-energy, short-wavelength light until they sent Chandra up to space.

3. Viking

When NASA’s Viking 1 probe touched-down on Mars in July 1976, it was the first time a man-made object had soft-landed on the red planet. (Though the Soviet Mars 2 and 3 probes did land on the surface, they failed upon landing). The Viking 1 lander also holds the title of longest-running Mars surface mission, with a total duration of 6 years and 116 days. The spacecraft also sent the first color pictures back from the Martian surface, showing us what that mysterious red dot looks like from the ground for the first time.

2. Hubble

The most-loved of all NASA spacecraft, the Hubble Space Telescope has name recognition around the world. Its photos have changed the way everyday people figure themselves into the cosmos. The observatory has also radically changed science, making breakthroughs on astronomical issues too numerous to count.

1. Apollo

NASA’s best space science mission? The one humans got to tag along on, of course! Not only was sending a man to the moon monumental for human history, but the Apollo trips were the first to bring celestial stuff back to Earth and greatly advanced our scientific understanding of the moon.

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Thu, 31 May 2012 17:58:02 -0400

dapa:

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