NASA and the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum will host a news conference at 10 a.m. EDT, Friday, July 22 to announce the selected landing site for the agency’s latest Mars rover. The event will be in the museum’s Moving Beyond Earth Gallery. NASA Television and the agency’s Web site will provide live coverage of the event.
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New Version 3.35 Now Available
http://www.lunarphasepro.com
Not just an interactive Moon Atlas, LunarPhase Pro (for Win98/ME/NT/2000/XP/Win 7/Win 8) is a moon observer’s software toolkit designed to help you learn about the Moon and make your lunar observing sessions more productive. By using the integrated observation planning tools and the general lunar data presented on screen, you’ll be able to easily … Read the rest of this article
An award-winning NASA-produced television program, “NASA 360,” is available at the online video service hulu.com at: http://www.hulu.com/nasa-360
The site features four 30-minute episodes that show how composite materials are changing our world, how NASA has tested space technologies on Earth and what NASA researchers are doing to improve aviation. More programs will be added in the coming weeks.
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NASA’s Glory spacecraft is scheduled for launch on Friday, March 4. Technical issues with ground support equipment for the Taurus XL launch vehicle led to the scrub of the original Feb. 23 launch attempt. Those issues have been resolved.
The March 4 liftoff from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., is targeted for 5:09:43 a.m. EST, in the middle of a … Read the rest of this article
NASA’s Deep Impact (EPOXI) probe is closing in on Comet Hartley 2 for a daring flyby today (Nov. 4th).
The small but active comet is full of surprises, with spinning jets, geysers of cyanide gas, and a strangely pickle-shaped core. Mission scientists expect to reveal first images from the flyby during a press conference on Thursday afternoon, around 4 pm … Read the rest of this article
Put on your hard hat and get ready for action, because on Friday, Oct. 9th, what you just imagined is really going to happen – and you can have a front row seat.Just imagine. A spaceship plunges out of the night sky, hits the ground and explodes. A plume of debris billows back into the heavens, leading your eye to … Read the rest of this article
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