Availability of particles from collection surfaces exposed in the Stratosphere during the 2002 Leonid Shower (comet 55P/Tempel-Tuttle), and Earth’s predicted crossing of the dust steam from comet Grigg-Skjellerup in 2003 […]
National Space Exhibit Blasts Off
NASA and other officials introduce an unprecedented traveling educational space exhibition today at 12 p.m. EDT at the National Press Club in Washington. Former NASA astronaut Gene Cernan; Dr. Adena […]
SERVIS-1 New Launch Date Confirmed
Bremen, 15 September 2003: Eurockot Launch Services of Bremen, Germany, will now launch the Japanese SERVIS-1 satellite on 29 Oc-tober 2003 from its facilities at Plesetsk Cosmodrome in Northern Russia […]
SpaceDev Engages the Investor Relations Group of New York
SpaceDev (OTCBB: SPDV) has contracted The Investor Relations Group (“IRG”) of New York City to serve as its new financial relations and corporate communications company. The Investor Relations Group will […]
NASA conference promotes government-wide cooperation in space optics technology
A symposium to share information about government-funded space optics work – with the goal of getting the best return on government technology investments – will be held Sept. 16-18, in […]
NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory Marks Four Years of Discovery Firsts
Launched in 1999, NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory promised to be one of the world’s most powerful tools to better understand the structure and evolution of the universe — and it […]
Scientists determine large magellanic cloud galaxy formed similar to Milky Way
LIVERMORE, Calif. — An astronomer from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, in collaboration with an international team of researchers, have discovered that a neighboring galaxy — the Large Magellanic Cloud […]
Opening up the dark side of the universe
Physicists in the UK are ready to start construction of a major part of an advanced new experiment, designed to search for elusive gravitational waves. They are already part of […]
NASA Wants You to be a Solar System Ambassador
With hopes to further expand the successful Solar System Ambassador program, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., is recruiting more volunteers to be Solar System Ambassadors in 2004. Applications are […]
Three Members Added to Stafford-Covey Task Group
NASA Administrator Sean O’Keefe today announced the appointment of three additional members to the task group assigned to perform an independent assessment of the agency’s implementation of the Columbia Accident […]