Astronaut Soichi Noguchi, from the National Space Development Agency of Japan (NASDA), has been named to the crew of STS-113 and is expected to fly into orbit aboard the Space […]
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Contact: Ginger Pinholster gpinhols@aaas.org 202-326-6421 American Association for the Advancement of Science Greenhouse gas emissions have caused the world’s oceans to heat up significantly over the last 50 years, according […]
CU-Boulder experiment heading for International Space Station
The University of Colorado at Boulder-based BioServe Space Technologies Center is sending an intriguing biomedical experiment to the International Space Station April 19 to test the effects of long-term weightlessness […]
Mission STS-100 Activities for Media Leading up to Launch Day
The Canadian Space Agency (CSA) invites media to take part in the following activities leading up to CSA Astronaut Chris Hadfield’s mission to install Canadarm2 on the International Space Station. […]
Briefing Set as Hyper-X Flight Preparations Begin
The first of three unpiloted X-43 vehicles in NASA’s Hyper-X program will soon begin hypersonic flight from NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center, CA. Flying from seven to ten times the […]
Ancient climate excursion linked to a rare anomaly in Earth’s orbit
About 23 million years ago, a huge ice sheet spread over Antarctica, temporarily reversing a general trend of global warming and decreasing ice volume. Now a team of researchers has […]
STS-100 Web Cast with Marc Garneau
Date: 19 April 2001 Time: 1:05 p.m. EDT Web address: www.space.gc.ca Saint-Hubert, 12 April 2001 _ Just before Canadian Space Agency (CSA) Astronaut Chris Hadfield blasts off on his next […]
Sun continues hurling solar storms at Earth
For the past two weeks, the sun has been particularly active and will remain so possibly for another two weeks, say NOAA researchers. “We’re ringing the bells,” said Joseph Kunches […]
X-40A second free flight successful today, paving way for NASA’s X-37 space plane
The X-40A vehicle successfully performed a second free flight test today at Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards, Calif. The X-40A was lifted by an Army Chinook helicopter to an […]
NASA Demonstrates How Earth’s Global Heat Engine Drives Plant Growth
Scientists at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center have assembled the first long-term global data set that demonstrates the connection between changing patterns of sea surface temperature and patterns of plant […]