Sentinel Space Editor Robert Block just phoned this in: NASA still doesn't know when it will be able to launch shuttle Atlantis -- or the date of the other four launches that had been scheduled for 2008. In a press conference Thursday, engineers said that Atlantis -- whose Dec. 6 launch was scrubbed because of problems with fuel sensors -- now won't launch before Jan. 24 at the earliest, and more likely some time in February. That, in turn, will delay the scheduled February launch of Endeavor -- and could have a domino ef... lire la suite
Sentinel Space Editor Robert Block just phoned this in: NASA still doesn't know when it will be able to launch shuttle Atlantis -- or the date of the other four launches that had been scheduled for 2008. In a press conference Thursday, engineers said that Atlantis -- whose Dec. launch was scrubbed because of problems with fuel sensors -- now won't launch before Jan.
Watching a space shuttle launch from the ground is undoubtedly very awe inspiring, but this video of a launch takes the biscuit: It's filmed from thousands of feet in the air. A lucky guy managed to film a shuttle rocketing off the ground (possibly STS-124) from inside a passing Air Canada airliner.
Shuttle Japan launched its D10 mini PC on Friday, which is claimed as one of the few small form factor PCs to include a built-in 7-inch, 800x480 LCD touchscreen. The D10 can be optioned up with a choice of Intelís dual-core chips, ranging from E2000-.
NASA Last shuttle launch for Columbia - Raw video MUST SEEiweberdudei3 mn - 31 oct. This video was shot with my DVCPro camera and gear by a crew from Israel who hired my services to uplink this video (I had leased out a KU band uplink truck at the time) back to their country. This video depicts a rare glimpse of an actual shuttle launch that is unedited.
Space Shuttle LaunchNASA3 mn - 28 août 2006THe launch folks!
Source: b]AFP[/b] WASHINGTON (AFP) - NASA on Monday delayed the upcoming launch of the Atlantis space shuttle to allow time to repair a "significant anomaly" that occurred at the weekend on the Hubble space telescope. The malfunctioning system is Hubble's Control Unit/Science Data Formatter,".
Source: b]Bloomberg[/b] May 30 (Bloomberg) -- A scheduled NASA shuttle launch tomorrow has taken on new urgency as the crew of the International Space Station awaits delivery of a part to repair the outpost's only toilet. The shuttle Discovery will take off at 5: p. m.
Ok, I have to admit that is a title I never thought I’d use, but it was a weird day. Somehow, bathrooms/toilet rooms, and underware just kept coming up as topics. For instance at lunch… We’d wandered onto a nauseating topic, so I mentioned, to distract things, that my husband and I spent the weekend tiling our bathroom (we’re still repairing from this*), and somehow this lead to much discussion involving Thomas Crapper, his (it turns out non-)discovery of the flush toilet, and how while toilets have been around since the 1730s, my 1893 house wasn’t built with any bathrooms (leading to much weirdness in design, since three were subsequently added).
I've got a lot to blog about but no time to do it. I've been busy with the CRM launch events that have been going on the past week. I'll be in Charlotte, NY, BOS over the next few weeks. In addition, we have the partner conference going on in FL this coming week. A group of us are going to catcht the Space Shuttle Launch.
Will Wright is speaking at NASA's upcoming Yuri's Night Celebration in the Bay Area this Saturday. Yuri's Night is an annual celebration of space exploration. On April 12th, 1961, Yuri Gagarin became the first human being in space, orbiting around the Earth once during a 108-minute flight.
Much has been made of the need to fix a malfunctioning toilet aboard the International Space Station. Toilets are, of course, comedy gold. And space toilets? More golden still. So news organizations have had a great deal of fun at NASA’s expense lately. Many of the jokes were predictable:
Flickr user Pianoman finds himself in an usually suspenseful situation with an Arduino project - So I built this little project for a friend. The idea is to take photos of a shuttle launch at down at Cape Canaveral. He has been doing this for a long time now. the routine goes like this:
Reuters - Russia and the European Union said on Friday they had turned a new page in their sometimes testy relations after launching long-delayed talks on a new cooperation pact.
We had hoped to launch the new Land Store today but unfortunately we’re not finished polishing and testing and hitting it with hammers just yet; we want it to be as bug free as possible before going live. So no new Land Store today I’m afraid. I can’t offer a final date for launch, but hopefully it’s not much more than a couple of weeks away.
Space Shuttle Atlantis will make its next launch attempt Jan. shuttle managers announced Thursday. Moving the next attempt of Atlantis to Jan. will allow as many people as possible to have time with family and friends at the time of year when it means the most," said Wayne Hale, space shuttle program manager at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston.
Reuters - The U. S. space shuttle Endeavour blasted off from a seaside Florida launch pad on Tuesday to deliver part of a long-awaited Japanese space laboratory and a Canadian-built robotic system to the International Space Station.
AP - NASA fueled space shuttle Discovery on Saturday for a late afternoon launch to the international space station.
It was twenty-two years ago today that the Space Shuttle Challenger was launched for the last time. It exploded less than two minutes into the flight. The Texas Space Grant Consortium has a rundown on what happened that day, with an explanation on what went wrong. Link -via Fark Aboard were commander Francis R.
AP - The seven-man crew of the shuttle Endeavour maneuvered toward the international space station early Wednesday, with the astronauts spending their first full day in orbit carefully examining the ship for any launch damage.
Among the crowd that witnessed yesterday’s launch of the shuttle Endeavour was a congressional delegation led by House Science Technology chairman Bart Gordon and energy subcommittee chairman Nick Lampson (whose district, of course, includes JSC). Lampson and Gordon told the Houston Chronicle that they arranged for the tour in part to drum up support [.