NASA’s 6+ ton defunct satellite UARS will reenter earth’s atmosphere around September 23, 2011 now, a day earlier than previous estimated date.
NASA invited 150 twitter followers to witness GRAIL launch
NASA has invited 150 lucky followers of its twitter account to witness the launch of two GRAIL spacecraft, destined to orbit moon with a mission to learn more about earth’s natural satellite’s gravity field from crust to cure and for other longstanding questions that scientist have on understanding how earth and other planets were formed. The launch is schedules on 0837 HRS EDT SEP 08 2011.
Space Debris – A Junkyard around our planet
Apollo 11 spaceflight, the one that took Neil Armstrong and crew to the moon, a giant leap for mankind, if you see how they left the earth and how they came back to earth, it wasn’t the same. They left on a command module ‘Columbia’, attached with Lunar Module ‘Eagle’ on a Multi Stage Saturn-V [...]
Hotel in Space
We have seen hotels at unique places around the globe say in deserts, on top of mountains, underground, on an artificial island, under water on high-rise towers etc. but a Russian firm ‘Orbital Technologies’ is planning to put a hotel in a place where you wont be able to search it on Google earth as [...]
Curiosity – NASA’s Latest Mars Rover
In an effort to learn more about the red planet Mars, NASA is building a new rover named Curiosity. It’s a mobile laboratory with primary objective of researching Mars’ capability to support life, it will help in analyzing whether Mars ever had capability of supporting micro-bacterial life?