Astronauts Skip Super Bowl for Space Shuttle Launch
Poor weather delays launch of US shuttle Endeavour
Spirit's Last Moves Before Winter
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The Faces of the "New Frontier" of NASA's Commercial Space Flight Plan
Video: Solar Eclipse Seen From Space
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Will Bio Fuels Power Martian Colonies Instead Of Solar?
I can't pretend like this isn't affecting me
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Cassini Aegaeon and Prometheus awesomeness
News from Planetary Society Blog by system 1 week 4 days agoNASA Gives 'Go' for Final Space Shuttle Night Launch
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Unfree Spirit: NASA's Mars Rover Appears Stuck for Good
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First Sighting of Auroral Light Bouncing Off Satellite? : Big Pic
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One of Jupiter's Moons is Melted!
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The Intricate Beauty of the Solar Corona : Big Pic
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Mars Gets Hit By Cosmic Buckshot : Big Pic
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Endeavour aiming for on time launch with coolant hose fix ahead of schedule
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Meteorite Crashes Through Virginia Doctor's Office
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NASA Garage Sale Includes Shuttles, Engines, Space Suits
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January Listening Period Ends with No Word from Phoenix Mars Lander
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Rover Gives NASA an "Opportunity" to View Interior of Mars
Presenting HiWish: It's Your Turn to Image Mars
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Glowing Nebula Reveals Cosmic Cat's Paw
News from Space.com Top Stories by system 2 weeks 5 days agoStereo Speakers Can Levitate Dust for Mars Colonists
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The six astronauts who rocketed into space early Monday opted to skip watching the Super Bowl in order to blast off on the space shuttle Endeavour
Washington (AFP) Feb 6, 2010 - The US space shuttle Endeavour and its crew of six astronauts are preparing for a weekend mission to deliver a space module dubbed Tranquility to the International Space Station (ISS).
Pasadena CA (SPX) Feb 08, 2010 - This composite image shows the effects of two galaxies caught in the act of merging. A Chandra X-ray Observatory image shows a pair of quasars in blue, located about 4.6 billion light years away, but separated on the sky by only about 70 thousand light years.
Cape Canaveral, Florida (AFP) Feb 7, 2010 - The launch of the US space shuttle Endeavour was delayed by 24 hours early Sunday due to bad weather over the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, NASA officials said.
NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden introduced today five commercial space companies that NASA will use to support transport of crew to and from low Earth orbit as part of the Commercial Crew Development program. The firms were selected in an open competition for $50 million in funds from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. During the event, Bolden countered the criticism of NASA's new plan proposed by President Obama. "I respectfully disagree if you think we are abandoning human spaceflight. I think we'll get there quicker. This is a fundamental re-baselining and a new ways of doing business to develop a program that is truly sustainable for the long term," Bolden said. "This is a roadmap to even more historic achievements… We are not abandoning human space flight by any stretch of the imagination. We are on a new course, but human space flight is in our DNA."
If I told you that your great, great, great grandkids would be building houses on that crimson world known as
It's almost 1 am. I have an STS-131 sim tomorrow. I need to get to sleep. But I can't stop thinking about everything that happened today and the rumors from last week. I don't post often. I wanted to post last week when the rumors started but I had a bad dream that someone from work saw it and I got in trouble.

The Mars rover Spirit, which this month passed its sixth anniversary of landing on the Red Planet, will apparently rove no more. NASA announced in a teleconference Tuesday that Spirit, stuck for months in a patch of soft soil known as Troy, has been designated a "stationary research platform". Spirit has not managed to free itself in a series of extraction maneuvers that began in November , and the rover's controllers say that their focus must now turn to preparing for the onset of winter in the Martian southern hemisphere--a harsh season, lasting nearly half an Earth year, that Spirit may not survive.

Last night I was tweeted by NASA Astronaut TJ Creamer (whose praises I have sung on Twitter more than once ;-) ) and I have never been so excited as I was when I saw his responses! It was such a HUGE thrill to get a message from the International Space Station - absolutely amazing! As you can tell 24 hours later and I am still excited!







NASA's Mars exploration rover Opportunity is allowing scientists to get a glimpse deep inside Mars. "Marquette Island is different in composition and character from any known rock on Mars or meteorite from Mars," said Steve Squyres of Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y. Squyres is principal investigator for Opportunity and its twin, Spirit. "It is one of the coolest things Opportunity has found in a very long time."
The HiRISE public suggestion tool, called HiWish, is a Web site that allows you to log in and select a spot on Mars as a suggestion for where the HiRISE instrument should take an image. 


With the Space Transportation System winding down NASA is looking to sell the Space Shuttle. In 2008 the Government agency quoted a price of $42 Million to buy an orbiter. A couple of weeks ago that price was slashed!
Pasadena CA (SPX) Jan 20, 2010 - Sols 2137-2143 - Spirit remains embedded at the location called "Troy" on the West side of Home Plate. Extrication drives were tried on sols 2138, 2140 and 2142 (Jan. 7, 9 and 11, 2010).
Lisbon, Portugal (SPX) Jan 20, 2010 - Hundreds of Portuguese high school students were recently given a distinct privilege: a look at what future Mars missions could look like, as described by former NASA astronaut Laurence R. Young.


