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November 22, 2009
Venerable Hubble Hardware Goes To Smithsonian
Space Daily, November 22, 2009 Sunday
 Two key instruments from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have a new home in the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum in Washington after being returned to Earth aboard space shuttle Atlantis last...
The Lunar Oasis
Space Daily, November 22, 2009 Sunday
 2009 will go down in history as one of the greatest years for lunar exploration. We were stunned by the discovery that the sun-drenched lunar surface, once thought to be bone dry, hosts small traces o...
Subcommittee Congratulates NASA On Receiving TIME Magazine Award For Ares Rockets
Space Daily, November 22, 2009 Sunday
 House Committee on Science and Technology Chairman Bart Gordon (D-TN) and Space and Aeronautics Subcommittee Chairwoman Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) congratulated National Administration of Space and Aer...
SOFIA Seeks Secrets Of Planetary Birth
Space Daily, November 22, 2009 Sunday
 You don't always have to have a rocket to do rocket science. Sometimes a mere airplane will do - that is, a mere Boeing 747 toting a 17-ton, 9-foot wide telescope named SOFIA. Short for Stratospheric ...
NASA's Wise Gets Ready To Survey Whole Sky
Space Daily, November 22, 2009 Sunday
 NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or Wise, is chilled out, sporting a sunshade and getting ready to roll. NASA's newest spacecraft is scheduled to roll to the pad on Friday, Nov. 20, its las...
NASA Supercomputer Ranks Among World's Fastest
Space Daily, November 22, 2009 Sunday
 After a recent upgrade, NASA's premiere supercomputer located at Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif., has garnered the sixth spot on the Top500 list of the world's most powerful computers. The...
NASA 'Drops' Next Gen Robotic Lander During Autonomous Tests
Space Daily, November 22, 2009 Sunday
 NASA has successfully completed a series of autonomous "drop" tests of a robotic lander test article - in a record 10 months - to demonstrate the ability to perform a controlled landing on the moon or...
NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory Investigates Sun's Highs And Lows
Space Daily, November 22, 2009 Sunday
 How intense will the next solar cycle be? Can we predict when a violent solar storm will blast Earth with energetic particles? Could a prolonged period of inactivity on the sun plunge Earth into a pro...
NASA And Microsoft Allow Earthlings To Become Martians
Space Daily, November 22, 2009 Sunday
 NASA and Microsoft Corp. of Redmond, Wash., have collaborated to create a Web site where Internet users can have fun while advancing their knowledge of Mars. Drawing on observations from NASA's Mars m...
Nanotech Experiment To Weather The Trials Of Orbit
Space Daily, November 22, 2009 Sunday
 Novel nanomaterials developed at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute are scheduled to blast off into orbit on November 16 aboard Space Shuttle Atlantis. The project, funded by the U.S. Air Force Multi Un...
LockMart Tests Carbon Nanotube-Based Memory Devices On Shuttle
Space Daily, November 22, 2009 Sunday
 A radiation-resistant version of NRAM carbon-nanotube-based memory, developed jointly by Lockheed Martin and Nantero, was tested on a recent Space Shuttle mission. The NRAM was incorporated by NASA in...
Hunting For Planets In The Dark
Space Daily, November 22, 2009 Sunday
 Dark energy isn't good for life in the universe. This mysterious substance, which cosmologists believe makes up around 70 percent of the universe, may eventually pull apart galaxies, then stars and pl...
Mystery Of Solar Tsunami - Solved
Space Daily, November 22, 2009 Sunday
 Sometimes you really can believe your eyes. That's what NASA's Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO) is telling researchers about a controversial phenomenon on the sun known as the "solar t...
Exoplanets Clue To Sun's Curious Chemistry
Space Daily, November 22, 2009 Sunday
 A ground-breaking census of 500 stars, 70 of which are known to host planets, has successfully linked the long-standing "lithium mystery" observed in the Sun to the presence of planetary systems. Usin...
Academy Space Weather Experiment Heads Into Space
Space Daily, November 22, 2009 Sunday
 A U.S. Air Force Academy space weather experiment heads for the International Space Station aboard the Space Shuttle Atlantis after the shuttle lifted off at at 2:28 p.m. EST Nov. 16 from Cape Canaver...
COBE Satellite Marks 20th Anniversary
Space Daily, November 22, 2009 Sunday
 NASA's Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE) satellite rocketed into Earth orbit on Nov. 18, 1989, and quickly revolutionized our understanding of the early cosmos.
Discovery Of A Retrograde Or Highly Tilted Exoplanet
Space Daily, November 22, 2009 Sunday
 Two teams of astronomers have found that extrasolar planet HAT-P-7b, discovered in 2008, has a retrograde or highly tilted orbit. On UT May 30, 2009, a Japanese collaboration team led by Norio Narita ...
Baffling Boxy Bulge
Space Daily, November 22, 2009 Sunday
 The evolution of bulges in the centres of spiral galaxies puzzles astronomers. A recent NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image of NGC 4710 is part of a survey that has been conducted to learn more abou...
November 21, 2009
Space Shuttle
Broadcast News (BN), November 21, 2009 Saturday
 CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- An astronaut is gearing up for the first spacewalk of his career while awaiting the imminent birth of his daughter.
Ex-NASA scientist's lighting takes off
Kidderminster Shuttle, November 21, 2009 Saturday
 A FORMER NASA scientist who has developed a revolutionary LED lighting technology has won $35 million of investment with help from UK Trade & Investment. Dr Jeong Lee, who previously worked on microfl...
November 20, 2009
Russia sends military satellite into orbit
Xinhua General News Service, November 20, 2009 Friday 1:16 AM EST
  Russia's Space Forces on Friday launched a Soyuz-U carrier rocket to deliver a Cosmos-series military satellite into space.   The booster rocket blasted off at 1:44 p.m. Moscow time (1044 GMT...
PLANETARIUM TO UNVEIL NEW MURAL-SIZED IMAGES FROM NASA'S GREAT OBSERVATORIES
US Fed News, November 20, 2009 Friday 7:17 PM EST
 BUFFALO, N.Y., Nov. 19 -- Buffalo State College issued the following news release: The Whitworth Ferguson Planetarium will take visitors on a journey to the center of our galaxy when it unveils unprec...
ORBITAL SCIENCES REPORTS DISPOSITION BY CEO THOMPSON (Virginia)
US Fed News, November 20, 2009 Friday 11:33 AM EST
 WASHINGTON, Nov. 21 -- Orbital Sciences Corp. (ORB), Dulles, Va., has filed a Form 4 with the Securities and Exchange Commission noting the change in the beneficial interest held by CEO, Chairman and ...
Space Shuttle and ISS crew news conference
Future News - Media Planner, November 20, 2009 Friday
 12 crew members aboard space shuttle Atlantis and the International Space Station hold news conference. Atlantis mission STS-129 is due to land on 27 Nov following an 11-day mission to the ISS to deli...
Spacewalk on the International Space Station
Future News - Media Planner, November 20, 2009 Friday
 Spacewalk on the International Space Station, as part of NASA Space Shuttle mission STS-129. Scheduled to take 6.5 hours, spacewalk is last of three on mission delivering components incl spare gyrosco...
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