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Jason Davis
Have two spacecraft ever docked to two separate space stations on the same day?
Posted by Jason Davis on 2011/11/02 04:20 CDT
The Chinese spacecraft Shenzhou 8 docks with space station Tiangong 1, on the same day a Progress resupply capsule arrives at the International Space Station.
The fish that sent us to the moon
Posted by Jason Davis on 2011/10/20 06:16 CDT
The tale of NASA's Super Guppy aircraft, which ferried parts of America's space program to their launch pads.
Earth observing satellites record large Arctic ozone loss
Posted by Jason Davis on 2011/10/14 06:31 CDT
Data from Earth observing satellites Aura and CALIPSO have shown record losses of seasonal ozone in the Arctic.
Decoding SpaceX's re-usable spacecraft concept
Posted by Jason Davis on 2011/10/07 10:45 CDT
Breaking down the futuristic technologies for SpaceX's reusable Grasshopper spacecraft, as shown in a recent promotional video.
China's first space station takes flight
Posted by Jason Davis on 2011/09/30 10:58 CDT
A Long March rocket carried China's first space station, Tiangong-1, into orbit September 29.
Earth science's next big thing
Posted by Jason Davis on 2011/09/22 11:27 CDT
Meet the next big thing in NASA's mission to study planet Earth: NPP, the NPOESS Preparatory Project satellite.
NASA unveils Space Launch System
Posted by Jason Davis on 2011/09/15 11:58 CDT
After months of political wrangling, NASA has finally unveiled the design of the Space Launch System, America's next deep space transportation system.
New Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter photos show Apollo sites in sharpest detail yet
Posted by Jason Davis on 2011/09/08 11:58 CDT
On September 6, NASA released new high-resolution photos from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) showing the Apollo 12, 14 and 17 landing sites from vantage points as close as 21 kilometers.
Posted by Jason Davis on 2011/09/01 11:58 CDT
The first post-shuttle resupply mission in ISS history got off to a rocky start, as a Russian Progress cargo spacecraft failed to reach orbit, crashing into south central Russia.
Posted by Jason Davis on 2011/08/19 11:58 CDT
A team of international scientists has discovered an antiproton belt around the Earth, using data obtained from PAMELA, a particle identification instrument aboard a Russian Earth observation satellite.
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