"This summer, NASA engineers will try to realize a dream older than the Space Age itself: the deployment of a working solar sail in Earth orbit. The name of the sail is NanoSail-D and it is scheduled for launch onboard a SpaceX Falcon 1 rocket as early as Tomorrow July 29, 2008. " Click here for the full story.
The Picture above shows the Christopher Columbus ship….yeah reminds me of my old school history lessons…You can buy the Columbus story book at Amazon.com.
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"NASA’s Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST for short) left Earth yesterday (11th June 08) onboard a Delta II rocket. "The entire GLAST Team is elated," reports program manager Kevin Grady of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. "The observatory is now on-orbit and all systems continue to operate as planned."
- For the full story click here
Previous Post: Name that Space Telescope!
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Hello Everyone 🙂
Previously I added the video There We Are!! In Space!
And here is another Great Trip but in PowerPoint. One of my Friends sent it to me. Its shows you How Big and How Small we are! FROM MICRO TO MACROCOSMOS
Please download the file below, I’ll leave you now… Have a great journey 🙂
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Now Arabic version included 🙂
& a short Video
Enjoy 🙂
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Stay tuned for WHEN WE LEFT EARTH – THE NASA MISSIONS on Sundays 9PM ep
Click here for latest updates Space.com
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Thanks for DiscoveryChannelTV comment below. Anyone Interested and would like to buy…Its Available in AstroStore , both in DVD and Blu-Ray 🙂 Formats
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Below is very interesting powerpoint presentation file about Space Shuttle Processing. Before flight activates, rarely seen by the general public.
In 2006 I posted Fly Your Name To MARS! Including in 2007 I posted about Messages From Earth. All those Topics are related to the robotic spacecraft Phoenix. and just Yesterday the Phoenix has landed down safely on the surface of Mars at 23:38 UTC (16:38 PDT), In north Pole.
This interesting video below shows the takeoff moment till the final moment of the Phoenix.. Enjoy 🙂
Congratulations to All who joined this great project. Your Name Which is stored on the mini DVD has Landed on Mars Yesterday 🙂 .
http://sc1.sclive.net/13.0.1385.0517/Web/Parts/PhotoAlbum/script/slideshow.swf
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"Kepler is NASA’s first mission capable of detecting Earth-size and smaller planets in the habitable zone of solar-like stars. The spacecraft is planned to be launched from Kennedy Space Center in February 2009. The spacecraft will be launched into orbit around the Sun, not the Earth, with an orbital period of 372 days. The spacecraft will slowly drift away from the Earth, such that in about 25 years it will be half an Earth orbit away, 300 million kilometers distant from the Earth, passing behind the Sun as viewed from Earth."
"When you submit your name, you may also chose to provide a message of 500 words or less of why you think the mission is important. A copy of the DVD with all of the names and messages will be given to the Smithsonian Institution’s National Air and Space Museum." >>> Click here to find more & Submit your Name 🙂
So Hurry Up the deadline date is November 1, 2008. I have already participated 🙂 and here’s my Certificate.
In my answer to the question; Why you think the Kepler mission is important? I wrote as following:
In simple words I will say that one of the greatest milestones in Astronomy is to search for life beyond our Solar System, And to do that. First we need to find other planets possible earth size, and Kepler is NASA’s first mission capable of detecting Earth-size and smaller planets in the habitable zone of solar-like stars.
And achieving it, is one of our astronomy dream milestones….. So Send Your Name!
This project is an activity in association with the International Year of Astronomy 2009.
Above is the screen shot of this software. It looks amazing and brilliant. I cannot say its cons now, because its still in beta. The good thing I’ve noticed is that you can download or create your own guided towers with sound. Brilliant. Also you can connect your own robotic telescope and control it using by using this software. But first you need to download your telescope’s driver which is found in ASCOM.
I don’t really know if this software will hit Macs. But looks Microsoft are currently working on windows version only. For more info click here.
If ya need more detailed review please visit Stuart’s Astro blog.
Don’t forget to download your own software and test it for yourself 🙂
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NASA & The Planetary Society are doing it again. Send Your Name to the moon. Join NASA for returning to the Moon. The LRO spacecraft which is nearly to be ready for orbit lunch, will carry all the names of people who joined, supported & participated in this project mission.
"The LRO’s objectives are to find safe landing sites, locate potential resources, characterize the radiation environment, and demonstrate new technology."
So Send Your Name To The Moon NOW, Before the deadline 27th June, 2008 of name submissions.
I’ve already submitted mine 🙂 and here is the Certificate of Participation!
LRO in Orbit
"An artist’s conception of the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) in orbit around the Moon. Credit: Chris Meaney, NASA Television"
For more info from The Planetary Society Click here
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IYA2009 Trailer
The International Year of Astronomy is starting. Which is brilliant for everyone. Many People all over the Planet are invited to join IYA2009. People like Astronomers & Educators are working on many projects and their are encouraging others like you to join them and plan some great activities. If you already know about this and interested, I guess you’ve already started or beginning to start planing other great activities with your nearest astronomical society/club.
If you haven’t started yet, I suggest you to start now. Contact your nearest astronomical team which you will find here.
If you are in United Kingdom please click here for contact details.; In Sultanate of Oman, Please click here.
Please visit http://www.astronomy2009.org for more information.
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" "Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice," wrote the poet Robert Frost. Astronomers, it turns out, are in the former camp.
A new calculation predicts that Earth will be swallowed up by the sun in 7.6 billion years, capping off a longstanding debate over whether the sun’s gravitational pull will have weakened enough for Earth to escape final destruction or not.
Other theorists have predicted that our planet will fry as the sun expands in its old age. But the time estimates have varied by a couple billion years. " Click here to read more
Fry….haha I think its frying now… Global Warming. Earth, our only home, could end by us…Wars..
Really interesting topic about how the world is going to end! Earth been Swallowed by Our Sun…eehh. Or even more worse, Our entire Solar System been swallowed (no direction) by a Black Hole!! This also could happen….at any time. Leave the other possibilities like Earth been hit down by known/unknown object/s…or a UFO (Aliens)…whatever!!!
There are also other possibilities that earth could even be swallowed up or down 🙂 by other stars…who knows. Astronomers today say that Andromeda Galaxy (Messier M31 / NGC 224) will collide (merge) with our galaxy (The Milky Way) approximately after three billion years from now. And after merging it will be named as Binominis Galaxy. If we (the human race) were still Alive 🙂 hahahaha Click here to read more
Earth’s Final Sunrise Predicted, Earth’s Final Spin Predicted or Earth’s Final breath Predicted
This will be the other new Topic name in the future. Just guessing!! Maybe why not. Scientists may discover other things…(life science secrets) …for now we know anything might happen to end and kill Earth forever.
At the end, not to forget, about the Big Crunch, the Ultimate fate of the Universe. That might happen at any moment to end the end. The opposite of the Big Bang theory.
This is up to now…there are lots of things which we don’t know yet. I’ll leave this topic to later time, if you’ve got any information please include it here… I would like to hear from you. 🙂
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