AP – Like a miner prospecting for gold, NASA hopes its latest robot to Mars hits pay dirt when it lands Sunday near the red planet’s north pole to conduct a 90-day digging mission. The three-legged Phoenix Mars lander fitted with a backhoe arm is zeroing in on the unexplored arctic region where a reservoir of ice is believed to lie beneath the Martian surface.
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SPACE.com – NASA and France are preparing to launch a new satellite next month tomap Earth’s rising sea levels and study their link to global climate change.
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SPACE.com – NASA’sshuttle Discovery and its seven-astronaut crew are cleared to launch toward theInternational Space Station (ISS) on May 31 to deliver the high-flying laboratory’slargest orbital room, mission managers said Monday.
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AFP – The United States is providing China with satellite imagery of reservoirs, roads and bridges damaged in the earthquake that devastated southwestern Sichuan province, the Pentagon said.
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SPACE.com – NASAengineers and mission managers are expected to set a firm May launch date todayfor the shuttle Discovery and a massive Japanese laboratory bound for theInternational Space Station (ISS).
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AP – A look at NASA’s many Mars missions over the past four decades, listed by launch date:
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AP – NASA has successfully landed five robots on Mars over the past three decades. Its latest spacecraft, Phoenix Mars, will touch down in the Martian arctic region on Sunday. Here’s why NASA is going again.
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AFP – A US-French observation satellite due to track ocean currents and the rises in sea levels to help improve weather forecasts should be ready for launch in mid-June, NASA officials said Tuesday.
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AP – NASA has set May 31 for the next space shuttle launch and said that Russia’s investigation into last month’s rocky landing of its own spacecraft shouldn’t interfere.
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Reuters – NASA cleared the space shuttle Discovery on Monday for launch on May 31 to deliver the centerpiece of Japan’s space program, a massive laboratory named Kibo, to the International Space Station.
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