AP – A comet-busting NASA spacecraft zipped past Earth on Monday on its way to rendezvous with another comet in an extended mission that will also see it hunt for Earth-sized planets around a cluster of stars. The Deep Impact probe made the first of three flybys designed to use the planet’s gravity to hurtle the spacecraft toward comet Hartley 2 for a 2010 meeting.
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AP – NASA grudgingly released some results Monday from an $11.3 million federal air safety study it previously withheld from the public over concerns it would upset travelers and hurt airline profits. The data reflects hundreds of cases where pilots flew too close to other planes, plunged from altitude or landed at airports without clearance.
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AP – Beginning Feb. 18, 2009, television stations will stop broadcasting analog signals. An older, non-digital television without cable or satellite service will need a special converter box to receive a picture.
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SPACE.com – Spaceexploration has become a topic of interest in U.S. presidential debates for the first time in over 40 years.Seventeen individuals are running for president in the two major parties’primaries. Several of them have expressed opinions about space; but most, toour knowledge, have not spoken directly about space, or addressed it atall. Below are statements from the candidates and/or their campaigns.
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AP – HANDING IT OVER: NASA grudgingly released some results Monday from an $11.3 million federal air safety study it previously withheld from the public.
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AFP – The US space agency said it has once again delayed the launch of the US space shuttle Atlantis that is to carry a European space laboratory to the International Space Station.
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NASA has outlined a plan to repair a faulty electrical connector on Space Shuttle Atlantis’ external fuel tank. The repair could take several days or even weeks. The launch date for ESA’s Columbus laboratory of 10 January 2008 is no longer feasible. For the latest updates, please consult the NASA website.
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SPACE.com – Astronomershave observed for the first time a jet of matter spiraling outward from aninfant star, as if a lengthy strand of curly pasta.
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SPACE.com – NASAengineers will remove parts of a suspect fuel tank connector for analysis and repair,work that will likely further delay the planned January launch of the shuttleAtlantis, the agency’s shuttle chief said Thursday.
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Reuters – Repairing an electrical connection in a U.S. space shuttle’s fuel tank will push the already delayed launch of Europe’s first permanent space laboratory beyond the current target date of January 10, NASA said on Thursday.
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