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SPACE.com – A NASA capsule that collected the first samples from a comethas become part of a collection itself.

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SPACE.com – The spaceshuttle Endeavour is set to blast off two days early next month while engineerson Earth continue to study a Hubble Space Telescope glitch that added months ofdelay to a separate orbiter flight, NASA officials announced Friday.

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SPACE.com – Onevehicle’s operative life is coming to a close, while the other’s is still inits formative stages. Their legacies will be inexorably linked: Without thespace shuttle, delivery and assembly of the International Space Station’s (ISS)key components would have been difficult at best, and probably could not havehappened.

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Space technology is now being used to help Spanish ham experts ensure that hams awarded the highly prized ‘jamon’ label are worthy of the name. Technology used to measure the liquid shift that occurs in an astronaut’s body in microgravity has been developed to measure the water retention in cured hams.

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AFP – In an unprecedented discovery, NASA’s Phoenix Mars Lander has found snow falling from clouds on Mars, scientists said Tuesday.

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Scientists are now able to better explain why Mars’s residual southern ice cap is misplaced, thanks to data from ESA’s Mars Express spacecraft – the martian weather system is to blame. And so is the largest impact crater on Mars – even though it is nowhere near the south pole.

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ESA PR 40-2008. Ministers in charge of space activities within ESA and European Union Member States met in Brussels today for the fifth Space Council(*).

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The Planck spacecraft has almost completed its final testing phase and is on its way to being launch-ready. The testing phase began in late March this year, and has taken the spacecraft all over Europe, making it go hot, cold and shaky to test its robustness.

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2008 September 30 Planets Ahoy! Credit & Copyright: Mike SalwayIceInSpaceCan you spot the Solar System’s four rocky planets?In the above image taken on September 20, all of them were visible in a single glance, but some of them may be different than you think. Pictured above, the brightest and highest object in the sky is the planet Venus.The object lowest in the sky is the planet Mars, while the object furthest to the left is the planet Mercury. The last remaining point of light is . . . the bright star Spica, which leaves the question — where is the fourth rocky planet? That would be Earth, specifically part of Australia, visible across the entire bottom of the image. NASA anniversary

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