SPACE.com – After atwo-day orbital chase, space shuttle Discovery linked up with the InternationalSpace Station late Sunday to deliver a new crewmember and a cargo pod full ofvital supplies.
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2009 August 27
Scroll right to take in the view from the highest summit in the contiguous USA.The above 360-degree digitally stitched panorama, taken in mid-July, shows the view from 4,400-meter high Mt. Whitney in Sequoia National Park, California.In the foreground, angular boulders populate Mt. Whitney’s summit while in the distance, just below the horizon, peaks from the Sierra Nevada mountain range are visible.Sky sights include light pollution emanating from Los Angeles andFresno, visible just above the horizon. Dark clouds, particularly evident on the image left well above the horizon, are the remnants of a recent thunderstorm near Death Valley.High above, the band of the Milky Way Galaxy arches across the image left.Bright airglow bands are visible all over the sky but are particularly prominent on the image right. The planet Jupiter appears as the brightest point on the image left.A discerning eye can also find a faint image of the far distant Andromeda galaxy, a satellite trail, and many constellations.Today marks the 100th anniversary of the completion of the historic stone shelter on Mt. Whitney, visible toward the image right.
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How do you wash your clothes in space? How does food stay fresh if there is no fridge on the ISS? ESA’s Frank De Winne is answering these, and many more of your questions, right now, from space. Upload your question to Frank »»
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Reuters – Getting humans to Mars will require medical research on the International Space Station through at least 2020, said the program’s lead scientist, presenting a time frame five years beyond NASA’s current budget forecast.
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Space Shuttle Discovery docked with the International Space Station earlier today. Shortly afterwards, Shuttle crewmember Christer Fuglesang was welcomed on board the Station by his fellow ESA astronaut and member of the Expedition 20 crew, Frank De Winne.
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Today the new call for proposals for student experiments to be flown on two REXUS sounding rockets and two BEXUS stratospheric balloons opens. Selected student teams will have the opportunity to design and build an experiment suitable for a flight on the BEXUS 10 and 11 balloons or the REXUS 9 and 10 sounding rockets.
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SPACE.com – The first ever widely acknowledged artistic performance fromspace will be broadcast from the International Space Station on Oct. 9.
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SPACE.com – NASA’s planet-hunting Kepler telescope, which astronomershope will find Earth-like planets orbiting other stars, might also findhabitable moons in other solar systems, new research suggests.
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As temperatures soar, scientists have been collecting data amid the ancient ruins that symbolise the birthplace of western culture. These data, combined with measurements from aircraft and satellites, promise to improve ‘urban heat island’ forecasts to make life in modern-day Athens easier during heat waves.
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ESA PR 19-2009. The launch date for the STS-128 mission to the International Space Station with Space Shuttle Discovery is scheduled for no earlier than Tuesday 25 August. The crew of seven includes ESA astronaut Christer Fuglesang of Sweden, on his second spaceflight, a mission dubbed ‘Alissé’.
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