Tagged: NASA
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NASA selects eight new astronaut trainees News
17.06.2013 After a quest that has lasted more than a year, NASA has selected eight Americans from a pool of more than 6,000 candidates to take part in astronaut training at space centres... -
ESA’s Albert Einstein spacecraft connects with space station News
17.06.2013 The European Space Agency’s (ESA) Albert Einstein spacecraft has successfully connected with the International Space Station (ISS) to supply provisions for the astronauts aboard... -
Antarctica’s ice shelves are melting from below, claims NASA News
14.06.2013 Ocean waters melting the underbelly of the Antarctic’s ice shelves are now thought to be responsible for most of the continent's ice shelf mass loss, that’s according to a new... -
Astronaut Chris Hadfield announces retirement from Canadian Space Agency News
11.06.2013 Chris Hadfield, the Canadian astronaut who delighted his thousands of social media followers with photos and videos from space, is calling it a day - he is retiring from the... -
NASA astronomers create ultraviolet maps of our two closest galaxies (video) News
04.06.2013 Using NASA's Swift satellite, astronomers at NASA and Pennsylvania State University have used to create detailed ultraviolet light surveys of the Large and Small Magellanic... -
Huge asteroid and its moon to safely whiz by Earth today (video) News
31.05.2013 An asteroid the size of the one that wiped out the dinosaurs is to safely pass by Earth later today and the 2.7-kilometre (1.7 miles) long behemoth is dragging its own moon with... -
International Space Station astronauts welcome new crew members News
29.05.2013 Astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) have welcomed three new crew members this morning, who arrived at the orbiting space lab hours after having blasted off... -
NASA to cover launch of next International Space Station crew News
27.05.2013 Three astronauts are to hurtle toward the International Space Station (ISS) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan tomorrow aboard a Soyuz rocket to begin a mission aboard... -
NASA may take 3D-printed food to space News
24.05.2013 Three-dimensional (3D) printed food would end worldwide hunger, cut waste, feed soldiers in battle, and provide astronauts in orbit with a more varied diet. The concept has... -
Astronomers detect the merging of two massive galaxies News
23.05.2013 Scientists have pinpointed the merging of two galaxies when the universe was just 3bn years old using images taken from the European Space Agency’s Herschel space observatory. -
UK astronaut Tim Peake to head to space station in 2015 News
20.05.2013 Tim Peake, a former helicopter pilot, is to become the first British astronaut to carry out a stint on the International Space Station, as the European Space Agency (ESA) has... -
Astronaut Chris Hadfield and crew members safely return to Earth News
14.05.2013 Astronaut Chris Hadfield and two of his crew members, flight engineers Tom Marshburn and Roman Romanenko, are back on terra firma today, after having returned safely to Earth... -
Astronaut Chris Hadfield’s Space Oddity is first music video filmed in space (videos) News
13.05.2013 Former International Space Station (ISS) commander Chris Hadfield, who will make his return journey to Earth today, has recorded a fitting tribute to his time aboard the ISS,...Categories: Social Media, Digital Media -
Watch the ‘ring of fire’ solar eclipse live News
09.05.2013 An annular solar eclipse will be taking place between 9-10 May when the moon will block part of the sun to create a ‘ring of fire’ sight. While the spectacle will only be... -
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NASA releases stunning photos of massive storm on Saturn News
30.04.2013 The spinning vortex of a hurricane-like storm with an eye 20 times larger than the average hurricane eye on Earth has been captured over Saturn by US space agency NASA’s Cassini... -
NASA captures three years of the sun in three-minute video News
23.04.2013 With the sun destined to reach the peak of its 11-year solar cycle this year, NASA has released a compelling three-minute video that compresses three years of imaging of the... -
Career memes of the week: astronaut News
23.04.2013 What do a sloth, hamster and the TV programme The Big Bang Theory have in common? They all turn the spotlight on astronauts, the profession in this week’s career memes of the... -
NASA scientist talks Earth Day, climate change and sea ice News
18.04.2013 NASA climate scientist Dr Claire Parkinson has been working at the space agency’s Goddard Space Flight Center since 1978. She speaks to Carmel Doyle about Earth Day and her... -
NASA engineer Nagin Cox in Belfast to talk about Mars Curiosity rover News
15.04.2013 NASA engineer Nagin Cox is in Belfast today to give a talk at Queen’s University about her work as part of the Mars Science Laboratory’s operations team behind the Curiosity...