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SpotLight: Oct 1, 2008
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Lightening through your mind. Wednesday, October 1, 2008. Magnus will remain on the station, replacing Expedition 17/18 Flight Engineer Gregory E. Chamitoff, who returns to Earth with the STS-126 crew. Magnus will serve as a flight engineer and NASA science officer for Expedition 18. Magnus will return to Earth on shuttle mission STS-119. STS-126 is the 27th shuttle mission to the International Space Station. NASA Assigns Crew For Space Shuttle Discovery's Sts-129 Mission. The mission will return Canadia...
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SpotLight: NASA's Carbon-Sniffing Satellite Sleuth Arrives at Launch Site
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Lightening through your mind. Thursday, January 29, 2009. NASA's Carbon-Sniffing Satellite Sleuth Arrives at Launch Site. Calif – NASA's first spacecraft dedicated to studying carbon dioxide, the leading human-produced greenhouse gas driving changes in Earth's climate, has arrived at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., to begin final launch preparations. While scientists have a good understanding of carbon dioxide emissions resulting from burning fossil fuels, their understanding of carbon dioxide from ot...
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SpotLight: Landing Practice, Comm Checks and Shuttle Installs on Tap for Wednesday
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Lightening through your mind. Thursday, January 29, 2009. Landing Practice, Comm Checks and Shuttle Installs on Tap for Wednesday. Oday's activities for the STS-119 crew members include administrative work and briefings at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston. Later in the day, Commander Lee Archambault and Pilot Tony Antonelli will fly to White Sands Space Harbor in Las Cruces, N.M., to practice landing techniques in NASA's shuttle training aircraft. On Feb. 3, NASA managers will meet at Kennedy f...
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SpotLight: May 29, 2008
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Lightening through your mind. Thursday, May 29, 2008. GLAST : Gama ray large area space telescope. Launch Countdown Rehearsal Completed. The GLAST launch team assembled Wednesday in the Mission Director's Center at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida to conduct a dress rehearsal of the countdown. On Tuesday, technicians at the launch pad enclosed the GLAST spacecraft inside the fairing atop the Delta II rocket. The fairing serves to protect the spacecraft during its ride to space. Liftoff is set ...
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SpotLight: Jan 29, 2009
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Lightening through your mind. Thursday, January 29, 2009. NASA's Kepler Spacecraft Arrives in Florida. NASA's Kepler Spacecraft Arrives in Florida. The Kepler flight segment arrived at the Astrotech Space Operations Facility in Titusville, Fla. on Jan. 6 for launch processing. To view video of the arrival go to Kepler spacecraft arrives in Florida. To view additional photos of the Kepler launch vehicle visit the KSC photo page. Landing Practice, Comm Checks and Shuttle Installs on Tap for Wednesday.
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SpotLight: Apr 22, 2008
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Lightening through your mind. Tuesday, April 22, 2008. Expedition 17 launched to the International Space Station on April 8, 2008. For the latest news and information on their mission, visit the main station page. Read more. Cosmonaut Sergei Volkov will command the Expedition 17 mission, his first spaceflight. Since January 2000, he has been part of a group of test cosmonauts training for missions to the International Space Station. 8250; Biography →. Flight Engineer Oleg Kononenko. Flight Engineer Grego...
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SpotLight: Sep 15, 2007
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Lightening through your mind. Saturday, September 15, 2007. Dedication and Perspiration Builds The Next Generation Life Support System. Marshall Center employees are back at it - donating time and energy - exercising on treadmills, bikes, and other equipment to test aspects of a life support system that could someday provide drinking water to people living on the moon or Mars. The Clean Water Diary. Week 1: Do I Have to Drink It? This redesigned hardware, the Exploration Water Recovery System, is a novel...
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SpotLight: Apr 7, 2008
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Lightening through your mind. Monday, April 7, 2008. Spotlighting to the Supernova Xplosions. 160; . The below two photographs are of the same part of the sky. The photo on the left was taken in 1987 during the. Explosion of SN 1987A, while the right hand photo was taken beforehand. Supernovae are one of the most energetic explosions in nature, making them like a 10. A few octillion nuclear warheads). After" and "Before" pictures of Supernova 1987A. These result from some. Made of mostly hydrogen) wh...
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SpotLight: May 11, 2008
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Lightening through your mind. Sunday, May 11, 2008. Solar Variability: Striking a Balance with Climate Change. View the solar balance Web video. NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. For the last 20 to 30 years, we believe greenhouse gases have been the dominant influence on recent climate change," said Robert Cahalan, climatologist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. The sun radiates huge amounts of electromagnetic energy in all directions. Earth is only one small recipient of the su...
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SpotLight: May 31, 2008
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Lightening through your mind. Saturday, May 31, 2008. Discovery's Crew Dresses for Liftoff. Image above: NASA astronaut Greg Chamitoff puts on his launch and entry suit before heading out to the launch pad where space shuttle Discovery waits to take him to the International Space Station. Chamitoff will trade places with current station resident Garrett Reisman. Photo credit: NASA TV. After the testing is finished, the seven crew members of Discovery will ride to the launch pad in the Astrovan. Are you i...
