items tagged with Astronaut
18-year-old Hubble takes star pix of "pillars of creation"
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2008-08-12 10:27:49
In honor of its one-hundred-thousandth orbit around the Earth, the Hubble Space Telescope was aimed toward a star cluster in the Tarantula nebula to record the remarkable birth of stars.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2008-08-12 10:27:49
In honor of its one-hundred-thousandth orbit around the Earth, the Hubble Space Telescope was aimed toward a star cluster in the Tarantula nebula to record the remarkable birth of stars.
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22 year wait over, teacher-in-space astronaut ready to fly on Endeavour
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2007-07-11 08:42:25
Barbara Morgan, the backup to Christa McAuliffe whose Challenger flight on January 28, 1986 disintegrated 73 seconds after liftoff, has been waiting twenty-two years to get a chance to go into space.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2007-07-11 08:42:25
Barbara Morgan, the backup to Christa McAuliffe whose Challenger flight on January 28, 1986 disintegrated 73 seconds after liftoff, has been waiting twenty-two years to get a chance to go into space.
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25 years of satellite repair: Solar Max to Hubble
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2009-04-06 09:56:30
With the STS-125 mission about to take off to service and repair the Hubble Space Telescope, it was just about 25 years ago when NASA’s STS-41C shuttle mission took off for the first orbital satellite repair mission about the Earth.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2009-04-06 09:56:30
With the STS-125 mission about to take off to service and repair the Hubble Space Telescope, it was just about 25 years ago when NASA’s STS-41C shuttle mission took off for the first orbital satellite repair mission about the Earth.
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A quantum of solace in space
Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Science
Category: Space
2008-10-25 17:11:03
James Bond has a pretty stressful life, no doubt about that. But at least 007 can see a therapist when all the killing and snogging get too much. Astronauts have no such luxury. No, not with killing and snogging, but the access to a therapist. That may all be about to change...
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Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Science
Category: Space
2008-10-25 17:11:03
James Bond has a pretty stressful life, no doubt about that. But at least 007 can see a therapist when all the killing and snogging get too much. Astronauts have no such luxury. No, not with killing and snogging, but the access to a therapist. That may all be about to change...
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ABC NewsRadio axes StarStuff program – why?
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic
Category: The gadget blog
2008-06-26 09:14:48
ABC NewsRadio, Australia’s only 24 hour continuous news service, has axed one of its longest running programs because it wants to divert funding elsewhere. The program? StarStuff, the only space, science, astronomy and cosmology show on Australian radio. What a shame!
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Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic
Category: The gadget blog
2008-06-26 09:14:48
ABC NewsRadio, Australia’s only 24 hour continuous news service, has axed one of its longest running programs because it wants to divert funding elsewhere. The program? StarStuff, the only space, science, astronomy and cosmology show on Australian radio. What a shame!
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