Humans from space.
[ILLUSTRATIONS OMITTED] [3] KAZAKHSTAN -- A group of villagers living on the rural steppes of Kazakhstan got the shock of their lives when a large silver capsule crashed to Earth on April. 19 and three humans climbed out. It was a Russian Soyuz spacecraft, and it was...

Eyewitness to history.
Get Talking Ask students: What are some different ways to learn about history? Background * President Franklin D. Roosevelt called Dec. 7, 1941, "a date which will live in infamy." The Sunday morning attack on Pearl Harbor, part of Oahu, Hawaii, drew the...

Company Watch - NASA.
May 5, 2008 NASA is adding two new rockets from a start-up aerospace company to an inventory of qualified launch vehicles the agency can select for future space science missions. The Falcon 1 and Falcon 9 rockets are being developed by Space Exploration Technologies of Hawthorne, Calif....

Aerospace & Defense News - Space.
Apr 28, 2008 The Canaveral Port Authority submitted a feasibility report for the widening of the Canaveral Harbor and other navigation improvements to Assistant Secretary of the Army (Civil Works) John Paul Woodley Jr. This report, the result of more than two years of work, is authorized...

Company Watch - NASA.
Apr 28, 2008 Mars rovers keep plugging away four years beyond life expectancy. Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity continue to make geological discoveries four years past their expected life of just 90 days. The project employs about 200 scientists and technicians and costs $1.5 million per month....

Celestial tourist.
(3) BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan -- Some people head to the islands for vacation. Others hop the pond to Europe. But billionaire and self-proclaimed nerd Charles Simonyi headed in a very different direction for vacation--into space. Simonyi reportedly paid $25 million for his trip to the International Space Station aboard a...

Leak locator: ultrasound for finding holes in spacecraft.
After the International Space Station t started losing air pressure in January 2004, astronauts hunted for 2 weeks before finding the leak near a porthole. Though it worried mission controllers, the leak never endangered the people on board. Since then, NASA's been searching for a fast way...

Rings around Saturn.
Saturn: A New View is a collection of 150 spectacular, other-worldly photographs and new information picked up by the Cassini spacecraft and Huygens probe. Among the incredible discoveries is that Saturn's atmosphere is brilliant blue in the northern hemisphere and yellow in the southern hemisphere; Titan, Saturn's largest moon,...

Science letters.
How does my "glow-in-the-dark" stuff glow? Brett LeVine, Age 5 California Glow-in-the-dark stickers and toys are made with chemicals that take up light particles, or photons. Scientists say these special molecules become "excited" because they are holding extra energy from the photons. Later, the molecules...

Satellite's motion under the effect of magnetic torque.
Abstract: Non-integrability of planar oscillation of a satellite in an elliptic orbit under the influence of magnetic torque has been studied. The amplitude of the oscillation remains constant upto the second order of approximation. The analysis regarding the stability of the stationary planar oscillation of a satellite near the...