NASA to Webcast Launch.
ENTERTAINMENT CLOSE-UP-15 October 2008-NASA to Webcast Launch(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com The first NASA spacecraft to image and map the dynamic interactions taking place where the hot solar wind slams into the cold expanse of space will be launched on Sunday, Oct. 19, at 1:48 p.m. EDT,...

Aerospace & Defense News - Space.
Oct 13, 2008 Spacewalk completed, China turns focus to next phase. After a successful spacewalk, the Chinese are now focused on building a space station, followed by a manned lunar mission as early as 2020. "We might even see a traffic jam on the moon," says a...

Company Watch - NASA.
Oct 13, 2008 NASA says more shuttle workers will find Constellation jobs NASA officials told lawmakers Wednesday that the end of the space shuttle program will cost 4,500 jobs at Kennedy Space Center -- not 6,400, as originally feared. The agency says more workers than expected will...

Water on Mars!
NASA's scientists always suspected that the shiny stuff on Mars was ice. Now they know for sure. The U.S. space agency sent a robot spacecraft called the Phoenix Mars Lander to figure out what was on the surface of the Red Planet's north pole. This summer, the...

50 years in space: what's next for NASA?
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] NASA has blasted more than 250 astronauts into space. It has rocketed robot spacecraft to distant planets, and even launched, or sent, U.S. astronauts to live on the International Space Station. But the best is still to come, NASA officials say. As the...

Ready to rocket.
NASA engineers are fast at work developing Orion, a supersafe spacecraft that will be ready for takeoff in 2014. Orion will be equipped with a unique launch abort system (LAS). Should anything go wrong during a launch, the LAS has three solid fuel rocket motors that work together to...

Uplink-Downlink: A History of the Deep Space Network 1957-1997.
Uplink-Downlink: A History of the Deep Space Network 1957-1997. By Douglas Mudgway. Washington, D.C.: NASA, 2001 [NASA History Series SP-2001-4227]. Maps. Tables. Diagrams. Illustrations. Photographs. Notes. Appendices. Index. Pp. xlviii, 674. Free online at http://history.nasa.gov/SP-4227/UplinkDownlink.pdf. $26.00. GPO Stock Number #033-000-01241-1 The Deep Space Network (DSN) is the...

In the Shadow of the Moon: A Challenging Journey to Tranquility, 1965-1969.
In the Shadow of the Moon: A Challenging Journey to Tranquility, 1965-1969. By Francis French and Colin Burgess. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2007. Photographs. Bibliography. Pp. xix, 425. $29.95 ISBN: 0-8032-1128-5 This book, the second volume in the University of Nebraska Press' "Outward Odyssey: A People's...

Robert C. Seamans, Jr. 1918-2008.
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Robert C. Seamans, Jr., the ninth Secretary of the United States Air Force died June 28, 2008, at his home in Beverly Farms, Massachusetts, following a heart attack. He served as secretary from February 1969 to May 1973, a tumultuous period in Air Force history...

Elegant Resorts Teams with Virgin Galactic for Consumer Space Travel.
TRAVEL AND LEISURE CLOSE-UP-28 August 2008-Elegant Resorts Teams with Virgin Galactic for Consumer Space Travel(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com Elegant Resorts and Virgin Galactic stated that space travel will become reality for people from all walks of life when Virgin Galactic launches its public flights into space....