Reports indicate that a NASA application for the iPhone and iPod touch is now available free of charge at the App Store from Apple.The NASA application will deliver a wealth of information, videos, images and news updates about NASA missions to people's fingertips."Making NASA more accessible to the public is a high priority for the agency," said Gale Allen, director of Strategic Integration and Management...
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space agency (Nasa) has launched a prototype rocket designed to replace the ageing space shuttle.The Ares I-X blasted off from Florida on a flight that will test technology for the development of a future manned launch vehicle.The 100m-tall, syringe-like rocket roared into the sky at 1530 GMT from Nasa's Kennedy Space Center.The stick-thin launcher is the first Nasa has built in more than three decades,...
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Space enthusiasts now have a chance to interact with scientists from NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration).Planetary Society India (PSI) and NASA CSAD (Cassini Scientist for A Day) India Organising Committee are conducting ‘NASA Cassini Scientist for A Day’ India contest 09, according to a press release here. Participants have to write an essay of 500 words imagining themselves as Mission...
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NASA's Ares I-X test rocket has successfully completed its flight test, by lifting off from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on October 28th.The test flight lasted about six minutes from its launch from the newly-modified Launch Complex 39B until splash down of the rocket's booster stage nearly 150 miles down range."This is a huge step forward for NASA's exploration goals," said Doug Cooke, associate...
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video player is loading. If it does not appear shortly, you may need to enable JavaScript in your Web browser and/or getNASA this morning launched a prototype of its first new rocket in nearly 30 years. The Ares I-X is a precursor of the rocket that could launch humans back to the moon and carry the space shuttle's replacement spacecraft, Orion.After weather issues scrubbed Tuesdays scheduled launch,...
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Students in their classes 5 to 7 and 8 to 10 can participate in an essay competition being organised by the United States NASA organisation in association with Planetary Society India Organizing Committee.The competition named “NASA Cassini Scientist for A Day” India Contest- 09 with technical support of Cassini People Outreach Division at NASA.Those students in their classes 5 to 10 with knowledge...
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NASA's Ares I-X test rocket has successfully completed its flight test, by lifting off from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on October 28th.The test flight lasted about six minutes from its launch from the newly-modified Launch Complex 39B until splash down of the rocket's booster stage nearly 150 miles down range."This is a huge step forward for NASA's exploration goals," said Doug Cooke, associate...
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NASA tries 2nd time to launch experimental rocket < ');" class="arial11blue1"> RateBad weather was interfering with NASA's attempt to launch a new, experimental rocket for the second day in a row early Wednesday.An estimated 154 lightning strikes were reported within a five-mile radius of the launch pad overnight. Launch controllers were retesting the Ares I-X rocket systems to make sure nothing was...
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experiment by college students that will study how microbes grow in microgravity is heading to orbit aboard space shuttle Atlantis.Undergraduate and graduate students at Texas Southern University in Houston developed the experiment that will fly as part of the STS-129 mission.The mission is scheduled to launch at 2:28 p.m. EST on November 16 from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida."I'm thrilled...
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