Poll: Obama
What do you think about Obama's plan to castrate the NASA and to scrap the Constellation program?
Astronautics
Planck Space Telescope
Planck is Europe’s first mission to study the relic radiation from the Big Bang.
Herschel Space Telescope
Herschel is the largest space telescope ever launched. Its 3.5 m-diameter mirror will give astronomers their best view yet of the Universe at far-infrared and sub-millimetre wavelengths....
Chandra X-Ray Observatory
The Chandra X-ray Observatory, formerly known as the Advanced X-ray Astronomical Facility (AXAF), launched by Space Shuttle Columbia on July 23, 1999 and belongs to NASA's Great Observatory program. Also to the program belong the Hubble Space Telescope, the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory and the Spitzer Space Telecope....
Dawn Mission
NASA's Dawn Mission will examine the asteroids Ceres and Vesta. In fact in March 2006 was the Mission canceled but short time later the NASA Management decided to reinstate the Dawn mission, because many scientist all over the world supported the mission....
Deep Impact
NASA's Deep Impact mission is the astronomical highlight of the year, because for the first time a probe will hit a comet to reveal the secrets of its interior. The Deep Impact probe releases 24 h befor the arrival at the target Tempel 1 the small "impactor" (370 kg) which predominantly consists of copper....
Hubble Space Telescope
The Hubble Space Telescope was launched 1990 with the Space Shuttle Discovery and is one of the most important and popular telescopes in the history of astronomy. ...
Mars Reconnaisance Orbiter
The Mars Reconnaisance Orbiter ist Americas answer to the European Mars Express space probe and the technical facts are very impressive. The space probe will arrive in March 2006 on the Red Planet....
New Horizons
This mission flies to the former last official planet of our solar system and beyond. The mission planners hope after the rendezvous with Pluto to continue the mission with a fly-by of some Kuiper Belt objects....
Stardust
The Stardust Mission is a unique Mission, because for the first time has a space probe collect dust particle from a comet and will bring back these samples to the earth. Previous mission to comets only took pictures and therefore the scientists are really curios to these samples, because comets consist of the remnants of the beginning of our solar system and can solve many fundamental questions....
Venus Express
The Venus Express space probe reuse parts of the design from the Mars Express and Rosetta spacecrafts and is the first Mission of the European Space Agency (ESA) to Earth's "sister planet" because booth are very similar in size and bulk composition....
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Onkar Bhandare
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04/02/2010 07:12:09
7. Einstein's special theory of relativity says that nothing in this universe can travel greater than speed of light. so what's the use even you ...
admin
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03/11/2009 16:17:09
Hello Brian H. The problem was caused by a new CMS with a new database. I set the date manually back.
Brian H
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03/11/2009 15:08:05
Deceptive dating on this. Nominally March '09, but Titov refers to a decision at the end of '07 as the future. So this info ...
gabrien.
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13/09/2009 22:14:09
I want to see more pictures of Jupiter. My name is Gabrien William Deutsch and I'm 6 years old and love astronomy.
aaron
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12/07/2009 12:13:41
i like 9 planets