Red Orbit (Free subscription) | yesterday
SCIENTISTS at Queen's University are one step closer to revealing the secrets of black holes. Following a study of X-rays in space, the Belfast university found the link between the death of stars and the birth of black holes.
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 07/25/2008
This video shows two views of the deployment of Simplesat from Space Shuttle Discovery during STS-105. Simplesat is an engineering satellite designed to evaluate the use of inexpensive commercial hardware for spacecraft.
Boing Boing (Free subscription) | yesterday
Irene Klotz of the Discovery Space website interviewed Edgar Mitchell about his claims that intelligent space creatures have landed on Earth and that the US government has been covering it up. EM: My major knowledge comes from what I call the old-timers, people who were at Roswell and subsequent who wanted to clear the things up and tell somebody credible even though they were under severe threats...
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
Image 1: This artist's view shows the COROT satellite, consisting of a 30-centimetre space telescope to be launched in late 2006. Credits: CNES - D. DucrosImage 2: The lightcurve of the parent star of the newly-found exoplanet, COROT-exo-4b. COROT-exo-4b is an exoplanet of about the same size as Jupiter. It takes 9.2 days to orbit its star, the longest period for any transiting exoplanet ever found....
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
Shuttle Discovery (STS-96) docked with space station.
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
Shuttle Discovery Undocking from Space Station.
Science Library Pad (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
A question in my FriendFeed prompted me to check if the presentations are up for NISO Discovery Forum 2008 and they are (well, most of them). http://www.niso.org/news/events/2008/discovery08/agenda/ Presentations ranged across the library discovery space including academic bookmarking, federated searching, tagging,...
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
Crew breakfast, suit-up, walkout, and launch of the Space Shuttle Discovery
Gizmodo (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
In what sounds like the result of the lamest truth or dare party ever, scientists have calculated how many nanotubes it would take to support the weight of one human. The discovery unto itself isn't...
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
To: STATE EDITORS Contact: Dewayne Washington, of NASA, +1-301-286-0040, Dewayne.A.Washington@nasa.gov GREENBELT, Md., July 18 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Samuel King, middle school teacher at Dunbar Middle School in Lubbock, Texas, spent a week of challenge and discovery at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md.
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
By Lana Berkowitz, Houston Chronicle Jul. 18--The Houston premiere of Space Chimps for NASA families Thursday evening put filmmaker Rob Moreland in orbit. You may be familiar with Moreland's work. He wrote for Happily N'Ever After, Thunder Pig, Ground Control and Space Marines.
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
Space Shuttle Discovery Crew enters The International Space Station and begins equipment transfer and installation.
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
Discovery Crew performs maintenance and supply transfers aboard the International Space Station.
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 07/16/2008
This video introduces the crewmembers of STS-102, which includes the International Space Station Expedition Two Crew during their prelaunch preparations. Other views include the crew boarding the Astrovan, crew entrance into Space Shuttle Discovery.
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 07/16/2008
While the Expedition One crewmembers were packing their belongings for the trip home, Expedition Two Flight Engineers Jim Voss and Susan Helms worked with Mission Specialist Paul Richards to set up Space Shuttle Discovery's airlock and prepare the spacesuits
