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24 Feb 2012, 5:33 pm by Alex Gasser
., Orbit Industries, Inc., American Electric Depot Inc., and Shanghai Jia AO Electrical Co. [read post]
24 Feb 2012, 2:15 pm by Lucas A. Ferrara, Esq.
Aurora Borealis Over the Midwest In this image taken on Jan. 25, 2012, the Aurora Borealis steals the scene in this nighttime photograph shot from the International Space Station as the orbital outpost flew over the Midwest. [read post]
24 Feb 2012, 3:44 am by Jeff Foust
Adam Schiff (D-CA) and John Culberson (R-TX) made the case that funding for planetary science, including not just Mars exploration but a proposed Europa orbiter (a personal favorite of Culberson), should be restored. [read post]
22 Feb 2012, 11:48 am
But I like the freaky coincidence of 2 old topics popping up today in succession, like twin comets on a 6 year orbit. [read post]
22 Feb 2012, 3:11 am by familoo
Purple Dervish thanks to the.joberg on Flickr F4J went into overdrive and practically into orbit when the Government response came out, with Nadine O’Connor hotfooting it from one local radio station to another like a whirling dervish, leaving behind her a trail of tweets, status updates, videos, open letters and other assorted purple PR accoutrement. [read post]
21 Feb 2012, 12:00 pm by CAPTAIN
Astronaut John Glenn climbed into his Friendship 7 space capsule atop an Atlas rocket at Cape Canaveral, blasted off, and became the first American to orbit the Earth.Sometimes I think we forget about these monumental accomplishments in American history. [read post]
20 Feb 2012, 5:54 pm by Rumpole
With those words, said fifty years ago Monday, the United States entered the space race for real as Glenn became the first American in orbit. [read post]
20 Feb 2012, 5:42 pm by Tripp Hughes
 On February 20, 1962, the man with “The Right Stuff” John Glenn (future Senator and big time bad ass) orbited the Earth three times in Friendship 7. [read post]
19 Feb 2012, 5:33 am by Glenn Reynolds
HISTORY: Project Mercury workers gather 50 years after John Glenn’s orbital trip, visit old launch pad. [read post]
18 Feb 2012, 3:23 pm by Jeff Foust
” He cited the ongoing missions, as well as the Mars Science Laboratory rover en route to Mars and the MAVEN orbiter slated for launch in 2013. [read post]
18 Feb 2012, 11:00 am
High Orbits and Slowlorises: understanding the Anonymous attack tools : Putting the Low-Orbit Ion Cannon behind them to better protect themselves from being tracked down, members of Anonymous have put together a package of DDoS tools and security best practices that aims to make them more effective and less of a target for law enforcement. [read post]
17 Feb 2012, 10:06 am by Jeff Foust
” The upcoming COTS demonstration flights by SpaceX and Orbital for cargo delivery to the ISS may be critical to winning support for commercial crew, Nelson said. [read post]
16 Feb 2012, 7:10 am by Glenn Reynolds
But after serving ten years in orbit, MGS is now no longer operating, and if we wait until the 2020s to resume Mars exploration, the rest of the orbiters will be gone as well. [read post]
14 Feb 2012, 1:30 pm by Lucas A. Ferrara, Esq.
An asteroid that undergoes a close encounter with another object, such as a star or planet, can be thrown into an orbit headed towards Sgr A*. [read post]
14 Feb 2012, 1:00 pm by Lucas A. Ferrara, Esq.
Three months later, on May 24, Carpenter became the second American in orbit. [read post]
14 Feb 2012, 2:57 am by Jeff Foust
The Mars program cuts involve the termination of NASA’s participation in the ExoMars program with ESA, which was to feature an orbiter in 2016 and a lander with a rover in 2018. [read post]
12 Feb 2012, 6:00 am by Lawrence B. Ebert
Mars orbiter crashed; Lockheed Martin used English systems. [read post]
12 Feb 2012, 4:13 am
He had sustained multiple facial fractures, including a right-sided orbital blowout fracture. [read post]