Asteroids and Comets

How NASA Space Assets Will Observe Comet ISON

By Staff Writers on July 23, 2013

Comet ISON, discovered September 21, 2012, presents a rare opportunity to study a "fresh" comet - one newly detached from the Oort Cloud, carrying... Read more →

Extravehicular Activities

NASA Scrambles to Get Suit Kit to ISS as Leak Investigation Continues

By Merryl Azriel on July 23, 2013

Spacesuits lay idle until a leak in Parmitano's suit, pictured left, can be found and resolved (Credits: NASA). NASA seems to be making progress in... Read more →

Deep Space ExplorationPress Releases

An Elevator to Space: Markus Landgraf at TEDxRheinMain

By Staff Writers on July 22, 2013

Markus Landgraf is mission analyst at the European Space Agency ESA in Darmstadt/Germany. His is always looking for technologies that will open new... Read more →

Space in Everyday Life

Your View from ISS: Delayed

By Merryl Azriel on July 22, 2013

Former cosmonaut Alexey Leonov, left, the first man to perform a spacewalk, passed an Olympic Torch to Mikhail Tyurin, flight engineer of Expedition... Read more →

Asteroids and Comets

NASA’s Asteroid Capture Mission Gets Even Tougher

By Merryl Azriel on July 22, 2013

Target NEO Workshop held by the National Academy of Sciences explored the lack of target candidates for an asteroid retrieval mission (Credits:... Read more →

The Russian Launch Failures Of 2010-2014

Roscosmos Makes it Official: Proton Downed Due to Upside Down Sensors

By Merryl Azriel on July 19, 2013

Angular velocity sensors installed upside down have been confirmed as the cause of a July 1 Proton-M launch taking a nosedive (Credits: Rossiya... Read more →