Browsing Archive: May, 2010
Posted by Prateek Tripathi on Tuesday, May 25, 2010,
 Earth's horizon and the blackness of space provide the backdrop for
Atlantis' aft section while it was docked with the International Space
Station during the STS-132 mission. Image Credit: NASA
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Posted by Prateek Tripathi on Tuesday, May 25, 2010,
 Anchored to a Canadarm2 mobile foot restraint Garrett Reisman
conducts the mission's first spacewalk. During the seven-hour,
25-minute spacewalk, Reisman and Steve Bowen installed a second antenna
for high-speed Ku-band transmissions and added a spare parts platform
to Dextre, a two-armed
extension for the station’s robotic arm. Image Credit: NASA
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Posted by Prateek Tripathi on Tuesday, May 25, 2010,
 This image features the Atlantis' cabin and forward cargo bay and a
section of the International Space Station while the two spacecraft
remain docked, photographed during the STS-132 mission's first
spacewalk. Image Credit: NASA Continue reading ...
Posted by Prateek Tripathi on Tuesday, May 25, 2010,
 Anchored to the Canadarm2 mobile foot restraint, Garrett Reisman
performed construction and maintenance activities outside the station
during the STS-132 mission's first spacewalk. During the seven-hour,
25-minute spacewalk, Reisman and NASA astronaut Steve Bowen installed a
second antenna
for high-speed Ku-band transmissions and added a spare parts platform
to Dextre, a two-armed extension for the station’s robotic arm. Image
Credit: NASA
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Posted by Prateek Tripathi on Tuesday, May 25, 2010,
 Anchored to a Canadarm2 mobile foot restraint, astronaut Garrett
Reisman continued his work during the first of three planned spacewalks
for the STS-132 mission. During the seven-hour, 25-minute spacewalk,
Reisman and NASA astronaut Steve Bowen installed a second antenna for
high-speed Ku-band transmissions and added a spare parts platform to
Dextre, a two-armed extension for the station’s robotic arm. Image
Credit: NASA Continue reading ...
Posted by Prateek Tripathi on Tuesday, May 25, 2010,
NASA Announces Opportunities To See Shuttle And Space Station
WASHINGTON
-- Space shuttle Atlantis and the International Space Station are
flying together 220 miles overhead until Sunday, May 23. Circling the
Earth every 90 minutes, the spacecraft offer unique sighting
opportunities for sky gazers around the world. With the
shuttle attached, the station appears even brighter than usual in the
morning and evening sky. The station may be seen every day from various
locations around t... Continue reading ...
Posted by Prateek Tripathi on Tuesday, May 25, 2010,
 NASA astronaut Garrett Reisman takes a self-portrait visor while
participating in the first of three spacewalks scheduled for the
Atlantis crew and their Expedition 23 hosts. Though three spacewalks
will involve only three astronauts (two on each occasion) who actually
leave the
shirt-sleave environments of the two docked spacecraft, all twelve
astronauts and cosmonauts have roles in supporting the work. Part of
the space station and the blue and white Earth are among the objects
seen in his ... Continue reading ...
Posted by Prateek Tripathi on Tuesday, May 25, 2010,
 This view of Atlantis' aft section includes the main engines, part of
the cargo bay, vertical stabilizer and orbital maneuvering system pods
and was taken by the Expedition 23 crew during a survey as the shuttle
approached the station prior to docking. As part of the survey and a
part of every
mission's activities, Atlantis performed a back flip for the rendezvous
pitch maneuver. The image was photographed with a digital still camera,
using a 400mm lens at a distance of about 600 feet (180 me... Continue reading ...
Posted by Prateek Tripathi on Tuesday, May 25, 2010,
 The Expedition 23 crew snapped this imageof the underside of Atlantis'
crew cabin, during a survey of the approaching space shuttle prior to
docking with the International Space Station. Image Credit: NASA Continue reading ...
Posted by Prateek Tripathi on Monday, May 17, 2010,
 Space shuttle Atlantis soars to orbit from Launch Pad 39A at NASA's
Kennedy Space Center in Florida on the STS-132 mission to the
International Space Station at 2:20 p.m. EDT on May 14. The third of
five shuttle missions planned for 2010, this was the last planned
launch for Atlantis. Image
Credit: NASA/Kenny Allen Continue reading ...
Posted by Prateek Tripathi on Monday, May 17, 2010,
 Space shuttle Atlantis lifted off from Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy
Space Center in Florida on the STS-132 mission to the International
Space Station at 2:20 p.m. EDT on May 14. The third of five shuttle
missions planned for 2010, this was the last planned launch for
Atlantis. The
Russian-built Mini Research Module-1, also known as Rassvet, or "dawn,"
will be delivered and it will provide additional storage space and a
new docking port for Russian Soyuz and Progress spacecraft. The
labora... Continue reading ...
Posted by Prateek Tripathi on Monday, May 17, 2010,
 A family of Osprey are seen outside the NASA Kennedy Space Center
Vehicle Assembly Building in Cape Canaveral, Fla. on Thursday, May 13,
2010. The Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge overlaps Kennedy and
provides a habitat for 330 species of birds, including the osprey. A
variety of
other wildlife--117 kinds of fish, 65 types of amphibians and reptiles,
31 different mammals, and 1,045 species of plants--also inhabit the
refuge. The countdown is on for today's scheduled launch of space
shu... Continue reading ...
Posted by Prateek Tripathi on Monday, May 17, 2010,
 A heavy runaway star is rushing away from a nearby stellar nursery at
more than 250,000 miles an hour, a speed at which one could travel to
the our moon and back in two hours. This is the most extreme case of a
very massive star that has been kicked out of its home by a group of
even heftier
siblings. The homeless star is on the outskirts of the 30 Doradus
Nebula, a raucous stellar breeding ground in the nearby Large
Magellanic Cloud. The stellar nusery is seen at the center of this
image. Th... Continue reading ...
Posted by Prateek Tripathi on Monday, May 17, 2010,
Scientists have used NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and ESA's XMM-
Newton to detect a vast reservoir of gas lying along a wall-shaped
structure of galaxies about 400 million light years from Earth. In this
artist's impression, a close-up view of the so-called Sculptor Wall is
depicted. Spiral and elliptical galaxies are shown in the wall along
with the newly detected intergalactic gas, part of the so-called Warm
Hot Intergalactic Medium (WHIM), shown in blue. This disc... Continue reading ...
Posted by Prateek Tripathi on Monday, May 17, 2010,
 NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, features one of
the bright stars in the constellation Perseus, named Menkhib (at upper
left near the red dust cloud), surrounded by the large star-forming
California Nebula, running diagonally through the image. Menkhib is
one of the hottest stars visible in the night sky; its surface
temperature is about 37,000 Kelvin (about 66,000 degrees Fahrenheit, or
more than six times hotter than the sun). Because of its high
temperature, it appears ... Continue reading ...
Posted by Prateek Tripathi on Monday, May 17, 2010,
 This image from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment
(HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter covers a small
portion of the northwest quadrant of Hellas Planitia on Mars. With a
diameter of about 1,400 miles and a depth reaching the lowest
elevations on Mars, Hellas is
one of the largest impact craters in the solar system. The area has a
number of unusual features, which are thought to be quite old because
of the high crater density. The crater inside Hellas has been fi... Continue reading ...
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