March 5, 2010
I AM GOING TO CHANGE THE SITE A LITTLE FOR THE BETTER EFFICIENCY OF THE SITE AND TO GIVE MORE INFORMATION.
Posted by Prateek Tripathi. Posted In : Activity Talks
March 3, 2010
As beginning of my exams now I will not be able to talk about the latest researches but I will shortly resume my discussions and talk from the twelfth of march and wil bring more activity talks from the next session of my school.
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March 1, 2010
Floating just below the International Space Station, astronaut Nicholas
Patrick put some finishing touches on the newly installed cupola space
windows last week. Patrick was a mission specialist onboard the space
shuttle Endeavor's recently completed STS-130 mission to the ISS. Image
Credit: NASA
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Posted by Prateek Tripathi.
March 1, 2010
At NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, work platforms are moved
into position around space shuttle Endeavour in Orbiter Processing
Facility-2, following its touchdown at the completion of the STS-130
mission to the International Space Station on Feb. 21.
Processing
now begins for Endeavour's next flight, STS-134. The six-member STS-134
crew will deliver the Express Logistics Carrier 3 and the Alpha
Magnetic Spectrometer to the International Space Station, as well as a
variety of spare pa...
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March 1, 2010
Darkness enshrouded space shuttle Endeavour as it touched down on
Runway 15 at the Shuttle Landing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space
Center in Florida. After 14 days in space, Endeavour's 5.7-million-mile
STS-130 mission was completed on orbit 217. During the STS-130 mission,
the crew installed the Tranquility node, a module that provides
additional room for crew members and many of the station's life support
and environmental control systems. Attached to Tranquility is a cupola
that provides ...
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March 1, 2010
With landing gear down, space shuttle Endeavour approaches the Shuttle
Landing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida after 14
days in space, completing the 5.7-million-mile STS-130 mission.
Endeavour landed at 10:20 p.m. EST on Sunday, Feb. 21, after delivering
the new Tranquility node and its seven-window cupola to the
International Space Station. Returning to Earth aboard Endeavour are
Commander George Zamka; Pilot Terry Virts; and Mission Specialists
Robert Behnken, Nicholas P...
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March 1, 2010
STS-130: Endeavour Lands
02.21.10
(Rumbling)
Kylie Clem/STS-130 Entry Commentator: Main gear touchdown. The landing
gear is down and locked. Main gear touchdown. Pilot Terry Virts
deploying the drag chute. Nose gear touchdown. Endeavour rolling out on
runway 15 at Kennedy Space Center, wrapping up a 5.7 million
mile-mission. Endeavour has completed its 24th mission and the 130th
space shuttle mission. It was the 32nd to the International Space
Station overall, Endeavour's 10th ...
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March 1, 2010
This view of the port side of space shuttle Endeavour's cargo bay was
recorded after separation from the International Space Station on Feb.
19, 2010, as the STS-130 astronauts prepared for a Feb. 21 landing,
after spending over a week working in tandem with the Expedition 22
crew members aboard the station. Other than the docking system
hardware, the cargo bay is empty after delivering the Tranquility node
and the new cupola to the orbital outpost. Image Credit: NASA
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February 26, 2010
I WOULD LIKE TO WISH ALL MY ACTIVITY FRIENDS AND THE ONCE READING THIS BLOG A VERY VERY HAPPY HOLI AND MAY THIS COLORFUL FESTIVAL FILL COLOR IN YOUR LIFE AND YOUR IMAGINATIONS ABOUT YOUR FUTURE . I LIKE TO SPECIALLY THANKS MY ASTRONOMY TEACHER Mrs. NEHA SINGH.
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February 23, 2010
This composite
image of M31 (also known as the Andromeda galaxy) shows X-ray data from
NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory in gold, optical data from the
Digitized Sky Survey in light blue and infrared data from the Spitzer
Space Telescope in red. The Chandra data covers only the central region
of M31 as shown in the inset box for the image.
New results show that the Chandra image would be about 40 times
brighter than observed if Type Ia supernova in the bulge of this galaxy
were triggered by m...
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