Tagged: NASA & News
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Astronaut Chris Hadfield and crew members safely return to Earth News
14.05.2013 Astronaut Chris Hadfield and two of his crew members, flight engineers Tom Marshburn and Roman Romanenko, are back on terra firma today, after having returned safely to Earth... -
Astronaut Chris Hadfield’s Space Oddity is first music video filmed in space (videos) News
13.05.2013 Former International Space Station (ISS) commander Chris Hadfield, who will make his return journey to Earth today, has recorded a fitting tribute to his time aboard the ISS,...Categories: Social Media, Digital Media -
Watch the ‘ring of fire’ solar eclipse live News
09.05.2013 An annular solar eclipse will be taking place between 9-10 May when the moon will block part of the sun to create a ‘ring of fire’ sight. While the spectacle will only be... -
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NASA releases stunning photos of massive storm on Saturn News
30.04.2013 The spinning vortex of a hurricane-like storm with an eye 20 times larger than the average hurricane eye on Earth has been captured over Saturn by US space agency NASA’s Cassini... -
NASA captures three years of the sun in three-minute video News
23.04.2013 With the sun destined to reach the peak of its 11-year solar cycle this year, NASA has released a compelling three-minute video that compresses three years of imaging of the... -
Career memes of the week: astronaut News
23.04.2013 What do a sloth, hamster and the TV programme The Big Bang Theory have in common? They all turn the spotlight on astronauts, the profession in this week’s career memes of the... -
NASA scientist talks Earth Day, climate change and sea ice News
18.04.2013 NASA climate scientist Dr Claire Parkinson has been working at the space agency’s Goddard Space Flight Center since 1978. She speaks to Carmel Doyle about Earth Day and her... -
NASA engineer Nagin Cox in Belfast to talk about Mars Curiosity rover News
15.04.2013 NASA engineer Nagin Cox is in Belfast today to give a talk at Queen’s University about her work as part of the Mars Science Laboratory’s operations team behind the Curiosity... -
Watch out for the International Space Station over Dublin sky tonight News
10.04.2013 Stargazers are set to be in for a treat tonight as the International Space Station (ISS) will be passing over Dublin at around 9.49pm. And provided that the skies are clear,... -
Physicists reveal new insights on dark matter from space station instrument News
04.04.2013 Physicists have announced the results of the first data from the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS), which is based on the International Space Station, revealing that the...Tags: NASA, -
Soyuz crew arrive at space station after six-hour express flight News
29.03.2013 The Soyuz spacecraft has successfully docked with the international Space Station after its six-hour spaceflight – the fastest ever manned flight to the orbiting laboratory. The... -
Three astronauts to blast off on shorter flight to International Space Station News
28.03.2013 Three astronauts are due to blast off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan today for a six-hour flight to the International Space Station (ISS). They will be the first ISS... -
SpaceX Dragon spacecraft safely back on Earth News
26.03.2013 The SpaceX Dragon spacecraft has safely returned to Earth, five hours after leaving the International Space Station (ISS) today. -
Weather delays return of SpaceX Dragon spacecraft to Earth News
25.03.2013 Inclement weather has delayed the return of the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft to Earth by one day. Dragon, which will be bringing back cargo from the International Space Station... -
SpaceX Dragon spacecraft on its way back to Earth News
26.03.2013 The six crew members aboard the International Space Station (ISS) have launched the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft back to Earth this morning, where it is due to splash down into the... -
Amazon founder recovers Apollo engines with the help of Irish scuba diver News
22.03.2013 Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos and a team of deep-sea explorers have salvaged what remains of two rocket engines that powered man’s first trip to the moon from the bottom of...Categories: Science -
Planck space mission maps out oldest light in universe News
21.03.2013 The universe is 13.8bn years old, 100m years older than previous estimates, a new map of the oldest light in the universe by the European Space Agency mission Planck has revealed. -
Was there life on Mars? NASA rover discovers suitable conditions for ancient microbes News
13.03.2013 NASA’s Curiosity rover, which has been exploring the Gale Crater on Mars since August last year, has discovered conditions once suited to supporting life on this neighbouring...Categories: Science -
First of two comets to be visible without help this year to appear tomorrow News
11.03.2013 Two comets are expected to be visible to the naked eye this year in a rare celestial event, with the first one, 2011 L4 (PANSTARRS), set to dazzle stargazers in the northern...