The human journey to the beginning of space and time will soon turn the page in space history as the end of an era of human space exploration that will be remembered as a time when America and the world first dared to venture beyond the confines of Earth's atmosphere and into the darkness of the unknown comes to an end. The fourth space orbiter built to help take American astronauts into low orbit, Space shuttle Atlantis is scheduled to lift-off of Kennedy Space Centre's Launch Pad 39A f... Continue reading ...
Posted by Warren Wong on Monday, June 6, 2011,
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Mars
The human journey to the beginning of space and time will get a detailed view of Mars using the Mast Camera on NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity, once Curiosity lands on the surface of Mars, sometime around August 2012, according to the latest estimates by NASA. Space travel is by necessity extremely well planned and every detail must be worked out to a set time table if the Curiosity is to accomplish its mission. All aspects of the mission parameters must be analysed and reanalysed to ensure eve...
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NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft has finally started sending back the first images of the solar systems inner most planet ever taken by a human made invention on March 29. The first views are of the south and north polar regions of Mercury were released by NASA on March 29 and March 30, and they paint a new portrait of the surface of Mercury than the one astronomers had previously painted. The first images of the surface of Mercury show a crater strewn surface use to continual bombardment over mil... Continue reading ...
Board your time machine to the stars near the end of October
 - Comet 103P/Hartley leaves a trail as it travels through the inner solar system
September is the time for you and the kids to begin planning a journey to a celestial body that will be at its closest point to Earth and Sol, sometime near the end of October. Comet 103P/Hartley has been in the news, of late, as NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft will fly by Comet 103P/Hartley, in the first part of November. Observers boarding their ... Continue reading ...
Posted by Warren Wong on Thursday, November 18, 2010,
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asteroids
What do you think a little asteroid dust could tell us about the universe?
 - Hayabusa has returned from its mission to asteroid 25143 Itokawa
The return capsule of Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's asteroid-hunting Hayabusa spacecraft splashed down safely near Australia on June 13. This marks the return of a space traveller that was launched in 2003 in order to journey to the small near-Earth asteroid 25143 Itokawa to bring back a sample of the asteroid's surface. Hayabusa has been d... Continue reading ...
Posted by Warren Wong on Saturday, November 13, 2010,
The search for a new home for human life has started
 - Planets with water are the goal of astronomers. NASA photo.
The search for planets capable of acting as a cradle for a new human genesis has begun. Astronomers are searching the night sky above you for planets circling distant stars within what space scientists refer to as a stars life-zone or habitable-zone. This zone is an area at an orbital distance from the star in question that allows for the formation of the elements of life ... Continue reading ...
The James Webb Space Telescope Takes Mankind to the Edge of Infinity
 - The James Webb Space Telescope Journeys to the Beginning of Space and Time
Mankind's journey to the beginning of the universe is about to voyage into unknown areas of the universe in search of answers to questions that were in the minds of the first star gazers. Why are we here? Are we alone in the universe or is life abundant? Plans to launch the James Webb Space Telescope into ...
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Posted by Warren Wong on Thursday, November 11, 2010,
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meteorites
Comet Halley dust rains down upon Earth in the early mornings of October
 - Periodic trips through the inner solar system has left a little dust behind. NASA photo.
Modern star gazers can take in a show that has been entertaining star gazers for thousands of years. The Orionid meteor shower peaks on the night of October 21, the Moon will also be in full phase on this night, and this light will drown out the light of all but the most energetic of meteorites. The Orionid m...
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 - Something might have hit THEMIS-B. NASA photos.
Considering the volume of bodies circling in the solar system one might think that collisions between bodies in the solar system is commonplace, but in fact collisions between bodies circling in the solar system are relatively uncommon. This is what makes a recent report by NASA of a possible collision of one of their spacecraft with a meteorite a highlight of sorts, or at least something relatively unusual. NASA reported a possible colli... Continue reading ...
Posted by Warren Wong on Friday, November 5, 2010,
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exo-planets
 NASA photos
Do we really know anything?
The more astronomers look around on the human journey to the beginning of the universe, the more they realise we really have only scratched the surface of the known universe, and we really know nothing. This is exciting, for sure, for astronomers viewing the universe, but it means space scientists are constantly reworking theories and ideas concerning the universe and the way things really work. Astronomers using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope to vi...
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 Photos NASA: IBEX recently completed a six-month survey of the sky.
Mankind is preparing to journey to the outer solar system in the decades ahead and part of the preparation is using NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer, or IBEX, spacecraft to take a look at conditions on the edge of the solar system to get an idea of the environment humans and the spacecraft we send to the edge of the solar system will have to withstand to survive. NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer has just finished pro... Continue reading ...
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