Copyright (c) 2008 Yahoo! Inc. All rights reserved. http://news.yahoo.com/i/1474 Space Shuttle/NASA en-us Sat, 10 May 2008 05:03:40 GMT 5 142 18 http://news.yahoo.com/i/1474 http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/us/nws/th/main_142b.gif http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/nasashuttle/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080510/ap_on_sc/shuttle_recovered_data ap/20080510/shuttle_recovered_data AP Sat, 10 May 2008 05:03:40 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/nasashuttle/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080510/ap_on_sc/shuttle_recovered_data"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080509/capt.32ff9fafbb834d97ac6f56434562e616.shuttle_recovered_data_nybz135.jpg?x=93&y=130&q=85&sig=1ttvO0hUtnGj2i8EvXoHjA--" align="left" height="130" width="93" alt="In this photo provided by Kroll Ontrack Inc., a data drive that fell from the space shuttle Columbia when it was destroyed in 2003 is shown. During Columbia's fateful final mission, the drive had been used to capture data from a scientific experiment on the way xenon gas flows. (AP Photo/Kroll Ontrack Inc.)" border="0" /></a>AP - Jon Edwards often manages what appears impossible. He has recovered precious data from computers wrecked in floods and fires and dumped in lakes. Now Edwards may have set a new standard: He found information on a melted disk drive that fell from the sky when space shuttle Columbia disintegrated in 2003.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/nasashuttle/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080510/ap_on_sc/shuttle_recovered_data"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080509/capt.32ff9fafbb834d97ac6f56434562e616.shuttle_recovered_data_nybz135.jpg?x=93&y=130&q=85&sig=1ttvO0hUtnGj2i8EvXoHjA--" align="left" height="130" width="93" alt="photo" title="In this photo provided by Kroll Ontrack Inc., a data drive that fell from the space shuttle Columbia when it was destroyed in 2003 is shown. During Columbia's fateful final mission, the drive had been used to capture data from a scientific experiment on the way xenon gas flows. (AP Photo/Kroll Ontrack Inc.)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/nasashuttle/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080509/ap_on_sc/campaigning_scientists ap/20080509/campaigning_scientists AP Fri, 09 May 2008 22:11:22 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/nasashuttle/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080509/ap_on_sc/campaigning_scientists"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080509/capt.023b6e5a4ebb4c80a19368e6c523ce17.campaigning_scientists_dchg101.jpg?x=86&y=130&q=85&sig=muUh8SlZOosA6NSW8TKpvA--" align="left" height="130" width="86" alt="Paul Bunje a Californian who earned his doctorate studying snail evolution is photographed, Friday, May 9, 2008, in Washington. On Saturday he heads back to school to learn a trickier task: How to get elected to public office. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari)" border="0" /></a>AP - Daniel Suson has a doctorate in astrophysics and has worked on the superconducting super collider and a forthcoming NASA probe. Now he's heading back to school to take on an even trickier task — getting elected to public office.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/nasashuttle/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080509/ap_on_sc/campaigning_scientists"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080509/capt.023b6e5a4ebb4c80a19368e6c523ce17.campaigning_scientists_dchg101.jpg?x=86&y=130&q=85&sig=muUh8SlZOosA6NSW8TKpvA--" align="left" height="130" width="86" alt="photo" title="Paul Bunje a Californian who earned his doctorate studying snail evolution is photographed, Friday, May 9, 2008, in Washington. On Saturday he heads back to school to learn a trickier task: How to get elected to public office. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/nasashuttle/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080509/us_nm/space_shuttle_dc nm/20080509/space_shuttle_dc Reuters Fri, 09 May 2008 19:14:57 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/nasashuttle/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080509/us_nm/space_shuttle_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20080509/2008_05_09t155702_316x450_us_space_shuttle.jpg?x=91&y=130&q=85&sig=wNgRTu5lz0asMPy8fS7TAw--" align="left" height="130" width="91" alt="The space shuttle Discovery is shown atop launch pad 39A after transport from the Vehicle Assembly Building May 3, 2008 in Cape Canaveral, Florida to begin prelaunch processing for the STS-124 mission. (Scott Andrews/Handout/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Seven astronauts climbed inside the space shuttle Discovery on Friday as part of a dress rehearsal for a May 31 mission to deliver a Japanese laboratory to the International Space Station.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/nasashuttle/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080509/us_nm/space_shuttle_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20080509/2008_05_09t155702_316x450_us_space_shuttle.jpg?x=91&y=130&q=85&sig=wNgRTu5lz0asMPy8fS7TAw--" align="left" height="130" width="91" alt="photo" title="The space shuttle Discovery is shown atop launch pad 39A after transport from the Vehicle Assembly Building May 3, 2008 in Cape Canaveral, Florida to begin prelaunch processing for the STS-124 mission. (Scott Andrews/Handout/Reuters)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Reuters) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/nasashuttle/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20080509/sc_space/shuttleastronautsrehearselaunchday space/20080509/shuttleastronautsrehearselaunchday SPACE.com Fri, 09 May 2008 16:45:45 GMT SPACE.com - The crew of the space shuttle Discovery successfully completed a dress rehearsal today for their upcoming launch. They capped off their practice run at Cape Canaveral with a simulated countdown to liftoff at 11:00 a.m. EDT. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/nasashuttle/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20080509/sc_livescience/myanmarfloodingseenfromspace livescience/20080509/myanmarfloodingseenfromspace LiveScience.com Fri, 09 May 2008 16:15:51 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/nasashuttle/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20080509/sc_livescience/myanmarfloodingseenfromspace"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080507/capt.666e0dc4fed34c999724a8507d420e71.aptopix_myanmar_cyclone_ny211.jpg?x=83&y=130&q=85&sig=.6L8Z.3zngk4WrQ_4D04.w--" align="left" height="130" width="83" alt="This pair of images from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASAs Terra satellite provided on Monday May 5, 2008 use a combination of visible and infrared light to make floodwaters obvious. Water is blue or nearly black, vegetation is bright green, bare ground is tan, and clouds are white or light blue. On April 15 (top), rivers and lakes are sharply defined against a backdrop of vegetation and fallow agricultural land. The Irrawaddy River flows south through the left-hand side of the image, splitting into numerous distributaries known as the Mouths of the Irrawaddy. The wetlands near the shore are a deep blue green. Cyclone Nargis came ashore across the Mouths of the Irrawaddy and followed the coastline northeast. The entire coastal plain is flooded in the May 5 image (bottom). An estimated 1 million people in Myanmar are believed to be homeless after the devastating cyclone, officials said. (AP Photo/NASA)" border="0" /></a>LiveScience.com - The devastation wrought in Myanmar by a Tropical Cyclone Nargis is revealed in new NASA satellite images.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/nasashuttle/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20080509/sc_livescience/myanmarfloodingseenfromspace"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080507/capt.666e0dc4fed34c999724a8507d420e71.aptopix_myanmar_cyclone_ny211.jpg?x=83&y=130&q=85&sig=.6L8Z.3zngk4WrQ_4D04.w--" align="left" height="130" width="83" alt="photo" title="This pair of images from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASAs Terra satellite provided on Monday May 5, 2008 use a combination of visible and infrared light to make floodwaters obvious. Water is blue or nearly black, vegetation is bright green, bare ground is tan, and clouds are white or light blue. On April 15 (top), rivers and lakes are sharply defined against a backdrop of vegetation and fallow agricultural land. The Irrawaddy River flows south through the left-hand side of the image, splitting into numerous distributaries known as the Mouths of the Irrawaddy. The wetlands near the shore are a deep blue green. Cyclone Nargis came ashore across the Mouths of the Irrawaddy and followed the coastline northeast. The entire coastal plain is flooded in the May 5 image (bottom). An estimated 1 million people in Myanmar are believed to be homeless after the devastating cyclone, officials said. (AP Photo/NASA)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (LiveScience.com) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/nasashuttle/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20080508/sc_space/spaceshuttlediscoveryingoodshapeformaylaunch space/20080508/spaceshuttlediscoveryingoodshapeformaylaunch SPACE.com Thu, 08 May 2008 23:01:49 GMT SPACE.com - NASA's shuttle Discovery is on track to ferry seven astronauts and a large Japanese laboratory to the International Space Station (ISS) later this month. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/nasashuttle/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20080508/sc_space/stationastronautlaughsitupforcolbertreport space/20080508/stationastronautlaughsitupforcolbertreport SPACE.com Thu, 08 May 2008 20:31:15 GMT SPACE.com - NASA astronaut Garrett Reisman squeezed in some laughs amid his busy day aboard the International Space Station (ISS) Thursday during an orbital call from comedian Stephen Colbert. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/nasashuttle/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20080508/sc_space/nasasnewsciencechiefsettlesinforlonghaul space/20080508/nasasnewsciencechiefsettlesinforlonghaul SPACE.com Thu, 08 May 2008 14:45:57 GMT SPACE.com - WASHINGTON — Ed Weiler, the 30-year NASA veteran who agreed in March to lead the agency's Science Mission Directorate temporarily, will fill that position permanently, NASA announced Wednesday. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/nasashuttle/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20080503/sc_space/spaceshuttlediscoverymovestolaunchpad space/20080503/spaceshuttlediscoverymovestolaunchpad SPACE.com Sat, 03 May 2008 16:45:21 GMT SPACE.com - The space shuttle Discovery rolled out to its Florida launch pad early Saturday as NASA prepares to launch a massive Japanese laboratory later this month. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/nasashuttle/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20080502/sc_space/ketchupexperimentrecoveredfromcolumbiacrash space/20080502/ketchupexperimentrecoveredfromcolumbiacrash SPACE.com Fri, 02 May 2008 21:31:43 GMT SPACE.com - Using data recovered from a damaged computer hard-drive that was aboard the ill-fated Space Shuttle Columbia in 2003, scientists have recently learned more about why the act of shaking a material can quickly transform it into something completely different. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/nasashuttle/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20080502/sc_space/nasadelaysshuttleflighttohubblespacetelescope space/20080502/nasadelaysshuttleflighttohubblespacetelescope SPACE.com Fri, 02 May 2008 15:31:14 GMT SPACE.com - HOUSTON - NASA has pushed back the planned launch of the final flight to overhaul the Hubble Space Telescope by up to five weeks due to external fuel tank delays, mission managers said Thursday. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/nasashuttle/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080501/ap_on_sc/space_shuttle ap/20080501/space_shuttle AP Thu, 01 May 2008 20:32:07 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/nasashuttle/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080501/ap_on_sc/space_shuttle"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20080512/capt.cps.ndo57.120508083526.photo00.photo.default-359x512.jpg?x=91&y=130&q=85&sig=5inb.LyUfc.1ZgZl5Pgjgw--" align="left" height="130" width="91" alt="The US Space shuttle Atlantis lifts off. The human race will find life elsewhere in the universe as it pushes ahead with space exploration, astronauts back from the latest US space mission said(AFP/File/NICHOLAS KAMM)" border="0" /></a>AP - NASA's final visit to the Hubble Space Telescope has been delayed at least a month, until the fall, because of extra time needed to build the shuttle fuel tanks needed for the flight and a potential rescue mission.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/nasashuttle/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080501/ap_on_sc/space_shuttle"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20080512/capt.cps.ndo57.120508083526.photo00.photo.default-359x512.jpg?x=91&y=130&q=85&sig=5inb.LyUfc.1ZgZl5Pgjgw--" align="left" height="130" width="91" alt="photo" title="The US Space shuttle Atlantis lifts off. The human race will find life elsewhere in the universe as it pushes ahead with space exploration, astronauts back from the latest US space mission said(AFP/File/NICHOLAS KAMM)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/nasashuttle/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080501/sc_afp/usspace afp/20080501/usspace AFP Thu, 01 May 2008 17:25:59 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/nasashuttle/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080501/sc_afp/usspace"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20080501/capt.cps.nbe13.010508191751.photo00.photo.default-512x498.jpg?x=130&y=126&q=85&sig=L9IzsvFoRaAut1E551dJSw--" align="left" height="126" width="130" alt="This handout image obtained in 2007 and taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope shows the colorful "last hurrah" of a star like our Sun. The space shuttle's pending upcoming mission to continue maintenance and repair work on the Hubble telescope, which had been set for August 28, will be pushed back four to five weeks, NASA said Thursday.(AFP/NASA-HO/File)" border="0" /></a>AFP - The space shuttle's pending upcoming mission to continue maintenance and repair work on the Hubble telescope, which had been set for August 28, will be pushed back four to five weeks, NASA said Thursday.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/nasashuttle/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080501/sc_afp/usspace"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20080501/capt.cps.nbe13.010508191751.photo00.photo.default-512x498.jpg?x=130&y=126&q=85&sig=L9IzsvFoRaAut1E551dJSw--" align="left" height="126" width="130" alt="photo" title="This handout image obtained in 2007 and taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope shows the colorful "last hurrah" of a star like our Sun. The space shuttle's pending upcoming mission to continue maintenance and repair work on the Hubble telescope, which had been set for August 28, will be pushed back four to five weeks, NASA said Thursday.(AFP/NASA-HO/File)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/nasashuttle/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080501/sc_nm/space_shuttle_hubble_dc nm/20080501/space_shuttle_hubble_dc Reuters Thu, 01 May 2008 16:47:06 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/nasashuttle/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080501/sc_nm/space_shuttle_hubble_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20080501/2008_05_01t142816_450x297_us_space_shuttle_hubble.jpg?x=130&y=85&q=85&sig=vecLdZK4S.ty758toBb1SQ--" align="left" height="85" width="130" alt="File photo shows the Hubble Space Telescope taken from Space Shuttle in March 2002. Delays in producing space shuttle fuel tanks, which were substantially redesigned after the 2003 Columbia disaster, will postpone NASA's final servicing mission to the Hubble Space Telescope by a month or longer, officials at the U.S. space agency said on Thursday. (NASA/Handout/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Delays in producing space shuttle fuel tanks, which were substantially redesigned after the 2003 Columbia disaster, will postpone NASA's final servicing mission to the Hubble Space Telescope by a month or longer, officials at the U.S. space agency said on Thursday.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/nasashuttle/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080501/sc_nm/space_shuttle_hubble_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20080501/2008_05_01t142816_450x297_us_space_shuttle_hubble.jpg?x=130&y=85&q=85&sig=vecLdZK4S.ty758toBb1SQ--" align="left" height="85" width="130" alt="photo" title="File photo shows the Hubble Space Telescope taken from Space Shuttle in March 2002. Delays in producing space shuttle fuel tanks, which were substantially redesigned after the 2003 Columbia disaster, will postpone NASA's final servicing mission to the Hubble Space Telescope by a month or longer, officials at the U.S. space agency said on Thursday. (NASA/Handout/Reuters)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Reuters) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/nasashuttle/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080430/ap_on_sc/nasa_conflict ap/20080430/nasa_conflict AP Wed, 30 Apr 2008 22:14:56 GMT AP - A board set up to review construction of the spaceship to return astronauts to the moon is loaded with employees of the very contractors they are supposed to scrutinize, breaking federal law, a government watchdog says. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/nasashuttle/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20080430/sc_space/nasapredictshugecosmicexplosions space/20080430/nasapredictshugecosmicexplosions SPACE.com Wed, 30 Apr 2008 21:45:26 GMT SPACE.com - Astronomers are now able to predict when a certain type of star will let loose a powerful eruption. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/nasashuttle/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20080426/sc_space/spaceshuttlediscoverymovesclosertolaunch space/20080426/spaceshuttlediscoverymovesclosertolaunch SPACE.com Sat, 26 Apr 2008 15:15:31 GMT SPACE.com - The space shuttle Discovery moved a step closer to launch early Saturday as NASA engineers hauled the spacecraft into a massive hangar to join its fuel tank and twin rocket boosters. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/nasashuttle/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080423/sc_afp/russiausskoreaissspacenasa afp/20080423/russiausskoreaissspacenasa AFP Wed, 23 Apr 2008 21:04:14 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/nasashuttle/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080423/sc_afp/russiausskoreaissspacenasa"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20080423/capt.cps.mzi54.230408230346.photo00.photo.default-512x302.jpg?x=130&y=76&q=85&sig=k7PuxuTFbYPP3PSuQwgbGA--" align="left" height="76" width="130" alt="The site where a Soyuz capsule landed in northern Kazakhstan on April 19. The irregular landing of a Russian space capsule last week is not a "major problem," a top NASA official said, despite reports that the astronauts on board could have died.(AFP/Pool/File/Sergei Remezov)" border="0" /></a>AFP - The irregular landing of a Russian space capsule last week is not a "major problem," a top NASA official said, despite reports that the astronauts on board could have died.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/nasashuttle/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080423/sc_afp/russiausskoreaissspacenasa"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20080423/capt.cps.mzi54.230408230346.photo00.photo.default-512x302.jpg?x=130&y=76&q=85&sig=k7PuxuTFbYPP3PSuQwgbGA--" align="left" height="76" width="130" alt="photo" title="The site where a Soyuz capsule landed in northern Kazakhstan on April 19. The irregular landing of a Russian space capsule last week is not a "major problem," a top NASA official said, despite reports that the astronauts on board could have died.(AFP/Pool/File/Sergei Remezov)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/nasashuttle/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20080423/sc_space/nasaawardslaunchservicescontracttospacex space/20080423/nasaawardslaunchservicescontracttospacex SPACE.com Wed, 23 Apr 2008 21:01:08 GMT SPACE.com - WASHINGTON -- NASA has awarded Space Exploration Technologies, or SpaceX, an indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contract for launch services on the company's Falcon 1 and planned Falcon 9 launch vehicles, the space agency announced Tuesday. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/nasashuttle/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20080423/sc_space/nasakeepscloseeyeonrussianspacecraftinvestigation space/20080423/nasakeepscloseeyeonrussianspacecraftinvestigation SPACE.com Wed, 23 Apr 2008 14:32:11 GMT SPACE.com - NASA is watching closely as Russian engineers hunt for the source of a malfunction that sent a returning Soyuz spacecraft off-course during a Saturday landing.