Space Travel: $30 million buys Austin resident a ride on Soyuz mission. An Austin space tourist will blast off early Sunday with an American astronaut and a Russian cosmonaut from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan for a voyage to the international space station.
Richard Garriott, 47, who made a fortune designing computer games, and the two [...]
Space Travel: Russia Leads Way in Space Tourism With Paid Trips Into Orbit. Space is for sale. Game developer Richard Garriot, who is scheduled to travel on a Soyuz rocket on Sunday, spoke at a news conference in June in New York.
While NASA looks ahead toward five years without shuttle flights and struggles to develop [...]
Next Mars Rover Mission on Schedule Even as Cost Rises: Despite another overrun that could push its cost to more than $2 billion, NASA’s next-generation Mars rover mission remains on track for launching next fall, NASA officials said Friday.
“Things are going quite well technically,” Doug McCuistion, director of the Mars Exploration Program at NASA headquarters, [...]
Three Bureau of Land Management biologists were held at gunpoint by members of a Mexican drug cartel after stumbling upon a marijuana garden in a remote area of Northern Nevada on Tuesday.
The biologists were surveying the north fork of the Little Humboldt River, near the Nevada-Oregon border, when they suddenly found themselves in a marijuana [...]
John James Audubon’s Species: Bird Paintings Art, in All Its Glory. In 1812, John James Audubon filled a wooden box with about 200 of his paintings of American birds and left it with a relative for safekeeping while he went off on one of his many trips. When he returned to retrieve the paintings, he [...]
Nobel Prize’s scientific background: 2008 Chemistry Nobel Prize goes to those who lit up cells. GFP expressed in nerve cells lights up the axons they extend from the developing spinal cord.
Many of the techniques that biologists use for looking at cells and organisms involve taking the equivalent of a static snapshot of the state of [...]
Hurricane Ike flattened just about everything in its path, Pictures of a lone home that managed to survive Tropical Storm Fay
The Lone House: Not All Houses Are Created Equal
Hurricane Ike flattened just about everything in its path. Well, almost everything. Pictures of a lone home that managed to survive the storm’s fury are causing a [...]
Tropical Storm Fay now a tropical depression: The National Hurricane Center says Tropical Storm Fay has been downgraded to a tropical storm fay.
APALACHICOLA, Fla. - Tropical Storm Fay was downgraded to a tropical depression Saturday night, but cities along the Gulf Coast were still bracing for heavy rain.
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Here it relates Iflove Science Reviews: from Tropical Storm Fay, National Hurricane Center Phones to NASA Unmanned Experimental Rocket.
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NASA destroys rocket after failed launch
AP - Fri Aug 22, 12:15 PM ET
WALLOPS ISLAND, Va. - NASA destroyed an unmanned experimental rocket carrying a pair of research satellites Friday when it veered off course shortly after [...]
NASA to build spacesuits for revived lunar exploration program
NASA taps Oceaneering to build spacesuits for moon - NASA has turned to a new lead contractor to build spacesuits for its revived lunar exploration program that aims to land astronauts on the moon again by 2020, officials said on Thursday.
Oceaneering International Inc of Houston defeated a [...]