NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has sent back recent images of Apollo 17's landing and work site.
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Space Shuttle Endeavor landed at 9:48 CST at Kennedy Space Center. The mission, STS-127, included five space walks and a trip to the International Space Station to swap crew members. Astronaut Timothy Kopra joined the ISS crew as a flight engineer and science officer. Japanese astronaut Koichi Wakata returned to Earth aboard Endeavor.
NASA will be airing the crew return ceremony live through this link at 4 PM CST. How did Houstonist find out about it? Through Astronaut Mike Massimino's most recent tweet.
NASA just successfully launched Atlantis on STS-125 to intercept with the Hubble Telescope.
Rice University's own Mike Massimino, a Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science professor, is preparing to take his second spaceflight to the Hubble Space Telescope on May 12, and he's got a lot to say about it. Known on Twitter as Astro_Mike, he began chronicling his preparations earlier this month. The details surrounding the training for a spaceflight are quite a compelling subject, as so far Astro_Mike has over 50,000 followers and counting. That's about 5 times as many followers as the Mars Rovers, and they're on another planet.
It's only appropriate that Houston would host the largest celebration of space flight in the world, isn't it? That's what's going down this weekend at Yuri's Night 2009. Named for the first man to travel into space nearly fifty years ago, Yuri Gagarin, the celebration this Saturday is perfect for all you local NASA geeks.
Tune in to ABC (KTRK-TV Channel 13 in Houston) this evening, March 23rd, and tomorrow evening, March 24th, at 5:30pm to catch “World News with Charles Gibson” airing from Houston.
Local tech news in a compact, digital format. What Does A Hydrogen Generator Look Like? Last week we told you about Trulite's revolutionary hydrogen generator. This week we found an image of this generator and wanted to share it with you. Bum Shuttle Computer Is From Conroe A computer bound for the space shuttle Endeavour that was found to have been deliberately damaged came from Conroe based Invocon, Inc.. Invocon Inc. is a systems...
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