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The STS-112 crew (l-r): Mission Specialists Sandy Magnus and Dave Wolf, Pilot Pam Melroy, Commander Jeff Ashby and Mission Specialists Piers Sellers and Fyodor Yurchikhin.
- STS-108 Facts:
- Mission:International Space Station Flight 9A
- Shuttle:Atlantis
- Launch Pad39B
- Launch:October 9, 2002 2:46pm CDT
- Docking:October 9, 2002 10:17 am CDT
- EVA's:3 spacewalks
- Undocking:October 16, 20028:14 am CDT
- Landing:October 18, 200210:46 am CDT
- Orbit Altitude:122 nautical miles
- Orbit Inclination:51.6 degrees
The Space Station is not just the biggest things humans
have put in space, it is now one of the brightest objects in our sky.
NASA has some great tools to show you where the Space Station is, and when you can see it in your sky! Come read more at -
Liftoff to Space Exploration
http://liftoff.msfc.nasa.gov/News/2001/News-NewStar.asp?list3617-67
See real time maps of how the sky will look tonight. |
NEWS FROM NASA - This section is automatically updated from NASA every day! (so if the links don't work ...blame NASA!)
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Millennium
Meteors --
On
January 3, 2001, the Quadrantids,
one of the most intense annual
meteor showers, peaked over
North America. In western parts
of Canada, the USA and Mexico,
observers could see as many as
100 shooting stars per hour in
an amazing outburst. FOR KIDS
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Interactive Astronomy coloring book. |
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Test your Astronomy knowledge. Puzzles vary from easy to very difficult. |
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Read funny space jokes left by others, and then add your own. |
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Games |
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Fly your way through an asteroid field. |
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Landing on the Moon is more difficult than you may think. |
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Defend the Earth from the space invaders. |
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Shoot down enemy fire. |
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Launch missiles towards enemy ships. |
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Visit this great FLASH site.....the best I have seen!
sit in the cockpit and take your virtual journey!
NEWS:
01/01/01
CASSINI
TRACKS GIANT STORMS ON JUPITER
NASA's Cassini spacecraft,
making its closest approach to Jupiter,
is tracking daily changes in some of the
planet's most visible storms. In
collaboration with NASA's Galileo
spacecraft, which has been orbiting
Jupiter since 1995, Cassini is also
beginning to provide new insight in how
the solar wind of particles speeding
away from the Sun affects a huge
magnetic region surrounding Jupiter.
Scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion
Laboratory, in Pasadena, Calif., say
large storms on Jupiter, which can be
larger than Earth and last for
centuries, gain energy from swallowing
smaller storms. The smaller storms pull
their energy from lower depths,
according to information collected by
Galileo.
The Cassini spacecraft has
taken pictures of thunderstorms on
Jupiter. As small storms pass each
other, they can be ripped apart or
merged. This shows that the small
features in Jupiter's atmosphere harvest
the energy from below the cloud surface,
and the larger storms encompass the
small ones, just as a big fish eats
smaller ones for energy, said Dr. Andrew
Ingersoll of the California Institute of
Technology. He said a better
understanding of storms on Jupiter will
further understanding of Earth's
atmosphere "The
weather is different on Jupiter,"
he said. "You have a
30year-old storm. We'd like to know why
Jupiter's weather is so stable, and
Earth's is so transient."
BY: ArcaMax Science News for January 02, 2001
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