The crew of the International Space Station already have access to the Internet. Astronaut Timothy Creamer, a NASA flight engineer, sent the first direct message from space to Twitter on Friday. "Hello Twitterverse!" ("Hello Twitter universe!") Were the first words of Creamer from his account @Astro_TJ, which represent a step forward by extending the use of social networks beyond land borders.
NASA's Spirit robot begins its seventh year of exploration on the red planet with an uncertain future. The rover descended on the Gusev crater on Mars on January 3, 2004, while its companion, the explorer robot Opportunity, landed twenty days later on the other side of the red planet, on the plains of Meridiani Planum. The scientists then expected each of the devices to work for about three months.
NASA has just launched its WISE observatory, which in the coming months will blink every 11 seconds capturing images of the Universe in infrared light. Look for cool stars, very bright galaxies, asteroids, and comets.
From the Kennedy Space Center, our correspondent in the United States Angela Posada-Swafford has attended the successful launch of the experimental rocket Ares 1-X, which today has arced in the sky at 45 kilometers high.
Last Friday, in a short but fun ceremony at the Kennedy Space Center, the new launch control room for the experimental Ares 1-X rocket was officially unveiled. Our correspondent Angela Posada-Swafford was there.
A recent report for NASA and ESA announces 2012 the most powerful solar storm of the last fifty years. As predicted by the team led by Mausumi Dikpati "the next solar cycle will be 30 to 50% more intense than the previous one."
A Commission of Experts on space appointed by the White House said yesterday that a return to the Moon is not going to be feasible. The problem is money.
Danni Büchner is invited to Sam Dylan's Halloween party. But the "Goodbye Germany" emigrant has no desire for many other party guests. And find clear words.
