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Samstag, August 20, 2011

NASA TV: 30.05.2011: The Pope Addresses the Astronauts of the Shuttle Endeavour - Der Papst spricht mit den Astronauten der ISS


NASA Answers Your Questions About Comet Elenin


Often, comets are portrayed as harbingers of gloom and doom in movies and on television, but most pose no threat to Earth. Comet Elenin, the latest comet to visit our inner solar system, is no exception. Elenin will pass about 22 million miles (35 million kilometers) from Earth during its closest approach on Oct. 16, 2011. [more...]

ELENIN Function (Java applet)

Elenin website

Dienstag, Juli 19, 2011

NASA TV LIVE - Spaceshuttle on the way to earth

         


















Inside the Zvezda service module on the International Space Station, space shuttle Atlantis and station crew members take a break from an extremely busy work agenda for photos and a social period.

Not much time remains for such reunions, as undocking and separation activities are scheduled for a little over 48 hours from the time this photo was made.

The STS-135 crew consists of Commander Chris Ferguson, Pilot Doug Hurley, Mission Specialists Sandy Magnus and Rex Walheim; the Expedition 28 or station crew members are JAXA astronaut Satoshi Furukawa, NASA astronauts Ron Garan and Mike Fossum, and Russian cosmonauts Andrey Borisenko, Alexander Samokutyaev and Sergei Volkov.

Photo credit: NASA
July 16, 2011