Two Russian cosmonauts made an out-of-this-world handoff of the Olympic torch at the start of Saturday’s spacewalk. Expedition 37 Flight Engineer Oleg Kotov (holding the torch at left) brought the torch out of the International Space Station and passed it to Flight Engineer Sergey Ryazanskiy. The torch was returned to the ISS and the cosmonauts spent the rest of the five-hour, 50-minute spacewalk conducting maintenance activities
The Atlas V rocket carrying the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) spacecraft rolled out to Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station at 10:20 a.m. EDT Saturday.
MAVEN is set to launch at 1:28 p.m. EST Monday on a 10-month journey to Mars, where it will study climate change over the planet's history.
Two days before the scheduled launch tp Mars, the United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket and NASA’s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) spacecraft rolled out of the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Space Launch Complex 41 Vertical Integration Facility to the launch pad, Saturday, Nov. 16, 2013, Cape Canaveral, Florida.
One of the most famous objects in the sky - the Cassiopeia A supernova remnant - will be on display like never before, thanks to NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and a new project from the Smithsonian Institution.
NASA's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) spacecraft launches aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Space Launch Complex 41, Cape Canaveral, Florida, at 1:28 p.m. EST on Monday, Nov. 18, 2013.
MAVEN is the first spacecraft devoted to exploring and understanding the Martian upper atmosphere. The trip to Mars takes 10 months, and MAVEN will go into orbit around Mars in September 2014.
Photo Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls
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I'm trying to figure out what is the bright star in the Southwest sky tonight. My Google Sky Map App says it's Neptune but I highly doubt that. It is very big and bright! Does anyone know? I'm assuming it might be Venus.
The United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket with NASA’s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) spacecraft launches from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Space Launch Complex 41, Monday, Nov. 18, 2013, Cape Canaveral, Florida. NASA’s Mars-bound spacecraft, the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN, or MAVEN, is the first spacecraft devoted to exploring and understanding the Martian upper atmosphere.
I'm trying to figure out what is the bright star in the Southwest sky tonight. My Google Sky Map App says it's Neptune but I highly doubt that. It is very big and bright! Does anyone know? I'm assuming it might be Venus.
it could be jupiter or venus . jupiter rising or venus setting . not too sure
Ah cool, a thread about astronomy... could read through all of it yet, but surely will... I actually studied physics and spent some time as a phd student in astronomy but quit the phd before finsihing. Brings back nice memories ;-)
