Bad Day at Vandenberg
Ron Grabe, launch system manager for Orbital Sciences, didn’t try to sugar-coat the news. “Tonight we’re all pretty devastated,” he said during a predawn press briefing at Vandenberg AFB today....
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According to computer modeling by NASA’s QuakeSim project, Tuesday’s 5.8-magnitude earthquake in central Virginia moved the city of Washington D.C. a whopping 0.02 inches “to the northwest and...
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Is it Real, or is it IMAX?
Keith Madden, projectionist and technician at the National Air and Space Museum theater, reports: “When the [Mineral, Virginia] earthquake struck at 1:51 p.m. on Tuesday, August 23, it unnerved most of...
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Sunstorm? Been There, Done That
January 22, 2012 solar flare. Photo courtesy NASA/SDO/AIA. Despite being the strongest solar storm since 2005, this week’s flareup appears to have caused few disruptions on Earth. (As Space.com...
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Rockets Over the East Coast
ATREX will launch five sounding rockets into the thermosphere to study ultra-high altitude winds. Credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center NASA is getting ready to launch a series of rockets over the...
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The 2012 Drought, As Seen From Space
American farmers haven’t needed a satellite this summer to tell them we’re in a drought. The worst dry spell in more than 20 years has had a devastating impact on U.S. crop production. What’s amazing...
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An Astronauts’ View of Earth Could Change Us All
Astronauts have a unique perspective of Earth’s thin atmosphere. Image: NASA “Thank you for coming to my personal therapy session,” former NASA astronaut Michael Lopez-Alegria joked at yesterday’s...
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