Space / Astronomy March 2007 Archive

Was it satellite debris or meteor? MSNBC is reporting that a jetliner flying from Santiago, Chile to New Zealand had a close encounter with blazing objects falling from the sky on ... Read More

May Break Record When NASA Astronaut Sunita Williams flew up to the International Space Station (ISS) last December, she had a return ticket for July of this year. After a hail ... Read More

Although Lisa Nowak did not appear at her arraignment today, her attorneys formally entered a not guilty plea on her behalf. The 43-year-old mother of three is currently free on ... Read More

Navy Captain Lisa Nowak, who was recently terminated from her astronaut assignment by NASA after she was charged with trying to kidnap a romantic rival, has a new job. The ... Read More

Our About.com Guide to the Southwestern United States, Liz Mitchell, attended the grand opening of the much talked about Grand Canyon Skywalk. Among the VIPs also attending were tribal dignitaries ... Read More

Thanks to the folks at Space Politics for sharing this little tidbit with us. The Zanesville (Ohio) Times Recorder has a story with one of the best headlines I've seen in ... Read More

It was on this date in 1926 when Dr. Robert Goddard launched the world's first liquid-fueled rocket at Auburn, MA. The 10' tall rocket was built out of thin pipes ... Read More

"Fill 'er up?" "Check the oil while you're at it." According to Space.com, a firm from Austin, Texas has plans for a manned lunar expedition to find raw materials for an orbital ... Read More

It was on this date in 1879 that featherbed salesman, Hermann Einstein, and his wife, Pauline (Koch), had a son, Albert. Six weeks after Albert Einstein's birth in Ulm, Württemberg, ... Read More

The Space Shuttle Atlantis rolled back to the Vehicle Assembly Building for assessment and repairs the other day due to a late February thunderstorm with hail. After positioning platforms around ... Read More

From across the pond, DaveP tells us that the government of New Mexico has decided that Pluto is a planet after all. Stating, "WHEREAS, the state of New Mexico is a ... Read More

Over at the Astronomy Blog, Stuart has some bad news. It seems that the folks over at Sky and Telescope are going to discontinue their sister publication, Night Sky magazine. Night ... Read More

I have seen several news organizations blaring headlines saying the former astronaut, Lisa Nowak has been fired. That is simply not the case. Lisa Nowak is a captain in the US ... Read More

Lisa Nowak, who was recently charged with attempted kidnapping, in a bizarre love triangle involving another astronaut and an Air Force officer, has been terminated as an astronaut, according to ... Read More

Although she was never allowed to go into space, Jerri Cobb passed the same physical and psychological fitness testing regimen as the Mercury Astronaut Selection Tests with flying colors. She ... Read More

According to MSNBC, officials at NASA say that while they have the capability to find nearly all of the asteroids which might threaten our planet, they do not have enough ... Read More

Women have played major roles in the advancement of the science of astronomy, as well as space exploration. It is only fitting that this month, during Women's History Month, we ... Read More

The night sky will give us quite a show Saturday night as the first of two total lunar eclipses in 2007 occurs. This eclipse will be unique in that does ... Read More

According to MSNBC, renowned British physicist Stephen Hawking, will fly aboard Zero Gravity Corporation's zero-gravity airplane, flying out of NASA's Kennedy Space Center next month. This may be the first ... Read More