They have provided a broad, beautiful picture, showing how humans have shaped the planet and lit up the darkness. Launched on January 12, 2003, on a Delta-2 Expendable Launch Vehicle (ELV) into a near polar orbit at an altitude of 600 km with an inclination of 94 degrees, the spacecraft in 2007 continued to provide data from its one instrument,- the Geoscience Laser Altimeter System (GLAS). In February 2007, it had already surpassed the record for the most science data returned by any Mars spacecraft. This tied the record for Mars data sent back between 1997 and 2006 by NASA's Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) mission: about 30 terabits of science data, including more than 15,000 images from three cameras, more than 3,000 targeted observations by a mineral-mapping spectrometer, and more than 2,200 observations with ground-penetrating radar. At the ISS, the STS-120 crew continued the construction of the station with the installation of the Node-2 module, named Harmony, and the relocation of the P6 truss segment. Launched on March 17, 2002, on a Russian Rockot carrier, the twin satellites GRACE (Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment), named "Tom" and "Jerry", in 2007 continued to map the Earth's gravity fields by taking accurate measurements of the distance between the two satellites, using Global Positioning System (GPS) and a microwave ranging system. of Defense Executive Agent for Space. After NASA formally extended the operational mission of Chandra from five years to 10 years in September 2001 (including the science grants that fund astronomers to analyze their data and publish their results), in 2007 Chandra astronomers discovered one of the fastest moving stars ever seen, a cosmic cannonball that is challenging theories to explain its blistering speed. The ninth launch, a failure, was the second Falcon-1 rocket from SpaceX, with an USAF Demo payload. At maximum distance from Earth (apogee), the spacecraft lie between the Sun and the Earth. After undocking on 8/19 (7:57am EDT), Endeavour landed on Runway 15 at KSC at 12:32 pm on the first opportunity after deorbit. As with all channels in this region - including Mangala Valles - the flow is northward into the low elevation region south of Amazonis Mensa. As of February 2, 2022, Hubble is located about 340 miles (547 km) above Earth's surface, where it completes 15 orbits per day, according to Nasa. Some versions of the inflation theory now are eliminated; others have picked up new support. The Phoenix mission uses the Mars Surveyor 2001 Lander, built in 2000, but later administratively mothballed. The International Space Station (ISS), which is the largest modular space station in low Earth orbit was launched back on 20 November 1998. Its observations are a treasure trove of information, including at least three major findings: (1) New evidence that a sea of cosmic neutrinos permeates the universe, (2) clear evidence that the first stars took more than a half-billion years to create a cosmic fog, and (3) tight new constraints on the burst of expansion in the universe's first trillionth of a second. Astronomer Noel Munford reports that the five second long digital camera exposure comes close to capturing the visual appearance . Four EVAs were conducted by Mastracchio, Williams and Exp. Russian specialists worked with U.S. teams, troubleshooting and restoring computer capabilities. Nasa has collated Hubble's images, and selected one for each day of the year, so you can find one to match with your birthday By Jaymi McCann February 18, 2022 7:55 am (Updated February 18, 2022 . Ulysses firsts include: First direct measurements of interstellar dust and neutral helium gas, first measurements of rare cosmic-ray isotopes, first surveys of the space environment above and below the solar poles, first measurements of so-called pickup ions of both interstellar and near-Sun origin, first in-situ observations of comet tails at large distances from the Sun, and first observations of particles from solar storms over the solar poles. 1971. Highly complementary with CloudSat, the CALIPSO (Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observation) satellite continued in 2007 to provide new insight into the role that clouds and atmospheric aerosols (airborne particles) play in regulating Earth's weather, climate, and air quality. NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Follow this link to skip to the main content, Table 1. NASA / NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day is a stunning picture of stars and their clusters in the vast expanse of space in the constellation Perseus. In addition, the Dawn spacecraft and how it orbits Vesta and Ceres will be used to measure the celestial bodies' masses and gravity fields. Operators were encountering some noisy housekeeping telemetry, with no significant impact on science data. A rare green comet, last seen in Earth's skies 50,000 years ago, is revisiting our solar system and may become visible to the naked eye within the next few weeks.. In addition, the RA (Robotic Arm) has been modified from the '01 lander version. Melroy and ISS Exp. Mission elapsed time for 10A was 15 days, 2 hours, 24 minutes and 2 seconds, covering 6.25 million miles. The spacewalkers also replaced the CMG for a faulty one (CMG-3) on the ISS. Neutral atoms from beyond the termination shock may be interacting with the solar wind to produce speedy charged particles called cosmic rays, thereby sapping some of the wind's energy. They have increased in brightness over time, are being seen more often and appear to be occurring at lower latitudes than ever before. That is because the location of the termination shock is constantly changing in response to the Sun's activity. Landsat Data Policy Released. This grouping of two test rovers and a flight spare provides a graphic comparison of three generations of Mars rovers developed at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. . Hubble was and is making discoveries at a rate that is unprecedented for a single observatory, and its contributions to astronomy and cosmology are wide-ranging. S71-51273 ( 102k or 668k) Portrait of Ron Evans. In 2007, NASA launched five Earth science satellites, THEMIS 1-5, two more than in 2006, all of them dedicated to one mission: the study of Earths auroras. Mars Odyssey. Text Size. The year 2007 has been a roller coaster ride for the Swift mission. A third stunning IR image from Spitzer in 2007 were The Seven Sisters, also known as the Pleiades, seemingly floating on a bed of feathers made from clouds of dust sweeping around the stars, swaddling them in a cushiony veil. Humankinds first mission to distant planet Pluto was launched by NASA on January 19, 2006, aboard an Atlas V rocket at 2 pm EST. With the objective to improve weather forecasting and monitor environmental events around the world, NOAA-18 continued in 2007 to collect data about the Earth's surface and atmosphere. On August 2, 2005, MESSENGER returned to Earth for a gravity boost. Construction projects across the agency supported the Constellation Program, which is developing next-generation spacecraft and systems to return astronauts to the moon by 2020. December 21, 2007: Two NASA Dryden F/A-18s flown by Gordon Fullerton and Nils Larson fly in tight formation Dec. 21, 2007 during Fullerton's final flight before his retirement. 1976 - CTS launch. During the coming years multi-point data from ACE, STEREO, and other spacecraft will provide a new perspective on anomalous cosmic ray (ACR) studies by measuring the longitudinal structure and distribution of interplanetary coronal mass ejections (ICMEs), interplanetary (IP) shocks, solar energy particle (SEP) events and suprathermal ions, and by correlating these in situ observations with multi-point imaging of the corona and inner heliosphere. These large fires are about 10 kilometers northeast of the cities of Concepcin and Talcahuano, which are veiled by a smoke from the south. In another discovery, astronomers have unmasked hundreds of black holes hiding deep inside dusty galaxies billions of light-years away. Altitude 1634 miles (2631 km) Speed. Its supply of liquid helium for radiative-cryogenic cooling was estimated post-launch to last for about 5.8 years, assuming optimized operation. The space agency adds that the satellite moves at the speed of about five miles (8 km) per second - which is fast enough to travel across the United States in about 10 minutes. January 17, 2023. 04.17.15 - This . The launch returned Endeavour to active service after a three-year hiatus for major modifications. Their installation plus other maintenance, servicing & inspection tasks were accomplished by the crew in four spacewalks (EVAs/Extravehicular Activities) by Reilly, Olivas, Forrester and Swanson, running up the 8th, 9th, 10th and 11th spacewalk in 2007. Comet McNaught. During the cruise, the spacecraft has continuously verified the health of its scientific instruments and performed trajectory correction maneuvers (TCMs). This makes M33 X-7 the most massive stellar black hole known. There were eight successful military space launches (2006: 7; 2005: 6; 2004: 5; 2003: 11), carrying 15 payloads: one heavy Delta-4M vehicle, launching a DSP-23 early warning satellite, two Delta-2 launchers carrying two new GPS IIR navigation satellites (-17/M4 & -18/M5), four Atlas-5 rockets, one with eight individual payloads (mostly nanosatellites), two with classified NROL surveillance satellites plus one with the WGS, and one OSC Minotaur launcher with an experimental satellite (NFIRE). It is awash in a sea of cosmic neutrinos, almost weightless sub-atomic particles which move around at nearly the speed of light, passing through us by the millions every second. An instrument on the spacecraft measured the abrupt slowdown of the solar wind that defines the termination shock. As a result, GOES provide a constant vigil for the atmospheric "triggers" for severe weather conditions such as tornadoes, flash floods, hail storms, and hurricanes. Discover the cosmos! The 2202-lb (999-kg) CloudSat was launched with the CALIPSO satellite by a Delta-2 from VAFB on April 28, 2006, into a polar orbit at an altitude of 438 miles (705 km). During 2007, the most astonishing discoveries of SST include final definitive evidence that the universe's first dust -- the celestial stuff that seeded future generations of stars and planets -- was forged in the explosions of massive stars. Scan by NASA Johnson. The first discoveries of the dynamics of a rapidly developing substorm were presented at the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in San Francisco in December. Today, Brandon has refused to run. U. This region is the outer layer of the bubble surrounding the sun, and no one knows how big this bubble actually is. In yet another stunning imagery of its radar instrument, the spacecraft found evidence for seas, likely filled with liquid methane or ethane, in the high northern latitudes of Saturn's moon Titan. Dawn uses ion propulsion for years at a time, with interruptions of only a few hours each week to turn to point its antenna to Earth. The landing was diverted to California due to marginal weather at Kennedy. Cosmic neutrinos existed in such huge numbers they affected the universes early development. From January through June, New Horizons seven science instruments made more than 700 separate observations of the Jovian system twice the activity planned at Pluto with most of them coming in the eight days around closest approach to Jupiter. The low point occurred in August & September when Swift was largely off-line due to hardware/software problems on the spacecraft: one of the 3 dual-gyro modules on the spacecraft exhibited anomalous behavior (occasional glitches inits readings), requiring a switch to the backup unit. Its payload includes three co-aligned nadir-viewing instruments: (1) the Cloud-Aerosol Lidar with Orthogonal Polarization (CALIOP, pronounced the same as calliope) to provide vertical profiles of aerosol and cloud backscatter and depolarization; (2) an Imaging Infrared Radiometer (IIR) with three channels in the infrared window region optimized for retrievals of cirrus particle size; and (3) the Wide Field Camera (WFC), a moderate spatial resolution imager with one visible channel which provides meteorological context and a means to accurately register CALIPSO observations to those from MODIS on the Aqua satellite. Today's VIS image shows the complete length of two channels in northern Terra Sirenum. Voyager 2 then extended the planetary adventure when it flew by Uranus and Neptune, becoming the only spacecraft ever to visit these worlds. At end-2007, the twin rovers, nearing the fourth anniversary of their landings, were getting smarter as they got older. Greek mythology holds that the flock of stars was transformed into celestial doves by Zeus to save them from a pursuant Orion. As the spacecraft lingered in Saturn's shadow, it viewed the planet's rings as never before, revealing . Among the rovers' many other accomplishments: Opportunity has analyzed a series of exposed rock layers recording how environmental conditions changed during the times when the layers were deposited and later modified: wind-blown dunes coming and going, water table fluctuating. But they faced their biggest challenges yet: for nearly a month, mostly during July, a series of severe Martian summer dust storms affected Opportunity and, to a lesser extent, Spirit. The Pleiades, located more than 400 light-years away in the Taurus constellation, are the subject of many legends and writings. The star cluster was born when dinosaurs still roamed the Earth, about 100 million years ago. Clay Anderson was transferred to the ISS as an official station crewmember of Exp. However, in radio and X-ray images, two additional spiral arms dominate the picture, appearing as ghostly apparitions between the main arms. The largest of the fires (outlined in red) are near the coast, south of the Itata River. Its robotic arm will dig into an icy layer believed to lie just beneath the Martian surface. While there is no definitive proof yet that these seas contain liquid, their shape, their dark appearance in radar that indicate smoothness, and their other properties point to the presence of liquids. 2023 Multiverse Media Inc. All right are reserved. Its UV colors show that it is actively forming young stars. The images were made into movie clips, providing new insight into the interaction of Mars' atmosphere and surface. By end-2007, ACE has been at the L1 point for more than ten years, and the spacecraft and instruments are still working very well, with the exception of the SEPICA (Solar Energetic Particle Ionic Charge Analyzer) instrument. The six-wheeled rover vehicle Spirit, launched on June 10, 2003, on a Delta-2/Heavy rocket, landed on January 3, 2004 (ET) almost exactly at its intended landing site in Gusev Crater in excellent condition. Spitzer's sensitive infrared (IR) detectors have found 10,000 Earth masses worth of dust in the blown-out remains of the well-known supernova remnant Cassiopeia A. The Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) camera on New Horizons should have been able to spot moons down to a diameter of about 1 kilometer. A new test stand for rocket engines is being built at NASA's Stennis Space Center (SSC) in Mississippi. Ultraviolet (UV) images included "sizzling young starlets" of the galaxy as wisps of bluish-white swirling around a central golden glow, representing a "senior citizen" population of smoldering stars. Neutrinos made up a much larger part of the early universe than they do today. The spacecraft successfully entered orbit around Saturn on June 30, 2004. Atlantis, on its 28th mission, lifted off on June 8 at 7:38pm EDT on Mission ISS-13A, carrying the crew of Commander Rick Sturckow, Pilot Lee Archambault, Mission Specialists Jim Reilly, Patrick Forrester, Steven Swanson, John Danny Olivas, and FE Clay Anderson who replaced ISS Expedition 14/15 FE Sunita Williams. Both spacecraft are expected to continue to operate and send back valuable data until at least the year 2020. By 6/15, Yurchikhin and Kotov got two of three lanes in both computers running after bepassing, with external cabling, what appeared to be a faulty power switch, and on 6/18, the Russian partners were able to demonstrate the stations ability to maintain attitude control, enabling the shuttles departure. Searching for January 4 on the NASA Hubble birthday site reveals an incredible image of Saturn taken in infrared by Hubble in 1998, which would have been Newton's 355th birthday. The spacecraft successfully entered orbit around Saturn on June 30, 2004. The smaller galaxy apparently has swung into the path of this jet. Aura (Latin for breeze), launched from Vandenberg AFB on July 15, 2004, on a Delta-2 rocket, is NASAs third major Earth Observing System (EOS) platform, joining its sister satellites Terra and Aqua, to provide global data on the state of the atmosphere, land, and oceans, as well as their interactions with solar radiation and each other. This star cluster has been given the designation of NGC 346. NASA.gov brings you the latest images, videos and news from America's space agency. 16. It is the oldest light in the Universe, having traveled across the cosmos for 14 billion years, and the patterns in this light across the sky encode a wealth of details about the history, shape, content, and ultimate fate of the Universe. On June 15, 2007, NASA Headquarters released a report compiling the results of the 2007 Earth Science Senior Review held April 25-27, to evaluate 11 ongoing NASA Earth observing satellite missionsACRIMSAT; Aqua; CloudSat; Earth Observing-1 (EO-1); Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE); Ice, Clouds, and land Elevation . On this day, Saturn interceded between the Sun and Cassini, shielding Cassini from the Sun's glare. 2017-08-17: Moon: Terra: MISR: 600x675x1: PIA21876: 3/5 The Moon also appeared full on January 7. NASA's Swift satellite, launched on November 20, 2004 aboard a Delta-2 rocket from Cape Canaveral, was designed and built with international participation (England, Italy) to solve the 35-year-old mystery of the origin of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). Both rovers have found metallic meteorites on Mars. RHESSI (Reuven Ramaty High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager, in honor of the late NASA scientist who pioneered the fields of solar-flare physics, gamma-ray astronomy and cosmic ray research), launched on February 5, 2002, in 2007continued its operation in Earth orbit, providing advanced images and spectra to explore the basic physics of particle acceleration and explosive energy release in solar flares. After its launch on May 20, 2005, on a Boeing Delta-2 expendable rocket, the NOAA-18 environmental satellite for NOAA in 2006 continued to operate in excellent condition, circling the Earth in a polar orbit of 870 km (544 s.mi.) It represents an important step in an evolving process toward a comprehensive global approach. Construction got under way at the U.S. Army's White Sands Missile Range (WSMR) in Las Cruces, N.M., where NASA will hold the Constellation Program's first flight tests in 2008. The rovers can communicate directly with Earth when Odyssey is unavailable for relay. Swift has become a key tool not only in studies of GRBs, but also in studying galaxies, quasars, supernova, novae, black holes and neutron stars in our Galaxy, along with active stars, and even comets. Adding to the mystery is that arcs were not . The Andromeda Galaxy is located nearly 2.5 million light-years away from Earth. CloudSat will complete its 22-month prime mission in 2008 (February 27), possibly to go into an extended mission phase. Global Exploration Strategy (GES): In May, fourteen space agencies interested in working together on space exploration, met in Italy at the 11th Century Abbey of Spineto near Sarteano (Siena), and signed the Global Exploration Strategy, to determine, on a voluntary basis for each member, how NASAs Vision for Space Exploration, mandated by President George W. Bush in January 2004, Europes Aurora program, and similar initiatives in Russia, China, India, Japan and elsewhere can be melded into a cohesive global effort. The Moon will set about 45 minutes later at 7:17 p.m. It is a fast-moving, older star called a red giant that sheds massive amounts of surface material. Comet McNaught from New STEREO Satellite. NOAA polar-orbiting satellites detect emergency beacon distress signals and relay their location to ground stations, so rescue can be dispatched. These data are giving researchers a more complete picture of the causes and effects of atmospheric pollution. A third major finding arising from the new WMAP data places tight constraints on the astonishing burst of growth in the first trillionth of a second of the universe, called inflation, when ripples in the very fabric of space may have been created. On a lighter note, we are considering a funraiser. Published Apr 12, 2017. Georgia, is seen on January 20, 2013, in this image from the International Space Station as it flew approximately 240 . Also in 2007, HST provided strong evidence that white dwarfs, the burned-out relics of stars, are given a "kick" when they form. Since then, the ISS has been occupied by astronauts carrying out multiple experiments. Since its launch the spacecraft has been very successful observing solar flares, which are capable of releasing as much energy as a billion one-megaton nuclear bombs. The 1,054-lbs (478 kg), piano-sized space probe was the eighth spacecraft to visit Jupiter but a combination of trajectory, timing and technology allowed it to explore details no probe had seen before, such as lightning near the planets poles, the life cycle of fresh ammonia clouds, boulder-size clumps speeding through the planets faint rings, the structure inside volcanic eruptions on its moon Io, and the path of charged particles traversing the previously unexplored length of the planets long magnetic tail. On August 23, Spirit maneuvered into position for driving up to the top of a rock platform called Home Plate, its long-term destination in a range of hills that were on the distant horizon from its landing site, and in September climbed onto this a plateau of layered volcanic bedrock bearing clues to an explosive mixture of lava and water. Grouped stars sometimes form patterns in the sky recognized by humans known as Constellations. During 2007, engineers dealt with some onboard problems, such as a software error between the MRO and one of its instruments, an event which on July 17 caused the spacecraft to turn off two of its science instruments--the MCS (Mars Climate Sounder) and CRISM (Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars). The newcomer SpaceX sustained the second failure of its new Falcon 1 rocket during ascent to orbit on March 21 for the USAF. During that span, three Chandra observations clearly show the neutron star moving away from the center of the Puppis A supernova remnant, a stellar debris field created during the same explosion in which the neutron star was created about 3700 years ago. After the two satellites switched position, a special data collection campaign for the inter-satellite separation between about 70 km and about 170 km got underway. As slight as that might seem, over the course of the mission the total change in velocity from ion propulsion will be comparable to the push provided by the Delta-2 rocket that carried it into space - all nine solid-fuel boosters, plus the Delta's first, second and third stages. In October, the New Horizons spacecraft found hints that Jupiter's tiniest moons have been obliterated. 08/01/2023. & Michigan Tech. The overall goal of the baseline mission is to determine why PMCs form and why they change. GRACE provides scientists from all over the world with an efficient and cost-effective way to chart the Earth's gravity fields with unprecedented accuracy, yielding crucial information about the distribution and flow of mass within the Earth and its surroundings. and Heliospheric Investigation, NASA Web NASA Official: Phillip Newman But it saw nothing smaller than Adrastea, a 16-kilometer-wide resident of Jupiter's faint ring system. This "death star galaxy" was discovered through the combined efforts of both space and ground-based telescopes, including Hubble. These two icons of the Asteroid Belt have been witness to much of our solar system's history. The framework also allows individual nations to share their strategies and efforts so all can achieve their exploration goals more effectively. By combining data from Chandra and the Gemini telescope on Mauna Kea, Hawaii, the mass of the black hole, known as M33 X-7, was determined to be 15.7 times that of the Sun. NASA's MESSENGER (Mercury Surface, Space Environment, Geochemistry, and Ranging), launched on August 3, 2004, aboard a Delta-2 rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, is scheduled to become the first spacecraft to orbit the planet Mercury, beginning in 2011. Earth in 2022 was about 1.11C (2F) warmer than the late 19th century average. Science Data are downlinked using an X-band transmitter system which is part of the payload. The work, done at KSC, included addition of a glass cockpit, a Global Positioning System (GPS) for landing and the Station-to-Shuttle Power Transfer System (SSPTS) which allows the Orbiter to draw power from the space station, enabling an extended stay for the mission,- 14 days in this case. Comet McNaught is now reportedly so bright that it is visible 16 FE Clay Anderson to install the S5 truss segment and other outboard equipment. By revealing the CMEs 3D structure, the STEREO satellite pair is a key addition to the fleet of space weather satellites, providing more accurate alerts for the arrival time of Earth-directed solar ejections with its unique side-viewing perspective. Spirit (MER-A) & Opportunity (MER-B). NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day 17 January 2023: Andromeda Galaxy is simply riveting. Two funded agreements were furthermore signed with SpaceX (Space Exploration Technologies) and Rocketplane Kistler (RPK) for demonstrations under the COTS competition. Atmosphere Land Human Presence Remote Sensing By end-2007, USAF could point to a continued succession of more than 54 successful launches of operational satellites. Get the latest updates on NASA missions, watch NASA TV live, and learn about our quest to reveal the unknown and benefit all humankind. The ACE spacecraft remains healthy, and a fuel use strategy has been implemented that will allow continued operations through the year 2022. Discovery docked on 10/25 at 8:40am EDT, smoothly flown by Pam Melroy & George Zambo Zamka. Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)/NASA joint mission GOES-N which was launched aboard a Delta 4 rocket from CCAFS, Florida, on May 24, 2006 into geosynchronous orbit of approximately 22,300 miles, continues to be available in its current on-orbit storage mode from where it will be able to more rapidly replace a failure of any existing operational GOES (Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites) such as GOES-12 at GOES-EAST or GOES-11 at GOES-WEST, circa 2010. Opportunity, NASAs second Mars explorer and twin to Spirit, launched on July 7, 2003 (ET), also on a Delta-2/Heavy after a cliffhanger countdown, touched down on January 25, 2004, right on target on Meridiani Planum, halfway around the planet from the Gusev Crater site of its twin, also in excellent condition. To track the mysterious GRBs, Swift carries a suite of three main instruments: the Burst Alert Telescope (BAT), the X-Ray Telescope (XRT) and the UltraViolet/Optical Telescope (UVOT). Its differential radiometers measure, with unprecedented accuracy, the temperature fluctuations of the cosmic microwave background radiation (CMBR). The comet - formally . Dawn's science instrument suite will measure elemental and mineral composition, shape, surface topography, and tectonic history, and will also seek water-bearing minerals. STEREO (Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory) is the third mission in NASA's Solar Terrestrial Probes program (STP). Because Voyager 2 crossed the heliosheath boundary, called the solar wind termination shock, about 16 billion kilometers (10 billion miles) away from Voyager 1 and almost 1.6 billion kilometers (one billion miles) closer to the Sun, it confirmed that our solar system is squashed or dented that the bubble carved into interstellar space by the solar wind is not perfectly round. What happened on January 17, 2007. 2022 Tied for Fifth Warmest Year on Record. NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day is a riveting snapshot of the Andromeda Galaxy and the oxygen-emitting blue arcs that surround it. At the time of this posting, the cause of the fires was not known. The brightest comet of recent decades was a surprising first sight for a new camera in space. Voyager 1 is at the outer edge of our solar system, in an area called the heliosheath, the zone where the sun's influence wanes. Scientists had suspected that exploding stars, or supernovae, were the primary source, but nobody had been able to demonstrate that they can create copious amounts of dust -- until now. At maximum thrust, each engine produces a total of 91 millinewtons -- about the amount of force involved in holding a single piece of notebook paper in your hand. 15 and FE Sunita Suni Williams swapped places to join the Atlantis crew. 1980 - FLTSATCOM 3 launch. Discovery landed on 11/7 (1:01pm) on Runway 33 at KSC, returning Clay Anderson after 152 days in space and over 18 EVA hours in 3 spacewalks. All major contracts for the Ares I rocket were awarded in 2007. Because massive stars are thought to gather at a globular cluster's core, astronomers assumed that most newly minted white dwarfs dwelled near the center.

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