Archive for September 1st, 2010
Fly your experiment to the edge of space!
ESA is inviting students to propose experiments to fly on sounding rockets and stratospheric balloons. The winning teams will have the opportunity to design and build an experiment for the BEXUS balloons or the REXUS rockets.
Three Storms
The current Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite GOES-13 captured this image of Hurricane Danielle heading for the north Atlantic (top center), Hurricane Earl with a visible eye hitting the Leeward Islands (left bottom) and a developing tropical depression 8 (lower right) at 1:45 p.m. EDT on Aug. 30. Image Credit: NASA/NOAA GOES Project 
Astronauts Linda Godwin and Scott Altman Leave NASA
NASA astronauts Linda Godwin and Scott Altman have announced plans to leave the agency.