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February 6th, 2008

02/05/08: STS-122: Atlantis Astronauts Expected to Launch on Thursday.

Mission Commander Steve Frick and Pilot Alan Poindexter started the day practicing landing the shuttle in the Shuttle Training Aircraft. The airplane is a Gulfstream business jet, outfitted to mimic a Space Shuttle’s flying characteristics. Although it takes a combination of modifications to the outside of the [...]

Filed under: Atlantis, Expedition 16, International Space Station, Progress, STS-122, Soyuz, Space Shuttle, air, astronauts, launch, pollution, space, weather | Comments Off

STS-118: Endeavour to Land Early Due to Hurricane Dean.

August 19th, 2007

08/18/07: STS-118: All EVA 4 Tasks Completed; Hatches Closed.

Mission Specialist Dave Williams and International Space Station Flight Engineer Clay Anderson left the station’s airlock at 13:17 UT (8:17 a.m CDT). By the time they returned at 18:19 UT (1:19 p.m. CDT), they’d completed all of the tasks scheduled for the replanned spacewalk, which was trimmed [...]

Filed under: Barbara Morgan, Endeavour, Hurricane Dean, ISS, International Space Station, Kennedy Space Center, NASA, STS-118, Space Shuttle, astronauts, space, spacecraft, weather | Comments Off

ESA: Link Between Cosmic Particles and Weather on Earth.

April 1st, 2007

03/30/07: ESA: Link Between Cosmic Particles and Weather on Earth.

Researchers at the Danish National Space Center in Copenhagen have established a link between the amount of cosmic particles coming from space and changes in our planet’s weather. – courtesy of European Space Agency.

Filed under: Climate, ESA, Earth, Sun, astronomy, space, spaceweather, weather | Comments Off

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