We’ve seen Google launching their Nexus S phone into space with balloons before and here’s another cool fact that Nexus S was used for brains for robots at NASA. Apparently, NASA scientists say that Android is easier to use and easily implemented into their space testing programs due to its open-source nature.
This is quite true, Android is becoming more than just a phone or tablet, it can be used for many embedded projects.
How does a hurricane look like from space? Find out as Space Station has captured the latest hurricane Irene viewed from the orbit:
The STS-134 / ULF6 – AMS is scheduled to launch on May 16, 2011 at 8:56 AM Eastern by NASA.
What is this mission’s mission?
The AMS-02 experiment is a state-of-the-art particle physics detector being constructed, tested and operated by an international team composed of 56 institutes from 16 countries and organized under United States Department of Energy (DOE) sponsorship. The JSC project office oversees and directs
This is a great video that shows just how cool the USS Enterprise would look in flight if it actually ever was built! this amazing video shows how the ship turns and moves, with no sign of any propulsion.
It is just a pity that it is so obviously a swimming pool!
When the NASA space shuttle Discovery touched the other day, it was the for the last time and to be honest even for me it was a sad occasion, but staff at the Kennedy Space Center had other ideas.
This is a cool way to see off the Space Shuttle, but there two flight left, so whats next? Source [Geeks are Sexy]
http://www.geeksaresexy.net/2011/03/21/nasa-tribute-to-the-space-shuttle-program-video/
These are great magnetic levitating globes of the Moon and Mars, they have been careful reproduced using actual NASA and ESA images, so you are actually looking at the surface and to top them off there is a model of the Voyager 1 on the Moon model and the Mars Express with the Mars model. See them in more detail on this
How do you get a house to move, lorry, rails or what a few balloons! Would that do the trick, well it actually seems that it would, check out these images.
This is the work of some skilful engineers and scientists, who have teamed up with a couple of pro balloon pilots for a documentary being made by the National Geographic Channel.
It may appear to be a little extreme, but you can have the chance to buy a classic satellite, with one careful owner the former Soviet Union. It is in fact a real piece of space travel history, the Vostok 3KA-2 capsule, which was test launched just three weeks before cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human in space on the 12th April 1961 in the Vostok 3KA-3, although this was renamed Vostok 1.
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Anyone interested on astronomy would love to get their hands on this desktop digital telescope as it not only comes with the ability to scan the skies it can display the results on the screen of a computer so that a group can enjoy the night sky and of course any discoveries can be recorded for later examination. Currently this desk top astronomy kit is being offered with $60 off!
These are the features and fu
An eclipse is a magical event, whether it is solar or lunar the effects that these events can have on people and wildlife is astonishing. So take a close look at this image of the sun as the moon moves across its surface in the most recent solar eclipse.
Is that really a Tie Fighter caught on camera!
The image was taken by Thierry Legault an experienced astrophotographer, who assures us that it is in fact, the Interna
