Mar 26 What We're Reading: Spotting Venus, Lunar-Like Sub Dive, and Hitchhiking in Duck Guts By Jenny Marder Cameron's Historic Dive Cut Short by Leak; Few Signs of Life Seen A hydraulic fuel leak cut filmmaker James Cameron's dive to the deepest part of the ocean short, but he still plunged to nearly seven miles underwater. Continue reading
May 19 Watch Mark Kelly Followed Wife Giffords' Latest Surgery From Space NASA's space shuttle Endeavour launched Monday on a 16-day mission to the International Space Station. Science correspondent Miles O'Brien posed crowdsourced questions to the commander and crew early Thursday in a collaboration with Google and YouTube. Here is an excerpt. Continue watching
May 19 Watch You Talk to Endeavour: Shuttle Crew on Giffords, Tile Damage, Trips to Mars Google, YouTube and the PBS NewsHour took you aboard space shuttle Endeavour and the International Space Station for a live interview with Commander Mark Kelly and crew. Watch the full interview here. Continue watching
Feb 12 More Satellite Collisions Could Occur, Experts Say By PBS News Hour As space officials continued to track the debris fields created by Tuesday's collision of two satellites, experts warned that more crashes will inevitably occur in the increasingly crowded orbits above Earth. Continue reading
Jun 19 Shuttle Undocks from Space Station After Construction, Computer Glitch By PBS News Hour The space shuttle Atlantis moved away from the International Space Station Tuesday after a nearly 10-day stay during which astronauts installed a truss and pair of solar arrays, and experienced a temporary computer meltdown. Continue reading
Sep 11 Shuttle Atlantis Docks with Space Station to Attach Solar Panels By PBS News Hour The space shuttle Atlantis docked with the International Space Station Monday in preparation for attaching a 45-foot truss with new solar arrays to the orbiting research facility. Continue reading