Progress Ship Docks With ISS, Bringing Food, Supplies
It was propelled by a rocket instead of reindeer, but the
Progress cargo craft made things aboard the International Space
Station look a lot more like Christmas.
From NASA:
It's never been a question of "if" so much as "when." Now, we
may have an answer.
That's the word from NASA on the possibility that a large asteroid
could impact the Earth in a little more than four years. 2004 MN4
is now being tracked very carefully by many astronomers around the
world, and we continue to update our risk analysis for this
object.
The European Space Agency's Huygens probe successfully detached
from NASA's Cassini orbiter Saturday to begin a three-week journey
to Saturn’s moon Titan. NASA's Deep Space Network tracking
stations in Madrid, Spain and Goldstone, CA, received the signal at
1924 PST. All systems performed as expected and there were no
problems reported with the Cassini spacecraft.
New Radars Might Make It Possible Sooner Rather Than Later
A troika of new, highly advanced radars on and around Cape
Canaveral could mean fewer restrictions for future shuttle
launches. In fact, they could mean shuttles will be able to launch
at night, shortly after the shuttles' much-anticipated return to
flight.
XCOR Aerospace thanked and congratulated President Bush on
signing HR 5382, "The Commercial Space Launch Amendments Act of
2004," into law recently. This important bipartisan legislation
updates the Commercial Space Launch Act and puts commercial human
space flight on a clear legal foundation.
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