Next Best Thing To Being There, If You Could See It
Well, this might have made that investment in your 60 inch HD
LCD television and home theater all worthwhile, if NASA select was
available in HD. NASA Television broadcast a high-definition tour
of the International Space Station recorded by the Expedition 20
crew Wednesday, morning.
One of the more stirring presentations at the International
Space Development Conference was the updated briefing on the Virgin
Galactic commercial space program. Virgin Galactic is a company
owned and established by Richard Branson's Virgin Group to
undertake the challenge of making private space travel available to
everyone and by creating the world's first commercial
spaceline.
The Spacecraft Will Eventually Crash Into The Moon
The Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS)
successfully completed a critical swing-by maneuver of the moon at
5:20 a.m. PDT on June 23. This maneuver puts LCROSS, built under
contract to NASA Ames Research Center, on a trajectory to complete
its mission to search for water ice on moon in early October.
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