NASA Celebrates the 40th Anniversary of Skylab
NASA will commemorate the 40th anniversary of America's first space station Monday, May 13, with a televised roundtable discussion featuring Skylab astronauts, a current astronaut and agency managers planning future space missions.
The discussion, open to NASA employees and the public, will begin at 2:30 p.m. EDT in the James Webb Auditorium of NASA Headquarters at 300 E St. SW in Washington. The event will air live on NASA Television and the agency's website.
ISS Crew Observes Minor Ammonia Leak
On Thursday, the Expedition 35 crew reported seeing small white flakes of ammonia floating away from an area of the International Space Station’s P6 truss structure.
Plans are being developed to maintain full operation of systems normally controlled by the solar array that is cooled by the affected power loop. The station continues to operate normally otherwise, and the crew is in no danger.
New Public Application of Landsat Images Released
Google released more than a quarter-century of images of Earth taken from space Thursday compiled into an interactive time-lapse experience. Working with data from the Landsat Program managed by the U.S. Geological Survey, the images display an historical perspective on changes to Earth's surface over time.
NASA Invites Public to Sally Ride Tribute Event
The celebration will take place on Monday, May 20, 2013 at the Kennedy Center in Washington. The event will highlight Dr. Ride’s contributions and her legacies and include the talents of Patti Austin, Damian Kulash of the band OK Go, Twyla Tharp, Maria Shriver and Billie Jean King.
Youth talent will include the Maryland Classic Youth Orchestra, Centreville High School Choral Union from Virginia and dancers from the University of North Carolina School for the Arts.
Sifting Through the Atmospheres of Distant Planets
Currently, there are more than 800 confirmed exoplanets -- planets that orbit stars beyond our sun -- and more than 2,700 other candidates. Researchers are using infrared pictures, taken by ground-based telescopes equipped with spectrographs, to probe these planets' makeup.
Project 1640, partly funded by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, recently found precise composition information about four exoplanets using the Palomar Observatory near San Diego.
