The U.S. space agency completed a day-long readiness review of the space shuttle Atlantis and set July 8 as the targeted launch date for its final flight. It is a historic last mission of the 30-year-old shuttle program. The space shuttle Atlantis is...
WASHINGTON, May 4 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) announced Wednesday that its Gravity Probe B (GP-B) mission has confirmed two key predictions（预测预言 ） derived from Albert Einstein's general theory...
LOS ANGELES, April 8 (Xinhua) -- NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) has discovered a rare asteroid that traces out a horseshoe shape relative to Earth, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) said on Friday. Unlike most near-Earth asteroid...
The U.S. space agency NASAs Messenger probe（正直的，廉洁的 ） is scheduled to reach Mercury later this week, and become the first spacecraft to orbit the planet closest to the sun. During Messengers year-long orbital mission, scientists exp...
NASA, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration was established on July 29th, 1958. It was responsible for the USAs space exploration programme. NASA has changed the way we live here on Earth, and the way we look at the universe. President Dw...
美国宇航局正在筹划一个名为百年星航的项目，计划在时机成熟时将载人航天器发送至火星，并让宇航员在那里定居，最终将火星拓展为人类的另一个领地。据悉，美国宇航局埃姆斯研究中心...
诸多线索综合起来为我们描绘出一幅画面：那是火星遥远的过去，那时的火星还有着一层厚厚的大气层，令这颗星球温热暖和，从而使水能够在火星表面流淌。但如今，地表的水消失不见，而...
NASA Scanner Offers Clues To Whale Hearing Researchers at UC San Diego and San Diego State University have imaged whale skulls in an attempt to determine the effects of sonar on whale hearing. Cynthia Graber reports It really is rocket scienceresearc...
NASA officials say images taken of the space shuttle Discovery's launch on Tuesday show a small piece of foam insulation may have struck the orbiter's wing. A similar wing hit during the launch of the Columbia in February 2003 caused the disaster whe...
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