Space Exploration News

Posted November 16, 1998:

• Comet Catcher -- Stardust Spacecraft Arrives At Kennedy Space Center For Launch Preparations

Posted November 14, 1998:

• Proposed Visits to Martian Moons and Mercury -- Two Hopkins-Managed Missions Selected As NASA Discovery Program Candidates

Posted November 13, 1998:

• Astrophysicists Use Virtual Reality To Chase Earth's Tail

Posted November 12, 1998:

• ACE Spacecraft Braces For Fierce Meteor Storm

Posted November 11, 1998:

• Leonid Meteor Storm Won't Deter Hubble From Space Observations
• NASA Technology Helps Smithsonian Preserve The Star-Spangled Banner

Posted November 10, 1998:

• NCAR Flies Research Aircraft Below Once-In-A-Century Meteor Storm

Posted November 9, 1998:

• UF Joins NASA's Virtual Astrobiology Institute To Look For Life On Mars
• Astronomers In Arizona Aim For Shortest Submillimeter Wavelengths
• Research Aircraft Fly Below Once-In-A-Century Leonid Meteor Storm
• Air-Breathing Rocket Engine Tests Successfully Completed

Posted November 6, 1998:

• The Hitchhiker In Discovery's Baggage Compartment -- USC Experiment Studies Ultraviolet Solar Radiation
• Automated Rendezvous & Docking Component Completes Successful Test Aboard STS-95

Posted November 5, 1998:

• Radar-Processing Algorithm Produces High-Resolution Lunar Images

Posted October 31, 1998:

• NASA Studies Balance In Two Woods Hole Toadfish, A Senator, And Five Astronauts In Shuttle Mission

Posted October 29, 1998:

• New Mars Images Show Lava Flow Plates And Active Dunes

Posted October 28, 1998:

• Astronauts Glenn, Mukai, To Be Aided By MIT Scientific "Assistant" On Shuttle Experiment

Posted October 26, 1998:

• Deep Space 1 -- NASA's Ion-Engine Spacecraft -- Successfully Launched

Posted October 23, 1998:

• University Of Arizona Scientists Are First To Discover Debris Disk Around Star Orbited By Planet
• Glenn To Perform Purdue Soybean Experiment In Space

Posted October 22, 1998:

• Jupiter's Moon Callisto May Hide Salty Ocean
• Astronomers Unveil Colorful Hubble Photo Gallery

Posted October 21, 1998:

• Hopkins Sacrifices Telescope, Safeguards Sky-Mapping Project
• Deep Space 1 -- Futuristic Space Probe Powered By A Solar-Electric Propulsion System

Posted October 20, 1998:

• Sunspot Cycle Closely Following Prediction -- Maximum Expected In The Year 2000

Posted October 16, 1998:

• John Glenn's Return To Space -- Launch Of History-Making Shuttle Flight Set
• SOHO Is Nearly Back In Business

Posted October 15, 1998:

• Jupiter's "White Ovals" Take Scientists By Storm
• Glenn To Conduct Texas A&M Research On Shuttle

Posted October 14, 1998:

• Hubble Provides A Moving Look At Neptune's Stormy Disposition

Posted October 13, 1998:

• Mars Global Surveyor Captures Detailed Views Of Olympus Mons, Kasei Vallis River Channel
• Discovery Of The First X-Ray Emitting Brown Dwarf
• Perfume In Space: Project May Give Space Travel A Whole New Fragrance

Posted October 12, 1998:

• Space Might Enhance Gene Transfer In Plants
• Hubble Web Simulcast Takes Listeners On Tour Of The Universe

Posted October 9, 1998:

• Hubble Goes To The Limit In Search Of Farthest Galaxies

Posted October 6, 1998:

• Meteor Threat To Spacecraft Elevated But Not Serious, NASA And Defense Experts Say

Posted October 5, 1998:

• Mars Polar Lander Arrives At Kennedy Space Center

Posted October 1, 1998:

• UW Prepares For First Graduate Program In Astrobiology To Train Those Who Will Hunt For Life In Outer Space

Posted September 30, 1998:

• Tremendous Gamma-Ray Flare Blasts Earth
• More Durable, Less Expensive Space Electronics Focus Of Engineering Research

Posted September 29, 1998:

• Three Spacecraft Reveal Unexplained Motion

Posted September 28, 1998:

• Levitated Locomotion To Space
• Solar Flare Causes Intense Space Storm

Posted September 26, 1998:

• Cosmic Flasher Reveals All

Posted September 25, 1998:

• Two More Planets Discovered Beyond Our Solar System

Posted September 24, 1998:

• Arecibo Observatory Survives Hurricane Georges' Sweep Across Puerto Rico

Posted September 19, 1998:

• Engineers Successfully Regain Control Of SOHO Spacecraft

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