STS-50 (U.S. Microgravity Laboratory 1) was a United States Space Shuttle mission, the 12th mission of the Columbia orbiter. Space Shuttle Columbia, STS-50, was successfully launched on 25 June 1992 Read more
STS-40, the eleventh launch of Space Shuttle Columbia, was a nine-day mission. It carried the Spacelab module for Spacelab Life Sciences 1 (SLS-1), the fifth Spacelab mission and the first dedicated solely to biology. Space Shuttle Columbia, STS-40, was successfully launched on 5 June 1991 [url...
Title: Evidence for a physically bound third component in HD 150136 Authors: L. Mahy, E. Gosset, H. Sana, Y. Damerdji, M. De Becker, G. Rauw, C. Nitschelm Context. HD150136 is one of the nearest systems harbouring an O3 star. Although this system was for a long time considered as binary, more recent i...
Project Iceworm was the code name for a top secret US Army program during the Cold War to build a network of mobile nuclear missile launch sites under the Greenland ice sheet. To test the feasibility of construction techniques a project site called "Camp Century" was started, located at a...
469/8BC - From when the stone fell in Aegospotami, and Simonides the poet died at the age of 90, 205 years, when Theagenides was archon in Athens. Source
Jane C. Charlton (born June 5, 1965) is a professor of astronomy and astrophysics at Pennsylvania State University where she is a specialist in galaxy formation and evolution. Read more
Australian lake untouched by climate change Researchers at the University of Adelaide have found that a lake on an island off the coast of Queensland has been relatively untouched by changes in climate for the past 7000 years, and has so far also resisted the impact of humans. Blue Lake, one of the lar...
1478 B.C. - According to the celebrated Parian chronicle, an aerolite, or thunder-stone, as it was called, fell in the island of Crete, about 1478 years before the Christian era. This is undoubtedly the most ancient stone-fall on record. Meteoric masses have been found, however, the fall of which p...
The 370 - 840 metre wide asteroid 2006 FJ9 will make a close pass (77.5 lunar distances, 0.1992 AU), travelling at 4.63 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 24th June, 2013 @ 22:40 UT ±00:01. See moreThe Lunar Distance (L...
The 740 - 1700 metre wide asteroid 2006 RO36 will make a close pass (70.9 lunar distances, 0.1823 AU), travelling at 12.76 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 18th June, 2013 @ 07:04 UT ±00:01. See moreThe Lunar Distanc...
The 430 - 970 metre wide asteroid 2000 BF19 will make a close pass (64.4 lunar distances, 0.1655 AU), travelling at 9.16 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 11th June, 2013 @ 12:28 UT ±00:01. See moreThe Lunar Distance (L...
The 200 - 450 metre wide asteroid 2002 DU3 will make a close pass (76.7 lunar distances, 0.1970 AU), travelling at 6.21 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 9th June, 2013 @ 08:01 UT ±00:01. See moreThe Lunar Distance (LD...
Title: Bokan Mountain peralkaline granitic complex, Alexander terrane (southeastern Alaska): evidence for Early Jurassic rifting prior to accretion with North America Authors: Jaroslav Dostal, Susan M. Karl, J. Duncan Keppie, Daniel J. Kontak, and J. Gregory Shellnutt The circular Bokan Mo...
STARSHINE-1 was launched June 5, 1999 from the Space Shuttle Discovery on STS-96. STARSHINE-1 was a spherical satellite that was fitted with almost nine hundred small mirrors polished by students from around the world. Once launched, a network of over 20,000 students from eighteen countries tra...
STS-78 was the fifth dedicated Life and Microgravity Spacelab mission for the Space Shuttle program, flown partly in preparation for the International Space Station project. Space Shuttle Columbia, STS-78, was successfully launched on 20 June 1992 [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-...
