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Asteroid will pass close to Earth
By Jesse Pagan on February 7th, 2013 | Last updated: February 9, 2013 at 1:54 pm
An asteroid will pass close to Earth on Feb. 15, but won’t be close enough to impact. It will come closer than some weather satellites orbit.
10 years after the Columbia shuttle disaster, a reporter remembers
By Chip Skambis on February 1st, 2013 | Last updated: February 5, 2013 at 2:38 pm
Ten years after the Columbia space shuttle crumbled to the surface of the Earth, many people still remember the day of the tragedy. One reporter reminisces on his experience at the Florida space station that was expecting the shuttle’s landing.
NASA releases Van Allen belt chorus wave sound recordings
By Chip Skambis on December 4th, 2012 | Last updated: December 5, 2012 at 3:18 pm
NASA’s Electric and Magnetic Field Instrument Suite and Integrated Science team has released interesting recordings from the Van Allen belt, a layer of protection around Earth that keeps out radiation. You can hear the sounds here.
Space station power issue calls for spacewalk
By Chip Skambis on September 5th, 2012 | Last updated: March 28, 2013 at 1:45 pm
Two astronauts will embark on a spacewalk today after a previously unsuccessful mission to repair a power issue.
Are space settlements in our future?
By Front Page Edition on August 23rd, 2012 | Last updated: September 20, 2012 at 1:31 pm
By Chip Skambis – WUFT-FM NASA has been undergoing quite a few changes recently. In the past few weeks, the agency awarded the Sierra Nevada Corporation, SpaceX and Boeing contracts to develop a craft to take astronauts into orbit in [...]
First privately funded rocket lifts off from Kennedy Space Center
By Front Page Edition on May 22nd, 2012 | Last updated: September 7, 2012 at 3:20 pm
By Lisa Greenberg – WUFT-FM Space-X’s Falcon 9 rocket carried the unmanned Dragon capsule into space today from Cape Canveral, Fla., marking the first time a private company has sent a spacecraft to the space station. The mission is considered the [...]
