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 After a successful launch on Sunday, Discovery went through some new challenges as it began its journey to the International Space Station. The launch went on without any incidents, and the first ground assessment said the space shuttle had no debris to worry about on its way to the ISS. However, just a few hours later, NASA TV reported...
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 NASA announced on Monday that they were determining what to do regarding the potential threat to the International Space Station presented by a piece of an old Soviet-era satellite spinning through space.According to recent developments, Mission Control assured the crew on the ISS that the debris would remain at a safe distance from the...
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 Making a full switch to renewable energy is not an easy task, yet there is one country that is willing to take on this challenge, and make it real within the next decade: the Maldives. According to its president, Mohamed Nasheed, the country will become world’s first carbon-neutral nation.The announcement came amid more warning from...
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 NASA has finally announced the successful launch of space shuttle Discovery on March 15, 2009, at 7:43 p.m. EDT, from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The announcement came after several delays over the past month, caused by technical issues with the spacecraft.“It was a true team effort at NASA,” NASA Associate Administrator for...
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 It looks like NASA is going to give Discovery another shot on Sunday, after the mission management team, in charge of reviewing the shuttle’s readiness, gave its OK. Shuttle weather officer Kathy Winters said there is an 80 percent chance of acceptable conditions on Sunday for the launch.NASA engineers have been working on repairs to the...
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 With repairs still underway on Friday night, the Discovery team is preparing for the Sunday launch, if that will indeed be possible. The final assessment on whether the mission will be able to take off on Sunday will be made during a meeting scheduled to take place on Saturday at 1 p.m., followed by a prelaunch news conference two hours...
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 Discovery missed another launch opportunity this week, after a leak associated with the gaseous hydrogen venting system forced NASA to postpone the mission. While there is still no confirmation on the next launch opportunity, the agency said it will take place no earlier than March 15.A briefing on Sunday’s probable launch is expected to...
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What would you say if your notebook battery would take
seconds to recharge instead of several hours? It would be wonderful, isn’t it?
Or instead to wait a couple of hours to recharge your cell phone, you would
wait only a couple of minutes? Pretty amazing, no?
And the best news is that the MIT engineers believe that it
will take...
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 The message of the approximately 2,000 scientists attending the meeting in Copenhagen on climate change is clear: we are facing the worst predictions ever, we are looking at the worst case scenario happening, and we are heading for irreversible changes.Years of assessments have revealed that the world is facing changes worse than...
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