Sacramento Man's House Hit By Meteorite
There's a lot of anticipation worldwide about a NASA satellite that is falling toward Earth, but a Sacramento man already had an experience with falling matters from space.
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There's a lot of anticipation worldwide about a NASA satellite that is falling toward Earth, but a Sacramento man already had an experience with falling matters from space.
NASA Administrator Charles Bolden and several members of Congress on Wednesday unveiled the Obama administration's much-delayed general plans for its rocket design, called the Space Launch System. The multibillion-dollar program would carry astronauts in a capsule on top, and the first mission would be 10 years off if all goes as planned. Unmanned test launches are expected from Cape Canaveral, Fla., in six years.
NASA says one of its dead satellites will soon fall to Earth but there's very little chance that it will hit someone.
Cameras set up at a Lodi-area vineyard are tracking the night sky. The cameras are placed in wine country because of clear skies and one local winery owner's personal connection.
A rocket carrying an Earth-observing satellite launched early Friday on a mission to measure the saltiness of the ocean from space.
The launch of a rocket carrying an ocean science satellite has been postponed until Friday.
Spirit, the scrappy robot geologist that captivated the world with its antics on Mars before getting stuck in a sand trap, is about to meet its end after six productive years.
NASA says the California Science Center in Los Angeles will become the home of the space shuttle Endeavour when the shuttle program concludes.
A NASA spacecraft zipped past a comet half the size of Manhattan in a Valentine's Day rendezvous that scientists hope will shed light on these icy solar system bodies.
An orbiting NASA telescope is finding whole new worlds of possibilities in the search for alien life, including more than 50 potential planets that appear to be in the habitable zone.
NASA's long-running Voyager 1 spacecraft is barreling its way toward the edge of the solar system.
Lately, a handful of new discoveries make it seem more likely that we are not alone -- that there is life somewhere else in the universe.
