... She answers correctly, stating that when you launch a rocket east, you get an added ... to me that the original question asked why we launch rockets East instead of West ...
... Currently, NASA plans on launching the "Next Generation Space Telescope" sometime ... Other telescopes have also been launched: . ... SOHO was launched to look at the Sun, and recently found that the Sun has "rivers ...
... 2000 marks the tenth anniversary of the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope (HST ... the Space Shuttle Discovery lifted off the launch pad at Kennedy Space Center and ...
... After I posted this on Monday, the launch of the Lunar Prospector was delayed until ... Moon (actually, there have been a few probes launched since then by the Russians and ...
... any luck, the Space Shuttle Discovery will be launched at 3:56 a.m. Eastern Time ... On a personal note, I am going to be at the launch to wish it well. ... I get back I will scan in pictures from the launch and link them from my homepage ...
... We hear him scream as he's launched into orbit. Good: . Tsk tsk. ... When Dr. Evil's rocket launches, it is seen by people all over the Earth (including ... at the same time though: if his rocket launches from the North Pole, then anyone in ...
... If they knew about evidence of aliens on Mars, then why not just launch probes in secret? ... The military has lots of secret launches, for example. NASA need never have any Mars probes the public would find out about. ...
... Week of January 27, 1997 . Here's a fun one: how far has the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) traveled since launch? ... Since launch it has traveled about 1.8 billion kilometers, or farther than the distance of the Earth to Saturn! ...
... In April of 1998, NASA launched a satellite called Transition Region and Coronal Explorer, or TRACE, into Earth orbit aboard the new launch vehicle named Pegasus. ...
... I'd like to take a moment to clue folks in on one such mission, four years before the launch is scheduled. ... The Wide Field/Planetary Camera (WFPC) was on board HST when it launched in 1990, and was replaced with the WFPC2 in 1994. ...