Space News Archive - September 21, 2009

A Europe-wide education event today links ESA astronaut Frank De Winne on the International Space Station with hundreds of schoolchildren in several European cities.

The second of three images of ESO's GigaGalaxy Zoom project has just been released online.

NASA will host a media teleconference at 1 pm EDT on Wednesday, Sept 23, to preview the third and final flyby of Mercury by the Mercury Surface, Space Environment, Geochemistry, and Ranging spacecraft known as MESSENGER.

NASA scientists are marveling over the extent of ruffles and dust clouds revealed in the rings of Saturn during the planet's equinox last month. Scientists once thought the rings were almost completely flat, but new images reveal the heights of some newly discovered bumps in the rings are as high as the Rocky Mountains.

Real time space experiments controlled by Earth-bound researcher.

Using a colossal radio telescope in the Mojave Desert, school kids around the world are helping NASA track the LCROSS spacecraft as it heads for a crash landing on the Moon.

Space shuttle Discovery has returned home to Florida after a cross-country flight from California.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 21 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., has selected the Aerospace Corporation of El Segundo, Calif., for the Specialized Engineering Evaluation and Test Services contract.