Shoebox-Sized Gadget Can Sniff Out Harmful Chemicals
NASA astronauts on Space Shuttle Endeavour's STS-126 mission
will install an instrument on the International Space Station that
can "smell" dangerous chemicals in the air. Designed to help
protect crew members' health and safety, the experimental "ENose"
will monitor the space station's environment for chemicals such as
ammonia, mercury, methanol and formaldehyde.
Right on schedule, on Thursday a team
comprised of NASA, Lockheed Martin Corporation, Orbital Sciences
Corporation and Alliant Techsystems successfully performed a ground
firing test of the abort motor for the Orion crew exploration
vehicle Launch Abort System at ATK's Launch Systems facility in
Promontory, UT.
The crew of the International Space Station celebrated the
orbiting lab's 10th anniversary Thursday with a spacewalk by
astronauts Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper and Shane Kimbrough.
Finds 'Vast' Amounts Of Water Ice At Lower Latitudes Than
Before
NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has revealed vast Martian
glaciers of water ice under protective blankets of rocky debris at
much lower latitudes than any ice previously identified on the Red
Planet.
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