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Weight: 1400-lb. Size: Like a double-wide refrigerator. The Early Ammonia Servicer (EAS), pictured above, was thrown overboard from the International Space Station on July 23, 2007, almost one year ago. At the time, the castaway was in a high orbit and barely visible from Earth's surface. N… Continue

Contrary to appearances, the landscape is not on fire. "This is just a cloudy sunset over open countryside in France," says Patrice Arnaudet, who took the picture on July 13th using a Canon 350D digital camera. "There was no fire." Blame the trickery on Rayleigh scatter… Continue

Even though school is out there is still one home work assignment for you over the summer. Participate in the Space Centre's Summer Astronomy Picture Contest ! Take a picture of the night sky, summer star gazing or the Moon at it's various stages and email it… Continue

NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander placed a sample of Martian soil in the spacecraft's wet chemistry laboratory today for the first time. Results from that instrument, part of Phoenix's Microscopy, Electrochemistry and Conductivity Analyzer, are expected to provide the first measur… Continue