Rocket Project Starting

A Russian Soyuz rocket with three astronauts — two Russians and one American — is set to lift off from Kazakhstan on Monday morning, ferrying the men to the International Space Station.

After a month on the station the astronauts will return to earth. The rocket had several flaws and a damaged cargo hold postponing the take of. To find out more about this article click here.

Space.....the Final Frontier!

This article is about the decision whether to keep the International Space station or not. Scientists have dicussed what is so important about the station and why the need to keep it.

I think that they should keep it because it is still useful for somethings. Maybe they could turn it into a tourist attraction or something.

Read this article for more information or click around on NASA's site .

Moon Crash Update

At 4:30 am last Friday, NASA launched a space craft, LCROSS, in search for water on the moon.

The spacecraft was going to be remotely controlled to crash on Cabeus, the target crater. After the crash occurs, a huge cloud of debris emerging from the dark crater into the sunlight, will be analyzed by detectors aboard LCROSS.

There are going to be three main parts of the rocket. The Centuar rocket, which is going to crash. The Shepherding spacecraft which steers the Centaur, and analyzes the plume, and the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, which maps the enviornment and pinpoints possible target craters for the crash. (You can watch the separation of the rocket here.)

Read Zack's poem, also posted on The Hillwood Herald this week.

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Moon Crash -- What It Means for Science

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Student Assignment: Zack O.
A pair of NASA spacecraft smashed into the moon at twice the speed of a bullet, as part of a mission aimed at blasting up signs of water ice.

Now, write a news story at least 10 sentences long explaining what happened and why.

• Watch and embed this video about the event (above)
• Read this blog post and embed images from this page (remember to source the site)
• Link to an animation of the spacecraft in flight

Remember to answer the five W's in doing this.

• Who
  
• What
  
• When
  
• Where
  
• Why
  

Include a link to the announcement and a related photo. Remember to include all source citations.

Photo credit: Wikipedia