On May 14, 2010 Atlantis lifted off into space for its final voyage.
Atlantis Space Shuttle got delay but will be launched at 2 PM today on Friday, May 14, 2010. The space shuttle Atlantis blasted off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Friday.
This space shuttle will replace the space shuttle Challenger. The average cost to launch a space shuttle is about $450 million.
The six astronauts in the Florida will launch Shuttle Atlantis including Ken Ham, who is the Commander,STS-132 pilot Dominic “Tony” Antonelli and Mission specialists Steven Bowen, Garrett Reisman, Michael Good and Piers Seller
“Early Friday the shuttle’s external tank was filled with over 500,000 gallons (two million liters) of liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen in an operation lasting some two hours” as eer NASA officials.
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Meteor shower 2010
A meteor shower is a celestial event in which a number of meteors are observed to radiate from one point in the night sky. Most of us would be asking same questions – how to watch Metor shower 2010 and where to watch Metor shower 2010? You can watch Meteor Shower 2010 live without telescopes or experience. NASA will soon publish meteor shower 2010 photos, pictures and videos for those who have missed it. August 2010 is part of a renaissance for meteor science in the US after nearly two decades of neglect.
Here are Meteor Shower 2010 schedule and timings. Perseid Meteor Shower 2010 begins tonight from 10 p.m. tonight to 3 a.m. on Friday. You must see it be between 12:01 AM and dawn on August 12th. Another time is in between August 12th 18:00 Universal Time and August 13th 07:00 Universal Time.
What is meteor shower? Most meteors are smaller than a grain of sand, so almost all of them disintegrate and never hit the Earth’s surface. The August Perseids are among the strongest of the readily observed annual meteor showers, and at maximum activity nominally yields 90 to 100 meteors per hour
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