NASA Television To Broadcast Arrival Of Space Station Cargo Ship
The residents of the International Space Station will receive a new shipment of food, fuel and supplies on Saturday, May 1, and NASA Television will broadcast the arrival live.NASA Ames Center Director Receives Arthur C. Clarke Award
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has passed its most significant mission milestone to date, the Mission Critical Design Review.Building Planets
This artist’s animation illustrates a massive asteroid belt in orbit around a star the same age and size as our Sun. Asteroids are chunks of rock from “failed” planets, which never managed to coalesce into full-sized planets. Asteroid belts can be...Students Apply Science and Imagination In NASA Tilt-Rotor Design Contest
Some helicopters of the future will look very different from today’s, at least as imagined by high school students for a NASA aeronautics competition.NASA Schedules News Conference about Next Space Shuttle Launch
NASA managers will hold a news conference on Wednesday, May 5, at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida to discuss the status of the next space shuttle launch.‘Avatar’ renews interest in extra-solar habitats
Source: USA Today Pandora, for the ancient Greeks, was a problem, popping open a pithos vase filled with all the ills of mankind. But thanks to the movie Avatar, Pandora offers a solution to one problem — what to call any hypothetically habitable moons orbiting one of...Long Lost Soviet Rover Found on the Moon
Source: National Geographic, Breaking Orbit blog It might not be in the stars for humans to return to the moon anytime soon. But NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, launched last year in part to scout locations for a moon base, is proving that there’s...NASA expands lab role of International Space Station
Source: Network World, Layer 8 NASA is looking for a few good experiments to run in space. The space agency this week said it was seeking research ideas from private entities to want to do research on board the International Space Station. NASA said it was looking to...Twins in space! Two NASA brothers could meet on the ISS
Source: The Orlando Sentinel Now that NASA has had to push the planned launch date for space shuttle Endeavour on STS-134 to no earlier than November, an interesting phenomenon could take place. The commander of STS-134 is Mark Kelly, pictured left. Mark Kelly’s...Space Talk
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