Video Tour of Asteroid Vesta! Dawn Spacecraft Unveils Surprises

NASA’s Dawn spacecraft is circling asteroid Vesta – a world that’s an eye-full of oddness. A video has been created to show the rocky world with enormous craters and mountains. The spacecraft is carrying a German camera system on board, has been orbiting the asteroid...

CSExtra – Friday, September 16, 2011

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Partners Forge Plan That Prevents Temporary De-staffing of the International Space Station

  Human operations aboard the International Space Station will continue uninterrupted under a new Russian Soyuz launch strategy announced Thursday, following a meeting of the NASA-led Space Station Control Board. The station’s 15-nation partnership faced...

NASA Unveils Plans for Super Rocket to Launch Explorers on Deep Space Missions

  NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, flanked by a bi-partisan gathering of Washington lawmakers, unveiled the agency’s heavy lift rocket strategy on Wednesday, a monstrous spacecraft that will eventually eclipse the legendary Saturn V and propel future...