Private Firm Shoots for the Moon: Calls for Property Rights Regime
At a press conference today, representatives of NASA and Bigelow Aerospace discussed the options for commercial sector involvement in space exploration beyond low-Earth orbit. Under a NASA Space Act Agreement, Bigelow Aerospace of North Las Vegas, Nevada has scoped...Multi-national Space Station Crew Safe on Earth
U.S., European and Russian astronauts descended safely to Earth late Sunday, ending a 166 day mission to the International Space Station that drew to a close with a celebration of the 2014 Winter Games scheduled for Sochi, Russia. The Russian Soyuz spacecraft...Book Review – Mission: Mars – Get Ready for the Future of Space Exploration
Mission: Mars – Get Ready for the Future of Space Exploration by Pascal Lee; Scholastic Inc., New York; $6.99 (paperback); September 2013. Looking for a link to Mars for that special Christmas present? Here’s a book recommended for ages 9-12, but readers of all ages...“Crash Class” in Returning Samples from Space
A University of Washington (UW) class is crashing rockets into the ground…and on purpose. The student project is called “Sample Return Systems for Extreme Environments,” a novel technology that recently received $500,000 over two years from the NASA Innovative...International Space Station’s Top 10 Science Accomplishments
As though she was counting down a space mission launch, NASA International Space Station program scientist Julie Robinson has been running through her list of top 10 science achievements carried out aboard the six person orbiting science lab with a...NASA Powers Up Orion
Orion, the new NASA spacecraft under development to transport U. S. astronauts to an assortment of deep space destinations, including the asteroids, the moon and eventually Mars, has been powered up for the first time at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, where it is...Mars Express Video – Take a Journey Over the Red Planet
The European Space Agency’s (ESA) Mars Express spacecraft was launched in early June 2003. On arrival at the Red Planet six-and-a-half months later, it has since orbited the planet nearly 12,500 times. From that orbital perch above Mars, the spacecraft has provided...Hubble, Chandra, Spitzer Great Observatories to Join Forces
Three of NASA’s most capable space telescopes are joining forces for “Frontier Fields,” a three year campaign to study six of the most massive galaxy clusters in the universe. They will start with Abell 2744, also known as Pandora’s Cluster, a...Orbital Sciences Poised to Become 2nd Commercial Space Station Resupply Service
The Orbital Sciences Corps’ Cygnus re-supply capsule departed the International Space Station early Tuesday, lining up the Dulles, Va., based company to become the International Space Station’s second U. S. commercial re-supply service. SpaceX, of Hawthorne, Calif.,...Space Talk
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.@NASAWebb is providing new scientific insight into how stars and their protoplanetary disks form planets. The #JWST recently observed a system that just finished forming its planets.
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#NASA's latest class of #astronaut candidates has graduated and is now eligible for missions to the Moon, Mars, and the @Space_Station. The agency is also accepting applications for a new class of astronauts.
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