U. S., European High School Students Win Space Station Robotics Competition
U. S.and European high school student teams prevailed in a competition this week aboard the International Space Station involving a trio of colorful robotic spheres involved in the simulated exploration of an asteroid. In all, 36 teams competed in the third...NASA’s Orion Available for Public Viewing in Oklahoma, Texas and Alabama
A test version of NASA’s Orion/Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle will go on public display in the coming weeks as it is transported from White Sands, N. M., to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., The spacecraft that NASA has chosen to...Book Review: Fifty Years on the Space Frontier – Halo Orbits, Comets, Asteroids, and More
Fifty Years on the Space Frontier: Halo Orbits, Comets, Asteroids, and More by Robert W. Farquhar; Outskirts Press, Inc., Denver, Colorado; (hard cover); $32.36; 2011 There is renewed and growing interest in imaginative use of L-points in space – special spots in...Humans in Space: A Look Back at 2011, A Look Ahead at 2012
A year of milestones in human spaceflight, some tinged with nostalgia, is drawing to a close. The New Year opens with the U. S.and its global partners settled in Earth orbit, and a NASA strategy for the future human exploration of deep space starting to gel. In...MSL/Curiosity to Further Human Exploration
While the primary goal of NASA’s ambitious $2.5 billion Mars Science Laboratory mission is to assess the habitability of the Martian environment, U. S. space agency experts planning for the future human exploration of the Red Planet will be...NASA seeks more “Right Stuff”
NASA needs new astronauts, and the competition for up to 15 opening is underway. As of Friday, 400 people had applied for a chance to “fly NASA” as a future astronaut assigned to a tour of duty aboard the International Space Station or a mission...Spacecraft Video Shows Asteroid Flyby
NASA’s Swift Observatory caught space rock 2005 YU55 as it zoomed past Earth in the early morning hours of November 9th. The telescopes aboard the Swift spacecraft joined professional and amateur astronomers around the globe in monitoring the fast-moving Near Earth...Future NASA Rocket for Human Exploration Gives Stellar Performance
NASA’s muscular J-2X rocket roared to life for a 500 second, full duration ground test firing on Wednesday at NASA’s Stennis Space Center in Bay St. Louis, Miss. Derived from NASA’s legendary Saturn V Apollo-era moon rocket, the J-2X is...Check it out! Movie clip of Asteroid Flyby: The Size of an Aircraft Carrier
Here it comes! Scientists will be tracking an asteroid the size of an aircraft carrier as it flies by Earth today. Scientists working with NASA’s 230-foot-wide (70-meter) Deep Space Network antenna at Goldstone, Calif., have generated a short movie clip of asteroid...Space Talk
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#NASA estimates that a human mission to Mars could take months or years with current propulsion technologies. To accelerate this timeline, NASA and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) are exploring nuclear thermal propulsion.
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.@NASA_Langley is testing the Lightweight Surface Manipulation System AutoNomy capabilities Development for Surface Operations (LANDO), a robotic arm designed to lift payloads and place them on the #lunar surface.
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