Rina Forces Early End to NASA Asteroid Analog Mission
The NASA Extreme Environment Mission Operations undersea asteroid analog mission off Key Largo,Fla., came to an early end on Wednesday. The six NEEMO crew members surfaced after forecasters predicted Hurricane Rina, a late season tropical storm in the western...NASA-led Undersea Asteroid Analog Mission Underway off Key Largo
Anchored 60 feet below the Atlantic Ocean just off Key Largo,Fla., the Aquarius undersea habitat is serving as a outpost for an international astronaut crew, one of the world’s foremost experts on Martian geology and a NASA support team focused on the...Wow! View of Asteroid Vesta’s South Polar Region
The NASA Dawn mission to asteroid Vesta has provided a new perspective of the asteroid that shows the topography, but removes the overall curvature of the space rock. The peak of Vesta’s south pole mountain as seen in the center of the image, rises about 13 miles (22...New Findings! NASA’s Dawn Spacecraft Surveys Asteroid Vesta
NASA’s Dawn mission has been orbiting asteroid Vesta since mid-July – and scientists are overjoyed with what they are seeing! For instance, the southern hemisphere of the asteroid boasts one of the largest mountains in the Solar System. Other results show that Vesta’s...NASA’s WISE Mission Addresses Dinosaur Extinction
Scientists involved in NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE , mission may have cleared a suspect in what is perhaps one of the Earth’s greatest mysteries. What was the source of the giant asteroid that smacked into the Earth 65...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...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...Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle: Progress on First Space-Bound Craft
Construction is underway on the first space-bound Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle. Engineers at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans have started welding together the craft. The first welds were completed last week using an innovative new friction...Imaging Asteroid Vesta: NASA’s On Duty Dawn Spacecraft
NASA’s Dawn spacecraft has been in orbit around asteroid Vesta since July 16th – relaying back to Earth intriguing imagery of the giant space rock. A German camera system on board is being used to acquire images of the asteroid’s surface. These images show craters,...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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