Take a Look: Asteroid Flyby of Earth
Potentially hazardous asteroid Toutatis, an asteroid with an estimated diameter of over 3 miles (5.4 km), will make its close approach to Earth this week. Slooh Space Camera will cover its near-approach on Tuesday, December 11th, with several live shows on Slooh.com,...U. S., Russian Astronauts Selected for 1-year Space Station Mission
NASA Astronaut Scott Kelly and Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko will prepare for a one-year mission aboard the International Space Station, a move intended to help prepare human explorers for the physical and mental rigors of future deep space missions. The...Deflecting Asteroids: Smear Tactic!
An incoming asteroid with Earth’s name on it…what to do is a constant concern of Near Earth Object experts. How about a volley or two of space-launched paintballs? Sung Wook Paek, a graduate student in MIT’s Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, says if timed...Japanese Asteroid Mission: Sample Return and Hopper
MASCOT – the Mobile Asteroid Surface Scout – will be bound for asteroid JU 3 in 2014 courtesy of Japan’s Hayabusa-2 mission. Four years later, on arrival at the space rock, MASCOT will free-fall onto the asteroid’s surface, automatically orient itself, then “hop” from...House Republicans Back Space Leadership Preservation Act of 2012
The Space Leadership Preservation Act of 2012, legislation introduced in Washington on Thursday, would significanty change the way NASA is led and its programs managed in order to establish new stability and accountability, according to its six...Stable Funding Crucial to NASA’s Human, Robotic Exploration Plans
NASA and the agency’s prime contractors for the Space Launch System and Orion/Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle, the primary elements of the first U. S. human deep space exploration capability since the Apollo program and potential major new science initiatives,...
Get a View! Newly Discovered Hazardous Asteroid to Zip By Earth
As big as a 14-story building – that’s the size of a newly discovered space rock that is now labeled as a “potentially hazardous asteroid” – which means that it could collide with Earth in the distant future. Asteroid 2012 QG42 was discovered by the Catalina Sky...(101955) 1999 RQ36 Needs a Name, and Something Snappy
. It’s a planetary body known as a near-Earth asteroid. NASA is preparing to launch the Origins-Spectral Interpretation-Resource Identification-Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) mission to this solar system body in 2016, and as if OSIRIS-REx isn’t a...Stunning Video! Dawn – One Year at Asteroid Vesta
NASA’s Dawn spacecraft is on its way to Ceres, the largest asteroid to be explored. This asteroid probe is leaving behind a legacy of exploration – by circling asteroid Vesta since July 2011. But now the spacecraft has been gradually leaving its orbit around that...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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