Mars Menu for Future Explorers – A Chow Down Challenge
Stuffing the food pantry for the first voyagers to strike out for Mars is no easy task. That’s the word from Maya Cooper, a senior research scientist at the NASA Johnson Space Center in the Space Food Systems Laboratory in Houston, Texas. Maya has reported that...Book Review: The Case for Mars – The Plan to Settle the Red Planet and Why We Must (Revised/Updated)
The Case for Mars – The Plan to Settle the Red Planet and Why We Must by Robert Zubrin with Richard Wagner; Free Press – an Imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc., New York, New York; $16.99 (paperback); 2011. This is a revised and updated issue of the seminal...NASA’s Pluto-bound New Horizons Probe: Healthy and On Course!
NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft – now en route to Pluto — remains healthy and on course. The probe is roughly 21 times as far from the Sun as the Earth is – well on its way, between the orbits of Uranus and Neptune. The craft was launched in January 2006. “From...China’s Experimental Space Laboratory: Tiangong I
China continues to press forward in its plans to loft an experimental space laboratory – and according to one space watcher, China’s Tiangong I may fly sooner than expected. According to Gregory Kulacki, a senior analyst and China Project manager at the Union of...Next Mars Rover to Land at Gale Crater
Official word from NASA this morning: The Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) — the huge Curiosity rover — will touch down at Gale crater. That site offers access to diverse rock strata, including interbedded sulfates and phyllosilicates in a three mile (5...De-Cluttering Outer Space: The Four Critical “Cs”
The worrisome build-up of human-caused orbital debris has reached a critical point. Collisions between objects will continue to occur, and so will impact damages to operational spacecraft. The trend will get worse unless more aggressive actions — such as active...Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle to Enter Extensive Test Period
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Florida – The Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle (MPCV) is being pursued as the way to explore beyond low Earth orbit – back to the Moon, out to asteroids, and eventually to Mars. Regarding the decision to press ahead with Orion, Lori Garver, NASA...Atlantis: The Last Shuttle Out of Town
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Florida – Thousands upon thousands of people are expected to arrive here to witness the final NASA space shuttle mission – the flight of Atlantis. So far, the only bit of negative news is the increasing prospect of foul weather delaying the...Moon Swoon! Dramatic Views of Tycho Crater
NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) continues to crank out scads of data and imagery of Earth’s Moon. The Moon-circling spacecraft was launched on June 18, 2009. It has been busy providing new scientific information about our celestial neighbor in gravitational...Follow Us
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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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