Space Solutions Can Improve the Lives of People Worldwide
UN in Vienna discusses space solutions Credit: UN Experts from around the globe took part early this month in the 48th session of the Scientific and Technical Subcommittee of the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (COPUOS). The gathering...Book Review: The 50 Most Extreme Places In Our Solar System
The 50 Most Extreme Places In Our Solar System by David Baker and Todd Ratcliff; The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press; Cambridge, Massachusetts; $27.95 (Hardcover); 2010. Readers of all backgrounds will love this book. The volume is beautifully produced,...Mars Rover’s Robotic Arm Performs Up-Close Observations
NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover – Opportunity – is busy at work at the edge of “Santa Maria” crater, surveying the diverse textures of the geological feature. Recent imagery shows the rover making use of its instrument-laden robotic arm to inspect a targeted rock – even...New Tool for Space Weather Forecasting
When it comes to the Sun, one could recall that line sung by Elvis: “A churning urn of burning funk.” But now space weather forecasters have a new tool to issue a one-to-four day advance warning of high speed streams of solar plasma and Earth-directed coronal mass...Moons of Mars: Leftovers from a Giant Impact?
Things may have been pretty messy around the red planet in its past. New research suggests the possibility that the martian satellites – Phobos and Deimos — may have been the result of giant impact. The new theory is just out in the prestigious Icarus...Book Review: John F. Kennedy and the Race to the Moon
John F. Kennedy and the Race to the Moon by John M. Logsdon; Palgrave Macmillan; New York, New York; $35.00 (Hardcover); 2010. In a time when America is looking for another “Sputnik Moment” to spur the country on a number of fronts, this scholarly and well-written...Challenger Tragedy Remembered: A Range of Reactions 25 Years Later
Experts at Florida State University have provided insight regarding the upcoming 25th anniversary of the space shuttle Challenger disaster in which all astronauts on board, including schoolteacher Christa McAuliffe, were lost 73 seconds after liftoff. The disaster on...Book Review: The Doomsday Lobby – Hype and Panic from Sputniks, Martians and Marauding Meteors
The Doomsday Lobby – Hype and Panic from Sputniks, Martians and Marauding Meteors by James T. Bennett; Copernicus Books/Springer; New York, New York; $24.95; (soft cover); 2010. I think you’ll find this scholarly book of value – and somewhat surprising in its...Gigantic Storm on Saturn: Cassini Spacecraft Catches the Action!
NASA’s Cassini spacecraft orbiting Saturn has imaged a huge storm – a raging event on the massive planet. “Just down on the ground today … our cameras on Cassini have captured sight of a gigantic storm recently erupted in the northern hemisphere of Saturn,”...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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