2014 NASA Budget Starts Ambitious Asteroid Mission
President Obama seeks steady NASA budgets of $17.7 billion through 2018 in the funding request he presented to Congress on Wednesday, enough to start the space agency on an ambitious mission to identify and maneuver an asteroid into lunar orbit, where U. S. astronauts...NASA Ranks Tops Among Federal Agencies in Effective Leadership
NASA rates highest in effective leadership among federal agencies, according to the recent analysis of survey data gathered by the White House Office of Personnel Management by the Partnership for Public Service, a non profit focused in improvements to...President’s 2014 Budget May Feature Asteroid Capture, Human Exploration
President Obama will likely seek Congressional endorsement for missions to robotically capture an asteroid and park the 500 ton space rock in a stable lunar orbit, where U. S. astronauts could pay a visit as early as 2021, according to U. S. Sen. Bill Nelson, of...New Mexico Spaceport America: New Legislation for Commercial Space Industry
New Mexico’s Spaceport America got a boost in readying itself to handle commercial space operations – such as suborbital flights of passengers via Virgin Galactic’s WhiteKnightTwo/SpaceShipTwo launch system. Following unanimous passage by the state’s legislature, New...Commercial Activity Fuels Growth in Global Space Economy
The global space economy is surging, and the commercial space sector deserves much of the credit, according to the Space Foundation, the Colorado Springs-based non profit, in its annual report on the sector for 2013. During 2012, the world’s space sector...Planck Mission Finds Universe a Bit Older, Still Mysterious
The European Space Agency’s Planck mission is revealing new details about the early universe, prompting scientists to revise estimates for the age, makeup, material consistency and expansion of the cosmos following the Big Bang. The European space telescope was...NASA’s Curiosity Rover Finds Mars Suitable for Ancient Biological Activity
NASA’s Mars Curiosity rover, a resident of the red planet’s Gale Crater since early August, this week confirmed what many planetary scientists have long believed — Mars was once warm and wet enough to support microbial life. The announcement Tuesday...NASA Asks Students for Help in Protecting Future Space Explorers From Radiation
NASA and Lockheed Martin, the space agency’s aerospace company partner in the development of the Orion crew vehicle, asked students in kindergarten through high school on Monday to assist them in the development of critical radiation shielding for the...Showdown Over Sequestration May Jeopardize NASA’s Commercial Crew Initiative
The White House and Congress are on course for another showdown over Sequestration — a round of automatic federal spending cuts — set for March 1. It’s a replay of the confrontation they managed to avoid just before New Year’s Day. This time,...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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