NASA Help on Rescue of Chilean Trapped Miners
Trapped underground since early August, thirty-three miners in Chile will be using a modified NASA-designed rescue capsule – able to bring each miner topside from over 2,000 feet below ground. News reports have spotlighted the efforts of NASA engineer Clinton Cragg,...High Frontier for Space Settlements
Space industrialization and settlement of the high frontier will be the theme of a threshold conference to be held at month’s end. Space Manufacturing 14: Critical Technologies for Space Settlement conference will bring together futurists, space scientists and...Space Manufacturing 14…Register Now!
Space Manufacturing 14: Critical Technologies for Space Settlement will be held at NASA Ames Conference Center in Mountain View, CA, October 30 and 31, 2010. Attendance will be limited to 200 participants. (Non-US Citizens, please allow 30 days for approvals to...NASA’s LCROSS Mission Scores Breakthrough Award
NASA’s 2009 Lunar CRater Observation and Sensing Satellite, or LCROSS, was honored Tuesday night in New York City as the recipient of a Breakthrough award for innovation in science and technology from Popular Mechanics Magazine. The lunar probe was launched on...Handicaps for Space Agencies and Industry Flagged
PRAGUE, Czech Republic – Political, institutional or industrial uncertainties are a real handicap for space agencies as well as for industry. That’s a take home message from a plenary meeting dedicated to the impact of governments’ space policy changes on industry –...Attention Space Tourists: Seats Available
A memorandum of agreement between the Boeing Company and space tourist company, Space Adventures, may lead to passenger seats available on Boeing’s Crew Space Transportation-100 (CST-100) spacecraft to LEO. Boeing and Space Adventures have not yet set a price per seat...NASA Forecasts Difficult Ordeal for Trapped Chilean Miners, Ready to Provide Future Assistance
Thirty-three miners trapped in a collapsed Chilean gold and copper mine as well as the families who await their rescue face a long and difficult ordeal, according to a small delegation of NASA experts in health, psychology and engineering who responded to a call for...Hurricane Earl Takes Aim at the Northeast
Much of the U. S. East Coast is focused on Hurricane Earl as the Labor Day weekend approaches. As part of their weather forecasting and Earth observation missions, spacecraft from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and NASA as well as the astronauts...Arizona’s Black Point Lava Flow Beckons NASA’s Desert Rats
Stretched across much of northern Arizona, the Black Point Lava Flow resembles an alien landscape on Earth, the perfect place for NASA to test rovers, habitats, space suits and the other equipment that future astronauts will need when they explore the moon, the...Space Talk
Celebrating a Remarkable Legacy of Service
Recently, the Titusville Police Department had the honor of recognizing four incredible employees as they begin their well-earned retirements.
Together, these dedicated professionals represent an astounding 120 years of service to the
For the first time, NASA will launch two student missions on one sounding rocket!
The sounding rocket will launch Wednesday, June 24, with a window opening at 5:30 a.m. EDT. A livestream will be available on the Wallops YouTube channel. Stay tuned for our launch viewing map!
NuSTAR launched from a Pegasus XL rocket that was released at an altitude of about 40,000 feet by the Stargazer, an L-1011 aircraft.
Fun fact: Katalyst’s LINK spacecraft, which will attempt a boost of our Swift telescope this summer, will also launch on a Pegasus XL!
Did you send your name to be stenciled on the microchips aboard the rover? If so, your name has completed a Martian marathon, too! https://images.nasa.gov/details/PIA23769
