SpaceX Falcon 9 Reaches Orbit
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket roared into orbit on Friday, climbing into space on what appeared to be a successful full duration inaugural test flight of nearly 10 minutes. The slender white, 180-foot tall, two-stage rocket with the “SPACEX” logo stenciled on the...This Week in Space, May 28, 2010
Armstrong, Cernan challenge plan to scrap moon program
Source: The Houston Chronicle It was during long flights to the Middle East for goodwill visits to American troops that former astronauts Neil Armstrong, Eugene Cernan and James Lovell hatched a plan to step out of the pages of history with a mission to change its...NASA Finds New Criticism and Skepticism Before Congress
Source: The New York Times The head of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration was buffeted with more criticism and skepticism before Congress on Wednesday as he sought to defend the Obama administration’s proposal to revamp the space agency. Representative...NASA: Future technologies, maybe even nuclear rockets, needed for Mars
Source: Houston Chronicle I’m in Galveston this morning for NASA’s Exploration Enterprise Workshop, a two-day program to expand on the agency’s plans for exploration under President Obama’s budget. Organizers have been careful to call these...Please Fence Me In! New Mexico Spaceport Progress
Credit: Virgin Galactic Spaceport America in New Mexico continues to take shape, the future site of commercial space tourism flights. Hundreds of construction workers are busily churning up dirt, completing a huge runway and terminal at the site. Sir Richard...Book Review: Me and The Biospheres – A Memoir by the Inventor of Biosphere 2
Me and The Biospheres: A Memoir by the Inventor of Biosphere 2 by John Allen; Synergetic Press, Santa Fe, New Mexico; (paperback) $39.95; 2009. The term “biosphere” was coined by geologist Eduard Seuss in 1875, which he defined as the place on Earth’s surface where...Biotech Companies: Making Money in Space?
Paul Livingstone, Senior Editor at R&D Magazine has written an interesting update on NASA, university and industry looks at space-based research. Livingstone’s article is as follows, reprinted here with permission: Space biotech: growing industry or space shot?...U.S. Space Leadership in Jeopardy, Armstrong, Cernan Tell Senate Panel
The first and the last of America’s Apollo moon walkers raised concerns before a Senate oversight panel on Wednesday that President Obama’s space exploration strategy could cause the United States to lose its global leadership in the exploration of...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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