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...Full Senate Passes NASA Authorization Act of 2010
Though nearing an August recess, the full U. S. Senate on Thursday (Aug. 5) passed the NASA Authorization Act of 2010, which seeks to strike a compromise with the White House over the space agency’s future direction. The House, which is already in recess, has...Congressional Investigators Side with NASA over 2010 Exploration Spending
The investigative arm of Congress sided with NASA on Monday in a report sought by lawmakers over concerns the agency had slowed 2010 spending on the Constellation Program, while they reviewed White House plans to cancel the six-year-old, back-to-the-moon initiative....NASA’s Legislative Future Still Uncertain
After months of gridlock, the House and Senate have engaged with the White House in a recent flurry of legislative activities intended to produce an agreement on the future of NASA-led space exploration. However, key differences remain, especially over the much larger...NASA’s future hinges on House as well as Senate, White House strategies
The House Science and Technology Committee meets Thursday to do what the Senate Commerce Science and Transportation Committee did on July 15, consider a NASA authorization bill that attempts to settle differences between the White House and Congress over the future of...Garver: NASA Listening to Faster Heavy Lift Proposal
NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver expressed a willingness Tuesday to work with Congress on the accelerated development of a heavy lift rocket as part of changes in the nation’s human exploration strategy proposed by President Obama. But she cautioned...Our views: End the stalemate (June 15)
Source: Florida Today Obama, Congress should craft NASA compromise It’s a game of political chicken that’s making the uncertainty about NASA’s future worse. And it has to stop. We’re talking about new moves in the White House and Congress to shape the agency’s ...Commercial space plan requires caution, Bill Nelson warns
Source: Florida Today U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson advocated a “walk before you run” approach to relying on commercial rockets to carry U.S. astronauts to the space station as he outlined his NASA priorities Monday. Nelson, who heads the science subcommittee that...Nelson maps a road forward on space without Constellation
Source: The Orlando Sentinel Florida’s Democratic Senator, Bill Nelson, the chair of the Senate subcommittee charged with NASA oversight, has sent a letter to his powerful counterpart on NASA appropriations, Sen. Barbara Mikulski of Maryland, informing her of his...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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