Space Station Research Reported: Nanotechnology Manufacturing Advanced
New research findings based on experiments carried out on the International Space Station could lead to the creation of unique materials and electro-mechanical devices. The Investigating the Structure of Paramagnetic Aggregates from Colloidal Emulsion – 2 – or...Look, Up In The Sky! It’s Shuttle Endeavour
Perhaps coming to the sky near you? NASA’s Space Shuttle Endeavour is on its way to Los Angeles. The scheduled route, if all stays on track: Endeavour took off this morning from Kennedy Space Center on its way to Los Angeles, with a stop-over at Houston. The Shuttle...
Get a View! Newly Discovered Hazardous Asteroid to Zip By Earth
As big as a 14-story building – that’s the size of a newly discovered space rock that is now labeled as a “potentially hazardous asteroid” – which means that it could collide with Earth in the distant future. Asteroid 2012 QG42 was discovered by the Catalina Sky...Cutting-edge Disease Research Eyed for International Space Station
The unique environment of the International Space Station (ISS) could serve as a research lab for pharmaceutical breakthroughs. The Center for the Advancement of Science in Space (CASIS) – manager of the International Space Station’s U.S. National Laboratory – today...Protecting Apollo 11’s Landing Site
As a public memorial is being readied in Washington, D.C. to honor the recent passing of astronaut Neil Armstrong, work is underway to protect the Apollo 11 landing site on the Moon and make it a National Historic Landmark. A New Mexico State University NMSU professor...Stunning Video! Dawn – One Year at Asteroid Vesta
NASA’s Dawn spacecraft is on its way to Ceres, the largest asteroid to be explored. This asteroid probe is leaving behind a legacy of exploration – by circling asteroid Vesta since July 2011. But now the spacecraft has been gradually leaving its orbit around that...Radar Finds Walls of Lunar Crater May Hold Patchy Ice
The walls of the Moon’s Shackleton crater are likely the site of small patches of ice. Thanks to the Mini-RF radar on NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), data collected show that small patches of ice could make up at most 5 to 10 percent of material in walls of...Book Review: Becoming Spacefarers: Rescuing America’s Space Program
Becoming Spacefarers: Rescuing America’s Space Program by James A. Vedda; Xlibris Publishing; Bloomington, Indiana; Casebound Hardcover: $29.99; 2012. Just in time for an election year! The author has provided a no-nonsense review of what arguably seems to be...Video: Small, Smart, Robotic Lander Flown for Moon, Asteroid Missions
“The Eagle has landed.” That declaration by Neil Armstrong was heard from Tranquility Base in 1969. But the phrase was used again on August 28th as engineers watched the touchdown of the “Mighty Eagle” – a NASA robotic prototype lander. The craft sailed to an...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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