Celestial Salute to U.S. Senator Mikulski: Supernova, Astronomy Archive
Talk about senatorial splendor! You couldn’t do any better given a new honor that recognizes United States Senator from Maryland, Barbara A. Mikulski. One of the world’s largest astronomy archives has been named in her honor. Called MAST, for the Barbara A....Landing Test: Boeing’s Commercial Crew Capsule for Space Station
A commercial crew space transportation capsule made a step forward on April 3, parachuting into a desert landscape. The Boeing Crew Space Transportation (CST)-100 spacecraft floated down into the Delamar Dry Lake Bed near Alamo, Nevada – a first test of a fully...Got the Touch? New Free App Explores Planet Discoveries
Let your fingertips do the space travel! A new and innovative app for iPads and iPhones allows you to access the nearly 2,000 distant planetary systems discovered by NASA’s planet-scouting Kepler spacecraft. Called Kepler Explorer this new app challenges users to...Apollo Lunar Rocks Offer New Clues to Origin of Moon
Thanks to lunar material returned to Earth by Apollo moonwalkers decades ago, new research suggests how the Moon was formed. There has been a widely held theory that a giant collision between Earth and a Mars-sized object gave birth to the moon 4.5 billion years ago....New UN Report: Space and Climate Change – Use of Space-based Technologies
United Nations organizations are making full use of space-based technologies in a shared quest to enhance our ability to manage planet Earth and to address the critical challenges facing the human condition. “Climate change threatens to have a catastrophic impact on...Book Review: Rockets and People: The Moon Race (Volume IV)
Rockets and People: The Moon Race (Volume IV) by Boris Chertok; NASA History Program Office; Washington, D.C.; Note: Available as free E-book (also Government Printing Office, Hard Cover); $79.00; 2012. This is the last volume of a four-volume set of memoirs by the...Planet Mercury News: What’s Hiding in those Polar Shadows?
THE WOODLANDS, Texas – NASA’s MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging – long hand for the MESSENGER spacecraft – has provided surprising new looks at the planet Mercury. Details of MESSENGER’s findings are being presented this week here at...Giant Asteroid Vesta – Unexpected Details
THE WOODLANDS, TEXAS – New images and data highlight the diversity of Vesta’s surface and reveal unusual geologic features, some of which were never previously seen on asteroids. These results were detailed here today at the Lunar and Planetary Science...Video: Historical First Spacewalk
Here’s a retro-fire back into the space-time continuum. It was on this day, back on March 18, 1965, that the first spacewalk – or extravehicular activity (EVA) took place. Soviet cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov left his Voskhod 2 capsule and floated about for several minutes...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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