July 24 marks the 60th Anniversary of Inaugural Rocket Launch from Cape Canaveral
Cape Canaveral, Fla., the United State’s premier site for the launching of rockets and astronauts, marks the 60th anniversary of its first lift off on Saturday (July 24th, 2010). On July 24, 1950, a 62-foot long V-2 rocket rose in a low arc from a very primitive...Moonbase Alpha-a 3D immersive NASA exploration game
Scientists find dust inside Japan’s asteroid capsule
Source: Spaceflight Now The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency announced Monday they found particles inside the Hayabusa mission’s capsule that was supposed to scoop up a sample from the surface of asteroid Itokawa in 2005. Hayabusa’s return capsule...Coalition for Space Exploration’s website has a new look
And we’re celebrating with a contest, Explore Our Space, which offers visitors the opportunity to win some cool prizes, including a chance to watch one of the final space shuttle launches from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Throughout July,...Satellite imagery illustrates reach of Gulf oil spill
Source: Spaceflight Now A NASA spacecraft circling more than 400 miles above Earth has snapped a striking picture of oil streaming ashore in Mississippi, adding another photo to the growing catalog of satellite images of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. The Earth...Mars Education Challenge: The Red Planet in the Classroom
Explore Mars Inc has launched a new program to challenge science educators around the United States to develop creative ways to fit Mars science and exploration into the classroom. The organization has called upon science educators to develop Mars-related curricula...Solving a problem isn’t sexy
Source: Florida Today Engineering doesn’t make good on-screen drama. You can’t tie a bow on a big engineering problem in an hour or two, unless you skip a lot of details, add some overly dramatic dialogue, and only show the “Aha!” moment when...Robbing the ‘cradle of astronauts’?
Source: Indy Star Young dreamers still arrive at Purdue University, the “cradle of astronauts,” with hopes of following in the footsteps of Neil Armstrong, Gus Grissom and David Wolf. Inspired by 30 years of breathtaking space shuttle launches and...New Views: Satellites Track Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill
NASA’s Terra satellite keeps an eye on huge oil spill The huge oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is being observed by numbers of satellites, such as NASA’s Aqua and Terra spacecraft. Those satellites make use of a Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer...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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