NASA’s Orion Available for Public Viewing in Oklahoma, Texas and Alabama
A test version of NASA’s Orion/Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle will go on public display in the coming weeks as it is transported from White Sands, N. M., to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., The spacecraft that NASA has chosen to...In Your Face: Space Junk – The 3D Movie, Educator Guide
A new 3D IMAX film explores a troubling legacy of more than five decades of lofting satellites into space. Space Junk 3D takes the viewer on a voyage of challenges: How best to face the increasingly crowded Earth orbits that are littered with speeding and dangerous...2020 Vision: An Overview of New Worlds, New Horizons in Astronomy and Astrophysics
Now available for free is the online publication: 2020 Vision: An Overview of New Worlds, New Horizons in Astronomy and Astrophysics. This colorful booklet summarizes the most recent National Research Council decadal survey of astronomy and astrophysics. It provides...Sky Watcher Heaven! Apps for Mobile Devices – A First Catalog
The explosion in mobile apps in the last few years has meant that many new astronomy applications have become available. Thanks to Andrew Fraknoi of Foothill College in California, a first catalog has been assembled that lists a variety of apps for displaying and...Spitzer Telescope Spots Echo of Violent Early Solar System Activity
NASA’s Spitzer space telescope has unveiled what may be a “nearby” replay of the same violent processes that unfolded in our own solar system billions of years ago. Imagery from the infrared observatory has spotted a stream of comets raining down on...Something Like the Ultimate Science Fair — A Chance for YouTube Savvy Teens to Fly an Experiment Aboard the International Space Station
NASA is teaming with global space agencies as well as some of the top names in commercial space, Internet communications and personal computers to underwrite a pair of out of this world opportunities for teens to develop a life science or physics experiment...New Evidence Suggests Kuiper Belt Comets Provided Water for Earth’s Oceans
Scientists have compelling new evidence the Earth’s oceans formed from the impact of comets during the early years of the solar system, and quite likely a specific class of the icy objects from a region known as the Kuiper Belt Tenants of the Kuiper Belt...NASA Turns to Students for Moon Probe Names
NASA’s twin moon bound Grail spacecraft need imaginative names. U. S students enrolled in K through 12 are likely to have some very creative suggestions, NASA figures. And if that sounds like you, you and your teacher have until Nov 11 to offer a name in...Astronaut Mike Fossum, the International Space Station Commander, Goes 1 on 1 with the Middle School Students at the Hispanic Engineering, Science and Technical Conference
International Space Station commander Mike Fossum, a NASA astronaut, took a series of wide ranging questions from middle school students on Tuesday. The students are participants in the Hispanic Engineering, Science and Technical Conference at the University of...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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