NASA’s Offers Shuttle Space Cuisine, Heat Shielding to Schools
As NASA continues to distribute property from the agency’s long running space shuttle program, it is offering surplus food prepared for the astronauts who flew on the winged orbiters and thermal protection tiles that fended off the heat buildup...NASA Moves Forward With International Space Station National Laboratory
NASA has completed negotiations with the Center for the Advancement of Science in Space, the Florida-based nonprofit group selected by the space agency earlier this year to manage the U. S. National Laboratory segment of the International Space Station. CASIS...NASA Auditors Back Shuttle Display Venue Decision
NASA Administrator Charles Bolden and his staff acted properly and without political influence in their choice of U. S.venues for the display of the retired space shuttle orbiters, Discovery, Endeavour, Atlantis and the test glider Enterprise, the...Competition for Global Space Leadership Tightens, Futron reports
The Futron Corp’s 2011 Space Competiveness Index finds the United States perched atop 10 global competitors in the field, yet slipping as the nation’s space policy undergoes a transition, especially in the realm of human space flight. The Bethesda,...NASA Makes More Shuttle-era Artifacts Available to Museums, Schools for Public Display
NASA on Monday is making approximately 2,000 artifacts from the shuttle-era and earlier spaceflight programs available for display at NASA visitor centers as well as qualified museums, libraries, planetariums and other venues. The agency will accept requests...NASA Signs Up Seven Suborbital Companies for Flight Research
NASA selected seven emerging commercial suborbital spaceflight services on Tuesday to foster future research under a $10 million two- year Flight Opportunities Program agreement. The companies include Armadillo Aerospace, of Heath, Tex.; Near Space...Spacewalking Cosmonauts Launch Educational Satellite
Persistent spacewalking cosmonauts Sergei Volkov and Alexander Samokutyaev successfully deployed ARISSat-1, a 57-pound educational satellite from the International Space Station on Wednesday to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Russian Yuri Gagarin’s first human...NASA’s Aqua Spacecraft Monitors Arizona Wildfires
Hundreds of firefighters are battling or managing a pair of Eastern Arizona wildfires visible in smoke filled imagery gathered by the Aqua spacecraft, one in a series of NASA managed Earth Observing System satellites equipped with instruments furnished by...Eight-legged Earthlings Find Home on the International Space Station
Astronauts aboard the International Space Station are tending a pair of golden orb-web spiders, left aboard by the shuttle Endeavour astronauts. Gladys and Esmeralda are part of a 45-day student experiment to compare the web spinning techniques of spiders in...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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