Endeavour Astronauts Chat with Tucson Students
The Endeavour astronauts made Sunday night a special occasion for students at the Mesa Verde Elementary School in Tucson, Ariz., who assembled to visit with two of the six space travelers parked at the International Space Station. “It’s great to have you...Student Experiments Hurled Into Space
UP Aerospace rocket liftoff from New Mexico carries student experiments to the edge of space. Credit: Spaceport America SPACEPORT AMERICA, New Mexico – NASA’s Summer of Innovation had a special liftoff here on May 20 with a powerful suborbital rocket scooting to the...Wanted: Teachers for Micro-gravity Flight!
Powell Middle School math and science teachers Carrie Brunner, Courtney Poloney and Kara Kwolek experience weightlessness during the Northrop Grumman Foundation Weightless Flights of Discovery in Detroit. Credit: Northrop Grumman The Northrop Grumman Foundation is...Proposed Legislation Would Direct U. S. Return to the Moon
A recently introduced House bill, the Reasserting American Leadership in Space Act, would require the United States to resume efforts to return human explorers to the moon, this time by 2022, and establish a “sustained presence.” The legislation, H. R....Happy Birthday! Hubble
The Hubble Space Telescope, among the best known and most accomplished spacecraft ever launched, will mark its 21st birthday on Sunday. The 350 mile high observatory, which has been upgraded five times by space shuttle crews since its April 24, 1990 launching aboard...Shuttle orbiters will retire in Cape Canaveral, Los Angeles, Washington D.C. and New York City
NASA Administrator Charles Bolden dispatched the agency’s retired shuttle orbiters far and wide on Tuesday, the 30th anniversary of the first shuttle flight and the 50th anniversary of the first human space flight. Atlantis will head for the Kennedy Space...Senate Appropriators Press NASA Chief on Exploration Plans
Senate appropriators sparred with NASA Administrator Charles Bolden on Monday over the agency’s commitment to the 2010 NASA Authorization Act, the bi-partisan Congressional blue print agreed to by President Obama that aims for a new heavy lift rocket and crew...Discovery’s Spacewalkers Engage in Heavy Lifting
Update: Monday 5:45 p.m. EST Monday’s 6.5 hour spacewalk concluded at 5:20 p.m., EST,with an unusual educational activity. Al Drew, left, “filled” an air tight metal canister with the vacuum of space. The container was provided by the Japan...NASA Facing Flat Budgets, Just Enough to Initiate an Ambitious Exploration Agenda
President Obama’s proposed budget for 2012 locks NASA spending at $18.72 billion, or 2010 levels for the next five years, while at the same time initiating a delayed transition away from the previous administration’s Constellation program with plans...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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