U.S., Russian Astronauts Reach International Space Station
A Soyuz capsule with three U. S. and Russian astronauts docked with the International Space Station late Wednesday to restore the orbiting science lab to its usual six person status. NASA’s Mike Hopkins, a one time college football team captain; cosmonaut Oleg...New Pieces Found of Russian Fireball
The famous February 15th meteorite that exploded over the frozen Chebarkul Lake in Russia is making news once again. Fragments of the Chelyabinsk meteorite have been discovered and recovered from the bottom of the lake. Early this month, divers and scientists teamed...Book Review: Rocket Girl – The Story of Mary Sherman Morgan, America’s First Female Rocket Scientist
Rocket Girl: The Story of Mary Sherman Morgan, America’s First Female Rocket Scientist by George D. Morgan; Prometheus Books; Amherst, New York; $18.00 (soft cover); July 2013. No doubt, many have been absorbed by Homer Hickam’s Rocket Boys (also known as October...Mighty Eagle Prototype Lander Soars with Private Sector Software
Government/private sector collaboration is helping to foster the development of commercial, low-cost missions to the Moon. NASA Marshall Space Flight Center is collaborating with Moon Express, Inc. to test the company’s flight software on NASA’s “Mighty Eagle”...Expect Earthly Dividends from Future Exploration
Expect more on Earth from space as human explorers begin to push beyond the International Space Station to the moon, the asteroids and Mars, the International Space Exploration Coordination Group suggests in a new 21 page white paper, Benefits Stemming from...Milestone Reached in Sunshield for James Webb Space Telescope
More progress has been reported in the James Webb Space Telescope program, the world’s next-generation space observatory and successor to the Hubble Space Telescope. The fabrication of all template layers for NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) sunshield has been...2nd U. S. Commercial Cargo Service Lifts Off for the International Space Station
An Orbital Sciences Corp. Antares rocket and Cygnus re-supply craft lifted off Wednesday for the International Space Station, marking the inauguration of a second U. S. cargo service for the six person orbiting science lab. Cygnus and a 1,500 pound cargo...Earth’s Moon: The Video!
NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) was launched toward the Moon in June 2009. A huge payoff from the longevity of the LRO mission is the repeat coverage of the lunar landscape obtained by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera system that includes a Wide Angle...China Readies First Lunar Lander
China’s Chang’e 3 robotic lunar lander is being readied for launch by year’s end – a milestone making mission that also involves a wheeled lunar rover to drive across the lunar landscape. Chang’e 3 is the third robotic lunar probe mission of the China Lunar...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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