NASA Provides New Details of Future Human Asteroid Exploration Mission
Experts within NASA and outside are making strides in their plans for a bold Asteroid Retrieval Mission, a joint robotic and human enterprise that would take U. S. explorers beyond low Earth orbit for the first time since the final Apollo mission to the moon....U.S., Russian Astronauts End 5 1/2 Month Space Station Journey
Three U. S. and Russian astronauts concluded a 5 1/2 month stay aboard the International Space Station late Tuesday, as their Soyuz capsule descended safely to Earth, touching down under parachute in Kazakhstan. NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy and cosmonauts Pavel...Focus on Mars!
NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover continues its wheeling southwestward toward Mount Sharp, in the middle of Gale Crater. Just released imagery shows the robot in action, including the use of an onboard focusing procedure. The process involves the Mars Hand Lens Imager...NASA’s LADEE Probe Heads for Moon to Study Lunar Environment
NASA’s Lunar Atmosphere & Dust Environment Explorer mission began a 30-day trek to the moon late Friday, successfully blasting off from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility inVirginia. Flight controllers encountered then quickly addressed a problem with the...Orbital Sciences Poised to Become Space Station Commercial Cargo Provider
The Orbital Sciences Corp.’s Antares/Cygnus rocket and cargo capsule was cleared Wednesday for a Sept. 17 lift off on a milestone demonstration re-supply mission to the six person International Space Station, following a NASA led flight readiness review. Lift off of...SpaceShipTwo Test Flight Success
The sky above the Mojave Air and Space Port in California was the scene for another test flight of Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo – the reusable space plane destined to carry tourists to the edge of space. The September 5 flight – the vehicle’s second powered flight,...Asteroid Impact Avoidance System
The worrisome thought of an asteroid hitting the Earth is not science fiction – and our planet has the scars to prove it. What scientists are focused on today is how best to deal with a space rock that has Earth’s name on it. Joining in on the global research...George Washington University Experts Express Concerns Over U.S. Human Space Flight Future
Portions of U. S. space policy focused on the future of human space exploration are seriously adrift, according to two George Washington University experts in the field. The declarations from Scott Pace, the director of GWU’s Space Policy Institute and a...SpiderFab: On-orbit Construction Under Study
Introducing “SpiderFab™” technologies – a new development for in-space fabrication of spacecraft components. The NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) program has announced it has selected Tethers Unlimited, Inc. of Bothell, Washington for a Phase II contract...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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