Russian Spacewalk Readies Space Station for new Science Module
Cosmonauts Fyodor Yurchikhin and Alexander Misurkin strung power and data cables outside the International Space Station’s Russian segment on Friday to provide Russia’s future Nauka Multipurpose Laboratory Module with electricity and Ethernet connectivity...Kepler’s Alien Planet Search Ends
NASA’s four-year Kepler space telescope search for Earth-like planets circling distant stars has come to a close, space agency managers announced Thursday, It was a disappointing conclusion to an effort by flight control teams to recover disabled reaction...Juno to Jupiter: Earth Swing-by in October
A NASA probe en route to distant Jupiter has crossed the halfway point to its target. NASA’s Juno spacecraft was launched on Aug. 5, 2011, headed for arrival at massive Jupiter on July 4, 2016. The next milestone in Juno’s nearly five-year journey to Jupiter...Book Review: Red Rover – Inside the Story of Robotic Space Exploration, from Genesis to the Mars Rover Curiosity
Red Rover – Inside the Story of Robotic Space Exploration, from Genesis to the Mars Rover Curiosity by Roger Wiens; Basic Books; New York, New York; $25.99; 2013. This is a great read, and adds to the ambience and high-saluting given to NASA’s Curiosity rover...Sally Ride: Among Newest Presidential Medal of Freedom Recipients
Sally Ride, America’s first woman in space, will become a posthumous recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest honor for those who have made meritorious contributions to the security or national interests of theUnited...NASA Asteroid Mission: Digging in for Mining Savvy
A NASA sample return mission to an asteroid is geared to provide important clues as to how to mine asteroids in the future. Called the OSIRIS-REx – NASA short-hand for the Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security and Regolith Explorer – this...Space Station Crew Berths Japanese Cargo Capsule
Astronauts aboard the International Space Station welcomed the arrival of a Japanese re-supply capsule on Friday. NASA astronaut Karen Nyberg, positioned at the controls of the station’s Canadian robot arm, captured the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s...New Tool: Mission Trajectory Generator
Plotting a course to those hard-to-reach destinations – say Mercury, Jupiter, Saturn, and most comets and asteroids – can now be easier thanks to a NASA technologist offering a “paradigm shift” in charting long-haul missions. Called the Evolutionary Mission Trajectory...Mars via Hawaii! Remote Habitat Journey
A research team is about to end their long-duration space journey – spending more than 100 days inside a remote habitat. The HI-SEAS study is led by Cornell University and the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, work is funded by the NASA Human Research Program. The...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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