Book Review: Round About the Earth – Circumnavigation from Magellan to Orbit
Round About the Earth – Circumnavigation from Magellan to Orbit by Joyce E. Chaplin; Simon & Schuster; New York, New York; $35.00; 2012. This is a fascinating and pleasurable look at explorers that have accomplished around-the-world travel. For almost five...NASA Prepares Recovery Plan for Kepler Planet Hunter
Launched in March 2009, NASA’s Kepler space telescope soon became the most prolific alien planet hunter ever. The search has so far produced just under 3,300 candidate planets, among them representatives of the mission’s ultimate goal — Earth-like...FY-Eye: NASA’s Image Detective System!
A creative new website is available from NASA that can help improve your own feature-spotting skills and geographical knowledge about our planet – a plus in readying yourself for your own space tourism flight in Earth orbit. Meanwhile, you can also help the Crew Earth...New Estimate: Billions and Billions of Life-supporting Planets
The projected number of life-supporting planets in the Milky Way galaxy alone just got larger. A new study calculates that 60 billion planets could sustain water, therefore life. Researchers at the University of Chicago and Northwestern University based their study,...New Studies Focus on Bone Loss, Infectious Disease Risk in Space Travel
New grants have been awarded, dedicated to detecting bone loss of astronauts in microgravity, as well as infectious disease risks for crews during long-term space travel. NASA and the National Space Biomedical Research Institute (NSBRI) have announced that two Arizona...Atlantis Exhibit Makes Weekend Debut
Orbiter Atlantis, a veteran of 33 NASA shuttle missions, goes on public display in Central Florida on Saturday as the centerpiece of a $100 million Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex exhibit. More than 40 astronauts, including NASA Administrator...Spacewalk Prepares Space Station for New Russian Lab
Cosmonauts Fyodor Yurchikhin and Alexander Misurkin prepared the International Space Station’s Russian segment for the arrival of the Nauka Multipurpose Laboratory Module during a spacewalk Monday. Russia’s Nauka science compartment is scheduled for...Neil Armstrong Rembered at NASA’s Johnson Space Center
Family, friends and those who worked along side Neil Armstrong paid tribute to the Apollo 11 commander at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston on Thursday and dedicated a native Live Oak to his memory. The first human to step to the surface of another...NASA Asteroid Retrieval Mission Becomes Global Grand Challenge
NASA’s proposed asteroid identification and redirect mission proposal was elevated to “Grand Challenge” status in Washington on Tuesday by the Obama Administration. The featured theme of President Obama’s proposed 2014 NASA budget is now on par...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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