The Long Arm of Science: Curiosity Rover Studies Mars Rock
NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity has begun up-close work on “Jake Matijevic.” The rover is touching the rock with a spectrometer to determine its elemental composition and use an arm-mounted camera to take close-up photographs. The football-size rock is the first for the...Space Station Research Reported: Nanotechnology Manufacturing Advanced
New research findings based on experiments carried out on the International Space Station could lead to the creation of unique materials and electro-mechanical devices. The Investigating the Structure of Paramagnetic Aggregates from Colloidal Emulsion – 2 – or...House Republicans Back Space Leadership Preservation Act of 2012
The Space Leadership Preservation Act of 2012, legislation introduced in Washington on Thursday, would significanty change the way NASA is led and its programs managed in order to establish new stability and accountability, according to its six...Look, Up In The Sky! It’s Shuttle Endeavour
Perhaps coming to the sky near you? NASA’s Space Shuttle Endeavour is on its way to Los Angeles. The scheduled route, if all stays on track: Endeavour took off this morning from Kennedy Space Center on its way to Los Angeles, with a stop-over at Houston. The Shuttle...U. S., Russian Soyuz Crew Safely Back on Earth
Three U. S. and Russian astronauts descended safely to Earth aboard a Soyuz spacecraft late Sunday, following a 125-day mission to the International Space Station. Helicopter born Russian recovery forces quickly greeted U. S. astronaut Joe Acaba and cosmonauts...NASA among Agencies Facing Spending Cuts from Sequestration
On Oct. 1, theU. S.government will enter the 2013 fiscal year without a budget — not so unusual in recent years as lawmakers attempt to deal with mounting deficits and pressures to increase spending. A likely Continuing Resolution, legislation that...Stable Funding Crucial to NASA’s Human, Robotic Exploration Plans
NASA and the agency’s prime contractors for the Space Launch System and Orion/Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle, the primary elements of the first U. S. human deep space exploration capability since the Apollo program and potential major new science initiatives,...
Get a View! Newly Discovered Hazardous Asteroid to Zip By Earth
As big as a 14-story building – that’s the size of a newly discovered space rock that is now labeled as a “potentially hazardous asteroid” – which means that it could collide with Earth in the distant future. Asteroid 2012 QG42 was discovered by the Catalina Sky...International Astronautical Federation to Share Flags Flown Aboard U. S., Russian and Chinese Spacecraft
Three hundred commemorative flags belonging to the International Astronautical Federation and the only objects to have flown in space by all nations with active human space programs will be returned to the organization by a Chinese delegation at the ILA Berlin Air...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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