Los Angeles Bound Endeavour to Stop in Houston, Fly Over Mulitiple U. S. Cities
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. It’s a planetary body known as a near-Earth asteroid. NASA is preparing to launch the Origins-Spectral Interpretation-Resource Identification-Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) mission to this solar system body in 2016, and as if OSIRIS-REx isn’t a...Protecting Apollo 11’s Landing Site
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Becoming Spacefarers: Rescuing America’s Space Program by James A. Vedda; Xlibris Publishing; Bloomington, Indiana; Casebound Hardcover: $29.99; 2012. Just in time for an election year! The author has provided a no-nonsense review of what arguably seems to be...Video: Small, Smart, Robotic Lander Flown for Moon, Asteroid Missions
“The Eagle has landed.” That declaration by Neil Armstrong was heard from Tranquility Base in 1969. But the phrase was used again on August 28th as engineers watched the touchdown of the “Mighty Eagle” – a NASA robotic prototype lander. The craft sailed to an...Robonaut 2: NASA’s Other Robot Personality
Before there was Curiosity, there was Robonaut 2. This week, R2, the humaniod collaboration between NASA and General Motors achieved an important milestone in its 18 months aboard the International Space Station. On Tuesday, R-2 wiped a handrail with a hand...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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