GRAIL Twosome Set for Moon Voyage
All is in readiness at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station’s Space Launch Complex 17B in Florida for Thursday’s liftoff of NASA’s twin Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory, or GRAIL, spacecraft. A United Launch Alliance Delta II rocket is being used for the...Book Review: Burt Rutan’s Race to Space – The Magician of Mojave and His Flying Innovations
Burt Rutan’s Race to Space – The Magician of Mojave and His Flying Innovations by Dan Linehan; Zenith Press, Minneapolis, MN; $30.00 (hardcover); July 2011. Burt Rutan is an aerospace maverick, racking up a long list of innovative airplane designs – including...Imaging Asteroid Vesta: NASA’s On Duty Dawn Spacecraft
NASA’s Dawn spacecraft has been in orbit around asteroid Vesta since July 16th – relaying back to Earth intriguing imagery of the giant space rock. A German camera system on board is being used to acquire images of the asteroid’s surface. These images show craters,...Space Station Robots Reach for Stars
It’s been a big week for robots living outside as well as inside the International Space Station. Robonaut 2, NASA’s humanoid collaboration with U. S. automaker General Motors, however, may have to take a temporary backseat to DEXTRE, the two-armed Canadian...Mars Robot in “New Terrain”
NASA’s Opportunity robot on the red planet has been busy inspecting an intriguing feature – Tisdale-2 – at the rim of the huge Endeavor crater. While analysis of the flat-topped rock is still underway, scientists note that it is different from the rocks that make up...NASA, Nine Other Space Agencies Look to Future Cooperation in the Exploration of Deep Space
Senior officials from NASA and the space agencies of nine other nations gathered in Kyoto, Japan on Tuesday to shape a coordinated multinational strategy for space exploration called the Global Exploration Roadmap. The planning, under way for a year, identifies...U.S.-led Partnership Faces Possiblity of Mid-November Space Station De-Staffing
NASA has raised the prospect that the U. S.led, 15-nation International Space Station partnership may have to de-staff the orbiting science laboratory in mid-November, if Russia’s investigation and recovery from the Aug. 24 loss of the Progress 44...Mars Menu for Future Explorers – A Chow Down Challenge
Stuffing the food pantry for the first voyagers to strike out for Mars is no easy task. That’s the word from Maya Cooper, a senior research scientist at the NASA Johnson Space Center in the Space Food Systems Laboratory in Houston, Texas. Maya has reported that...NASA Twins Readied for Moon Flight
Twin robotic probes to orbit Earth’s Moon are ready for their launch to chart our next-door neighbor’s gravity field in unprecedented detail. The Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) mission by NASA will make use of two spacecraft that fly in tandem orbits...Space Talk
Four astronauts. One mission.
Hear from the crew of Artemis II, who are preparing for humanity's next lunar journey, in the newest episode of our "NASA's Curious Universe" podcast: https://bit.ly/498S0qf
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Astronaut Jeremy Hansen is set to make history this April as the first Canadian to go to the moon. 🚀 #NASA #space #moon
https://nowtoronto.com/news/first-canadian-astronaut-flying-to-the-moon-this-year-heres-what-you-need-to-know/
