Sim-Mars Project Preparing for “Landing” on the Red Planet
Mars500 crew (from left) Alexey Sitev, Yue Wang, Romain Charles, Alexandr Smoleevskiy, Diego Urbina and Sukhrob Kamolov. Mars isolation modules in Moscow – home for the Mars 500 project. A major simulation of a human voyage to Mars has reached a key milestone –...Alien Worlds Abound, According to NASA’s Kepler Mission Scientists
NASA’s Kepler space telescope has made major new strides in the search for extrasolar planets, producing its first candidates for Earth-sized worlds and the first worlds orbiting within what’s considered the habitable zones of stars, astronomers...Book Review: The 50 Most Extreme Places In Our Solar System
The 50 Most Extreme Places In Our Solar System by David Baker and Todd Ratcliff; The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press; Cambridge, Massachusetts; $27.95 (Hardcover); 2010. Readers of all backgrounds will love this book. The volume is beautifully produced,...Mars Rover’s Robotic Arm Performs Up-Close Observations
NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover – Opportunity – is busy at work at the edge of “Santa Maria” crater, surveying the diverse textures of the geological feature. Recent imagery shows the rover making use of its instrument-laden robotic arm to inspect a targeted rock – even...America has New Chapters to Write in the Exploration of Space, June Scobee Rogers tells Challenger Memorial Service
. Family, friends and co-workers gathered at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on Friday to pay tribute to the seven astronauts who perished aboard the shuttle Challenger, which shattered moments after thundering into a blue Florida sky 25 years ago. The ceremony...New Tool for Space Weather Forecasting
When it comes to the Sun, one could recall that line sung by Elvis: “A churning urn of burning funk.” But now space weather forecasters have a new tool to issue a one-to-four day advance warning of high speed streams of solar plasma and Earth-directed coronal mass...Hubble Unveils Most Distant Galaxy
Using the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have spotted what appears to be one of the universe’s earliest galaxies. The faint red blob is 13.2 billion light years away and 500 million times too faint to see with the human eye. Experts now calculate the age...Moons of Mars: Leftovers from a Giant Impact?
Things may have been pretty messy around the red planet in its past. New research suggests the possibility that the martian satellites – Phobos and Deimos — may have been the result of giant impact. The new theory is just out in the prestigious Icarus...Tally Ho! First Imagery of Comet Tempel 1 by NASA’s Stardust NExT Spacecraft
A Valentine’s Day target has been spotted by NASA’s Stardust spacecraft. Images of comet Tempel 1 have been relayed by the en route probe, over 16 million miles away from the celestial object. The Stardust NExT mission is slated to carry out close-up investigations of...Space Talk
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NASA’s crawler-transporter 2 recently arrived at the Vehicle Assembly Building at @NASAKennedy. On Jan. 17, NASA’s Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft will ride the crawler to Launch Pad 39B in preparation for the Artemis II mission around the Moon.
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