Video: Doing the Robot Strut
On the move…ATHLETE robot wheels into the future. Credit: NASA/JPL Sure, athletes are always in workout mode. But what about a robot? Check out the moves of the All-Terrain Hex-Limbed Extra-Terrestrial Explorer – short named: ATHLETE Under development at...New Crater Found on the Moon
Something old, something new! Photo comparison courtesy NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center/Arizona State University. Earth’s crater-pocked old Moon sports a new feature. Thanks to the high-power imaging system – the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera, or LROC for...Mars Rover’s Enduring Crawl to Endeavour Crater
Just relayed imagery from NASA’s Opportunity Mars rover show it making progress on its long distance trek toward Endeavour crater. Back here on Earth, operators of the rover have had Endeavour in their sights since the summer of 2008, when the wheeled machinery on...Book Review: Voyager: Seeking Newer Worlds in the Third Great Age of Discovery
Voyager: Seeking Newer Worlds in the Third Great Age of Discovery by Stephen J. Pyne; Viking/Penguin Group (USA); New York, New York; (hard cover); $29.95; 2010. This is an exceptional book by an award-winning environmental historian and author – a volume that...This Week in Space, July 30, 2010
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lg1HahU55Z0NASA Office Considered for Planetary Defense
The NASA Advisory Council’s Ad-Hoc Task Force on Planetary Defense is grappling with a set of recommendations – one of which could have the space agency set up a coordination office to help protect Earth from Near Earth Objects (NEOs). A special seven-person...Congressional Investigators Side with NASA over 2010 Exploration Spending
The investigative arm of Congress sided with NASA on Monday in a report sought by lawmakers over concerns the agency had slowed 2010 spending on the Constellation Program, while they reviewed White House plans to cancel the six-year-old, back-to-the-moon initiative....A Moment in Time: Space Station to Fly Atomic Clock
Columbus module with ACES containing PHARAO and Space H-Maser. Credits: ESA – D. Ducros The International Space Station (ISS) will be the site for an exciting new investigation – probing the principal theories of physics. The Atomic Clock Ensemble in Space...NASA’s Legislative Future Still Uncertain
After months of gridlock, the House and Senate have engaged with the White House in a recent flurry of legislative activities intended to produce an agreement on the future of NASA-led space exploration. However, key differences remain, especially over the much larger...Space Talk
@rookisaacman's MiG is a gorgeous jet to see in the skies
Congratulations to the SpaceX team on today’s very successful launch. That was a blast to watch!
@ThePrimalDino A rocket that has been undergoing test flights for three years still keeps failing. That’s why I’m bearish on Starship. The repeated setbacks of Starship have put America’s lunar landing program far behind schedule.
@xue_tu93527 I mean I wouldn’t call this flight a failure personally, but the impact of this extensive testing campaign is indeed noticeable on our lunar ambitions
Say cheese, Earth and Moon! 📸
One of our two Mars-bound ESCAPADE spacecraft captured Earth and the Moon from 363,250 miles (584,600 kilometers) away. In visible light, both worlds appear as slim crescents.
But switch to thermal infrared and it’s a different picture 👇 🧵1/2
🧵2/2 In thermal infrared, Earth's nightside glows in the dark, warmed by its own heat. The Moon, with no oceans or atmosphere to hold in warmth, stays locked at a bone-chilling -280°F.
The images help calibrate ESCAPADE's cameras for its mission to the Red Planet:
@NASA and @BlueOrigin announced Friday they recently agreed to conduct second stage hot fire testing for the company’s New Glenn rocket on the B-2 test stand at the agency’s Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi.
The annex to a reimbursable Space Act Agreement
