Thumbs Up! Orion Pad Abort-1 Test Success
WHITE SANDS MISSILE RANGE, New Mexico – It was all thumbs up and back slaps here today as the Orion Pad Abort -1 flew flawlessly – a test to help develop safer vehicles for human spaceflight applications. Within 97 seconds of an initial 500,000-pound blast of solid...Plasma Rocket May Shorten Space Voyages
Source: Discovery News If tests prove successful, this innovative new rocket could one day take astronauts to Mars in a little more than a month. THE GIST NASA is looking at flying a plasma-powered rocket to survey an asteroid. The rocket is a twin of one being...Japan Could Put a Human(oid) on the Moon by 2015
Source: Space.com A group of engineers in Japan have begun planning a two-legged humanoid robot designed to walk to the surface of the moon, according to Japanese press reports. “We decided on a human-like robot because it’s more fascinating and...NASA team cites new evidence that meteorites from Mars contain ancient fossils
Source: The Washington Post NASA’s Mars Meteorite Research Team reopened a 14-year-old controversy on extraterrestrial life last week, reaffirming and offering support for its widely challenged assertion that a 4-billion-year-old meteorite that landed thousands...Shuttle funded to operate through early 2011; three more flights left
Source: Florida Today Flame Trench NASA expects to have enough money to continue flying the shuttle into February 2011, but has no plans to fly any missions beyond the three remaining, officials said today. Atlantis is next up, on track to launch May 14 on what is its...Apollo 13 controller Gene Kranz: President’s space path ‘dangerous’
Source: The Huntville Times Gene Kranz, the legendary NASA flight director who controlled the first flights to the moon and helped save Apollo 13, says President Barack Obama “has put our nation on a dangerous path” with his proposed new space program....NASA will test crew escape system in desert launch this week
Source: The Huntsville Times Two new rocket motors will fly for the first time in New Mexico Thursday morning when NASA scientists, including some from Huntsville, flight test a crew escape system. An empty Orion capsule will go from zero to 600 mph in 4 seconds...NASA Opens Applications for ‘INSPIRED’ high school students
High school students in the United States are invited to participate in NASA’s Interdisciplinary National Science Program Incorporating Research Experience, or INSPIRE, through the program’s online learning community. Applications are being accepted from...James Cameron at Caltech: The Science of Pandora
Source: Discovery News Last week, I had the good fortune to part of a packed house in Caltech’s Beckman Auditorium when director James Cameron came to Caltech on the evening of April 27 to talk about the fictional world called Pandora that he created in the...Space Talk
Why do black holes have a bright ring if light can’t escape?
The black hole itself isn’t glowing. The light comes from super-hot gas and dust spinning around it in an accretion disk.
🔥 Bright ring = hot matter
⚫ Dark center = black hole
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NASA Futurist Monty K Reed demonstrating the use of the EEG cap in BCI (Brain Computer Interface) in the laboratory to control the LIFESUIT Powered Robotic Suit aka Exoskeleton that helps paralyzed people walk again Followed by a demonstration of Mind Reading #NASAFuturist #NASA
