Sim-Mars Project Preparing for “Landing” on the Red Planet
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A towering Japanese HII-B rocket thundered away from the Tanegashima Space Center in Japan early Saturday, initiating a five-day journey to the International Space Station for Kounotori, an unmanned cargo transport carrying 5.3 tons of spare parts, food, research gear...On the Wing: NASA’s High-Flying Observatory Studies Star Formation
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Commander Scott Kelly led a solemn observance aboard the International Space Station on Monday for those where were killed and wounded on Saturday during a shooting rampage at a political rally in Tucson, Arizona. Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, the wife...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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