Book Review: NASA’s First 50 Years – Historical Perspectives
Credit: NASA History Division NASA’s First 50 Years – Historical Perspectives by Steven Dick, editor; NASA Special Publication (SP-2010-4704); U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C. ; (hard cover) ; $79.00; 2010 This impressive and scholarly volume is...NASA Pushes Forward on Human Mission to an Asteroid
Image of asteroid Itokawa taken by Japan’s Hayabusa spacecraft in 2005. Credit: JAXA NASA is holding next month an Exploration of Near Earth Objects Objectives Workshop, dubbed Explore NOW. The by-invitation only workshop has been sparked by U.S. President Obama’s...New! First Imagery of Asteroid 21 Lutetia
The European Space Agency’s (ESA) Rosetta spacecraft has zoomed by asteroid 21 Lutetia today. The first images have reached the ground from the spacecraft. The event marks the largest asteroid ever visited by a space probe. More imagery relayed from Rosetta to Earth...On Target: Asteroid Encounter!
The European Space Agency’s (ESA) Rosetta spacecraft is on track to zoom past asteroid 21 Lutetia on July 10. The event marks the largest asteroid ever visited by a space probe. Will it look anything like this artist’s sketch? Asteroid Lutetia is a major...Scientists find dust inside Japan’s asteroid capsule
Source: Spaceflight Now The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency announced Monday they found particles inside the Hayabusa mission’s capsule that was supposed to scoop up a sample from the surface of asteroid Itokawa in 2005. Hayabusa’s return capsule...NASA Chief: Next Frontier Better Relations With Muslim World
Source: FOX News NASA Administrator Charles Bolden said in a recent interview that his “foremost” mission as the head of America’s space exploration agency is to improve relations with the Muslim world. Though international diplomacy would seem well...Should we work with China?
Source: Florida Today Last week, the world buzzed about whether China might become a partner in the International Space Station project. First, to clarify some confusion, the partners have not invited China. China has not accepted. The White House and NASA reiterate...Congressional Bill Calls for Commission on Planetary Defense
How best to thwart Earth-threatening objects is receiving increased attention in Washington, D.C. Congressman Dana Rohrabacher (Republican from California) has introduced a bill calling for the establishment of a United States Commission on Planetary Defense. Such a...We Can’t Let Them Down
The three U. S. astronauts aboard the International Space Station reflected on their mission Tuesday, expressing their hopes for the future of human exploration and their remorse over the sight of the spreading oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Tracy Caldwell Dyson,...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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