To Mars via Moscow! New Video Details Simulated Space Travel
Starting next month, a crew of six that involves two Europeans, three Russians and one Chinese will participate in the first full-duration simulated mission to Mars. The Mars 500 experiment mimics a mission to Mars in a mockup that includes an interplanetary...The Missions of Atlantis
Shuttle Atlantis is nearing a lift off for the 32nd and likely the last time on Friday, May 14, a strong indication that NASA’s shuttle program is nearing the retirement envisioned by the nation’s top policy makers in the aftermath of the 2003 shuttle...NASA Clears Atlantis for Final Scheduled Mission
Shuttle Atlantis will under go preparations for its final scheduled mission, a 12-day voyage to the International Space Station for the delivery of a Russian made-docking and laboratory module as well as spacewalking upgrades to communications and solar power systems....NASA Holds Readiness Review For Shuttle Atlantis Flight
Source: Florida Today NASA is in the midst of a Flight Readiness Review that is widely expected to result in the selection of May 14 as the firmed up launch date for shuttle Atlantis and six astronauts on a mission to the International Space Station. The last flight...Bolden Seeks Support, Gerstenmaier Receives National Space Trophy
NASA Administrator Charles Bolden urged aerospace veterans on Friday to support President Obama’s initiative to develop a commercial space industry that can transport astronauts to Earth orbit as part of a long range international effort to resume human deep...NASA Moves Final Shuttle Mission to Mid-November
NASA’s space shuttle program has received a brief reprieve from retirement. The last of three missions still remaining had been scheduled for a Sept. 16 launching aboard the shuttle Discovery. On Monday, shuttle managers moved the planned July 29 launching of...NASA has escape plan for space station astronauts
Source: Los Angeles Times The agency may send the Orion capsule to the International Space Station in three years, Administrator Bolden says at a Senate hearing. NASA may be able to send a new vessel to the International Space Station within three years to provide...Senate Appropriators Challenge President’s Updated Space Policy
President Obama’s plans to cancel NASA’s Constellation Program in favor of major new investments in commercial space transportation for astronauts and a future mission to Mars faced new bi-partisan criticism on Thursday from the Senate Appropriations...Upcoming NASA, Russian Missions to Place Record Numbers of Women, Japanese Astronauts in Space
NASA’s 13-day, STS-131 mission by the shuttle Discovery will mark a couple of spaceflight milestones, the first times four women and two Japanese have been in space at the same time. Shuttle Discovery is scheduled to lift off from NASA’s Kennedy Space...Space Talk
October was a busy month! Here’s your monthly roundup from the European Space Agency.
🔗 https://esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Videos/2026/10/What_happened_this_month_at_the_European_Space_Agency_October_2026
🚨✈️ NOT A MISSILE! NASA’s futuristic, pencil-thin X-59 supersonic jet spotted flying across the US. The future of aviation is here!
#NASA #Space #Science
Google ran AI on a satellite and received its answer back on Earth.
The bigger idea: use sunlight in space to power computers behind future AI tools.
An early test, not a finished service. Cost and reliability still need proving.
https://Vyera.ai #AI #Space
NASA EPSCoR 2027: hasta $750,000 para investigación. Dos equipos de Puerto Rico avanzarán a la competencia nacional. Prepropuestas: 16 dic., 5 p. m. AST.
https://gerardomorell.com/2026/10/31/nasa-epscor-2027-puerto-rico-preproposals/
#NASA #EPSCoR
