Pick of the Crop! Space Farm 7 Corn Maze Contest
It is being called the newest form of “agritainment”. In a special outreach titled Space Farm 7, seven of the nation’s top agritourism farms have been selected to celebrate and honor the U.S. space program in collaboration with NASA this fall. Each farm has planted...NASA Will Recruit More Astronauts
NASA will formally seek astronaut applicants in November, with plans to hire its first post-shuttle era class in 2013 and start their training regime in August of that year. The agency did not say how many new astronauts it intends to hire in an announcement...Atlantis Crew Demonstrated Promising Water Recovery Technique
During NASA’s final shuttle mission in July, astronauts demonstrated techniques borrowed from nature that may help future fliers on spacewalks, or even explorers on long missions to distant planetary bodies, recycle impure water for drinking. The process is...NASA Unveils Plans for Super Rocket to Launch Explorers on Deep Space Missions
NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, flanked by a bi-partisan gathering of Washington lawmakers, unveiled the agency’s heavy lift rocket strategy on Wednesday, a monstrous spacecraft that will eventually eclipse the legendary Saturn V and propel future...Mars Menu for Future Explorers – A Chow Down Challenge
Stuffing the food pantry for the first voyagers to strike out for Mars is no easy task. That’s the word from Maya Cooper, a senior research scientist at the NASA Johnson Space Center in the Space Food Systems Laboratory in Houston, Texas. Maya has reported that...Russian Progress Loss May Impact Space Station Operations
A Russian Progress supply craft bound for the International Space Station crashed back to Earth early Wednesday, potentially impacting future crew as well as cargo transportation activities aboard the orbiting science lab — barely a month after...Robonaut 2 Powers Up Aboard the Space Station
Astronauts aboard the International Space Station powered up Robonaut 2 for the first time on Monday, though the legless humanoid was not permitted to move head and arms during the two hour exercise. “First motion” is likely several weeks...Competition for Global Space Leadership Tightens, Futron reports
The Futron Corp’s 2011 Space Competiveness Index finds the United States perched atop 10 global competitors in the field, yet slipping as the nation’s space policy undergoes a transition, especially in the realm of human space flight. The Bethesda,...NASA Makes More Shuttle-era Artifacts Available to Museums, Schools for Public Display
NASA on Monday is making approximately 2,000 artifacts from the shuttle-era and earlier spaceflight programs available for display at NASA visitor centers as well as qualified museums, libraries, planetariums and other venues. The agency will accept requests...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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