NASA Hands Discovery to the Air and Space Museum
Orbiter Discovery now belongs to the Smithsonian Institution’s Air and Space Museum and the American people. The spacecraft’s official transfer from NASA to the famed museum’s Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center at Dulles International Airport in...NASA, SpaceX Plan First U. S. Commercial Supply Mission to the International Space Station
NASA and SpaceX, of Hawthorne, are aiming for an April 30 lift off of the first U. S. commercial re-supply mission to the International Space Station. The space agency’s six year-old Commercial Orbital Transportation Services program was initiated to...Space Station: What’s in that Glovebox?
The International Space Station (ISS) is the focal point for “heated” debate! An experiment is bridging the gap between normal gravity material flammability screening tests, short time ground-based microgravity tests and actual zero-gravity spacecraft conditions....Landing Test: Boeing’s Commercial Crew Capsule for Space Station
A commercial crew space transportation capsule made a step forward on April 3, parachuting into a desert landscape. The Boeing Crew Space Transportation (CST)-100 spacecraft floated down into the Delamar Dry Lake Bed near Alamo, Nevada – a first test of a fully...Space Station Demo Holds Prospects for Improved Safety on the High Seas
A technology demonstration underway aboard the International Space Station — of all places — promises to improve safety and security on the world’s oceans. And that is saying a lot — about 70 percent of the Earth’s surface is covered by...New UN Report: Space and Climate Change – Use of Space-based Technologies
United Nations organizations are making full use of space-based technologies in a shared quest to enhance our ability to manage planet Earth and to address the critical challenges facing the human condition. “Climate change threatens to have a catastrophic impact on...Teen Winners Emerge in YouTube Space Station Experiment Contest
Bacteria and Spiders may seem like an unwelcome combination. But put them tegether with some astronauts aboard the International Space Station and something quite fascinating is bound to happen. So figured Dorothy Chen and Sara Ma, both 16 of Troy, Mich., and Amr...“Earth Hour” Engages the Space Station
Mark March 31st on your calendar – the day that “Earth Hour” will extend to the International Space Station for the first time. European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut and World Wildlife Fund (WWF) ambassador, André Kuipers, will keep watch over planet Earth as lights...John Glenn, NASA Leaders Look to U. S. Space Future
Mercury astronaut John Glenn joined top NASA leaders in Ohio on Monday to mark the 50th anniversary of his historic three orbit mission around the Earth, with a look to the nation’s future in space. The NASA Future Forum at Ohio State University...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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