Opportunity Mars Rover: Studying “High-Value” Surface Targets
While the world anxiously awaits next week’s news from the NASA Curiosity rover, the elder rover on Mars – Opportunity – continues to grind away at Red Planet science. Opportunity has begun a science campaign on some high-value surface targets. The robot’s set of...3-D Printer Makes Parts From Lunar Simulant
Turns out that you can leave home Earth without it! If you’re on the moon and in need of that needed wrench or replacement part, why not just 3-D print the item? Amit Bandyopadhyay, professor in the School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering at Washington State...U. S., Russian Astronauts Selected for 1-year Space Station Mission
NASA Astronaut Scott Kelly and Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko will prepare for a one-year mission aboard the International Space Station, a move intended to help prepare human explorers for the physical and mental rigors of future deep space missions. The...Federal Workers Find NASA Best Place to Work
In a close contest, NASA edged out more than a half-dozen federal agencies in a 2012 U. S. Office of Professional Management survey of the best places to work within the U. S. federal government. NASA, with a 74 percent employee satisfaction ranking, topped...Curiosity’s Curious “Finding” on Mars
The scientific community is abuzz about NASA’s one-ton Mars rover, Curiosity, making a finding using a suite of instruments called SAM that can gulp in and analyze Martian soil samples. Those SAM findings have not yet been released. The story that kick-started all the...NASA’s Next Mars Mission Enters Key Phase
NASA’s next mission to Mars is the spacecraft known as the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN, or MAVEN for short. MAVEN is set for launch in November 2013. As a Mars orbiter, MAVEN will be the first mission devoted to understanding the Martian atmosphere, with a...Recently Formed Craters Spotted on Mars
Future human crews strolling around on Mars need to keep an eye on the Martian sky – for one they’ll have to be on the lookout for incoming objects. NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has spotted a cluster of impact craters that formed sometime between August...Astronaut Commands Rover Over New Space Internet
Using a developmental version of a space Internet, NASA astronaut Sunita Williams commanded a robot on a mock planetary surface in Germany to move forward and take pictures with a laptop aboard the International Space Station. The Oct. 23 exercise was sponsored...Bird’s-eye View Above Mars! Valles Marineris
The spectacular Valles Marineris canyon system on the Red Planet dwarfs in size the U.S. Grand Canyon. The European Space Agency’s Mars Express spacecraft has been taking image strips of the valley system since 2004. A mosaic view of the geological wonder – using 20...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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