NASA’s X1 Suits Up for Missions on Earth as Well as in Space
Space technology can be as much about improving life on Earth as exploring new worlds. Robonaut 2, the first humanoid in space and a joint effort between NASA and automaker GM, has been living aboard the International Space Station for more than a year....NASA’s Curiosity Rover Finds Evidence That Water Flowed on Mars
NASA’s Curiosity rover, still very early in its two-year search of Gale Crater for evidence of habitable environments, offered strong visual evidence this week that water flowed across the surface of Mars during a warmer earlier period. The findings from...NASA’s Mars Program Planning Group Outlines Future Exploration Options
U. S. space policy makers, armed with a new set of exploration options developed by NASA’s Mars Program Planning Group but constrained by little prospect for budget growth, will wrestle with some pretty ambitious goals: **Robotically acquire samples of...New Research: Meandering Microorganisms Between Planets
There is a high probability that life came to Earth — or spread from Earth to other planets — during the Solar System’s infancy. New research on this prospect has been presented at the now being held European Planetary Sciences Congress. The findings provide the...The Long Arm of Science: Curiosity Rover Studies Mars Rock
NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity has begun up-close work on “Jake Matijevic.” The rover is touching the rock with a spectrometer to determine its elemental composition and use an arm-mounted camera to take close-up photographs. The football-size rock is the first for the...House Republicans Back Space Leadership Preservation Act of 2012
The Space Leadership Preservation Act of 2012, legislation introduced in Washington on Thursday, would significanty change the way NASA is led and its programs managed in order to establish new stability and accountability, according to its six...Stable Funding Crucial to NASA’s Human, Robotic Exploration Plans
NASA and the agency’s prime contractors for the Space Launch System and Orion/Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle, the primary elements of the first U. S. human deep space exploration capability since the Apollo program and potential major new science initiatives,...International Astronautical Federation to Share Flags Flown Aboard U. S., Russian and Chinese Spacecraft
Three hundred commemorative flags belonging to the International Astronautical Federation and the only objects to have flown in space by all nations with active human space programs will be returned to the organization by a Chinese delegation at the ILA Berlin Air...NASA’s Mohawk Guy to Host Third Rock Radio Show on Thursday Afternoon
Bobak Ferdowsi, the NASA flight controller who earned an enthusiastic youthful following during the Aug. 6 landing of NASA’s Mars Curiosity rover, will host the NASA-sponsored Third Rock radio broadcast on Thursday at 4 p.m., EDT. “I never thought...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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