Eager Americans Flood NASA With Astronaut Applications
NASA received a startling number of applications for a relatively small number of openings in the agency’s next class of astronauts — the men and women will live and work aboard the International Space Station, pioneer the use of new...NASA’s Orion Available for Public Viewing in Oklahoma, Texas and Alabama
A test version of NASA’s Orion/Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle will go on public display in the coming weeks as it is transported from White Sands, N. M., to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., The spacecraft that NASA has chosen to...International Campaign to Monitor Fall of Russian Spacecraft
The wayward Russian Marscraft, Phobos-Grunt, is expected to soon dive into the Earth’s atmosphere, destroying itself during a fiery re-entry process. Phobos–Grunt was launched on November 8 of last year, but due to a propulsion failure, the spacecraft was marooned in...Humans in Space: A Look Back at 2011, A Look Ahead at 2012
A year of milestones in human spaceflight, some tinged with nostalgia, is drawing to a close. The New Year opens with the U. S.and its global partners settled in Earth orbit, and a NASA strategy for the future human exploration of deep space starting to gel. In...Fading 2011 Brings Strides in Search for Life Beyond Earth
The last two months of 2011 have produced some remarkable strides in the quest to determine whether life exists elsewhere in universe — at least life as we know it. Life as we know it, means biological activity in environments where liquid water is...Book Review: When Biospheres Collide – A History of NASA’s Planetary Protection Programs
When Biospheres Collide – A History of NASA’s Planetary Protection Programs by Michael Meltzer; NASA History Program Office (NASA SP-2011 – 4234), Washington, D.C.; 2011. Note: Available as NASA e-Book. This is an absorbing look at a topic that receives little...Mars-bound Rover to Probe Radiation Conditions for Future Astronauts, Living Organisms
NASA’s Curiosity rover now en route for an August 2012 landing on the red planet carries a unique Radiation Assessment Detector – or RAD for short. That device will measure radiation levels at the Martian surface for the first time ever. And in doing so,...Book Review: Exploring Mars – Chronicles from a Decade of Discovery
Exploring Mars – Chronicles from a Decade of Discovery by Scott Hubbard; University of Arizona Press, Tucson, Arizona; $17.95 (paperback); December 2011. As I write this today, NASA’s Mars Curiosity rover is outbound for the red planet. It has been a long haul for the...MSL/Curiosity to Further Human Exploration
While the primary goal of NASA’s ambitious $2.5 billion Mars Science Laboratory mission is to assess the habitability of the Martian environment, U. S. space agency experts planning for the future human exploration of the Red Planet will be...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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