Opportunity Mars Rover Inches Toward Next Target
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Martian Summer – Robot Arms, Cowboy Spacemen, and My 90 Days with the Phoenix Mars Mission by Andrew Kessler; Pegasus Books; New York, New York; $27.95 (Hardcover); April 2011. NASA’s Phoenix Mars lander was a milestone in red planet probing. Touching down on Mars on...NASA Hustles to Overcome Mars Science Laboratory Launch Obstacles
NASA faces significant cost and technical challenges in its bid to launch the $2.5 billion Mars Science Laboratory, also known as the Curiosity rover, during a 23-day window late this year, according to a new report from the agency’s independent Inspector...Next Mars Rover Readied for Action – But Where Will It Land?
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Living on Mars – New ideas for habitats Credit: NASA/Space Telescope Science Institute Advanced textile materials may be just the ticket to help make a human mission to Mars a 21st century reality. Aeronautical and textile engineering students from North...Book Review: First Contact – Scientific Breakthroughs in the Hunt for Life Beyond Earth
First Contact – Scientific Breakthroughs in the Hunt for Life Beyond Earth by Marc Kaufman; Simon & Schuster; New York, New York; $26.00 (hard cover); 2011. The author is a science and space reporter for the Washington Post – and capitalizes on his aptitude...So Long Spirit! Attempts to Reawaken Mars Rover End
Spirit’s last picture show. One of the last images from the Mars rover. Credit: NASA/JPL/Cornell NASA’s Opportunity Mars rover continues on its long-distance trek. Credit: NASA/JPL/Cornell It appears that it’s all over for NASA’s spirited Mars rover. The...NASA Designates Orion as Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle for Future Human Deep Space Missions
The four person Orion spacecraft, once part of the Constellation program, will emerge as a center piece of U. S. plans to resume the exploration of deep space with astronauts, NASA Administrator Charles Bolden and other agency officials announced on Tuesday. The...Wanted: Teachers for Micro-gravity Flight!
Powell Middle School math and science teachers Carrie Brunner, Courtney Poloney and Kara Kwolek experience weightlessness during the Northrop Grumman Foundation Weightless Flights of Discovery in Detroit. Credit: Northrop Grumman The Northrop Grumman Foundation is...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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