Touchdown on Mars! Virtual Red Planet Explorers Begin Marswalks
Mars 500 simulated mission to the red planet. Crewmembers of a virtual interplanetary flight have “landed” on their destination planet – Mars ! The simulated touchdown and walk on Mars is a key aspect of the Mars500 mission – a simulated sojourn to Mars and back....President to Unveil 2012 Budget on Monday, House Urges Major 2011 NASA Cuts
NASA’s budget outlook — along with that of most federal agencies — is in new flux. And the search for clarity and consequences is not for the impatient. On Monday, President Obama will unveil the administration’s proposed budget for 2012,...Bigelow Aerospace to NASA: BEAM Me Up!
NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver is given a tour of the Bigelow Aerospace facilities on February 4 by the company’s President Robert Bigelow. The tour showcased the private firm’s work on expandable space modules. Photo: NASA/Bill Ingalls NASA is reviewing use...Sim-Mars Project Preparing for “Landing” on the Red Planet
Mars500 crew (from left) Alexey Sitev, Yue Wang, Romain Charles, Alexandr Smoleevskiy, Diego Urbina and Sukhrob Kamolov. Mars isolation modules in Moscow – home for the Mars 500 project. A major simulation of a human voyage to Mars has reached a key milestone –...Book Review: The 50 Most Extreme Places In Our Solar System
The 50 Most Extreme Places In Our Solar System by David Baker and Todd Ratcliff; The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press; Cambridge, Massachusetts; $27.95 (Hardcover); 2010. Readers of all backgrounds will love this book. The volume is beautifully produced,...Mars Rover’s Robotic Arm Performs Up-Close Observations
NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover – Opportunity – is busy at work at the edge of “Santa Maria” crater, surveying the diverse textures of the geological feature. Recent imagery shows the rover making use of its instrument-laden robotic arm to inspect a targeted rock – even...Moons of Mars: Leftovers from a Giant Impact?
Things may have been pretty messy around the red planet in its past. New research suggests the possibility that the martian satellites – Phobos and Deimos — may have been the result of giant impact. The new theory is just out in the prestigious Icarus...Europe’s Mars Express Captures Closeup Photos of Phobos
The European Space Agency’s Mars Express orbiter captured close up photos of the Martian moon Phobos on Jan. 9 A cratered surface is evident in the photos taken at a distance of less than 70 miles. The circled areas are landing sites for Russia’s...NASA’s Fleet of Comet, Asteroid, Moon, Mercury, Mars and Jupiter Spacecraft
A Valentine’s Day gift from space – that’s what scientists are looking for as NASA’s Stardust-NExT spacecraft zooms by comet Tempel 1. The craft is on track for an 8:37 p.m. PST (11:37 p.m. EST) close look at the celestial wanderer on February 14. But take note: The...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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