A Martian Moment – The New York Times
To read more: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/05/12/readers-19/To Mars via Moscow! New Video Details Simulated Space Travel
Starting next month, a crew of six that involves two Europeans, three Russians and one Chinese will participate in the first full-duration simulated mission to Mars. The Mars 500 experiment mimics a mission to Mars in a mockup that includes an interplanetary...NASA team cites new evidence that meteorites from Mars contain ancient fossils
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It’s called “forward contamination” in terms of inadvertently sending Earth bacteria to other worlds. Indeed, fouling the nest of say Mars – perhaps a niche for microbial life – is a concern of NASA researchers. New research published in the April issue of the journal...NASA official battles the bugs of space travel
Source: The Washington Post In H.G. Wells’s “The War of the Worlds,” Earth’s unwitting defense against the Martian hordes comes in the form of pathogenic bacteria to which the invaders lack immunity. In reality, earthlings have created an...Orion highlights political tension
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Who's who in mission control? ✨
From attitude to propulsion, each flight controller is trained and certified in a specific system aboard the Orion spacecraft. Flight controllers operate Orion’s navigation and flight control software, manage coordination of real-time changes in
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At its heart, #Orion carries our collective aspirations into deep space, powered by the European Service Module - a powerful example of global collaboration in action.
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How does NASA prepare for a Moon mission?
One way is through simulations, or sims. While the Artemis II crewmembers are in the Orion trainer spacecraft several buildings over, flight controllers practice every mission milestone and how they would respond to various spacecraft
