White House Endorses Extension of Space Station Operations from 2020 to 2024
A White House endorsement Wednesday of an extension of operations aboard the U. S. led International Space Station from 2020 to at least 2024 sets a wide stage for more work on life support systems for future human deep space missions, the maturing of U. S. commercial...Wheel Wear and Tear on the Red Planet
There’s no fear of a flat! But new images back from the NASA Curiosity Mars rover show that the rock-studded Red Planet terrain is causing wear, tear and holes on the rover’s aluminum wheels. In fact, future drives of the machine may be charted to cross smoother...NASA’s Red Planet Patrol: A Status Check
Mars is a busy place! NASA’s Curiosity rover, the most technologically advanced rover ever built, landed in Mars’ Gale Crater the evening of Aug. 5, 2012 Pacific Daylight Time using a series of complicated landing maneuvers never before attempted. Curiosity has been...Book Review: Alien Seas – Oceans in Space
Alien Seas – Oceans in Space by Michael Carroll, Rosaly Lopes (Editors); Springer, New York; $29.99 (hardcover); 2013. Thanks to the editors for this captivating “wet look” at an under-appreciated aspect of planets and moons in our celestial neighborhood – those “seas...Mars One Details 2018 Plan
Mars One — a not-for-profit foundation established to plant a permanent human settlement on Mars — has secured lead suppliers for its first mission to Mars. The mission, slated for a 2018 launch, will include a robotic lander and a communications...Time Capsule for the Red Planet Blueprinted
The planet Mars may be on the receiving end of a “Time Capsule of Humanity” orchestrated by an international team of university students. The students are proposing to fly their time capsule to Mars via a CubeSat platform. This vehicle would carry a unique payload: a...Zap Patrol on Mars
NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover has surpassed 100,000 zaps of its ChemCam laser instrument. ChemCam zaps rocks with a high-powered laser to determine their composition and carries a camera that can survey the Martian landscape. The ChemCam concept was developed at Los...Curiosity Mars Rover: Mountain Viewing
NASA’s Curiosity rover on Mars is busy surveying its surroundings. The rover is driving from a flatter area where it worked for several months after landing in 2012 to the slopes of a mountain 3 miles (5 kilometers) high, Mount Sharp. Pressing forward, Curiosity is...Update: Mars Orbiters En Route to Red Planet
Two spacecraft are headed for Mars: NASA’s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution mission (MAVEN) and the Indian Space Research Organization’s Mangalyaan probe, also called Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM). MAVEN was hurled Marsward on November 18 and is on track to arrive...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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