Close Encounters: Spacecraft Orbiting Mercury Spots Two Comets
NASA’s MESSENGER spacecraft is orbiting Mercury and has been able to snag images of two comets: 2P/Encke and C/2012 S1 (ISON. Later this month, both of these comets will be substantially brighter and much closer to Mercury and the Sun. MESSENGER has been poised for...Private Firm Shoots for the Moon: Calls for Property Rights Regime
At a press conference today, representatives of NASA and Bigelow Aerospace discussed the options for commercial sector involvement in space exploration beyond low-Earth orbit. Under a NASA Space Act Agreement, Bigelow Aerospace of North Las Vegas, Nevada has scoped...Multi-national Space Station Crew Safe on Earth
U.S., European and Russian astronauts descended safely to Earth late Sunday, ending a 166 day mission to the International Space Station that drew to a close with a celebration of the 2014 Winter Games scheduled for Sochi, Russia. The Russian Soyuz spacecraft...Book Review – Mission: Mars – Get Ready for the Future of Space Exploration
Mission: Mars – Get Ready for the Future of Space Exploration by Pascal Lee; Scholastic Inc., New York; $6.99 (paperback); September 2013. Looking for a link to Mars for that special Christmas present? Here’s a book recommended for ages 9-12, but readers of all ages...Milky Way Math: Billions of Potentially Habitable, Earth-size Planets
For those interstellar travelers hungry to hit high speed, there are places to visit! New research indicates that there are several tens of billions of potentially habitable, Earth-size planets, in the Milky Way Galaxy alone. Analysis by Univ. of Calif. Berkeley and...Going to Take You Higher – Mars Rover Rolls to Energy Lily Pads
NASA’s Opportunity rover on Mars has survived five Martian winters since it landed on the Red Planet in January 2004. The robot is now seeking the Sun’s rays as winter approaches, doing so by ascending the northern edge of “Solander Point” at the rim of Endeavour...Book Review: Apollo 13 Owners’ Workshop Manual
Apollo 13 Owners’ Workshop Manual – An engineering insight into how NASA saved the crew of the failed Moon mission; Quayside publishing group/Zenith Press; Minneapolis, MN; $28.00; November 2013. For those of you that didn’t experience the “real deal” in 1970 – beyond...“Crash Class” in Returning Samples from Space
A University of Washington (UW) class is crashing rockets into the ground…and on purpose. The student project is called “Sample Return Systems for Extreme Environments,” a novel technology that recently received $500,000 over two years from the NASA Innovative...NASA Powers Up Orion
Orion, the new NASA spacecraft under development to transport U. S. astronauts to an assortment of deep space destinations, including the asteroids, the moon and eventually Mars, has been powered up for the first time at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, where it 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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