Spacewalk Prepares Space Station for New Russian Lab
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Family, friends and those who worked along side Neil Armstrong paid tribute to the Apollo 11 commander at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston on Thursday and dedicated a native Live Oak to his memory. The first human to step to the surface of another...NASA Asteroid Retrieval Mission Becomes Global Grand Challenge
NASA’s proposed asteroid identification and redirect mission proposal was elevated to “Grand Challenge” status in Washington on Tuesday by the Obama Administration. The featured theme of President Obama’s proposed 2014 NASA budget is now on par...Eight New Astronauts to Help U.S. Define Space Future
NASA has chosen four men and four women, most of them with military aviation in their wide ranging professional backgrounds, to help define the nation’s post-space shuttle era. They report to NASA’s Johnson Space Center in August to prepare...New Horizons to Pluto: Stay the Course!
Launched in January 2006, the NASA New Horizons mission to distant Pluto is on target to whisk by that faraway world in July 2015. New news from the New Horizons team: Unless significant new hazards are found, the spacecraft is set to stay on its original course past...Valentina Tershkova Pioneered the Way to Space For Woman
Sunday marks an important anniversary in the annals of human spaceflight. On June 16, 1963, Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman to fly in space. Now 77, Tereshkova circled the Earth 48 times flying solo over three days in the Vostok 6...Book Review: The Space Book: From the Beginning to the End of Time, 250 Milestones in the History of Space & Astronomy
The Space Book: From the Beginning to the End of Time, 250 Milestones in the History of Space & Astronomy by Jim Bell; Sterling Publishing Co. Inc; New York, New York; (hard cover) $29.95; May 2013. This elegant, eye-catching book offers stunning photographs and...NASA’s Opportunity Rover Matches Curioisty’s Martian Water Discovery
NASA’s long-lived Mars Opportunity rover has joined the more recently landed and better equipped Curiosity rover in finding evidence for a chemically neutral form of water in rocks favorable for the emergence of biological activity during the red planet’s...NASA’s Next Moon Mission Arrives at Launch Site
NASA’s next mission to the Moon has moved closer to its launch later this year. The Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) has arrived at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. LADEE is a robotic mission that will orbit Earth’s Moon to gather...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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