Attention Citizen Planet Hunters! Kepler Data Available
Over the past three years the NASA Kepler spacecraft and the project’s science team have discovered 77 confirmed planets and 2,321 planet candidates. The Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Md. has announced all of Kepler’s upcoming observations will...SpaceX Achieves Successful Space Station Cargo Delivery and Return Mission With Sunday Splashdown
SpaceX’s Dragon capsule splashed down safely in the Pacific Ocean off the southern California coast Sunday afternoon, successfully restoring a U. S. cargo delivery and return capability to the International Space Station once shouldered by NASA’s long...New Tool for You! Turn Space Data into Infographics
There’s a new website in space town! JPL Infographics is available to you, a way to transform NASA data into scientific works of art. The site provides extensive collections of NASA science and mission data, graphics and space images that users can download to create...Software Company Presents Apollo 11 Moon Landing Dramatization
Experience the drama of humankind’s first moon landing in a new creative format. Thamtech, LLC, has developed a multimedia online recreation of the Apollo 11 July 20, 1969 landing at the Sea of Tranquility. The production weaves together...U. S., Russian Astronauts Depart for Space Station
Three U. S.and Russian astronauts lifted off from Kazakhstan early Tuesday bound for the International Space Station and a five month stay. The Soyuz rocket carrying NASA astronaut Kevin Ford and cosmonauts Oleg Novitskiy and Evgeny Tarelkin blasted off from the...The “Other” Rover on Mars: Forget Me Not!
With all the deserved attention being paid to that new Mars arrival – the Curiosity rover – don’t forget the on-going travels of the Opportunity robot. Opportunity landed on Meridiani Planum on January 25, 2004 and is still cranking out science. Opportunity is now...New Telescope Time with the Planet Uranus
It’s distant, far away from Earth, but still an observational delight: the planet Uranus. With the NASA Voyager 2 spacecraft flyby in January 1986 of the planet Uranus, those observations admittedly pictured the planet as a bland, featureless blue-green orb. But new...NASA’s X1 Suits Up for Missions on Earth as Well as in Space
Space technology can be as much about improving life on Earth as exploring new worlds. Robonaut 2, the first humanoid in space and a joint effort between NASA and automaker GM, has been living aboard the International Space Station for more than a year....Landing on Titan: A Bouncing Re-play!
Back in January 2005, the European Space Agency’s Huygens probe parachuted onto Saturn’s moon, Titan. Thanks to a detailed analysis over seven years later, researchers have pulled together what happened to the probe at touchdown. The analysis is providing clues as to...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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