NASA’s Opportunity Rover Reaches New Martian Vista
NASA’s long-lived Opportunity Mars Exploration Rover reached the rim of Endeavour crater on the Red Planet late Tuesday, surveying new terrain that the mechanical geologist will explore for evidence of past warmer and wetter...NASA Signs Up Seven Suborbital Companies for Flight Research
NASA selected seven emerging commercial suborbital spaceflight services on Tuesday to foster future research under a $10 million two- year Flight Opportunities Program agreement. The companies include Armadillo Aerospace, of Heath, Tex.; Near Space...Experiment Data Released from Last Shuttle Flight
One of the last experiments to be flown on the NASA space shuttle program is helping to unravel the role of microgravity and its impact on plants and bacteria. QinetiQ North America today announced the results of its first Symbiotic Nodulation in a Reduced Gravity...NASA, International Partners Prepare for Desert RATS Asteroid Mission
NASA will focus its energies on preparations for a mission to a near Earth asteroid late this month, as it joins forces with dozens of experts from academia and industry, the European and Canadian space agencies on the Black Rock Lava Flow...NASA’s Jupiter-bound Juno Spreads Its Solar Wings
Now en route to Jupiter, NASA’s Juno spacecraft has begun its five-year cruise to the giant planet. Juno roared off into Florida skies on Friday, August 5th. Engineers report they have received communications from the spacecraft, and its trio of large solar arrays...NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Reveals Evidence for Water Flows
Recently discovered linear features on sloped Martian terrains suggest water flows on some regions of the Red Planet, raising the prospects for conditions favorable for life, say scientists. The features were imaged by NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter,...Spacewalking Cosmonauts Launch Educational Satellite
Persistent spacewalking cosmonauts Sergei Volkov and Alexander Samokutyaev successfully deployed ARISSat-1, a 57-pound educational satellite from the International Space Station on Wednesday to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Russian Yuri Gagarin’s first human...Juno Ready for Jump to Jupiter
NASA’s Juno spacecraft is ready to begin its five-year journey to Jupiter with a boost from Cape Canaveral this Friday, August 5th. On that day, the launch window opens at 11:34 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time and remains open through 12:43 EDT. Weather appears to be...New View of Mars Rover’s Exploration Site: Gale Crater
When NASA’s mega-Mars rover, Curiosity, lands in August 2012, its target zone is Gale Crater. The robot will touch down at the foot of a layered mountain inside the crater that spans 96 miles (154 kilometers) in diameter. This geological feature also holds a mountain...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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