Book Review: My Dream of Stars – From Daughter of Iran to Space Pioneer
My Dream of Stars – From Daughter of Iran to Space Pioneer by Anousheh Ansari with Homer Hickam; Palgrave Macmillan; New York, New York: $16.00 (softcover); $25.00 (hardcover); 2010. This is a love story…anchored here on Earth with her soulmate, Hamid – as well...New Visitors Arrive at the Moon
It has been a long and loopy flight for two spacecraft. Now, after one and a half years and making more than 90 orbit maneuvers, along with numerous gravitational boosts, NASA’s ARTEMIS spacecraft have been repurposed – leaving orbit around Earth to arrive at their...Ultrasound: Space Research Spurs Terrestrial Health Care Benefits
The development of exam techniques for use on the International Space Station (ISS) is expanding the use of ultrasound on Earth. These techniques are in use by non-physician astronauts to perform ultrasound exams on their space colleagues. Why ultrasound? Ultrasound...Reusable Rocket Testing Underway at Spaceport America
The desert landscape of New Mexico’s Spaceport America is a perfect setting for testing rockets. In fact, the father of American rocketry, Robert Goddard, found the area ideal for his trial testing of hardware. Armadillo Aerospace of Rockwall, Texas is now test flying...Russian Supply Craft Docks With Space Station
An unpiloted Russian supply craft docked successfully with the International Space Station on Thursday, delivering 5,800 pounds of fuel, food, water, medical supplies and spare parts. The Progress 43 linked with the station’s aft most docking port at 12:37 p.m.,...NASA’s Mars Rover: On The Move! (video)
NASA is readying the Mars Science Laboratory’s Curiosity rover for its sendoff to the red planet – but first things first. A new video has captured the crating up of the huge robot at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory for shipment to Florida. Check out this fast-paced...Wanted! Citizen Scientists for New Horizons Flyby Target
Want to be known as a far out “Ice Hunter” for NASA’s New Horizons mission now en route to the Pluto system? A citizen science project has been established – one that can help scientists search through specially-obtained telescopic images for currently unknown objects...SETI Signals for Funding: New Site Offers Public Involvement
There’s no question that the search for life elsewhere is a profound enterprise in human history. As the quest continues to search and find other planets circling other stars, the hunger to find out just how crowded the universe is out there also grows. The search for...Reentry Recorder Onboard Incoming Automated Transfer Vehicle
Update: First word post-reentry of the ATV is that this experiment failed to phone home! An analysis is underway to determine what happened to the device. Meanwhile, data from the successful test of this device from the March reentry is ongoing and promises to provide...Follow Us
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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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