NASA Pushes Forward on High-power Solar Electric Propulsion
High-power solar electric propulsion is viewed by NASA as a vital and necessary future capability. This crucial technology is flagged within NASA’s strategic roadmaps for exploration, science and advanced technology. NASA issued late last week a Solar Electric...Comet Flyby Yields New Science Twists…and a Mystery
Visited last fall by NASA’s Deep Impact spacecraft during its EPOXI mission was comet Hartley 2. Scientists have published their findings about the flyby – offering some new twists to the encounter of a cometary kind. On its EPOXI mission the Deep Impact spacecraft...Next Mars Rover Prepared For First Step to the Red Planet
NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) mission is being readied for a fall 2011 liftoff from Florida. Preparations are in full-swing on readying the MSL Curiosity rover for its red planet mission. Plans now call for the Curiosity robot and its descent stage to be...Shuttle’s Successor to go on Three State Public Display
A flight tested version of NASA’s Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle, the spacecraft that may send future explorers on missions to asteroids and perhaps Mars, will make a series of public stops as it is transported across country from the Dryden Flight Research Center...Opportunity Mars Rover Inches Toward Next Target
NASA’s Opportunity Mars rover is rolling its way toward Endeavour crater, eyeing the western rim of the huge feature as seen in new imagery. Endeavour crater has a diameter of about 14 miles (22 kilometers). Scientists are expecting the robot to gain access to...NASA’s Dawn Spacecraft: “Moment of Truth Is About to Arrive”
NASA’s Dawn mission was launched in September 2007. The spacecraft is now approaching Vesta, a protoplanet that is currently some 143 million miles from Earth. Powered by an ion engine, Dawn will arrive at Vesta next month. Starting in September, the spacecraft will...Book Review: Martian Summer – Robot Arms, Cowboy Spacemen, and My 90 Days with the Phoenix Mars Mission
Martian Summer – Robot Arms, Cowboy Spacemen, and My 90 Days with the Phoenix Mars Mission by Andrew Kessler; Pegasus Books; New York, New York; $27.95 (Hardcover); April 2011. NASA’s Phoenix Mars lander was a milestone in red planet probing. Touching down on Mars on...Voyager Spacecraft Data Yields Surprising Find
Voyager Spacecraft Data: New Findings. Credit: NASA/JPL A new computer model of the solar system based on data gathered by NASA’s enduring Voyager space probes indicates that the edge of the solar system — the heliosheath — is not smooth. Rather, it is...NASA’s Aqua Spacecraft Monitors Arizona Wildfires
Hundreds of firefighters are battling or managing a pair of Eastern Arizona wildfires visible in smoke filled imagery gathered by the Aqua spacecraft, one in a series of NASA managed Earth Observing System satellites equipped with instruments furnished by...Space Talk
In this commercial space age, NASA can seem like it's fading. But Artemis II is a reminder that NASA’s unique role may be making outer space feel public, shared, and human.
I explore this in my latest post on May the Force Day:
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The “Public” in Public Space Agency — Come Inspired, Leave Aspired
Why NASA still has a civic role to play in this commercial space era
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@AeroBigMike @Space_Strategy I imagine the first best is Apollo right?
Or actually… might it be the lunar module? Given that it was a two stage vehicle with enough delta V to land on the moon and ascend to LLO again?
@risebnbx @NASA @NOAA This is @NASA_Johnson's WB-57, which is a high-altitude aircraft. For this mission, the plane was carrying a scientific instrument from @NOAA.
You can learn more about the WB-57 here: https://airbornescience.nasa.gov/aircraft/WB-57_-_JSC
@risebnbx @NASA @NOAA This is @NASA_Johnson's WB-57, which is a high-altitude aircraft. For this mission, the plane was carrying a scientific instrument from @NOAA.
You can learn more about the WB-57 here: https://airbornescience.nasa.gov/aircraft/WB-57_-_JSC