Video: International Space Exploration Forum Focuses on Global Cooperation
The United States hosted the International Space Exploration Forum (ISEF), the first-ever ministerial-level meeting to build support for global cooperation in space exploration, at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C. on January 9, 2014. ISEF brought...New Survey Poll Data: Funding the Final Frontier
An interesting poll was taken last year focusing on space and funding the final frontier. Done by the London-based YouGov, the fieldwork was done between Nov. 28 and Dec. 1st. YouGov is an international, full service online market research agency founded in the UK in...U.S. Dream Chaser Builder Teams with European Space Agency, German Aerospace Center
U.S. Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC), the European Space Agency (ESA), and the German Aerospace Center (DLR) have signed an understanding to identify areas of collaboration with European industry for developing hardware and mission concepts for the Dream Chaser...New Year’s Eve Times Square Celebration to Feature Space Station Astronauts
Astronauts from the International Space Station will appear before millions world wide as part of annual New Year’s Eve festivities broadcast from One Times Square in New York City. NASA’s Rick Mastracchio and Mike Hopkins as well as Japan Aerospace...NASA Moon Orbiter Spots China Lunar Lander/Rover
China’s Chang’e 3 lander and rover have been spotted by NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter’s (LRO) powerful camera. At the time of the landing LRO’s orbit was far from the landing site so images of the landing were not possible. However, ten days later on December...Wheel Wear and Tear on the Red Planet
There’s no fear of a flat! But new images back from the NASA Curiosity Mars rover show that the rock-studded Red Planet terrain is causing wear, tear and holes on the rover’s aluminum wheels. In fact, future drives of the machine may be charted to cross smoother...NASA’s Red Planet Patrol: A Status Check
Mars is a busy place! NASA’s Curiosity rover, the most technologically advanced rover ever built, landed in Mars’ Gale Crater the evening of Aug. 5, 2012 Pacific Daylight Time using a series of complicated landing maneuvers never before attempted. Curiosity has been...NASA’s Mission Control Restores Space Station Cooling Systems Following Christmas Eve Spacewalk
NASA’s Mission Control focused Christmas Day activities on restoring thermal control systems aboard the six person International Space Station to normal operations. Those efforts were to be followed by a return of powered equipment throughout the six...Get a “Lego” Up on Pluto-bound Probe!
NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft is speeding quickly toward the first flyby of Pluto and its moons in July 2015. The real spacecraft – developed at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Maryland – is about the size and shape of a grand piano. The nuclear...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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