Biotech Companies: Making Money in Space?
Paul Livingstone, Senior Editor at R&D Magazine has written an interesting update on NASA, university and industry looks at space-based research. Livingstone’s article is as follows, reprinted here with permission: Space biotech: growing industry or space shot?...Phoenix Mars Lander Gets Last Chance to Rise From the Dead
Source: Space.com NASA has given its long-silent Phoenix Mars Lander one last chance to rise again this week, and has ordered a workhorse orbiter around the red planet to listen for any beeps of life from the arctic Martian probe. From May 17 to 21, Odyssey will...Space Station Experiment: Breaking the Data Logjam
The International Space Station (ISS) is being used as a test-bed platform to help break the data logjam from Earth-orbiting satellites. NASA’s “Materials on the International Space Station Experiment” (MISSE) program, under the direction of the Naval Research...Drilling on Mars: Space Solution to Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill?
Could drilling on the red planet offer some insight into dealing with that horrific, on-going saga of an oil spill off the Louisiana coast? A host of solutions are being reviewed to cut off spewing oil from 5,000 feet below sea-level. U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu...New Video: Orion Pad Abort-1 Test
An outstanding video is now available from last week’s NASA’s flight test, called Pad Abort-1 – a test of the launch abort system designed for the Orion crew exploration vehicle. The Pad Abort-1 hardware lifted off at 9 a.m. EDT May 6 at the U.S. Army’s White Sands...Absent a Moon or Mars, Recreating Space 65 Feet Under the Sea
Source: The New York Times Astronauts will not be sent by the United States to the Moon or Mars for at least a decade, but they can still get an idea of what it would be like by living 65 feet underwater. On Monday, a crew of six, including two veteran astronauts,...Reverence Reigns Over NASA’s Final Shuttle Missions
Source: Space.com From top mission controllers on through the ranks of astronauts and shuttle workers, reverence reigns over the upcoming last flight of the space shuttle Atlantis – the first of NASA’s final shuttle missions this year. Atlantis is set to...Europe’s Cargo Vehicle Readied for Flight to Space Station
Johannes Kepler Departure: Photo Credit – Astrium Europe’s “Johannes Kepler” has made one small step toward the International Space Station. As the second Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV), the huge cargo-carrying spacecraft is on its way to the European...Presenting….CSExtra
The Coalition for Space Exploration presents CSExtra, a daily overview of the top space news. Offering a concise selection of reports and editorials published each day by respected news organizations on developments within the global space community and the U.S....Space Talk
#Spazio, #ESA vs #NASA, #Aschbacher: “stop a Lunar Gateway e Mars Sample Return perturbano nostri piani”
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Spazio, ESA vs NASA, Aschbacher: “stop a Lunar Gateway e Mars Sample Return perturbano nostri...
Spazio, ESA vs NASA, Aschbacher: “stop a Lunar Gateway e Mars Sample Return perturbano nostri piani”
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How do you know an elephant was in the refrigerator? The footprints in the butter!
@NASARoman will use a similar technique to study neutron stars, essentially invisible crushed cores of former massive stars, relying on their effects on other stars.
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Name a better office view. 🧑🚀🌎
#OTD in 2009, astronauts installed Wide Field Camera 3 on Hubble during Servicing Mission 4.
WFC3 provides images across three broad regions of light: ultraviolet, visible, and into the near-infrared! Read more: https://go.nasa.gov/439kDQe
To build on the Moon, we need construction materials that can withstand bitter cold – so @NASAglenn invented a machine that can recreate that environment for testing!
This high-powered refrigerator, or cryocooler, removes heat without using any liquid. https://go.nasa.gov/3PGqIR9
