With Bennett out, what does his successor think about NASA?
Source: Space Politics At the Utah Republican Party convention in Salt Lake City yesterday, delegates effectively ousted Sen. Robert Bennett, failing to nominate him for a fourth term. Bennett didn’t make it past the second round of balloting, which ended with two...NASA’s Launch Abort Test Builds on 50 Years of Astronaut Escape Systems
Source: Space.com By: Robert Pearlman, Collect Space NASA on Thursday successfully tested an astronaut abort system, recreating a scene last staged during the Apollo program while building upon technology first demonstrated 50 years ago this week. “The Orion...We must remain a nation of spacefarers
Source: The Arizona Republic By: June Scobee Rogers Robert McCall – space artist, Arizona resident and my dear friend who recently passed away – understood a vital lesson. Vision drives action. Bob painted futuristic scenes about space exploration....Antarctic Micrometeorites Provide Clues to Solar System Formation
Source: Universe Today Researchers sifting through the pristine, cold snow in Antarctica have found micrometeorites that contain a bit of a surprise. The two micrometeorites, known as particles 19 and 119, contain extremely large amounts of carbon as well as excesses...NASA launches escape pod from N.M., human spaceflight’s future still in doubt
Source: The Los Angeles Times NASA successfully launched a $220 million escape pod on Thursday while the agency’s future exploring space remains in limbo. The launch thrust a candlestick-shaped rocket a mile above the white sands of New Mexico within seconds. A...NASA successfully tests escape system for capsule that may never launch
Source: Scientific American At a test in the New Mexico desert this morning, NASA carried off what it called a successful test of a launch abort system for Orion, the crew capsule designed to return astronauts to orbit and beyond after the space shuttle retires this...Obama’s NASA plans appear in jeopardy
From the Orlando Sentinel — It’s been less than a month since President Obama outlined his space policy in a Florida speech (April 15 at the Kennedy Space Center). However, it appears the White House direction has little traction, according to the OS....Thumbs Up! Orion Pad Abort-1 Test Success
WHITE SANDS MISSILE RANGE, New Mexico – It was all thumbs up and back slaps here today as the Orion Pad Abort -1 flew flawlessly – a test to help develop safer vehicles for human spaceflight applications. Within 97 seconds of an initial 500,000-pound blast of solid...Plasma Rocket May Shorten Space Voyages
Source: Discovery News If tests prove successful, this innovative new rocket could one day take astronauts to Mars in a little more than a month. THE GIST NASA is looking at flying a plasma-powered rocket to survey an asteroid. The rocket is a twin of one being...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
