NASA observers speculate no answer this year to budget standoff
Source: The Huntsville Times Will Congress and the Obama administration be able to resolve the standoff over NASA’s FY 2011 budget this year? And what happens if they can’t? Aviation Week speculates in a new article that the budget standoff won’t be...Champion tests gear with super insulator: Is ‘solid smoke’ ready for its closeup?
Source: Los Angeles Times As Canadian mountaineer Jamie Clarke scales Mt. Everest this month, he’s wearing a suit that’s just a few millimeters thick, only slightly thicker than a windbreaker. But despite the lack of the pillow-puffy down parka,...NASA team cites new evidence that meteorites from Mars contain ancient fossils
Source: The Washington Post NASA’s Mars Meteorite Research Team reopened a 14-year-old controversy on extraterrestrial life last week, reaffirming and offering support for its widely challenged assertion that a 4-billion-year-old meteorite that landed thousands...Shuttle funded to operate through early 2011; three more flights left
Source: Florida Today Flame Trench NASA expects to have enough money to continue flying the shuttle into February 2011, but has no plans to fly any missions beyond the three remaining, officials said today. Atlantis is next up, on track to launch May 14 on what is its...Apollo 13 controller Gene Kranz: President’s space path ‘dangerous’
Source: The Huntville Times Gene Kranz, the legendary NASA flight director who controlled the first flights to the moon and helped save Apollo 13, says President Barack Obama “has put our nation on a dangerous path” with his proposed new space program....U.S. Space Leadership Seen At Risk
Source: Aviation Week and Space Technology By: Frank Morring, Jr. A preliminary version of an upcoming report on the link between national security and U.S. commercial launch capabilities warns that U.S. leadership in space is threatened by poor coordination in...NASA will test crew escape system in desert launch this week
Source: The Huntsville Times Two new rocket motors will fly for the first time in New Mexico Thursday morning when NASA scientists, including some from Huntsville, flight test a crew escape system. An empty Orion capsule will go from zero to 600 mph in 4 seconds...Declining U.S. Space Power Requires Greater Cooperation
Source: The Huffington Post In 2007, the Chinese blew up one of their own weather satellites 530 miles above the Earth by hitting it with a missile. The satellite itself was essentially worthless, but the test had greater implications. It was the first time the...NASA Opens Applications for ‘INSPIRED’ high school students
High school students in the United States are invited to participate in NASA’s Interdisciplinary National Science Program Incorporating Research Experience, or INSPIRE, through the program’s online learning community. Applications are being accepted from...Space Talk
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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.
https://go.nasa.gov/4wsxNFn
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
