Making a Mars sample return mission more affordable
Source: Spaceflight Now Scientists are proposing splitting an ambitious multibillion-dollar mission to return samples from Mars into three pieces to ease budget concerns, officials said this week. Speaking to reporters from an astrobiology conference in Houston,...John Kelly, Florida Today: Test flights will help jobs crisis
Source: Florida Today From the “every little bit helps” department: Don’t be too quick to scoff at the billion or so dollars that some U.S. senators are trying to add to the NASA budget for test flights. Bill Nelson, D-Florida, seems to have support...White House unveils KSC task force
Source: Orlando Sentinel President Barack Obama is expected to release a memo on Monday that will outline the members of a task force that will decide how to spend $40 million in federal funds aimed at helping Kennedy Space Center workers find new jobs after the space...Bolden, Locke to lead jobs task force
Source: Florida Today President Barack Obama on Monday will appoint Cabinet secretaries and agency chiefs to lead a task force that will develop a $40 million job-creation plan for the Space Coast. Obama will issue a memorandum naming Commerce Secretary Gary Locke and...Government contests offer different way to find solutions for problems
Source: The Washington Post The U.S. government is giving away prizes. In seeking solutions to problems, it has discovered the magic of contests, or challenges — also known as open grant-making or open innovation. Or crowd-sourcing. Whatever you call this new...James Cameron lobbies NASA to include 3-D “eyes” on the next-generation Mars rover
Source: Pasedena Star News If the next generation rover is able to take high-resolution color movies in 3-D on Mars, it will be thanks to the reigning king of 3-D cinema himself, “Avatar” director James Cameron. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory scaled back...Regional jobs summit starts on Space Coast -watch live Web cast courtesy of Florida Today
Watch the Summit live at: http://flametrench.flatoday.net/ Business and community leaders from around the Space Coast are pouring into the Holiday Inn Conference Center for a half-day summit. Kristin Bakke, president of Lead Brevard, said more than 270 people...Potentially Dangerous Asteroid Spotted Passing Earth
Source: Space.com An asteroid on the list of potentially dangerous space rocks that could endanger the Earth was caught on camera as it zoomed past our planet this month, and found to be larger than astronomers originally thought. The asteroid buzzed the Earth on...Future Space Exploration Hinges on International Cooperation, Astronauts Say
Source: Space.com The final frontier must become more of an international endeavor or space exploration could stagnate, according to three veteran astronauts from two different countries. Only through further collaboration between nations to reach humanity’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
