Long Lost Soviet Rover Found on the Moon
Source: National Geographic, Breaking Orbit blog It might not be in the stars for humans to return to the moon anytime soon. But NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, launched last year in part to scout locations for a moon base, is proving that there’s...Twins in space! Two NASA brothers could meet on the ISS
Source: The Orlando Sentinel Now that NASA has had to push the planned launch date for space shuttle Endeavour on STS-134 to no earlier than November, an interesting phenomenon could take place. The commander of STS-134 is Mark Kelly, pictured left. Mark Kelly’s...An FAQ on NASA’s human spaceflight plans
Source: The Houston Chronicle So much has happened with the future of NASA’s human spaceflight program during the last two months I wanted try to provide a summary of what’s transpired, and what may happen now. Feel free to ask additional questions below....It’s time to focus on America’s future in space by Charles F. Bolden Jr., NASA Administrator
Source: The Houston Chronicle With the fiscal year 2011 budget proposal and a recent speech in Florida, President Barack Obama has provided NASA with all the assets and vision needed to make a critical shift in our human spaceflight program. We are working with...Caution Space Travelers: Getting Strep Throat on Mars
It’s called “forward contamination” in terms of inadvertently sending Earth bacteria to other worlds. Indeed, fouling the nest of say Mars – perhaps a niche for microbial life – is a concern of NASA researchers. New research published in the April issue of the journal...Endeavour now set to be final mission
Source: Florida Today NASA has flip-flopped the final two shuttle missions, with Endeavour now expected to fly last, a 12-day flight that could bring the program to an end during the holiday season. Targeted for sometime in November, Endeavour’s mission...President Obama’s Vision for Space Exploration (part 2)
Source: The Space Review On April 15th President Obama outlined the administration’s new plan for civil space exploration in a speech at the Kennedy Space Center. This article is part 2 of an analysis of the President’s announcement. The first part of the analysis...Don’t Forsake U.S. Leadership in Space
Source: Space.com Space exploration has been the guiding star of American innovation. The Mercury, Gemini, Apollo and shuttle programs have rallied generations of Americans to devote their careers to science and engineering, and NASA’s achievements in exploration and...Presidential Space Summit Speaker Presentations–April 15, 2010
The following presentations are from the Presidential Space Summit, April 15, 2010 at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla. Click on the title of the presentation to view. A New Exploration Strategy Dr. Edward F. Crawley, Ford Professor of Engineering at MIT...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
