Shuttle, a Day Late, Lands Smoothly
Source: The New York Times The space shuttle Discovery returned to Earth on Tuesday with a fiery dawn plunge across the heartland of America, closing out a complex space station resupply mission with a smooth Florida landing. The space shuttle Discovery landed at...Why NewSpace equals NoSpace
Source: The Examiner.com There is an old saying – talk is cheap. However, it would appear that talk is about to get a whole lot more expensive. The Obama Administration has turned away from NASA and its family of contractors and toward the new, private companies that...Asteroid angst should guide space role
Source: The Orlando Sentinel Folks here should quit whining about President Obama whacking our boondoggle moon trip and get with the new space program: saving planet Earth from certain destruction. That gig could keep us fat in NASA pork for decades to come. Forget...Words, Words, Words … NASA, NASA, NASA
Source: The Huffington Post Share Comments 22 “Words, words, words” – that’s what the cartoon character Butthead used to mumble when adults were speaking to him, and it all sounded like one big blur. It leapt to mind again, when I was trying to...Wanted: New partners, NASA looking to build relationships
Source: Florida Today At a two-day meeting last month, 14 of the nation’s top spacecraft and rocket companies heard NASA officials go over new ground rules for doing business at Kennedy Space Center. With the shuttle program ending and future spacecraft programs...NASA official battles the bugs of space travel
Source: The Washington Post In H.G. Wells’s “The War of the Worlds,” Earth’s unwitting defense against the Martian hordes comes in the form of pathogenic bacteria to which the invaders lack immunity. In reality, earthlings have created an...Spock, NASA, and Obama
Source: The Space Review It almost goes without saying that Star Trek, in particular the original series that aired on television in the late 1960s, has been a major factor in inspiring people to pursue careers in science and engineering, including at NASA and...OUR VIEW: Abandoning our ability to go into space not in nation’s best interest
Source: The Morning Journal, Northern Ohio The dismantling of America’s ability to send astronauts into space makes no sense. Last week, President Obama announced at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida that the privatization of the nation’s space program has become a...Obama’s failure to launch
Source: NY Daily News In a speech to political allies gathered at Cape Canaveral last week, President Obama laid out his vision for America’s space program. Under the Obama plan, NASA will spend $100 billion on human spaceflight over the next 10 years in order...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.
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
