Former astronaut blasts Obama’s plans for space program
Source: The Cap Times Former astronaut Harrison Schmitt, one of the last men to walk on the moon, has nothing good to say about President Barack Obama’s plan to all but ground the Constellation program, which calls for a return to the moon by 2020 and human landings...Time to seize the commercial space moment
Source: The Daily Press, Hampton, VA For more than 50 years, NASA Wallops has been internationally recognized as having the world’s premier suborbital research launch site and the world’s foremost suborbital research launch team. Today Wallops Island is in...OUR VIEW: Obama’s space plan likely to leave U.S. on the ground
Source: The Star Press, Central Indiana Somebody, please give NASA something to do. President Obama’s vision for the nation’s space agency, as outlined last week, was yet another attempt by a sitting president to inspire the nation and NASA to reach for...A new plan for space
Source: The Miami Herald OUR OPINION: President’s outline leaves out too much To judge from his remarks at the Kennedy Space Center last week, President Obama has embarked on a generational reorientation of the nation’s space program. He is charting a...Obama’s Vision for NASA Bolsters Space Science
Source: Discovery News President Obama’s new direction for NASA as outlined in his speech at Kennedy Space Center last Thursday — if successfully implemented in the coming years — will help us better pursue fundamental questions about the universe:...EDITORIAL: Nasa budget takes uncharted path
Source: The Huntville Times America’s human spaceflight program is at a galactic crossroads. The space shuttle program will end soon, and there are no clearly defined space goals that NASA centers like Huntsville’s Marshall Space Flight Center can...Landing on an asteroid is sure to be risky; then again, the mission could save Earth
Source: The Los Angeles Times Landing a man on the moon was a towering achievement. Now the president has given NASA an even harder job, one with a certain Hollywood quality: sending astronauts to an asteroid, a giant speeding rock, just 15 years from now. Space...Texans team up against Obama space vision
Source: HOUSTON CHRONICLE Texas’ congressional delegation presented a united, bipartisan front on Friday, saying President Barack Obama’s compromise on his space budget doesn’t go far enough and calling upon him to visit Johnson Space Center. Meeting...NASA’s New Asteroid Mission Could Save the Planet
Source: Space.com President Barack Obama set a lofty next goal this week for Americans in space: Visiting an asteroid by 2025. But reaching a space rock in a mere 15 years is a daunting mission, and one that might also carry the ultimate safety of the planet on its...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.
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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
