NASA University Student Launch Initiative – April 17-18
The NASA University Student Launch Initiative, or USLI, is a competition that challenges university-level students to design, build and fly a reusable rocket with scientific payload to one mile in altitude. The project engages students in scientific research and...Moon vets say Obama’s NASA cuts would ground U.S.
Source: USA Today President Obama’s plans for NASA could be “devastating” to the U.S. space program and “destines our nation to become one of second- or even third-rate stature,” three legendary astronauts said in a letter Tuesday. Neil...Obama to offer hope to local space workers during KSC visit
Source: The Orlando Sentinel When President Barack Obama speaks at Kennedy Space Center on Thursday, he’ll offer its 15,000 workers something that’s been in short supply lately: hope, or at least a chance that their future won’t be as dire as...Generation gap: Obama space plan angers old hands
Source: The Associated Press Call it NASA: The Next Generation. The president is pointing America toward a new direction in space, and some heroes from NASA’s long-ago glory days don’t like it. New rockets to the moon have been canceled. And the space...Feud Over NASA Threatens America’s Edge in Space
Source: The Wall Street Journal After dominating space for a half century, the U.S. is mired in a political fight that threatens its leadership role and ambitions for manned exploration. President Barack Obama travels Thursday to the Kennedy Space Center to try to...STERNER: In space, no one hears you flip-flop
Source: The Washington Times Obama space summit just the latest faux job creator When President Obama arrives in Florida today for his space summit, he will bring considerable baggage with him. When running in the primaries to be the Democratic nominee, he promised to...China Outlines Space Station Plans, NASA Future Debated
While the need for clarity swirls around U.S. President Obama’s plans for human spaceflight and NASA, China is pressing forward on its long march to gain a foothold in Earth orbit. Wang Wenbao, director of the Chinese Manned Space Engineering Office, outlined future...Obama speech to outline his plans for returning U.S. to space
Source: The Washington Post President Obama will announce plans Thursday to revise and retain one element of the discarded Constellation rocket and space capsule system, commit to selecting a rocket capable of carrying astronauts to deep space within five years and...President to Outline His Vision for NASA
Source: The New York Times President Obama will seek to promote his vision for the nation’s human space flight program on Thursday, just two days after three storied Apollo astronauts — including Neil Armstrong, the first human to walk on the Moon — called the new...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
