EDITORIAL: Losing it in space–Obama’s NASA plan is a downer
Source: The Washington Times Pity poor NASA. Rather than reaching toward the stars, America’s premier scientific organization has settled its sights on studying shrimp schools beneath the Antarctic ice cap and sticky accelerators on Toyotas. Such is the scope of...Obama revising plans for NASA
Source: Houston Chronicle President seeks to revive Orion capsule, speed up development of rocket, may give shuttles a reprieve President Barack Obama will revamp NASA’s planned Orion crew capsule, speed up development of a massive deep space rocket and perhaps...Obama plan adds jobs, revives Orion
Source: Florida Today President Barack Obama will outline a plan Thursday that would bring 2,500 more jobs to Florida’s Space Coast than the NASA moon program he aims to kill, White House officials said Tuesday. The 4,500 to 5,500 new jobs would come in the...Obama expected to save Orion, bolster jobs at Kennedy Space Center
Source: Orlando Sentinel Under pressure from Congress and space boosters from across the country, President Barack Obama is expected to announce Thursday that he plans to revive part of the Constellation moon program, start a new heavy-rocket development project and...Orion To Become Crew Lifeboat Under Revised Obama Space Plan
Source: Space News A top NASA official said U.S President Barack Obama will announce plans to continue development of a stripped-down version of the Orion Crew Exploration Vehicle for use as a crew lifeboat on the international space station. Obama, who is scheduled...Obama adds meat, jobs to space plan with revived crew capsule, speeded up massive rocket
Source: The Los Angeles Times President Barack Obama is reviving the NASA crew capsule concept that he had canceled with the rest of the moon program earlier this year, in a move that will mean more jobs and less reliance on the Russians, officials said Tuesday. The...President Obama’s Space Plan: New Fact Sheets Outline Strategy
President Obama’s Space Plan: New Fact Sheets Outline Strategy On Thursday, April 15, at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the President will outline a bold strategy for human spaceflight. That strategy increases the NASA budget by $6 billion over the next five...Apollo 11 Lunar Site: A Giant Leap for Historic Preservation
New Mexico has designated the Apollo 11 moon landing site as “cultural property” – a decision to officially assign the artifacts left behind at Tranquility Base in the official registry of the New Mexico Register of Cultural Properties. The New Mexico Historic...NASA Chief Spotlights Vibrant Space Exploration Enterprise
NASA chief Charles Bolden painted an upbeat picture of where his space agency is headed. Bolden was the opening speaker at the National Space Symposium today, asking the packed auditorium here, as well as those at NASA itself, to “sit back and take a deep breath”...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
