House Republicans Back Space Leadership Preservation Act of 2012
The Space Leadership Preservation Act of 2012, legislation introduced in Washington on Thursday, would significanty change the way NASA is led and its programs managed in order to establish new stability and accountability, according to its six...
Get a View! Newly Discovered Hazardous Asteroid to Zip By Earth
As big as a 14-story building – that’s the size of a newly discovered space rock that is now labeled as a “potentially hazardous asteroid” – which means that it could collide with Earth in the distant future. Asteroid 2012 QG42 was discovered by the Catalina Sky...(101955) 1999 RQ36 Needs a Name, and Something Snappy
. It’s a planetary body known as a near-Earth asteroid. NASA is preparing to launch the Origins-Spectral Interpretation-Resource Identification-Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) mission to this solar system body in 2016, and as if OSIRIS-REx isn’t a...Stunning Video! Dawn – One Year at Asteroid Vesta
NASA’s Dawn spacecraft is on its way to Ceres, the largest asteroid to be explored. This asteroid probe is leaving behind a legacy of exploration – by circling asteroid Vesta since July 2011. But now the spacecraft has been gradually leaving its orbit around that...New Views: River Networks on Titan
Titan, a moon of Saturn, has been found to be an active mini-world of geological processes. But seeing those phenomena has been blocked by Titan’s thick, methane- and nitrogen-rich atmosphere. Thanks to the Cassini-Huygens spacecraft mission supported by NASA and the...Spacecraft 3D: Augmented-reality Apps for Apple devices
There’s a great way to study the 3-D nature of NASA spacecraft. Thanks to space specialists at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), a new application can bring robotic spacecraft to life. It’s available for free on the iPhone and iPad…and just in time for the...Asteroid Vesta Video: World of Color Revealed
A new video from NASA’s Dawn mission has been issued that shows the giant asteroid Vesta in colorful terms. This newly issued visualization enables a detailed view of the variation in the material properties of Vesta in the context of its topography. The colors were...NASA’s WISE Mission Identifies Asteroid Threat
New estimates based on findings from NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Explorer, or WISE mission, reflect a big increase in the number of asteroids that could pose a collision threat to the Earth. And experts suggest they have found only a third to a half of...Amateurs to “Crowdsource” Asteroids
Any attempt to survey and catalog hazardous asteroids faces a number of difficulties. Coming to aid the effort are amateur astronomers, ready to boost the European Space Agency’s (ESA) asteroid hunt as part of ESA’s Space Situational Awareness program. A new...Follow Us
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#NASA estimates that a human mission to Mars could take months or years with current propulsion technologies. To accelerate this timeline, NASA and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) are exploring nuclear thermal propulsion.
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.@NASA_Langley is testing the Lightweight Surface Manipulation System AutoNomy capabilities Development for Surface Operations (LANDO), a robotic arm designed to lift payloads and place them on the #lunar surface.
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