NASA successfully tests escape system for capsule that may never launch
Source: Scientific American At a test in the New Mexico desert this morning, NASA carried off what it called a successful test of a launch abort system for Orion, the crew capsule designed to return astronauts to orbit and beyond after the space shuttle retires this...Moonbots Challenge Now Open to Youth 9 Years and Up
By Popular Demand, MoonBots Challenge Now Open to Youth 9 Years and Up Since the initiation of MoonBots: A Google Lunar X PRIZE LEGO® MINDSTORMS® Challenge was launched on April 15th, we have had many inquiries as to who can register. Due to the great number of...NASA declares Atlantis’ readiness to go fly next week
From SpaceflightNow.com: NASA clears shuttle Atlantis for a May 14 lift off on the 25-year-old orbiter’s final scheduled mission. The launching period will last through May 18. After four launch attempts in five day, the 12-day flight will slip to late June to...Obama’s NASA plans appear in jeopardy
From the Orlando Sentinel — It’s been less than a month since President Obama outlined his space policy in a Florida speech (April 15 at the Kennedy Space Center). However, it appears the White House direction has little traction, according to the OS....Thumbs Up! Orion Pad Abort-1 Test Success
WHITE SANDS MISSILE RANGE, New Mexico – It was all thumbs up and back slaps here today as the Orion Pad Abort -1 flew flawlessly – a test to help develop safer vehicles for human spaceflight applications. Within 97 seconds of an initial 500,000-pound blast of solid...NASA Scores Pad Abort Test Success
NASA fired the Launch Abort System for the Orion crew exploration vehicle in a successful test early Thursday, sending an unmanned capsule test article streaking to an altitude of 6,919 feet above the White Sands Missile Range, N.M. Parachutes deployed to slow the...NASA Clears Atlantis for Final Scheduled Mission
Shuttle Atlantis will under go preparations for its final scheduled mission, a 12-day voyage to the International Space Station for the delivery of a Russian made-docking and laboratory module as well as spacewalking upgrades to communications and solar power systems....Plasma Rocket May Shorten Space Voyages
Source: Discovery News If tests prove successful, this innovative new rocket could one day take astronauts to Mars in a little more than a month. THE GIST NASA is looking at flying a plasma-powered rocket to survey an asteroid. The rocket is a twin of one being...Japan Could Put a Human(oid) on the Moon by 2015
Source: Space.com A group of engineers in Japan have begun planning a two-legged humanoid robot designed to walk to the surface of the moon, according to Japanese press reports. “We decided on a human-like robot because it’s more fascinating and...Space Talk
The Universe is full of invisible radiation …but this is the tiny part we can actually see. ��🌌
Visible light is only a small part of the electromagnetic spectrum, yet it reveals stars, galaxies, nebulae, and planets directly to our eyes and telescopes.
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Sometimes, you don’t need an escape from the world—just a quiet moment to get lost in your own thoughts. 📚🎧#learning #space #nasa #isro
No, sending 6 people to Mars or to the Moon is not a a good investment. Specially since those billions could be use to provide Medicare for all Americans. Benefit millions of people or give a rocket ride to 6 people. Oh yeah, the inventions only help corporations not us #NASA 🤷♂️
Infrared lets us see what visible light can’t. 🌌
It can pass through cosmic dust and reveal hidden stars, warm dust, and regions where new stars are being born….giving us a different view of the Universe.
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