NASA’s Detail Man Ensured Astronauts Were Set for Liftoff
Source: The Wall Street Journal From a small staging area atop the rocket launching pad, Guenter Wendt directed final preparations for NASA’s manned space flights from their start through the moon shots and beyond. His was often the last face astronauts saw...NASA observers speculate no answer this year to budget standoff
Source: The Huntsville Times Will Congress and the Obama administration be able to resolve the standoff over NASA’s FY 2011 budget this year? And what happens if they can’t? Aviation Week speculates in a new article that the budget standoff won’t be...Champion tests gear with super insulator: Is ‘solid smoke’ ready for its closeup?
Source: Los Angeles Times As Canadian mountaineer Jamie Clarke scales Mt. Everest this month, he’s wearing a suit that’s just a few millimeters thick, only slightly thicker than a windbreaker. But despite the lack of the pillow-puffy down parka,...Discovery Education and 3M Young Scientists Challenge
Do you have what it takes to be America’s Top Young Scientist? Discovery Education and 3M are looking for students in grades 5-8 who are enthusiastic about science. The top 10 students will receive an all-expenses-paid trip to New York City and the grand prize...NASA team cites new evidence that meteorites from Mars contain ancient fossils
Source: The Washington Post NASA’s Mars Meteorite Research Team reopened a 14-year-old controversy on extraterrestrial life last week, reaffirming and offering support for its widely challenged assertion that a 4-billion-year-old meteorite that landed thousands...Shuttle funded to operate through early 2011; three more flights left
Source: Florida Today Flame Trench NASA expects to have enough money to continue flying the shuttle into February 2011, but has no plans to fly any missions beyond the three remaining, officials said today. Atlantis is next up, on track to launch May 14 on what is its...Apollo 13 controller Gene Kranz: President’s space path ‘dangerous’
Source: The Huntville Times Gene Kranz, the legendary NASA flight director who controlled the first flights to the moon and helped save Apollo 13, says President Barack Obama “has put our nation on a dangerous path” with his proposed new space program....U.S. Space Leadership Seen At Risk
Source: Aviation Week and Space Technology By: Frank Morring, Jr. A preliminary version of an upcoming report on the link between national security and U.S. commercial launch capabilities warns that U.S. leadership in space is threatened by poor coordination in...NASA will test crew escape system in desert launch this week
Source: The Huntsville Times Two new rocket motors will fly for the first time in New Mexico Thursday morning when NASA scientists, including some from Huntsville, flight test a crew escape system. An empty Orion capsule will go from zero to 600 mph in 4 seconds...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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