New U. S. National Security Space Policy Seeks Greater Global Cooperation
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The 50 Most Extreme Places In Our Solar System by David Baker and Todd Ratcliff; The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press; Cambridge, Massachusetts; $27.95 (Hardcover); 2010. Readers of all backgrounds will love this book. The volume is beautifully produced,...New Tool for Space Weather Forecasting
When it comes to the Sun, one could recall that line sung by Elvis: “A churning urn of burning funk.” But now space weather forecasters have a new tool to issue a one-to-four day advance warning of high speed streams of solar plasma and Earth-directed coronal mass...Moons of Mars: Leftovers from a Giant Impact?
Things may have been pretty messy around the red planet in its past. New research suggests the possibility that the martian satellites – Phobos and Deimos — may have been the result of giant impact. The new theory is just out in the prestigious Icarus...NASA Offers $$ to Amateur Astronomers for Satellite Photos
NASA is rounding up amateur photographers who would like a chance to win up to $500 for the best photographs of the recently deployed NanoSail-D spacecraft, an orbiting solar sail experiment. NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center and Ames Research Center...Space Station Crew Joins in Monday’s National Moment of Silence for Tucson Shooting Victims
Commander Scott Kelly led a solemn observance aboard the International Space Station on Monday for those where were killed and wounded on Saturday during a shooting rampage at a political rally in Tucson, Arizona. Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, the wife...Book Review: Space – From Earth to the Edge of the Universe
Space – From Earth to the Edge of the Universe by editors Carole Stott, Robert Dinwiddie, David Hughes and Giles Sparrow; Dorling Kindersley(DK) Publishing; New York, New York; $40.00 (hard cover); 2010. Space is big…but so is this large format book. This is a...Participate in Worldwide Space Station Wave Campaign
Wave to the U. S., European and Russian astronauts living and working aboard the International Space Station this week through a global campaign organized by www.isswave.org. The web site offers five different ways to find out when and where to look in the...Lunar Eclipse Thrills
The full lunar eclipse of Monday night and early Tuesday was spectacular, according to eye witness accounts gathered by NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center and others. “Was spectacular,” said one witness from the Dominican Republic who participated...Space Talk
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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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