Reflect on This! Advanced Mirror for Giant Telescope Completed
The most challenging large astronomical mirror ever made has been completed. The mirror – one of seven — will be part of the 25-meter Giant Magellan Telescope that will explore planets around other stars and the formation of stars, galaxies and black holes in...New Tool for You! Turn Space Data into Infographics
There’s a new website in space town! JPL Infographics is available to you, a way to transform NASA data into scientific works of art. The site provides extensive collections of NASA science and mission data, graphics and space images that users can download to create...U. S., Russian Astronauts Depart for Space Station
Three U. S.and Russian astronauts lifted off from Kazakhstan early Tuesday bound for the International Space Station and a five month stay. The Soyuz rocket carrying NASA astronaut Kevin Ford and cosmonauts Oleg Novitskiy and Evgeny Tarelkin blasted off from the...New Telescope Time with the Planet Uranus
It’s distant, far away from Earth, but still an observational delight: the planet Uranus. With the NASA Voyager 2 spacecraft flyby in January 1986 of the planet Uranus, those observations admittedly pictured the planet as a bland, featureless blue-green orb. But new...Landing on Titan: A Bouncing Re-play!
Back in January 2005, the European Space Agency’s Huygens probe parachuted onto Saturn’s moon, Titan. Thanks to a detailed analysis over seven years later, researchers have pulled together what happened to the probe at touchdown. The analysis is providing clues as to...SpaceX Dragon Mission Gives U. S. New Cargo Access to the International Space Station
SpaceX’s Falcon 9/Dragon spacecraft lifted off late Sunday on the first of a dozen scheduled commercial re-supply missions to the International Space Station, restoring a U. S. capability lacking since the 2011 retirement of NASA’s space...Astronomers Refine Universe’s Expansion Rate
NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, one of the agency’s original Great Observatories and a sibling of the Hubble Space Telescope, enabled astronomers this week to announce a dramatic refinement in the expansion rate of the universe. The new studies...Japanese Asteroid Mission: Sample Return and Hopper
MASCOT – the Mobile Asteroid Surface Scout – will be bound for asteroid JU 3 in 2014 courtesy of Japan’s Hayabusa-2 mission. Four years later, on arrival at the space rock, MASCOT will free-fall onto the asteroid’s surface, automatically orient itself, then “hop” from...NASA’s Curiosity Rover Finds Evidence That Water Flowed on Mars
NASA’s Curiosity rover, still very early in its two-year search of Gale Crater for evidence of habitable environments, offered strong visual evidence this week that water flowed across the surface of Mars during a warmer earlier period. The findings from...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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