New Research: Meandering Microorganisms Between Planets
There is a high probability that life came to Earth — or spread from Earth to other planets — during the Solar System’s infancy. New research on this prospect has been presented at the now being held European Planetary Sciences Congress. The findings provide the...Republican Presidential Contender Mitt Romney Backs U. S. Space Leadership, Stable Spending
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney issued a space policy white paper over the weekend in which he pledged to rebuild NASA and invigorate American space exploration with new leadership and opportunities in space commerce. The eight page document pledged...The Long Arm of Science: Curiosity Rover Studies Mars Rock
NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity has begun up-close work on “Jake Matijevic.” The rover is touching the rock with a spectrometer to determine its elemental composition and use an arm-mounted camera to take close-up photographs. The football-size rock is the first for the...Space Station Research Reported: Nanotechnology Manufacturing Advanced
New research findings based on experiments carried out on the International Space Station could lead to the creation of unique materials and electro-mechanical devices. The Investigating the Structure of Paramagnetic Aggregates from Colloidal Emulsion – 2 – or...NASA among Agencies Facing Spending Cuts from Sequestration
On Oct. 1, theU. S.government will enter the 2013 fiscal year without a budget — not so unusual in recent years as lawmakers attempt to deal with mounting deficits and pressures to increase spending. A likely Continuing Resolution, legislation that...
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...Los Angeles Bound Endeavour to Stop in Houston, Fly Over Mulitiple U. S. Cities
Retired shuttle orbiter Endeavour will make a three-day grand tour of NASA spaceflight facilities this month as it makes its way from theKennedy Space Center in Florida to Los Angeles, Calif., where it will be placed on public display at the California Science Center....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...NASA’s Mohawk Guy to Host Third Rock Radio Show on Thursday Afternoon
Bobak Ferdowsi, the NASA flight controller who earned an enthusiastic youthful following during the Aug. 6 landing of NASA’s Mars Curiosity rover, will host the NASA-sponsored Third Rock radio broadcast on Thursday at 4 p.m., EDT. “I never thought...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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