Satellite Views Show Powerful Hurricane Hitting U.S. East Coast
These satellite images shows hurricane Irene as it slammed into the U.S. East Coast. Taken by a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) GOES spacecraft, Irene’s destructive nature is causing structural damage as well as massive power outages....NASA Auditors Back Shuttle Display Venue Decision
NASA Administrator Charles Bolden and his staff acted properly and without political influence in their choice of U. S.venues for the display of the retired space shuttle orbiters, Discovery, Endeavour, Atlantis and the test glider Enterprise, the...Solar-sensational! New Video View – Anatomy of a Coronal Mass Ejection
Scientists making use of NASA’s STEREO spacecraft have created the first detailed images of a three-day journey by solar wind that slams into the Earth at speeds up to a million miles per hour. Researchers at Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) and the National Solar...Competition for Global Space Leadership Tightens, Futron reports
The Futron Corp’s 2011 Space Competiveness Index finds the United States perched atop 10 global competitors in the field, yet slipping as the nation’s space policy undergoes a transition, especially in the realm of human space flight. The Bethesda,...NASA’s Pluto-bound New Horizons Probe: Healthy and On Course!
NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft – now en route to Pluto — remains healthy and on course. The probe is roughly 21 times as far from the Sun as the Earth is – well on its way, between the orbits of Uranus and Neptune. The craft was launched in January 2006. “From...Mars Rover at Endeavour Crater: New Rim Shots!
New imagery from NASA’s Opportunity Mars rover has revealed more details from the rim of Endeavour crater. The Mars robot has rolled itself to the large impact crater that measures about 14 miles (22 kilometers) in diameter. In pulling up to the crater, Opportunity’s...NASA Signs Up Seven Suborbital Companies for Flight Research
NASA selected seven emerging commercial suborbital spaceflight services on Tuesday to foster future research under a $10 million two- year Flight Opportunities Program agreement. The companies include Armadillo Aerospace, of Heath, Tex.; Near Space...Experiment Data Released from Last Shuttle Flight
One of the last experiments to be flown on the NASA space shuttle program is helping to unravel the role of microgravity and its impact on plants and bacteria. QinetiQ North America today announced the results of its first Symbiotic Nodulation in a Reduced Gravity...NASA’s Jupiter-bound Juno Spreads Its Solar Wings
Now en route to Jupiter, NASA’s Juno spacecraft has begun its five-year cruise to the giant planet. Juno roared off into Florida skies on Friday, August 5th. Engineers report they have received communications from the spacecraft, and its trio of large solar arrays...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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