Supercomputer Sleuthing Suggests Solution to Celestial Mystery
For decades, the origins of brief energetic cosmic blasts called Short Gamma Ray Bursts have puzzled the experts. The bright flashes, which have been observed every one to two days, were first detected in the late 1960s by a class of military satellites designed to...Space Station Viewed as Astrobiology Research Site
Space station research includes experiments to help look for life elsewhere. Credit: NASA The nearly complete International Space Station (ISS) is a research hub for various disciplines – including astrobiology and the search for life elsewhere. Gerda Horneck of the...Endeavour Receives Shuttle Program “Go” for Launch
NASA shuttle program manager provided initial clearance on Thursday for an April 19 launching of the shuttle Endeavour on her final mission with a crew of six astronauts and the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer, an international observatory for studies of the cosmic...Spotting Other Worlds: NASA Kepler Style
Credit: Jason Rowe – NASA/Kepler Mission NASA’s Kepler spacecraft has been on the prowl since 2009, busily sweeping space with a special photometer. That high-tech device continuously monitors the brightness of over 145,000 main sequence stars in a fixed field...Book Review: Strange New Worlds – The Search for Alien Planets…and Life Beyond Our Solar System
Strange New Worlds – The Search for Alien Planets…and Life Beyond Our Solar Systemby Ray Jayawardhana ; Princeton University Press; Princeton, New Jersey; $24.95; (hard cover) March 2011. This delightful and engaging book tells the story of humankind’s quest to locate...NASA’s Mercury Orbiter Ready for Action
Artist captures NASA’s MESSENGER spacecraft in orbit around the planet Mercury. Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington NASA’s MESSENGER spacecraft is the first spacecraft ever to enter Mercury’s...Message from NASA’s MESSENGER in Mercury Orbit “I Have Arrived”
Arrival: MESSENGER Enters Mercury Orbit. Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington NASA’s MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging mission – better known as MESSENGER – is now in orbit...Well Suited for Planetary Exploration
Courtesy: UND A unique test of a planetary exploration suit is on tap to be tested at a remote military base in Antarctica. Called the NDX-1 – the suit was designed and constructed at the University of North Dakota (UND) through NASA funding provided by the North...Satellites Reveal Scope of Japan’s Devastation
The vast scope of the disaster in Japan from Friday’s Earthquake and Tsunami is vivid in satellite views. Some of the most stirring high altitude photographs come from DigitalGlobe, the Longmont, Colo., satellite imagery company. NASA’s Terra and Aqua...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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