Project Moon Dust: A Kickstarter Educational Initiative
It’s called Project Moon Dust – intended to inspire and educate the next generation of space travel hopefuls. Behind the effort is Zybek Advanced Products, founded in Boulder, Colorado in 1996. The group has established a project funding effort for a Lunar...President Signs Compromise 2014 Spending Measure That Includes $17.65 billion for NASA
Mid-January produced a flurry of U. S. legislative activity in Washington D. C. that concluded late Friday with President Obama’s signature of a $1.1 trillion Omnibus appropriations act for 2014 that funds the federal spending through Sept. 30, including...New Info: Mars Rock Mystery
It’s a bit of a detective story. NASA’s Opportunity Mars rover imagery shows a rock materializing in a spot where it wasn’t seen in earlier imagery. How’d it get there? Mars Exploration Rover (MER) scientists have dubbed the object “Pinnacle Island.” One view is that...NASA Spacecraft Dodge Chinese Debris
It was seven years ago this month that China purposely destroyed its own Fengyun-1C meteorological-monitoring spacecraft via a Chinese anti-satellite (ASAT) weapon. That January 11, 2007 event represents the worst single debris contamination of low Earth orbit. NASA’s...
Space Station Crew Welcomes Orbital Sciences’ Cygnus Cargo Mission
The six person crew of the International Space Station eagerly greeted the first Orbital Science Corp’s re-supply mission flown under the terms of an eight-flight $1.9 billion Commercial Crisply Services agreement early Sunday. The astronauts opened the supply...Video: International Space Exploration Forum Focuses on Global Cooperation
The United States hosted the International Space Exploration Forum (ISEF), the first-ever ministerial-level meeting to build support for global cooperation in space exploration, at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C. on January 9, 2014. ISEF brought...
White House Endorses Extension of Space Station Operations from 2020 to 2024
A White House endorsement Wednesday of an extension of operations aboard the U. S. led International Space Station from 2020 to at least 2024 sets a wide stage for more work on life support systems for future human deep space missions, the maturing of U. S. commercial...New Year’s Eve Times Square Celebration to Feature Space Station Astronauts
Astronauts from the International Space Station will appear before millions world wide as part of annual New Year’s Eve festivities broadcast from One Times Square in New York City. NASA’s Rick Mastracchio and Mike Hopkins as well as Japan Aerospace...Wheel Wear and Tear on the Red Planet
There’s no fear of a flat! But new images back from the NASA Curiosity Mars rover show that the rock-studded Red Planet terrain is causing wear, tear and holes on the rover’s aluminum wheels. In fact, future drives of the machine may be charted to cross smoother...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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