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There’s heightened excitement by officials at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). Analysis of the tiny contents within the Hayabusa sample capsule that returned to Earth from asteroid Itokawa may indeed be minute particles of the visited space rock....Saturn Moon – A Hazy, Cozy Atmosphere for Life?
Titan is Saturn’s largest moon, enshrouded by a smog-like haze. Work by a University of Arizona (UA) research team has simulated that haze, finding amino acids and nucleotide bases – the most important ingredients of life on Earth. “Our team is the first to be able to...Americans Embrace Space Exploration, Believe Shuttle a Good Investment, Rasmussen Poll Reveals
A Rasmussen Reports poll unveiled this week reveals some rather dramatic shifts in public opinion this year in favor of NASA and the agency’s endeavors in human as well as robotic space exploration. The changes unfolded during a on going debate among lawmakers...Space Manufacturing 14…Register Now!
Space Manufacturing 14: Critical Technologies for Space Settlement will be held at NASA Ames Conference Center in Mountain View, CA, October 30 and 31, 2010. Attendance will be limited to 200 participants. (Non-US Citizens, please allow 30 days for approvals to...NASA’s LCROSS Mission Scores Breakthrough Award
NASA’s 2009 Lunar CRater Observation and Sensing Satellite, or LCROSS, was honored Tuesday night in New York City as the recipient of a Breakthrough award for innovation in science and technology from Popular Mechanics Magazine. The lunar probe was launched on...Red Planet Orbiter: MAVEN to go Martian
BOULDER, Colorado – An innovative NASA Mars Orbiter is moving into the development stage. The mission is NASA’s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution, or MAVEN for short. It will probe the past climate of Mars, including its potential for harboring life over...U.S. Leadership in Science and Technology Continues to Slip, Experts Tell House Panel
Some of the nation’s leading experts in science, technology and innovation warned the House Science and Technology Committee on Wednesday that the United States is continuing to lose its global pre-eminence in science and engineering, a trend that will have...Cassini Take on Titan – Large Clouds Spotted on Saturn Moon
Just down from space to Earth ground control: Images of some of the largest clouds that cameras on the Cassini spacecraft have yet seen on Titan! According to Carolyn Porco, Cassini Imaging Team Leader and Director of the Cassini Imaging Central Laboratory for...Space Talk
@ThePrimalDino As a ksp vet myself I’m sure it wasn’t easy! Are you planning on making a youtube vid about how it works?
@Asomr1 I’m thinking about doing a mission to Duna with it and posting it to youtube. Not sure when it will be though
@ThePrimalDino @mightbejell0 SRBs are counted as .5th stage in US so no Shuttle is still a 1st stage
@SCEtoAUXs @mightbejell0 Shuttle can only be counted as a first stage when on the RS-25s.
After the tank drops, and the shuttle switches to OMS engines to complete orbit insertion, it is absolutely a second stage.
I’m not guaranteeing anything, but I’m going to make a huge push to try to make it out for this. I really can’t promise anything but man I really want to see this!
@DJSnM Unless we discover problems after mission data review, SpaceX will attempt to catch the ship with the tower on next flight
@asherbphotos Same here - Not sure how i'll pull it off
The worst nightmare for remote cameras almost happened for @tweetsiphotos and I today.
Absolutely horrifying how close of a call we both had. 💀
