Rocket Boosts Education to New Heights
Photo credit: Bob Martin KRQE Television SPACEPORT AMERICA, New Mexico -A suite of student-built experiments received “high marks” thanks to a boost into space earlier this week to celebrate a New Mexico Second Annual Education Launch. An UP Aerospace SpaceLoft XL...NASA declares Atlantis’ readiness to go fly next week
From SpaceflightNow.com: NASA clears shuttle Atlantis for a May 14 lift off on the 25-year-old orbiter’s final scheduled mission. The launching period will last through May 18. After four launch attempts in five day, the 12-day flight will slip to late June to...Obama’s NASA plans appear in jeopardy
From the Orlando Sentinel — It’s been less than a month since President Obama outlined his space policy in a Florida speech (April 15 at the Kennedy Space Center). However, it appears the White House direction has little traction, according to the OS....Making a Mars sample return mission more affordable
Source: Spaceflight Now Scientists are proposing splitting an ambitious multibillion-dollar mission to return samples from Mars into three pieces to ease budget concerns, officials said this week. Speaking to reporters from an astrobiology conference in Houston,...Latest cargo ship heads for International Space Station
Source: Spaceflight Now A three-day orbital chase by a robotic cargo freighter to catch the International Space Station began today with successful launch of the Russian-made resupply ship. Flying atop a Soyuz booster, the Progress spacecraft rocketed away from the...NASA expands lab role of International Space Station
Source: Network World, Layer 8 NASA is looking for a few good experiments to run in space. The space agency this week said it was seeking research ideas from private entities to want to do research on board the International Space Station. NASA said it was looking to...Caution Space Travelers: Getting Strep Throat on Mars
It’s called “forward contamination” in terms of inadvertently sending Earth bacteria to other worlds. Indeed, fouling the nest of say Mars – perhaps a niche for microbial life – is a concern of NASA researchers. New research published in the April issue of the journal...Reflect on This! Lost Light Reflector Found on the Moon
NASA orbiter spots Lunokhod 1 on the MoonScientists have located on the lunar surface a long lost light reflector attached to the former Soviet Union’s Lunokhod 1 rover. The French-built laser reflector was sent aboard the robotic Luna 17 mission. That craft landed on...Space Agency for Mexico Okayed
It is official. Mexico’s congress green-lighted this week the creation of a “Mexican NASA”. The new agency is called AEXA (Agencia Espacial Mexicana). AEXA will specialize in the promotion, coordination and encouragement of all matters relating to the research,...Space Talk
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Swift has been in #space 22 years, studying the universe’s most powerful explosions. Now, it’s falling to Earth. NASA launched LINK to save it, but a failure sent LINK into an uncontrolled spin. Is that the end for #LINK and #Swift? Not quite!
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