NASA to Celebrate Curiosity Anniversary With Aug. 6 Webcast
The U. S. Curiosity rover will mark a triumphant first anniversary on the surface of Mars on Tuesday, Aug. 6. The anniversary activities will include a live NASA Webcast featuring top agency officials as well as astronauts aboard the International Space Station...Astronomers Find 1st Alien Planet With X-Ray Observations
U. S. and European space-based X-ray observatories have added a new technique for identifying alien planets with the discovery of HD 189733b, a “hot Jupiter” class world rapidly orbiting a star 63 light years away. NASA’s Kepler space telescope is...Russian Space Freighter Delivers U.S. Space Suit Repair Tools
Russia’s Progress 52 supply capsule docked with the International Space Station late Saturday, delivering a NASA tool kit to deal with the worrisome water leak that cut short a July 16 spacewalk by European Space Agency astronaut Luca Parmitano among the 2.8...Satellite Imagery Used to Show Earth’s “Hotspots” and “Hopespots”
The United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) and Bella Gaia are launching a short film titled Hotspots to Hopespots – a multimedia presentation of scientific data and images on the planet’s changing environment. As changes to ecosystems and the...Codename Red: Space Research ID’s Cholesterol-cutting Bacterium
A cholesterol-diminishing bacterium has been identified thanks to space research. The European Space Agency (ESA) has been looking into self-contained eco systems, ways to recycle mission waste into oxygen, water, and food. Under the ESA-led Micro-Ecological Life...Comet ISON Bubbles, Reveals Secrets of Early Solar System
Though more than three million miles distant, Comet ISON, also known as the “soda pop” comet, is putting on quite a show for the planet’s best equipped observatories. The active comet is headed heads towards a close encounter with the sun in late...Astronauts Join Space Suit Leak Probe
European Space Agency astronaut Luca Parmitano joined in a NASA investigation of the leak that allowed one to two liters of water to seep into his space suit and helmet during a spacewalk with NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy on Tuesday. The planned six to seven hour...Astronomer Identifies Neptune’s 14th Moon
Some persistent detective work by SETI astronomer Mark Showalter turned up a tiny new moon of Neptune, the distant blue-green planet’s 14th. Showalter made the discovery July 1 after tracking the movement of a white dot that surfaced over and over again in 150...Pluto-bound Spacecraft Spots Charon
NASA’s Pluto-bound New Horizons spacecraft has spotted the ice-covered moon, Charon. The largest of Pluto’s five known moons, Charon orbits about 12,000 miles (more than 19,000 kilometers) away from Pluto itself. New Horizons spacecraft used its highest-resolution...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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