NASA, Commercial Partnership Could Resume U. S. Human Spaceflight in 2015
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A rare New Year’s Day legislative session in Washington produced a response to the Fiscal Cliff — one that led to House passage late Tuesday of a Senate sponsored measure that delays for two months sharp cuts in defense and non-defense spending...A User’s Guide to the Moon
Now available from the Lunar and Planetary Institute (LPI) e-book webpage is the seminal book – The Lunar Sourcebook: A User’s Guide to the Moon. This is a treasure-trove of a volume, including sections on: Return to the Moon; Current Understanding of the Moon: A Base...NEXT in Propulsion!
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A Soyuz rocket with U. S., Canadian and Russian astronauts sped toward a linkup with the International Space Station early Friday, following a flawless lift off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. NASA’s Tom Marshburn, CSA’s Chris Hadfield and...Fiscal Cliff Jeopardizes Civil Space Jobs
The looming Fiscal Cliff could have dire consequences for NASA, the nation’s lead civil space agency, and NOAA, the agency responsible for satellite weather observations and climate studies, according to an analysis prepared for the Washington-based...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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