NASA Awards $30 million to its Commercial Crew Partners for Safety Certification Activities
NASA awarded $30 million to three U. S. companies on Monday to certify the safety of their commercial spacecraft to carry astronauts to the International Space Station. The space agency is already working with the companies, Boeing and its CST-100 capsule; SpaceX and...Space Foundation, National Research Council Call for Bolder Course for U. S. Space Exploration
The outside advice directed at NASA and theU. S.civil space program came in waves this week, just as the space agency was unveiling changes to its Mars exploration program, including plans for the launching of a second Curiosity class rover in 2020. An earlier...Earth Movie Shows Spread of Humanity
The night side of Earth twinkles with light, and the first thing to stand out is the cities. “Nothing tells us more about the spread of humans across the Earth than city lights,” asserts Chris Elvidge, a NOAA scientist who has studied this specialized imagery for 20...3-D Printer Makes Parts From Lunar Simulant
Turns out that you can leave home Earth without it! If you’re on the moon and in need of that needed wrench or replacement part, why not just 3-D print the item? Amit Bandyopadhyay, professor in the School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering at Washington State...U. S., Russian Astronauts Selected for 1-year Space Station Mission
NASA Astronaut Scott Kelly and Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko will prepare for a one-year mission aboard the International Space Station, a move intended to help prepare human explorers for the physical and mental rigors of future deep space missions. The...Astronomers Use Hubble, Gravity Lensing to Spot Most Distant Galaxy
Astronomers, using the Hubble Space Telescope and a natural consequence of large scale gravity, have imaged the most distant galaxy identified so far. Measured at just 600 light years across, quite small in cosmic terms, MACS0647-JD was imaged as it was just 420...Curiosity’s Curious “Finding” on Mars
The scientific community is abuzz about NASA’s one-ton Mars rover, Curiosity, making a finding using a suite of instruments called SAM that can gulp in and analyze Martian soil samples. Those SAM findings have not yet been released. The story that kick-started all the...U. S., Japanese and Russian Astronauts Return to Earth to Close Out Four Month Space Station Mission
U. S., Japanese and Russian astronauts descended safely to Earth late Sunday, touching down aboard their Soyuz spacecraft in wintry northern Kazakhstan after a 127 day mission to the International Space Station The capsule carrying Sunita Williams, of...NASA Johnson and Glenn Will Start 2013 With New Directors
NASA’s Johnson Space Center, in Houston,Texas, and Glenn Research Center, in Cleveland, Ohio, will begin the New Year with new directors. Ellen Ochoa, a former astronaut, moves up from deputy director of NASA Johnson to replace Mike Coats, after seven years at...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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