Robonaut 2: NASA’s Other Robot Personality
Before there was Curiosity, there was Robonaut 2. This week, R2, the humaniod collaboration between NASA and General Motors achieved an important milestone in its 18 months aboard the International Space Station. On Tuesday, R-2 wiped a handrail with a hand...Study Finds U. S. Space Leadership Slipping
The United States remains the overall leader in space competitiveness, as measured against 14 other global powers, but its relative position has declined for a fifth straight year, as other countries enhance their capabilities, according to a new assessment from the...At 40, NASA Initiated Landsat Earth Observation Program Still Delivers
Monday marked the 40th anniversary of the nation’s long-lived Landsat program, whose cornerstone is a succession of polar orbiting satellites developed do document the changing face of the Earth — changes both attributed to nature, like volcanic...U. S. Faces Economic Hardship Over Budget Sequestration Issue, Aerospace Industry Group Cautions
The long U. S. recovery from the recession of 2008-09 is marching toward a January cliff that could plunge the nation into new broad based economic hardship, according to an assessment of pending federal budget cuts prepared for the Aerospace Industries...Watch It! NASA Set to Fly Inflatable Reentry Vehicle Experiment (Update 2)
UPDATE: IRVE-3 Scores Successful Test A large inflatable heat shield developed by NASA’s Space Technology Program has successfully survived a trip through Earth’s atmosphere while travelling at hypersonic speeds up to 7,600 mph. The Inflatable Reentry...Large Synoptic Survey Telescope Moves to Final Design Stage
The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) project is moving to the final design stage. To be located in Chile, the LSST is a proposed 8-meter wide-field survey telescope that will survey the entire sky approximately twice per week, delivering a large and...U.S., Russian and Japanese Astronauts Join Space Station Crew
The International Space Station resumed six crew operations early Tuesday with the arrival of the 31 Soyuz mission spacecraft delivering U. S., Japanese and Russian astronauts. The two spacecraft docked at 12:51 a.m., EDT, as they flew 252 miles over northeast...U. S., Russian and Japanese Astronauts Lift Off for Space Station from Kazakhstan
An all veteran crew of U. S., Russian and Japanese astronauts lifted off for the International Space Station late Saturday and a demanding four month mission filled with multi-national resupply activities, a pair of spacewalks and a challenging research agenda....Deep Space Diet: Handling Hunger on Mars
A team of researchers from the University of Hawaii at Mānoa and Cornell University are testing new forms of food and food preparation strategies for deep-space travel. The university investigators have picked six volunteers to make up the crew of a simulated Mars...Space Talk
Of course no #NASA briefing is complete with out a few "eye charts". This #Moonbase sequence chart adopted a retro PacMan meme ...
First talks about potentially ditching NRHO. This is currently not possible with SLS Block 1 and Orion with its current ESM. To park in LLO, Orion would need a stretched service module or if Centaur V could use a mission extension package, it could do the lunar insertion burn
Webb captured this new image of galaxy Messier 58, in both the near and mid-infrared, as part of a treasury of 55 massive, star-forming galaxies. The data on the properties of these galaxies will add insight to our picture of how galaxies grow and evolve over cosmic time.
We'll host a live event Tuesday, March 24, at 9am ET (1300 UTC) to provide an update on implementation of the National Space Policy and preparation for returning to the Moon's surface by 2028. A press conference will follow. How to watch: https://go.nasa.gov/4bGQv2q
