NASA, SpaceX Plan First U. S. Commercial Supply Mission to the International Space Station
NASA and SpaceX, of Hawthorne, are aiming for an April 30 lift off of the first U. S. commercial re-supply mission to the International Space Station. The space agency’s six year-old Commercial Orbital Transportation Services program was initiated to...New Duty for SETI Dishes
A search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) has pulled in its antenna horns a bit to carry out a new agenda of scientific research – some of which is far closer to Earth. The Allen Telescope Array (ATA) is situated at the Hat Creek Radio Observatory in Northern...Space Station: What’s in that Glovebox?
The International Space Station (ISS) is the focal point for “heated” debate! An experiment is bridging the gap between normal gravity material flammability screening tests, short time ground-based microgravity tests and actual zero-gravity spacecraft conditions....Space Station Demo Holds Prospects for Improved Safety on the High Seas
A technology demonstration underway aboard the International Space Station — of all places — promises to improve safety and security on the world’s oceans. And that is saying a lot — about 70 percent of the Earth’s surface is covered by...Teen Winners Emerge in YouTube Space Station Experiment Contest
Bacteria and Spiders may seem like an unwelcome combination. But put them tegether with some astronauts aboard the International Space Station and something quite fascinating is bound to happen. So figured Dorothy Chen and Sara Ma, both 16 of Troy, Mich., and Amr...Book Review: The Elusive WOW – Searching for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
The Elusive WOW – Searching for Extraterrestrial Intelligence by Robert Gray; Palmer Square Press; Chicago, Illinois; $29.95 (hard cover); December 2011. Don’t let this book escape your radar screen. The author has put together a telling tale here of an incident in...Space Station Detector Sifts the Cosmic Fabric at an Unexpected Clip
Perched on the outside of the sprawling International Space Station, the $2 billion Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer is sifting through cosmic ray particles at twice the rate eager physicists estimated when the “big science” experiment was launched last...Robonaut 2, NASA Astronaut Dan Burbank Share First Humanoid Handshake in Space
International Space Station commander Dan Burbank shook hands on Wednesday with Robonaut 2, the first time man and machine have exchanged the traditional male greeting on the high frontier. “For the record, it was a firm handshake,” Burbank informed...Pluto-bound Mission Enters “Home Stretch”
NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft is chalking up interplanetary mileage en route to distant Pluto. Few spacecraft travel 10 astronomical units (AU) during their entire mission. But with New Horizons already logging more than twice that distance on its way to Pluto,...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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