Companies Eye Microgravity Production Technology
A business unit of the Schafer Corporation based in Albuquerque, New Mexico has teamed with MoonDust Technologies of Tucson, Arizona to pursue a unique line of products resulting from the use of Schafer’s proprietary microgravity production technology. The agreement...Book review: Out of This World – New Mexico’s Contributions to Space Travel
Out of This World – New Mexico’s Contributions to Space Travel by Loretta Hall; Rio Grande Books, Los Ranchos, New Mexico; $19.95 (Paperback); 2011. For a good many readers, I’m sure you’re hungry to slip into a spacesuit and head for the heavens. No doubt you are...Sunday Launch Signals Soyuz Recovery, Eases Space Station De-staffing Concerns
A Soyuz rocket soared into Earth orbit with the Progress 45 cargo capsule early Sunday, marking the first mission of the venerable Russian launcher to the International Space Station since the late August crash of a similar supply craft. The Aug. 24 loss led to...Rina Forces Early End to NASA Asteroid Analog Mission
The NASA Extreme Environment Mission Operations undersea asteroid analog mission off Key Largo,Fla., came to an early end on Wednesday. The six NEEMO crew members surfaced after forecasters predicted Hurricane Rina, a late season tropical storm in the western...NASA-led Undersea Asteroid Analog Mission Underway off Key Largo
Anchored 60 feet below the Atlantic Ocean just off Key Largo,Fla., the Aquarius undersea habitat is serving as a outpost for an international astronaut crew, one of the world’s foremost experts on Martian geology and a NASA support team focused on the...Robonaut 2 Achieves First Motion
Robonaut2, a legless robot developed by NASA and automaker General Motors and launched to the International Space Station in February, moved for the first time this week by reaching out in response to ground commands. “We have his arms stretched...Something Like the Ultimate Science Fair — A Chance for YouTube Savvy Teens to Fly an Experiment Aboard the International Space Station
NASA is teaming with global space agencies as well as some of the top names in commercial space, Internet communications and personal computers to underwrite a pair of out of this world opportunities for teens to develop a life science or physics experiment...Scream In Space? Smartphone Apps to Run on Satellite
How to test the theory ‘in space no one can hear you scream’ – made popular in the 1979 film ‘Alien’? Space technology experts from Surrey Satellite Technology (SSTL) and the Surrey Space Centre (SSC) at the University of Surrey have announced the winners of a...Atlantis Crew Demonstrated Promising Water Recovery Technique
During NASA’s final shuttle mission in July, astronauts demonstrated techniques borrowed from nature that may help future fliers on spacewalks, or even explorers on long missions to distant planetary bodies, recycle impure water for drinking. The process is...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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