Atlantis: The Last Shuttle Out of Town
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Florida – Thousands upon thousands of people are expected to arrive here to witness the final NASA space shuttle mission – the flight of Atlantis. So far, the only bit of negative news is the increasing prospect of foul weather delaying the...Americans Support U. S. Space Leadership, Even in Difficult Economic Times
Nearly six in 10 Americans believe it is essential for the United States to lead the exploration of space, according to a new Pew Research Center poll. The survey, conducted June 15-19, also found that 55 percent of Americans believe NASA’s long running...Ultrasound: Space Research Spurs Terrestrial Health Care Benefits
The development of exam techniques for use on the International Space Station (ISS) is expanding the use of ultrasound on Earth. These techniques are in use by non-physician astronauts to perform ultrasound exams on their space colleagues. Why ultrasound? Ultrasound...Reusable Rocket Testing Underway at Spaceport America
The desert landscape of New Mexico’s Spaceport America is a perfect setting for testing rockets. In fact, the father of American rocketry, Robert Goddard, found the area ideal for his trial testing of hardware. Armadillo Aerospace of Rockwall, Texas is now test flying...Wanted! Citizen Scientists for New Horizons Flyby Target
Want to be known as a far out “Ice Hunter” for NASA’s New Horizons mission now en route to the Pluto system? A citizen science project has been established – one that can help scientists search through specially-obtained telescopic images for currently unknown objects...SETI Signals for Funding: New Site Offers Public Involvement
There’s no question that the search for life elsewhere is a profound enterprise in human history. As the quest continues to search and find other planets circling other stars, the hunger to find out just how crowded the universe is out there also grows. The search for...Cold Hard Facts! New Satellite Data Explores Fragile Arctic
The first maps of ice thickness courtesy of the European Space Agency’s (ESA) CryoSat mission are in – a new tool to advance polar science. ESA’s CryoSat was lofted in April 2010. From orbit, the spacecraft has spent the last seven months delivering precise...Reentry Recorder Onboard Incoming Automated Transfer Vehicle
Update: First word post-reentry of the ATV is that this experiment failed to phone home! An analysis is underway to determine what happened to the device. Meanwhile, data from the successful test of this device from the March reentry is ongoing and promises to provide...Eight-legged Earthlings Find Home on the International Space Station
Astronauts aboard the International Space Station are tending a pair of golden orb-web spiders, left aboard by the shuttle Endeavour astronauts. Gladys and Esmeralda are part of a 45-day student experiment to compare the web spinning techniques of spiders in...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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