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UN in Vienna discusses space solutions Credit: UN Experts from around the globe took part early this month in the 48th session of the Scientific and Technical Subcommittee of the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (COPUOS). The gathering...NASA IG briefs House Appropriators on Space Agency’s Top Concerns
NASA Inspector General Paul Martin underscored the urgency of addressing the uncertainty over the agency’s human spaceflight program in testimony presented Thursday to the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice and Science. The Appropriations...House Appropriators Propose Cuts to Budget, including NASA’s
NASA is facing a “$379 million budget cut” under the 2011 federal spending reductions proposed on Wednesday by the House Appropriations Committee. However, Congress and the Obama Administration never passed a budget for the current federal fiscal year...NASA Engineering Expertise Helps Clear Toyota Acceleration Mystery
NASA played a key role in the long running Department of Transportation investigation into Toyota’s runaway car mystery. The sudden acceleration issue forced the Japanese automaker to recall 11 million Toyota and Lexus automobiles and pay nearly $50 million...Sim-Mars Project Preparing for “Landing” on the Red Planet
Mars500 crew (from left) Alexey Sitev, Yue Wang, Romain Charles, Alexandr Smoleevskiy, Diego Urbina and Sukhrob Kamolov. Mars isolation modules in Moscow – home for the Mars 500 project. A major simulation of a human voyage to Mars has reached a key milestone –...Alien Worlds Abound, According to NASA’s Kepler Mission Scientists
NASA’s Kepler space telescope has made major new strides in the search for extrasolar planets, producing its first candidates for Earth-sized worlds and the first worlds orbiting within what’s considered the habitable zones of stars, astronomers...Satellites Monitor Major Winter Storm
NASA satellites, some of them positioned to monitor hurricanes and others involved in climate research, are watching the massive winter storm that has much of the Central and Eastern United States in its grips. Everyday, these spacecraft help people plan their...Russia’s Progress 41 reaches International Space Station, the Latest in a Parade of Global Supply Ships Headed for the Orbiting Science Laboratory
Russia’s 41st Progress supply capsule successfully docked with the International Space Station late Saturday, the latest in a series of unmanned global cargo vessels headed for the six person orbiting science laboratory. The Progress capsule linked to the...NASA Offers $$ to Amateur Astronomers for Satellite Photos
NASA is rounding up amateur photographers who would like a chance to win up to $500 for the best photographs of the recently deployed NanoSail-D spacecraft, an orbiting solar sail experiment. NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center and Ames Research Center...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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