New Mexico’s Rocket Week!
Credit: NASALAS CRUCES, New Mexico — It’s a big space week here for New Mexico. Preparations are underway for a major educational launch from the state’s Spaceport America and NASA’s preparing Pad Abort 1 – a step to develop safer vehicles for human spaceflight...NASA Moves Final Shuttle Mission to Mid-November
NASA’s space shuttle program has received a brief reprieve from retirement. The last of three missions still remaining had been scheduled for a Sept. 16 launching aboard the shuttle Discovery. On Monday, shuttle managers moved the planned July 29 launching of...Kids Wanted! Send In Your Moon Station Design Drawings
Odyssey magazine has devoted their April issue to “Fly Me to the Moons” – including a heavy dose of exploring Earth’s next-door neighbor – our own Moon. Odyssey is an award-winning science magazine for young people ages 10 to above (grades 5 and up) and features...Space Agency for Mexico Okayed
It is official. Mexico’s congress green-lighted this week the creation of a “Mexican NASA”. The new agency is called AEXA (Agencia Espacial Mexicana). AEXA will specialize in the promotion, coordination and encouragement of all matters relating to the research,...Robotic Space Plane Set for Liftoff
All appears on schedule for tonight’s maiden flight of the reusable X-37B space plane. This U.S. Air Force Orbital Test Vehicle, or OTV, will be boosted into orbit atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas booster. Its mission is to demonstrate a reliable, reusable,...Eight Wonders of the Solar System, Made Interactive
From Scientific American: What might future explorers of the solar system see? Artist Ron Miller takes the viewer on a journey to eight of the most breathtaking views that await explorers of our solar system. The scale of these natural wonders dwarfs anything Earth...Shuttle Experiment Probes Infectious Disease Process in Humans
In a first-of-its-kind experiment, the unique conditions of space flight will be used to examine how cells remain healthy or succumb to disease, particularly in the face of stress or damage. At Arizona State University (ASU) in Tempe, Biodesign Institute researchers...Danger Mars Colonists! Need for Predicting Space Storms
Future inhabitants of Mars (those that are not already there, perhaps) are in need of a space storm monitoring system. That’s the advice of Roger Dube, professor in the Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science at Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) in...Space Talk
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Roman has your back. The mission will discover tens of thousands of cosmic voids — immense spaces between galaxy clusters where dark energy dominates. Learn more: https://go.nasa.gov/4n6LcPk
Envelope expansion isn't just about going higher and faster for an X-plane like NASA's quiet supersonic X-59. It's also about understanding how a one-of-a-kind aircraft operates in flight.
With each maneuver, engineers collect data and learn more about the aircraft's
