Space History on the Auction Block!
Photos: Courtesy of Bonhams There was an off-world look to the recent Bonhams annual Space History Sale earlier this month. The New York scene is a room packed with active bidders as they competed with each other, along with online bidders and buyers listening in...NASA Designates Orion as Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle for Future Human Deep Space Missions
The four person Orion spacecraft, once part of the Constellation program, will emerge as a center piece of U. S. plans to resume the exploration of deep space with astronauts, NASA Administrator Charles Bolden and other agency officials announced on Tuesday. The...Classic Trip to the Moon Film Restored
Courtesy: Technicolor Foundation for Cinema Heritage Before Apollo moonwalkers did it for real, movie audiences went to the Moon in 1902. Thanks to the movie magic of Georges Méliès’, his A Trip to the Moon – original title, Le voyage dans la lune —...Rough Stuff! New Moon Maps
By looking at three scales simultaneously, researchers can identify features of interest, such as the maria, which are smooth at large scales and rough at short scales; these features appear blue. The rough terrain of relatively young craters appears white, while...Wanted: Teachers for Micro-gravity Flight!
Powell Middle School math and science teachers Carrie Brunner, Courtney Poloney and Kara Kwolek experience weightlessness during the Northrop Grumman Foundation Weightless Flights of Discovery in Detroit. Credit: Northrop Grumman The Northrop Grumman Foundation is...Thursday Marks 50th Anniversary of First U. S. Human Spaceflight
The United States marks the 50th anniversary of the nation’s first human space flight on Thursday, the 15-minute voyage of Mercury astronaut Alan Shepard Jr. The May 5, 1961, suborbital flight in the one-man Mercury 7 capsule designated Freedom 7 lifted...Asteroid Flyby of Earth – A Stone’s Throw Away!
One of Mother Nature’s good-sized space rocks is slipping past Earth this November – and this asteroid is a little bit wider than an aircraft carrier! That’s the word from asteroid experts at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The flyby of the space rock is on...Proposed Legislation Would Direct U. S. Return to the Moon
A recently introduced House bill, the Reasserting American Leadership in Space Act, would require the United States to resume efforts to return human explorers to the moon, this time by 2022, and establish a “sustained presence.” The legislation, H. R....NASA’s Mission Control Center Named for Chris Kraft
NASA’s Mission Control Center, known around the world as the pulse of U. S. human spaceflight — from the missions of Mercury and the Apollo moon landings to the assembly of the International Space Station, was named for Christopher Kraft Jr. on Thursday....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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