Senate Appropriators Press NASA Chief on Exploration Plans
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NASA is looking to late June to unveil of a comprehensive plan to transition from the space shuttle and Constellation programs to a new deep space exploration strategy fashioned around the 2010 NASA Authorization Act, the agency’s top exploration official...Book Review: Strange New Worlds – The Search for Alien Planets…and Life Beyond Our Solar System
Strange New Worlds – The Search for Alien Planets…and Life Beyond Our Solar Systemby Ray Jayawardhana ; Princeton University Press; Princeton, New Jersey; $24.95; (hard cover) March 2011. This delightful and engaging book tells the story of humankind’s quest to locate...Observe the Moon Night – Mark Your Calendar!
Credit: InOMN “Your Moon, My Moon, Our Moon” – that’s a credo of the International Observe the Moon Night (InOMN)! Mark your calendars as the 2011 event is on October 8th. A dedicated InOMN Internet site provides some great information and downloads to help you plan...Moon Mosaic Creates Spectacular View of Lunar Farside
The lunar farside as never seen before! NASA Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter camera system has enabled a mosaic of images showing the Moon’s farside in spectacular detail. Credit: NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) continues to...Book Review: Blogging the Moon – The Once & Future Moon Collection
Blogging the Moon: The Once & Future Moon Collection by Paul D. Spudis; Apogee Prime; Burlington Ontario Canada; $27.95 (soft cover); 2011. Moonologist Paul Spudis is a leading and top-notch lunar explorer. This book is testament to his seminal research and...New Moon Mosaic: A Nearside Spectacular!
Credit: NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) continues to churn out stunning images of Earth’s Moon. For two weeks in mid-December 2010, the LRO spacecraft looked straight down, so that the orbiter’s LROC Wide Angle Camera...NASA Facing Flat Budgets, Just Enough to Initiate an Ambitious Exploration Agenda
President Obama’s proposed budget for 2012 locks NASA spending at $18.72 billion, or 2010 levels for the next five years, while at the same time initiating a delayed transition away from the previous administration’s Constellation program with plans...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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