To the Moon with an Artistic Bounce!
May is the target time for a novel effort by the Humans in Space Youth Art Competition. A “moon bounce performance” is slated using artwork in collaboration with visual artist, Daniela DePaulis, and the Dwingeloo Radio Telescope in The Netherlands. OPTICKS is a live...NASA’s Strategic Plan 2014 Released
NASA has released its 2014 Strategic Plan, with the space agency’s Office of Strategy Formulation identified as the responsible office. “Our long-term goal is to send humans to Mars. Over the next two decades, we will develop and demonstrate the technologies and...Virtual Microscope: Eye the Apollo Collection!
Want your own glimpse of Apollo 11’s grab and go samples from the Moon, in all 48 pounds (22 kilograms) of rock and soil specimens? This collection has been created through collaboration between The Open University in the United Kingdom and the NASA curation facility....Fill’ er Up! Rocket Fuel to Go
A top-notch team of MIT engineers has scoped out orbiting way stations – one such depot placed somewhere between the Earth and the Moon. Once in place, this type of filling station could reduce the fuel a spacecraft needs to carry from Earth. That means, with less...Impact on Moon Recorded!
WHAM! A meteorite with the mass of a small car crashed into the Moon last September. Catching the event were astronomers in Spain, reporting the event in the journal, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. The impact on the Moon — in Mare Nubium, an...China’s Yutu Moon Rover – Survivor of the Lunar Night
The word from Beijing is that China’s Yutu (Jade Rabbit) rover is indeed awake, apparently surviving some two weeks of low temperature trauma. China’s Yutu lunar robot first touched the Moon’s surface on Dec. 15, 2013, unleashed several hours after China’s lunar probe...Project Moon Dust: A Kickstarter Educational Initiative
It’s called Project Moon Dust – intended to inspire and educate the next generation of space travel hopefuls. Behind the effort is Zybek Advanced Products, founded in Boulder, Colorado in 1996. The group has established a project funding effort for a Lunar...NASA Moon Orbiter Spots China Lunar Lander/Rover
China’s Chang’e 3 lander and rover have been spotted by NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter’s (LRO) powerful camera. At the time of the landing LRO’s orbit was far from the landing site so images of the landing were not possible. However, ten days later on December...New View! Apollo 8 Earthrise – The 45th Anniversary
In December of 1968, the crew of Apollo 8 became the first people to leave our home planet and travel to another body in space. But as crew members Frank Borman, James Lovell, and William Anders all later recalled, the most important thing they discovered was Earth....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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