Senate Appropriators Challenge President’s Updated Space Policy
President Obama’s plans to cancel NASA’s Constellation Program in favor of major new investments in commercial space transportation for astronauts and a future mission to Mars faced new bi-partisan criticism on Thursday from the Senate Appropriations...Why NewSpace equals NoSpace
Source: The Examiner.com There is an old saying – talk is cheap. However, it would appear that talk is about to get a whole lot more expensive. The Obama Administration has turned away from NASA and its family of contractors and toward the new, private companies that...Apollo 11 Lunar Site: A Giant Leap for Historic Preservation
New Mexico has designated the Apollo 11 moon landing site as “cultural property” – a decision to officially assign the artifacts left behind at Tranquility Base in the official registry of the New Mexico Register of Cultural Properties. The New Mexico Historic...Astronaut Explains Importance of Moon Mission
From Universe Today The debate on why humans should or should not return to the Moon has been ongoing for years. Two weeks ago, I had the opportunity to hear astronaut Ron Garan speak eloquently on a subject he is passionate about, water sustainability on planet...Many Flavors of Moon Ice
From MSNBC Since the surprise discovery last year of trace amounts of water on the moon, scientists have been redefining their concept of Earth’s rocky neighbor. Now researchers say the water on the moon comes in three different flavors. Until recently the moon...NASA Administrator tells House Appropriators Not to Expect a Budget “Plan B”
NASA Administrator Charles Bolden warned House appropriators on Tuesday not to expect an alternative to President Obama’s proposed 2011 budget for the space agency, a spending plan that calls for the controversial cancellation of the Constellation moon program...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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