Book Review: Alien Seas – Oceans in Space
Alien Seas – Oceans in Space by Michael Carroll, Rosaly Lopes (Editors); Springer, New York; $29.99 (hardcover); 2013. Thanks to the editors for this captivating “wet look” at an under-appreciated aspect of planets and moons in our celestial neighborhood – those “seas...China Mooncraft Settles into Lunar Orbit
China’s Chang’e 3 lunar probe has successfully entered lunar orbit. Braking into a circular orbit around the Moon, the spacecraft is set to attempt a soft landing on moonscape in mid-December. According to the Beijing Aerospace Control Center (BACC) the craft is in a...China’s “Yutu” Moon Rover Ready for Liftoff
On Mars there’s Curiosity, Spirit and Opportunity – veteran NASA robot rovers of the Red Planet. But add a new mobile robot’s name to the space exploration history books. According to China’s Xinhua news agency, the “Yutu” or Jade Rabbit is the name for the country’s...Private Firm Shoots for the Moon: Calls for Property Rights Regime
At a press conference today, representatives of NASA and Bigelow Aerospace discussed the options for commercial sector involvement in space exploration beyond low-Earth orbit. Under a NASA Space Act Agreement, Bigelow Aerospace of North Las Vegas, Nevada has scoped...Book Review: Apollo 13 Owners’ Workshop Manual
Apollo 13 Owners’ Workshop Manual – An engineering insight into how NASA saved the crew of the failed Moon mission; Quayside publishing group/Zenith Press; Minneapolis, MN; $28.00; November 2013. For those of you that didn’t experience the “real deal” in 1970 – beyond...NASA Powers Up Orion
Orion, the new NASA spacecraft under development to transport U. S. astronauts to an assortment of deep space destinations, including the asteroids, the moon and eventually Mars, has been powered up for the first time at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, where it is...Mercury Astronaut Scott Carpenter Dies
NASA Mercury 7 astronaut Scott Carpenter, who in May 1962 became the second American to orbit the Earth, died Thursday. Carpenter, 88, was hospitalized in his home state of Colorado after suffering a stroke in September. The multi-dimensional Carpenter launched...NASA Orbiter Locks into Lunar Orbit
NASA’s Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) achieved lunar orbit on Oct. 6. Thanks to two High Performance Apogee Thruster HiPAT phasing burns, each of the blasts by the Aerojet Rocketdyne bipropellant engine increased the spacecraft’s apogee...Scientists Detect Magmatic Water on Moon’s Surface
The Earth’s moon is taking on more of a wet look. Scientists have detected “magmatic water” on the surface of the Moon, that is, water that originates from deep within the Moon’s interior. Fresh data about water on the Moon has been percolating for several years. For...Space Talk
A new eye on the cosmos is almost ready to soar!
#NASA’s #NancyGraceRoman Space Telescope is now set to launch on 30 August 2026 - eight months ahead of schedule.
With its powerful wide-field infrared vision, #Roman will reveal vast, uncharted regions of the #universe,
#Space
🇲🇦🇧🇷| Brazilian company Saipher presented its HORUS SDA/SSA/STM software during a meeting with FAR 4th Bureau officials. The system provides Space Domain Awareness (SDA), Space Situational Awareness (SSA), and Space Traffic Monitoring (STM) capabilities.
@Eric3Gribble Not how Congress works. SLS gets money allocated to it by Congress. SLS receiving money doesn’t take money from other parts of NASA.
And it’s a good thing that we didn’t fall for this trap too, because then no part of Artemis would be working
Everybody say "Hi, LESTR" 👋
This machine at our center is helping NASA study how materials behave in super-cold environments.
Putting electronics and other flight hardware to the test at extremely low temperatures will be critical as we look to build a Moon Base near the lunar
