Students Quiz Space Station Astronauts
Three U. S. members of the International Space Station crew raved about the beauty of the Earth and discussed the risks associated with their work on Tuesday, as they fielded questions about life aboard the orbiting laboratory from students who attend two Washington...Sun Watching: Building the Fastest Space Probe
Here’s a hot one! Build a spacecraft that can fly to within four million miles of the Sun and study a region that has never been explored by a space probe.  Doing so will require the satellite to be equipped with a high-tech heat shield to thwart searing 2,550 degree...New Tool For Space Weather Forecasting
There’s a new space-based system to monitor Earth’s space environment. Introducing the Active Magnetosphere and Planetary Electrodynamics Response Experiment (AMPERE) – the system provides real-time magnetic field measurements using commercial satellites as part...Venus: Once a Water World?
In Europe, scientists have found evidence that searing Venus may once have been a water world, perhaps suitable for life. Their speculation is based on findings from the European Space Agency’s Venus Express, a spacecraft mission launched in November 2005 for...Japan’s Solar Sail Photographed in Orbit
Source: Discovery News If seeing is believing, this picture comes as sweet relief to a satellite operations team in Japan that has been overseeing the flight of an experimental solar sailing spacecraft. The Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency, known as JAXA,...Human Sunspots! Incredible Image
Skywatcher Thierry Legault has snapped an image of the solar transit of the International Space Station (ISS) and Space Shuttle Atlantis. The spectacular shot was taken just 50 minutes before docking of the two vehicles, taken from the area of Madrid, Spain on May...NASA’s New Eye on the Sun Delivers Stunning First Images
Source: NASA.gov View related briefing materials here. NASA’s recently launched Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, is returning early images that confirm an unprecedented new capability for scientists to better understand our sun’s dynamic processes. These...Danger Mars Colonists! Need for Predicting Space Storms
Future inhabitants of Mars (those that are not already there, perhaps) are in need of a space storm monitoring system. That’s the advice of Roger Dube, professor in the Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science at Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) in...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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