Rosetta Comet Mission: Arrival Next Year!
The en route space probe, the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Rosetta, is scheduled to rendezvous with comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko next year, deposit a lander on its surface, and accompany the comet on its way toward the Sun. The ESA mission offers a unique chance to...NASA’s Next Moon Probe: LADEE to Test Laser Communications
NASA’s Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer – LADEE – is being prepared for its departure to the Moon. Launch date is slated for September 2013 from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility, Va. atop a Minotaur V booster. LADEE’s mission duration is approximately 160...Codename Red: Space Research ID’s Cholesterol-cutting Bacterium
A cholesterol-diminishing bacterium has been identified thanks to space research. The European Space Agency (ESA) has been looking into self-contained eco systems, ways to recycle mission waste into oxygen, water, and food. Under the ESA-led Micro-Ecological Life...Astronauts Join Space Suit Leak Probe
European Space Agency astronaut Luca Parmitano joined in a NASA investigation of the leak that allowed one to two liters of water to seep into his space suit and helmet during a spacewalk with NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy on Tuesday. The planned six to seven hour...The Day the Earth Smiled
Space is about to become a giant photo booth. This coming week, step outside and get your picture taken. It’s a “long shot” that’s for sure…but the camera is adjusted to infinity. On July 19, the Cassini spacecraft that’s now in orbit around Saturn will be positioned...Second NASA Curiosity Mission Would Seek Evidence of Past Life on Mars
NASA is refining plans for a second SUV-sized Curiosity rover mission to Mars in 2020 that would search for evidence of past biological activity, a potential international enterprise whose results may address the prospects for life elsewhere in the solar system and...U. S., European Spacewalk Prepares International Space Station for Russian Module, Future Repair Tasks
U. S. and Italian spacewalkers sailed through a list of upgrade activities outside the International Space Station on Tuesday, including a solar power cable extension that will flow electricity to Russia’s Nauka Multipurpose Laboratory Module...Hubble to Look Close for Alien Planets
Though aging, the 23-year-old Hubble Space Telescope has a new assignment in the search for planets circling other stars. In October 2014 and February 2016, Hubble will take aim at Proxima Centauri, the nearest star to the sun. Previous attempts to find planets...NASA Astronaut Karen Nyberg Among Three New Space Station Crew Members
A Russian Soyuz crew transport with a two man, one woman crew docked with the International Space Station late Tuesday, following a second consecutive “express flight” to the 15 nation orbiting science lab. NASA astronaut Karen Nyberg, cosmonaut Fyodor...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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