NASA Outlines Commercial Crew Safety Certification Plans
Just days after selecting industry partners for a third round of competitive commercial crew space transportation development, NASA on Wedesday outlined plans to certify the safety of the winning designs and operators, launch at least one piloted demonstration...Target Mars!
NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory mission carrying the one-ton Curiosity rover is on target to land on the red planet at 10:31 p.m. PDT on Sunday, Aug. 5 (1:31 a.m. EDT, 0531 GMT on Aug. 6). That spacecraft is headed for Gale Crater, a154 kilometer wide feature that dots...New Views: River Networks on Titan
Titan, a moon of Saturn, has been found to be an active mini-world of geological processes. But seeing those phenomena has been blocked by Titan’s thick, methane- and nitrogen-rich atmosphere. Thanks to the Cassini-Huygens spacecraft mission supported by NASA and the...Mars Science Laboratory: NASA’s Most Difficult Planetary Mission
NASA’s $2.5 billion Mars Science Laboratory mission, a two year effort to determine whether the neighboring planet hosts, or once hosted, environmental conditions suitable for some form of life, represents the most challenging U. S. planetary mission ever...U. S., Russian, European Crew Lands in Kazakhstan
U.S., Russian and European astronauts landed safely inKazakhstan early Sunday, ending a 6 1/2 mission to the International Space Station. The Soyuz transport with Don Pettit, Oleg Kononenko and Andre Kuipers touched down under parachute at 4:14 a.m, EDT, or...Asteroids Gaining New Focus
Asteroids are gaining big time on the respect scale. Two years ago, President Obama directed NASA to alter plans for a human lunar return and focus instead on mission that would land U.S. explorers one of the small rocky bodies by 2025. The mission would...Astronauts Visit Undersea Base to Simulate Asteroid Exploration
Four U.S., European and Japanese astronauts will evaluate a range of asteroid exploration strategies, following their descent on Monday to NOAA’s Aquarius Reef Base under sea habitat off Key Largo,Fla., for a 12-day stay. Astronaut Dottie Metcalf-Lindenburger, a...Dragon Splashes Down, Ending Successful Commercial Space Demo
The SpaceX Dragon mission splashed down in the Pacific Ocean off the southern California coast on Thursday, bringing a successful conclusion to a nine-day test flight. The voyage marked the first U.S.commercial re-supply mission to the six-person International Space...Book Review: Space Chronicles – Facing the Ultimate Frontier
Space Chronicles – Facing the Ultimate Frontier by Neil deGrasse Tyson (Edited by Avis Lang); W.W. Norton & Co., New York; $26.95 (hardcover); 2012. This delightful read comes courtesy of a thoughtful, charismatic astrophysicist and renowned popular speaker – an...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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