NASA Twins Readied for Moon Flight
Twin robotic probes to orbit Earth’s Moon are ready for their launch to chart our next-door neighbor’s gravity field in unprecedented detail. The Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) mission by NASA will make use of two spacecraft that fly in tandem orbits...Space Station View of Menacing Hurricane Irene
It’s big, powerful, and has caught the eyes of astronauts on the International Space Station. The large and looming hurricane Irene was caught on camera yesterday from the ISS by astronaut Ron Garan. The image above shows the storm passing over the Caribbean. In a...Opportunity Mars Rover Begins Up-Close Inspection Duties
NASA’s Opportunity Mars rover is inspecting an interesting feature – a flat-topped rock. It was chosen by the rover team as a stop for inspecting with tools on Opportunity’s robotic arm, just a few days after the rover arrived at the western rim of...Book Review: The Case for Mars – The Plan to Settle the Red Planet and Why We Must (Revised/Updated)
The Case for Mars – The Plan to Settle the Red Planet and Why We Must by Robert Zubrin with Richard Wagner; Free Press – an Imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc., New York, New York; $16.99 (paperback); 2011. This is a revised and updated issue of the seminal...Solar-sensational! New Video View – Anatomy of a Coronal Mass Ejection
Scientists making use of NASA’s STEREO spacecraft have created the first detailed images of a three-day journey by solar wind that slams into the Earth at speeds up to a million miles per hour. Researchers at Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) and the National Solar...NASA’s Pluto-bound New Horizons Probe: Healthy and On Course!
NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft – now en route to Pluto — remains healthy and on course. The probe is roughly 21 times as far from the Sun as the Earth is – well on its way, between the orbits of Uranus and Neptune. The craft was launched in January 2006. “From...Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle Prepared for Acoustic Testing
Work on the Orion MPCV, or Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle, has reached a new milestone. Last week at Lockheed Martin facilities near Denver, the Orion MPCV was crowned with a Launch Abort System. In that fully-stacked condition, the combined length of the coupled gear...Mars Rover at Endeavour Crater: New Rim Shots!
New imagery from NASA’s Opportunity Mars rover has revealed more details from the rim of Endeavour crater. The Mars robot has rolled itself to the large impact crater that measures about 14 miles (22 kilometers) in diameter. In pulling up to the crater, Opportunity’s...China’s Experimental Space Laboratory: Tiangong I
China continues to press forward in its plans to loft an experimental space laboratory – and according to one space watcher, China’s Tiangong I may fly sooner than expected. According to Gregory Kulacki, a senior analyst and China Project manager at the Union of...Space Talk
👨🏻🚀👨🏻🚀Whatever the Odyssey, sometimes all it takes is a change of perspective to see beyond yourself.
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🤝A space mission is never just one person’s dream. It takes thousands of people working together, with benefits that ultimately reach us all.
Looking forward to sharing the next adventure.
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Why do galaxies spin?
A new study "spots “primordial spin” imprinted on galaxies by churning halos of dark matter" and opens "a window for cosmological measurements of neutrino mass and other cosmological parameters".
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🌒 August 12: A total solar eclipse sweeps across Iceland and Spain.
NASA will be on the ground bringing the science, live updates, and incredible views to everyone no matter where you are.
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On Aug. 12, a total solar eclipse will cross Iceland and Spain. NASA will be there!
The U.S. won’t see totality this time, so we’re bringing the science to you. Follow along this week! ☀️
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🎶 SOUND ON: Experts at NASA were able to take images from across the universe, in a galaxy found 16 million light-years away, and were able to transform them into music.
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