Statement on CJS Appropriations Bill
Read the Coalition for Space Exploration’s response to today’s Appropriations Bill.NASA’s Red Planet Patrol: A Status Check
Mars is a busy place! NASA’s Curiosity rover, the most technologically advanced rover ever built, landed in Mars’ Gale Crater the evening of Aug. 5, 2012 Pacific Daylight Time using a series of complicated landing maneuvers never before attempted. Curiosity has been...Coalition for Space Exploration Welcomes New Ideas in NASA Budget Proposal
HOUSTON – The Coalition for Space Exploration (Coalition) supports the President’s request of $17.7B for NASA in 2014, and is encouraged by the continued investment in Space as a driver of the U.S economy. However, the Coalition is concerned this budget request is...NASA: On the BEAM – New Add-on for Space Station
NASA formally announced today a newly planned addition to the International Space Station – the Bigelow Expandable Activity Module (BEAM). The partnership to attach BEAM to the ISS involves the space agency and the private company, Bigelow Aerospace of North Las...NASA Report: Commercial Crew Progress Continues
A bi-monthly newsletter of accomplishments, progress, and happenings in NASA’s commercial crew and cargo development programs is available from the Commercial Spaceflight Development Division at NASA Headquarters in Washington, D.C. Four months into the Commercial...What the Curiosity Rover Can Teach Us About Mars — And Earth.
While the rover will help answer a wealth of questions about Mars, it raises some troubling ones about Earth — and the United States in particular. Why does a country that can pull off this kind of engineering legerdemain have such a hard time doing the easy stuff —...Neil deGrasse Tyson on the final frontier: Let’s see what’s out there
I happen to have been born the same week NASA was founded, in early October 1958. That means my earliest awareness of the world took place in the 1960s, during the Apollo era. It was also a turbulent decade internationally, and America was no exception. We were at war...Editorial: There’s still hope for NASA
To borrow from Mark Twain, reports of NASA’s death are greatly exaggerated. The space agency and the Johnson Space Center are very much alive, if not as visible as they were in the days when Mission Control was doing its regular televised turns during manned...New Site Encourages You to “Get Curious” About Mars Landing
In less than two weeks, the Mars Science Laboratory, Curiosity, will attempt to land on Mars after a nine-month journey. Read more here.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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