Attention Plutoites! ET Message Board Eyed
A New Horizons Message Initiative is underway in the hopes of persuading NASA to upload a crowd-sourced message to the New Horizons probe that’s now outbound to Pluto. Based on bandwidth and the spacecraft’s onboard computers, the intent is to send pictures and sounds...Scientists Probe Exploration of Pluto
NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft is now 70 percent of the way along its journey to the Pluto system. It carries a sophisticated package with eight scientific instruments comprised of imagers, UV and IR spectrographs, plasma analyzers, a dust counter, and radio science....Pluto-bound Spacecraft Spots Charon
NASA’s Pluto-bound New Horizons spacecraft has spotted the ice-covered moon, Charon. The largest of Pluto’s five known moons, Charon orbits about 12,000 miles (more than 19,000 kilometers) away from Pluto itself. New Horizons spacecraft used its highest-resolution...New Horizons to Pluto: Stay the Course!
Launched in January 2006, the NASA New Horizons mission to distant Pluto is on target to whisk by that faraway world in July 2015. New news from the New Horizons team: Unless significant new hazards are found, the spacecraft is set to stay on its original course past...Wake-up Call: Mission to Pluto in Good Health
NASA’s Pluto-bound New Horizons spacecraft has come out of hibernation mode to carry out system checks, as well as receive a new flight software upload and churn out science data downloads. The mission operations team at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics...Pluto Postage: Stamp of Approval Wanted!
As a part of its education and public outreach program, the NASA New Horizons mission to the Pluto system is proposing a stamp commemorating its exploration of Pluto to the U.S. Postal Service. The post office requires that stamp proposals be accompanied by a petition...Space Talk
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From 2011 to 2020, #NASA was dependent on Russia’s 🇷🇺 Soyuz for ISS missions, as the U.S. had no domestic crew launch capability. It was SpaceX’s Crew Dragon in 2020 that made the USA 🇺🇸 aatmanirbhar 😆
We are in the home stretch of the Moon Mascot competition!
You have less than two weeks to submit your designs for the zero gravity indicator aboard the Artemis II mission. Your plush creation could be a part of history forever: http://freelancer.com/moon-mascot
NASA’s budget crisis presents an opportunity for change https://spacenews.com/nasas-budget-crisis-presents-an-opportunity-for-change/
Great to catch up with the irrepressible Mark Rocket today. Mark is New Zealand’s first man in space. This NZ flag went to space too. NZ’s first Space Flag! 🇳🇿🚀
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