President Obama Lauds Shuttle, Station Programs in Chat With Atlantis Crew. NASA to Aim for Mars, He Says
 President Obama commended NASA’s shuttle program in a call to the Atlantis astronauts on Friday in which he also re-stated his call for the space agency to develop the technologies for bold new missions of human exploration. An expedition to Mars is...Nostalgia, Promise of Bold New Missions Surround NASA’s Final Shuttle Flight
 NASA’s final shuttle flight represents a milestone that has many who work at the space agency committed to its success, though already nostalgic about the retiring orbiters and hopeful the passage will lead the nation to embark on bold new ventures. Poised at...Russian Supply Craft Docks With Space Station
 An unpiloted Russian supply craft docked successfully with the International Space Station on Thursday, delivering 5,800 pounds of fuel, food, water, medical supplies and spare parts. The Progress 43 linked with the station’s aft most docking port at 12:37 p.m.,...Russian Capsule Heads for Space Station with Supplies
 A Russian Progress cargo capsule lifted off Tuesday from Kazakhstan, starting a two-day journey to the International Space Station with 5,400 pounds of fuel, food, water, compressed air, spare parts and other supplies. The Progress 43 settled into orbit nine minutes...New Multinational Crew docks with Space Station
 A Russian Soyuz TMA-02M/27S spacecraft docked with the International Space Station late Thursday, completing a two-day transit for Cosmonaut Sergei Volkov, NASA’s Mike Fossum and  Satoshi Furukawa, of the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency. The linkup at 5:18...NASA, ESA Unveil Much Anticipated Imagery of Shuttle Docked to Space Station
NASA previewed images of the shuttle Endeavour docked to the International Space Station on Tuesday, the first photos showing the wide sweep of the orbiting science laboratory with one of the U. S. orbiters attached. The photos, taken on May 23 by European Space...U. S., Russian Astronauts Reach Space Station Aboard Soyuz Spacecraft
A Soyuz capsule with a three-man U. S. and Russian crew docked smoothly with the International Space Station late Wednesday. The linkup at 7:09 p.m., EDT, delivered cosmonauts Alexander Samokutyaev and Andrey Borisenko as well as Ron Garan of NASA to the orbiting...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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