EDITORIAL: Losing it in space–Obama’s NASA plan is a downer
Source: The Washington Times Pity poor NASA. Rather than reaching toward the stars, America’s premier scientific organization has settled its sights on studying shrimp schools beneath the Antarctic ice cap and sticky accelerators on Toyotas. Such is the scope of...President Obama’s Space Plan: New Fact Sheets Outline Strategy
President Obama’s Space Plan: New Fact Sheets Outline Strategy On Thursday, April 15, at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the President will outline a bold strategy for human spaceflight. That strategy increases the NASA budget by $6 billion over the next five...Apollo 11 Lunar Site: A Giant Leap for Historic Preservation
New Mexico has designated the Apollo 11 moon landing site as “cultural property” – a decision to officially assign the artifacts left behind at Tranquility Base in the official registry of the New Mexico Register of Cultural Properties. The New Mexico Historic...NASA Chief Spotlights Vibrant Space Exploration Enterprise
NASA chief Charles Bolden painted an upbeat picture of where his space agency is headed. Bolden was the opening speaker at the National Space Symposium today, asking the packed auditorium here, as well as those at NASA itself, to “sit back and take a deep breath”...Bob Crippen
A former astronaut who served as pilot of first space shuttle mission (STS-1), Bob was also the commander of three other space shuttle missions (STS-7, STS-41C, STS-41G). He was former director of the Kennedy Space Center in Florida and former President of Thiokol...Rough rides, valuable lessons for students
Source: The Huntsville Times By Steve Campbell Times Staff Writer steve.campbell@htimes.com 17th Moon Buggy Race draws local, world competitors The races started with fist bumps, concentration, and even hoots and hollers reminiscent of a pre-game pep rally. But after...New Public Poll Finds Space Shuttle Investment Worthwhile
As the countdown to close the space shuttle program clicks down to zero, a new poll shows the public giving the shuttle program a thumbs-up as a worthwhile investment of the country. A newly issued Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey has found that 45 percent...NASA Chief Announces Post-Constellation Field Center Assignments
NASA Administrator Charles Bolden on Thursday outlined field center assignments supportive of President Obama’s plans to replace the under funded Constellation program with new initiatives in commercial space transportation and “transformative”...Kennedy Space Center to get $7.8B, but number of jobs stays hazy
Source: Orlando Sentinel NASA officials announced Thursday that Kennedy Space Center would manage the agency’s new effort to fly astronauts aboard commercial rockets, although it’s unclear how many jobs the proposed $5.8 billion program would generate in...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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