NASA’s Aqua Spacecraft Monitors Arizona Wildfires
Hundreds of firefighters are battling or managing a pair of Eastern Arizona wildfires visible in smoke filled imagery gathered by the Aqua spacecraft, one in a series of NASA managed Earth Observing System satellites equipped with instruments furnished by...Eight-legged Earthlings Find Home on the International Space Station
Astronauts aboard the International Space Station are tending a pair of golden orb-web spiders, left aboard by the shuttle Endeavour astronauts. Gladys and Esmeralda are part of a 45-day student experiment to compare the web spinning techniques of spiders in...Atlantis Heads to Launch Pad For Final Shuttle Mission
Shuttle Atlantis began an overnight “roll out” to Launch Pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center Tuesday night, just hours before the Endeavour astronauts were scheduled to descend to Earth, concluding their 16-day mission to the International Space...NASA: Final Shuttle Mission Set for July 8 Lift Off
NASA’s final shuttle mission, a 12-day supply run to the International Space Station by the shuttle Atlantis, will launch on July 8 at 11:40 a.m., EDT, NASA announced on Friday. The date will be re-affirmed or changed, following a formal NASA flight readiness...House Provides New Budget Details Underpinning NASA Exploration Plans
The House Appropriations Committee this week produced new details of the proposed budget Continuing Resolution that would fund the federal government through the end of the 2011 fiscal year, including $18.485 billion for NASA, just over $500 million less than...NASA Closing on Heavy Lift, Crew Capsule Strategy
NASA is looking to late June to unveil of a comprehensive plan to transition from the space shuttle and Constellation programs to a new deep space exploration strategy fashioned around the 2010 NASA Authorization Act, the agency’s top exploration official...Endeavour’s Crew to Break New Ground at the International Space Station
The International Space Station, a familiar destination for NASA shuttle missions, may be Endeavour’s last stop, but her crew of six astronauts promises to break new ground with the delivery of the first astronomical observatory and tests of a docking sensor for...Small Crew Will Tackle NASA’s Final Shuttle Flight
Four astronauts are training for NASA’s final shuttle mission, a 12-day voyage to the International Space Station that has the smallest shuttle crew in 28 years ready to the stock orbiting science lab with a year’s worth of vital supplies. Atlantis is...Missed Meeting in Space by Twins One Less Thing for Family to Worry About
Curious students took a break from the Christmas holidays Tuesday to gather at the Great Lakes Science Center in Cleveland, Ohio, for a question-and-answer session with U. S. and European astronauts aboard the International Space Station. The 20-minute session was...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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