Interview With Orbital ATK’s Charlie Precourt, 4-Time Space-Shuttle Pilot
by Rich Smith, author on The Motley Fool As vice president and general manager of Orbital ATK’s Propulsion Systems business, Charlie Precourt oversees such vital national programs as development of the solid rocket booster that will help send NASA’s new...
Today’s Deep Space Extra for Friday, March 18, 2016
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… NASA’s legislative overseers sound bipartisan call for adequate NASA funding. Human Deep Space Exploration House authorizers join pro-NASA chorus on Hill Spacepolicyonline.com (3/17): Members of the U.S. House Science, Space...
General Robert White: The first winged astronaut
On this day, we celebrate the accomplishments of General Robert White, the first person to fly a rocketplane to space. General White had a storied military aviation career, including 52 combat missions over Europe and 70 combat missions in Vietnam. However, it is his...
Today’s Deep Space Extra for Thursday, March 17, 2016
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… Apollo 11’s Buzz Aldrin predicts international effort to reach Mars with explorers by 2040. Human Deep Space Exploration Buzz Aldrin talks March madness and Mars exploration CBS News (3/16): Aldrin predicts an international...
The incredible views from New Horizons
NASA’s New Horizons probe flew by Pluto and its moons more than eight months ago, but the images from that brief encounter continue to trickle in. New Horizons revealed a dwarf planet with a surprising amount of activity and a varied geography unlike anything...
Today’s Deep Space Extra for Wednesday, March 16, 2016
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… Bipartisan U.S. House appropriators vow to seek more funding for NASA in 2017. Human Deep Space Exploration House appropriators vow to seek more NASA funding Space News (3/15): Republicans and Democrats alike vowed Tuesday to push...
Orion’s February Accomplishments
The February newsletter for the Orion program is out! In this issue: Orion’s solar array was successfully deployed in a test at NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Ohio. NASA Administrator Charles Bolden discusses the state of the agency. Orion’s fuel...
Today’s Deep Space Extra for Tuesday, March 15, 2016
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… NASA Glenn names new director, former astronaut, Janet Kavandi. Human Deep Space Exploration Air Force simulates astronaut rescue Florida Today (3/14): U.S. Air Force helicopters and rescue personnel demonstrated the recovery of...
ExoMars spacecraft sets off in search of alien life
The search for life on Mars has entered a new era with the launch of a spacecraft built to sniff out waste gases released by alien organisms. The ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) blasted into an overcast sky on a Proton rocket from Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at...Space Talk
#Spazio, #ESA vs #NASA, #Aschbacher: “stop a Lunar Gateway e Mars Sample Return perturbano nostri piani”
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Spazio, ESA vs NASA, Aschbacher: “stop a Lunar Gateway e Mars Sample Return perturbano nostri...
Spazio, ESA vs NASA, Aschbacher: “stop a Lunar Gateway e Mars Sample Return perturbano nostri piani”
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How do you know an elephant was in the refrigerator? The footprints in the butter!
@NASARoman will use a similar technique to study neutron stars, essentially invisible crushed cores of former massive stars, relying on their effects on other stars.
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Name a better office view. 🧑🚀🌎
#OTD in 2009, astronauts installed Wide Field Camera 3 on Hubble during Servicing Mission 4.
WFC3 provides images across three broad regions of light: ultraviolet, visible, and into the near-infrared! Read more: https://go.nasa.gov/439kDQe
To build on the Moon, we need construction materials that can withstand bitter cold – so @NASAglenn invented a machine that can recreate that environment for testing!
This high-powered refrigerator, or cryocooler, removes heat without using any liquid. https://go.nasa.gov/3PGqIR9
