Space Launch System Monthly Accomplishments – May 2014
SLS Structural Test Stands to be Built at Marshall Space Flight Center SLS will have the largest cryogenic fuel tanks ever used on a rocket. Stands to test the tanks and other hardware to ensure that these huge structures can withstand the incredible stresses of...How Robots Are Blazing a Trail for Manned Mars Missions
Date Published: May 15, 2014 Source: Space.com Whenever humans finally touch down on Mars, they’ll be following in the footsteps of many brave robotic pioneers. Right now there are two NASA robots exploring the Martian surface — the Curiosity rover and its older...NASA's bold plan: Landing people on asteroids
Date Published: May 13, 2014 Source: CNN This isn’t a real-life recreation of “Armageddon.” There’s no clear and present threat to Earth. But NASA says it’s working on plans to send astronauts into space to land on an asteroid. The NASA mission...The big question: Where will space travel be in a decade’s time?
Date Published: May 13, 2014 Source: Wired Magazine Wired asks a panel of experts how they think space travel will evolve over the next decade. Frank de Winne, First European astronaut commander “First, on the institutional side, we will have a system that will...NASA investigates how to keep crew healthy during deep space missions
Date Published: May 7, 2014 Source: Engadget Now that we’re this close to sending humans to Mars, NASA thought it best to start preparing for one of its biggest goals: deep space exploration. Three NASA Ames Research Center studies that aim to explore the...Breaking Ground: Making History: Space Launch System Structural Test Stands to be Built at Marshall Space Flight Center
Date Published: May 6, 2014 Source: NASA NASA is contracting for the construction of the test stands through the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which has awarded a $45.3 million contract to Brasfield & Gorrie of Birmingham, Alabama. SLS will be the most powerful...Advancing Progress on SLS Avionics
From left, Wayne Arrington, a Boeing Company technician, and Steve Presti, a mechanical technician at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., install Developmental Flight Instrumentation Data Acquisition Units in Marshall’s Systems Integration and...LVAC: Advancing the Technology Readiness Of SLS Adaptive Controls
Can a rocket maneuver like an airplane? And can an airplane act as a surrogate for a maneuvering rocket? NASA engineers demonstrated just that when they used a NASA F/A-18 aircraft recently to simulate a rocket in its early flight phase to test adaptive software for...NASA Orbiter Finds New Gully Channel on Mars
A comparison of images taken by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter in November 2010 and May 2013 reveal the formation of a new gully channel on a crater-wall slope in the southern highlands of Mars....Space Talk
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@mars_stu @NASAJPL @NASAMars They'll be downlinked when the spacecraft is able to re-point to Earth following its science observations. Will begin likely NET later this evening US time, and take place over a few days.
What's it like to fly NASA's experimental, quiet supersonic aircraft?
We're hosting a @Reddit AMA with our X-59 test pilots on Monday, May 18. Stop by and share your questions! https://www.reddit.com/r/nasa/
What's it like to fly NASA's experimental, quiet supersonic aircraft?
We're hosting a @Reddit AMA with our X-59 test pilots on Monday, May 18. Stop by and share your questions! https://www.reddit.com/r/nasa/