“Via Satellite” Anniversary: Five Decades Ago, First Transmission
It was 50 years ago this month when the first privately sponsored space-faring mission reached Earth orbit. Telstar 1 was lofted on July 10, 1962 from Cape Canaveral, enabling the world’s first transmissions of live television. Some two weeks after the satellite’s...Life on Mars Experiment: Intriguing Results
Can life survive on Mars? Yes! That’s the word from Planetary researchers at the German Aerospace Center (DLR). DLR scientists have exposed various microorganisms for 34 days in simulated Martian conditions. In just issued findings, both alpine and polar lichens were...“Earthrise” From the Moon: New Video Retraces Apollo 8 View
In honor of Earth Day 2012, NASA has issued a visualization that draws upon richly detailed maps of the Moon’s surface made from data gathered by the space agency’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO). The result: You too can share the view seen firsthand back on...Private Group Eyes Resources in Space
A new private firm has been established, one that has set their trajectory on mining the treasure trove of available space resources. Next week, the key spark plugs behind Planetary Resources, Inc. are set to discuss the start-up venture: X Prize founder, Peter H....New Duty for SETI Dishes
A search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) has pulled in its antenna horns a bit to carry out a new agenda of scientific research – some of which is far closer to Earth. The Allen Telescope Array (ATA) is situated at the Hat Creek Radio Observatory in Northern...New UN Report: Space and Climate Change – Use of Space-based Technologies
United Nations organizations are making full use of space-based technologies in a shared quest to enhance our ability to manage planet Earth and to address the critical challenges facing the human condition. “Climate change threatens to have a catastrophic impact on...Mission to a Star: NASA’s Solar Probe Plus
Given all that recent solar storm activity that the Sun has been tossing at the Earth – it’s time for space researchers to hurl something toward the Sun! A Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) team is developing NASA’s Solar Probe Plus – a...Listen: Soundtrack of the Sun
Hear, Hear: What’s a Solar Storm Sound Like? A “sonification” of measurements taken during a solar storm is data taken from NASA’s MESSENGER spacecraft at Mercury, as well as from NASA’s Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO), which is about 1 million miles from...Book Review: The Elusive WOW – Searching for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
The Elusive WOW – Searching for Extraterrestrial Intelligence by Robert Gray; Palmer Square Press; Chicago, Illinois; $29.95 (hard cover); December 2011. Don’t let this book escape your radar screen. The author has put together a telling tale here of an incident 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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