RIDE WITH CURIOSITY TO THE SURFACE OF MARS
Not only has NASA's Mars Science Laboratory already returned its first high-resolution photographs from the inside of Gale Crater, during Sunday's afternoon press briefing at NASA's Jet Propulsion...
View ArticleNASA’S AMAZING GLIDING GEMINI CAPSULES
On August 7, 1964, Charles Hetzel took to the skies in a winged Gemini spacecraft. It was a test flight for a new landing system, the Rogallo paraglider wing, that NASA had been trying to work into its...
View ArticleROVER ‘CURIOSITY’ NOW IN CLUTCHES OF MARS’ GRAVITY
NASA's Mars Science Laboratory is in position to thread itself into the Red Planet's atmosphere early Monday, the first step in a do-or-die descent and landing."Tonight is it," NASA's Mars exploration...
View ArticleSPACE TAXI, PLEASE! NASA INVESTING $1.1 BLN
NASA plans to more than triple its investment in commercial space taxis, with new awards to three of the four firms already hired to design passenger ships to put astronauts -- and tourists -- into...
View ArticleAUGUST WILL BE A BLUE MOON MONTH
Two full moons will hang over the night sky in the month of August. This image of the full moon was taken by Alamelu Sundaramoorthy from Portland, Ore. on July 3, 2012. THE GIST August will bring not...
View ArticleUSAF Could Make Mini-Shuttle Operations Exclusive To Florida
Image Caption: Designed to be launched like a satellite and land like an airplane, the second X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle, built by Boeing for the U.S. Air Force’s Rapid Capabilities Office, is an...
View ArticleESA, NASA test interplanetary internet by remote controlling a Lego robot...
Lots of people are talking about this articleNASA (and the ESA) have long been working on a multi-planet internet that can link up spaceships, probes and rovers, but they've at last brought the...
View ArticleNASA discovers most distant galaxy yet using galactic zoom lens
Lots of people are talking about this articleUsing the Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes, NASA has found what has set a record for the most distant galaxy discovered in our known universe. The...
View ArticleMars Curiosity announcement to be ‘one for the history books’
Lots of people are talking about this articleScientists have stated that they have some big news to announce regarding the Mars Curiosity rover, but they can’t make an official announcement until they...
View ArticleMars Dust Storm May Affect NASA Rovers Opportunity, Curiosity
Lots of people are talking about this articleA NASA spacecraft is keeping tabs on a vast dust storm on Mars that has spawned changes in the Martian atmosphere felt by two rovers on the planet's...
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