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NASA offered an eye full this week at it placed the nation’s future in space on display during President Obama’s Inaugural Parade in Washington D. C..
Here are some of the photos captured by NASA photographer Bill Ingalls:
Orion is in development to launch U. S. astronauts on missions to the asteroids and Mars as well as return them to the moon. Un-piloted test...
Princeton University Press/Detler van Ravenswaay
Near-Earth Objects – Finding Them Before They Find Us by Donald K. Yeomans; Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey; $24.95; 2013.
This is a superb book that brings the reader up-to-speed on those menacing denizens of the deep – Near Earth Objects, or NEOs for short. Moreover, this book is...
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Tuesday’s CSExtra offers the latest reporting and commentary on space related activities from around the world. NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover and Orion crew capsule join President Obama’s inaugural parade in Washington. Scientists...
Arkyd-100 series - the Leo Space Telescope. Credit Planetary Resources
The private space group – Planetary Resources – headquartered near Seattle, Washington is pushing forward on its Arkyd-100 – the firm’s space telescope and technology demonstrator for their Arkyd series of asteroid prospecting missions.
The Arkyd-100 series is the group’s first commercial spacecraft capable of...
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Monday’s CSExtra offers the latest reporting and commentary on space related activities from around the world. Today, the nation will mark President Obama’s second term inauguration. A look back at how the current president and...
Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of Arizona
The Red Planet’s early evolution appears to be one that’s water rich, and could have been wet environments to support potential niches for ancient life.
New evidence of a wet underground environment on Mars stems from orbital observations by a NASA spacecraft of the floor of McLaughlin Crater. This feature is 1.4-mile-deep (2.2-kilometer-deep...
U. S. Astronaut Hall of Fame at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex near Titusville, Fla. Photo Credit/NASA
Shuttle commanders Eileen Collins and Curt Brown join scientist and payload commander Bonnie Dunbar as the latest astronauts to earn a place in the U. S. Astronaut Hall of Fame.
Their April 20 induction at NASA’s Kennedy Space...
Credit: Texas A&M/Mortari-Missel
Space clutter and what to do about this menacing problem will demand creative solutions.
Texas A&M Aerospace Engineering Professor Daniele Mortari, and his Ph.D. student Jonathan Missel, are developing a new and imaginative concept that reinvents the way the problem is approached.
Their...
NASA has forged its first international partner in plans to develop a future human deep space exploration capability.
The European Space Agency will furnish the U. S. Orion/Multipurpose Crew Vehicle with the service module for its first unpiloted test flight atop the new NASA Space Launch System in 2017 and potentially for the first crewed mission of the capsule and heavy lift rocket in 2021.
In this...
Portable Unit for Metabolic Analysis (PUMA). Credit: NASA
Oxygen…you can’t live without it. And you can’t leave Earth without it either.
On long duration space travel, astronauts need to carry out rigorous exercise to help combat the effects of microgravity on the body.
NASA engineers at the Glenn Research Center in...
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