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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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Friday’s CSExtra offers the latest reporting and commentary on space related activities from around the globe. The International Space Station program assesses faster travel times for crews launched to the orbiting science lab....

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Thursday’s CSExtra offers the latest reporting and commentary on space related activities from around the world. NASA will share a key role in the early development of the Orion/Multipurpose Crew Vehicle with the European Space...

The Bigelow Expandable Activity Module (BEAM) is seen during a media briefing where NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver and President and founder of Bigelow Aerospace Robert T. Bigelow announced that BEAM will join the International Space Station to test expandable space habitat technology, Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2013 at Bigelow Aerospace in Las Vegas. BEAM is scheduled to...
What to do about human-made space junk? A first step is get up to speed on speeding orbital clutter!
The NASA Academy of Program/Project & Engineering Leadership (APPEL) has made public release of Orbital Debris Management and Risk Mitigation, its first publication of NASA training materials using the iBook format.
Orbital Debris...

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Wednesday’s CSExtra offers the latest reporting and commentary on space related activities from around the world. On Mars, NASA’s Curiosity rover finds compelling new evidence that water once flowed over the spacecraft’s Gale...

Asteroid Impact and Deflection mission – AIDA. Credit: ESA
It is dubbed the Asteroid Impact and Deflection mission – AIDA.
The European Space Agency (ESA) is appealing for research ideas to help guide the development of a U.S.-European asteroid deflection mission now under study.
Concepts are being sought for both ground- and space-based investigations, seeking...

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Tuesday’s CSExtra offers the latest reporting and commentary on space related activities from around the world. NASA’s Kepler mission marks a “golden age” for new planet discovery. Might the search for biological activity beneath...

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Monday’s CSExtra offers the latest reporting and commentary on space related activities, plus a roundup from the weekend. The mysteries of the Martian past draw a global focus. NASA signs a commercial agreement to provide the...
It’s not on commercial television, nor are the teams of high school students ranked weekly by the sports media.
Yet the competition is intense as student teams sponsored by NASA and the European Space Agency and their respective partners compete for the opportunity to have their software algorithms control a trio of brightly colored satellite robots as they float about inside the International Space Station.
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