By Paul Scott Anderson, on November 27th, 2015
Artist’s conception of the helicopter-like drone which could accompany the Mars 2020 rover. Image Credit: NASA
Over the past few years, numerous orbiters, landers, and rovers have been sent to Mars, revealing the world as never before. There is, however, something else which hasn’t been done yet: a helicopter, airplane, or balloon. An […]
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By Talia Landman, on October 12th, 2015
Engineers participate in testing to evaluate procedures to recover crews from Orion after splashdown in the Pacific Ocean on future missions. The training took place at the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. Caption and Credit: NASA
After spending a long period of time traveling in the vacuum of […]
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By Paul Scott Anderson, on July 12th, 2015 The women of the New Horizons team, photographed at Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory on July 11, 2015, just three days before the spacecraft’s closest approach to Pluto. Kneeling from left to right: Amy Shira Teitel, Cindy Conrad, Sarah Hamilton, Allisa Earle, Leslie Young, Melissa Jones, Katie Bechtold, Becca Sepan, Kelsi Singer, […]
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By Paul Scott Anderson, on July 9th, 2015 The newest image of Pluto and its largest moon Charon in color, taken on July 8, 2015, by New Horizons. Image Credit: NASA/JHUAPL/SWRI
New images of Pluto and its largest moon Charon have again been released today, showing these two worlds in ever greater detail. Also, with the New Horizons spacecraft now in […]
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By Paul Scott Anderson, on July 1st, 2015
New color images of Pluto sent back by New Horizons showing two different “faces” or hemispheres of the dwarf planet and its largest moon Charon. Image Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute
First there were the unusual bright spots on Ceres, which are still awaiting an explanation, and now as […]
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By Talia Landman, on April 3rd, 2015
A space habitat at night, docked with a “Space Exploration Vehicle.” This photo was taken during the 2010 Desert RATS field testing, from Aug. 31 – Sept. 15, 2010, in Black Point Lava Flow, Ariz. Image credit: NASA
This week, NASA announced the selection of 12 partnerships within the commercial industry to help […]
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By Talia Landman, on March 27th, 2015
The Asteroid Redirect Vehicle, part of NASA’s Asteroid Initiative concept, is shown traveling to lunar orbit using its solar electric propulsion system in this artist’s concept. Image credit: NASA
Asteroids are getting a lot of attention, today in particular, because asteroid 2014 YB35 will be coming within 0.03 Astronomical Units (AU) of Earth. […]
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By Talia Landman, on January 25th, 2015
An artist illustration of the Moon Express MX-1 lunar lander on its mission to the Moon.Image Credit: Courtesy of Moon Express Inc.
A private commercial space company headquartered in California recently announced it has signed an agreement to use the historic Space Launch Complex 36 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in […]
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By Mike Killian, on May 30th, 2014 Introducing the SpaceX Dragon Version 2, the company’s vehicle of choice for returning human spaceflight capability to the United States. Image Credits: Robert Fisher / AmericaSpace / SpaceX
On Thursday, May 29, Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) founder and CEO Elon Musk unveiled his Hawthorne, Calif.-based company’s new Dragon spacecraft, the Dragon V2, for […]
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By Mike Killian, on December 1st, 2013 Liftoff of China’s Chang’e 3 and their “Jade Rabbit” Yutu rover to the surface of the Moon from Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China. Image Credit: CCTV
Today, under cover of darkness, China successfully launched their first robotic lunar rover atop a powerful Long March-3B rocket from the country’s Xichang Satellite Launch […]
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