Posted by Ray Katz in NASA, history, moon
Surveyor at NASM: Now open later.
The Smithsonian has announced longer hours at their museums…including the National Air & Space Museum (NASM).
You really must see Apollo 11, a Surveyor unmanned lunar lander, Friendship 7, and the backup Skylab. Because until at least labor day, NASM will be open 2 hours later…until 7:30 pm.
Oh, and it’s free. But you do need to get to Washington, D.C.
What’s going on up there? Here’s a roundup of what’s being reported about spaceflight right now… We already reported about the Mercury Messenger spacecraft (and it’s 1970s predecessor). But now there’s more, including how Mercury (strangely) resembles Saturn! Iran, which has successfully launched a satellite into orbit, and sent up some small animals, plans to [...]
NASA is in for major changes. This has been obvious for months. The agency doesn’t have the money to do what it’s trying to do now. It’s absurd to pretend they have the money to send people to the moon or Mars. The Wall Street Journals suggests that the agency will do more outsourcing, possibly [...]
Last year, India landed (or crashed) something called the Moon Impactor Probe (carried by its Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft) into the moon. The main spacecraft continues its lunar orbiting mission. Next time, they’re preparing to land. With Russian help India’s getting help from some real experts—the Russian space agency. The RSA is designing a small lunar rover, [...]
