There’s nothing I’d rather see than a NASA built Orion spacecraft take astronauts beyond earth orbit. They could go to an asteroid, to Mars, wherever. But NASA would be breaking new...
What’s With Orion?
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Private cargo ship to visit IS...
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Rockets blow up.
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Inside Lunar Craters
NASA instruments riding aboard an Indian lunar probe are giving us a new view of the moon: inside craters. Cold, dark craters—north and south The first pictures show craters at the lunar poles—both north and south. Scientists hope to find water ice inside. But the instruments are still being calibrated and prepared for a more thorough investigation. The search is just...
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Venting Methane: Evidence of Life (or Chemistry) o...
Certain areas of Mars are venting methane. This seems to be a seasonal occurrence. It happens during the warmer summer months. Perhaps most interesting, the parts of Mars where this happens are also areas that scientists say were suitable for the development of life. And, here on Earth, most methane is produced by living organisms. Life on Mars…Now? So, is there life on Mars...
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Iridium: A Look Back at the "Fu...
Imagine a “constellation” of 77 satellites, orbiting the earth at...
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Astroland Rocket Is Lifed Off.
An icon of old Coney Island was removed this week as the 71 foot 12,000 pound...
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Looking for the Next NASA Administra...
Nobody knows and the decision hasn’t been made about who the next NASA...
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Bloomberg: Obama to Create NASA-Pent...
The longstanding barriers between the military and America’s civilian...
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The NY Times on NASA’s Future
Today’s “Science Times” section of the NY Times has two...
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Early-ish Picture of the Moon…...
Get out your 3-D glasses! Here’s an old stereoscopic view of...
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