NASA Authorizes Area Airplane For Future Objectives To The ISS
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NASA Does Not Have Enough Nuclear Fuel For Its Deep Area...
A pellet of Plutonium Oxide, which is warm to the touch and glows under its own power. Pu-238 is a unique radioisotope ideally suited for fuel for deep space missions. However, we don't have enough of it, and aren't producing more fast enough.Public Domain As 2018 comes to a close, NASA scientists are celebrating a…
Mercury-Bound BepiColombo will Start Utilizing one of the most Effective Ion...
A handful of spacecraft have used ion engines to reach their destinations, but none have been as powerful as the engines on the BepiColombo spacecraft. BepiColombo is a joint mission between the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA.) It was launched on October 20, 2018, and has gone through weeks…
Structure Gas Stations and McMurdo Scale Outposts on the Moon
When you go on a camping trip, when is it really tough? When are you really roughing it? It is really tough if there is no supply store and no facilities at the place you are going. If you have to bring everything with you in your car then that makes it tougher. If there…
OSIRIS-REx has actually Lastly Overtaken Asteroid Bennu. Let the Analysis and...
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft has reached its destination and is now in orbit around asteroid Bennu. The spacecraft travelled for over two years and covered more than 2 billion kms. It will spend a year in orbit, surveying the surface of the Potentially Hazardous Object (PHO) before settling on a location for the key phase of…
Bidding Opens On New NASA Missions To The Moon
Share to facebook Share to twitter Share to linkedin Nine US companies are now eligible to bid on new NASA delivery services to the Moon as one of the agency’s first steps towards long-term human exploration of the Moon and beyond. The Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) contracts will be up for grabs to companies…
See the Apollo Moon Missions Like Astronauts Did– In 3D
As part of his soil mechanics experiments, Buzz Aldrin took these pictures of his bootprint in the powdery and soft lunar soil. Credit: London Stereoscopic Co. Fifty years ago, NASA launched America into the space race with the birth of the Apollo program — an 11-year initiative that sent 33 spaceflights to the moon, six…
It’s Chosen, the Mars 2020 Rover Will Land in Jezero Crater
Jezero crater is the landing spot for NASA’s upcoming 2020 rover. The crater is a rich geological site, and the 45 km wide (28 mile) impact crater contains at least five different types of rock that the rover will sample. Some of the landform features in the crater are 3.6 billion years old, making the…
NASA-themed Vans shoe collection honors historical area objectives
Van's offers some old-school orange NASA shoes and star-patterned kicks for kids. Vans When you think of NASA, you think of fashion. Svelte spacesuits. Onesie jumpsuit uniforms. Posh moon boots. OK, maybe you think of space exploration first, unless you work for shoe and apparel company Vans. Then you think of fashion. Vans introduced a…
How Objective Delays Hurt Young Astronomers
Back in Ye Olden Times, the job of astronomer was a pretty exclusive club. Either you needed to be so rich and so bored that you could design, build, and operate your own private observatory, or you needed to have a rich and bored friend who could finance your cosmic curiosity for you. By contrast,…
