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Read More »International Space University's Experiment Flies in Space
Students of the ISU have for the first time successfully conducted an experiment of their making on the International Space Station. Robert Thirsk, a CSA astronaut currently resident on the ISS, played an integral part in the experiment.
Read More »One Hundred Days in Space
I haven’t driven a car in three months, and yet I’ve traveled 70 million kilometers. I’ve watched 16 sunrises and sunsets in a single day. I’ve sipped coffee out of a bag through a straw, and squeezed macaroni and cheese from a package into my mouth. I’ve conducted many scientific and medical experiments. I’ve welcomed extraterrestrial friends to my home and bid them farewell. I’ve …
Read More »Reconciling Methane Variations on Mars
Since the discovery of its presence in the Martian atmosphere, methane has remained an intriguing atmospheric component which source (either of biotic or abiotic origin) is not yet fully understood.
Read More »45th Joint Propulsion Conference and Exhibit
Find out how innovative aerospace propulsion technologies get inserted into both new and evolving systems and earn or how advanced system applications can be used to showcase the propulsion systems, components and technologies that enable them.
Read More »Space Shuttle to Constellation Workforce Transition Report Issued By NASA
NASA is issuing the third edition of the Workforce Transition Strategy, which details the agency’s plan to minimize job losses while transitioning from the Space Shuttle Program to the Constellation Program.
Read More »Newsletter #2 – Planetary Science Decadal Survey
This is the second newsletter to the community regarding the 2009-2011 Planetary Science Decadal Survey. A great deal has happened since my first newsletter back in April.
Read More »NASA's Second Chance
Charlie Bolden is no stranger to space exploration but he is a newbie in the Administrator’s suite and the strange ecology of Washington, DC interactions that the job entails. His first three days on the job have been abnormal with all the Apollo hoopla swirling through everyone’s heads. Most of the time it is going to be far less glamorous.
Read More »USAF 45th Space Wing Study
Capsule~100%-Fratricide Environments (Implications for NASA’s Ares-1 and Crew) Estimate of Secondary Effects of the Solid Rocket Booster (SRB) Destruct Debris Environment on the Constellation Capsule.
Read More »Restored Apollo 11 Video Released
NASA released Thursday newly restored video from the July 20, 1969, live television broadcast of the Apollo 11 moonwalk. The release commemorates the 40th anniversary of the first mission to land astronauts on the moon.
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