Buzz Aldrin, the second man on the Moon, has issued a stark warning that America must invest now in the space agency Nasa, or surrender leadership of space exploration to Russia and China. Read More at Daily Telegraph…
NASA’s Orion shuttle successor is at the heart of the Constellation plan to return to the moon. Credit: NASA. Read More at SPACE.com…
CAPE CANAVERAL — NASA will start repairing serious damage at Kennedy Space Center’s launch pad 39A today, but the work isn’t expected to delay the planned Oct. 8 launch of a Hubble Space Telescope servicing mission. Read More at Florida Today…
WASHINGTON: Martian dirt was apparently good enough for asparagus to grow in, NASA scientists said yesterday as they announced the results of a soil analysis collected by the US Phoenix Mars lander. Read More at The Australian…
NASA will start repairing serious damage at Kennedy Space Center’s launch pad 39A today, but the work isn’t expected to delay the planned Oct. 8 launch of a Hubble Space Telescope servicing mission. Read More at USA Today…
Shuttle program managers today approved a plan to strip away fire bricks from damaged sections of the “flame trench” at launch pad 39A, to erect a steel grid over the exposed concrete back wall and to spray on a thick coating of heat-resistant Fondu Fyre to protect the structure from super-hot shuttle booster exhaust. Read [...]
NASA will start fixing a damaged Florida launch pad Friday in preparation for the October launch of space shuttle Atlantis in a mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope. Read More at MSNBC…
NASA settled Thursday on a $2.7 million repair plan to keep a 40-year-old shuttle launch pad at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida intact until the winged space ships are retired in 2010. Read More at Houston Chronicle…
NASA settled on a go-forward plan today for repairs to the damaged flame trench at Kennedy Space Center’s launch pad 39A, and officials say the work will not trigger a delay in the planned Oct. 8 launch of Atlantis and seven astronauts on NASA’s fifth and final Hubble Space Telescope servicing mission. Read More at [...]
The Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee approved a NASA authorization bill this week that would forbid the U.S. space agency from retiring the space shuttle before completing all remaining missions, including an additional flight to deliver the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) to the International Space Station. Read More at SPACE.com via Yahoo! News…