As the NASA space shuttle program comes to a close, space exploration has become an increasingly global competition with the Europeans, Russians, Chinese, and others competing for bragging rights in the next generation of manned spacecraft. Read More at Fox News…
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. – Elaine Flowers Duncan, Kimberly Sanland Robinson and Virginia Cook Tickles, all employees at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, are going back to school this year — only this time, they will be teachers instead of students. Read More at NASA Marshall Space Flight Center…
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. – Elaine Flowers Duncan, an engineer at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville and a native of Montgomery, Ala., has been selected for the NASA Administrator’s Fellowship Program. Read More at NASA Marshall Space Flight Center…
Just four years after President Bush announced his vision to send astronauts back to the moon and then on to Mars, legendary astronaut Buzz Aldrin is leading an effort to re-examine the whole idea — in particular, NASA’s choice of rockets for the mission. Read More at Orlando Sentinel…
File this one under “E” for “Ewww factor. ” NASA has used human cadavers to test the new Orion space capsule that is supposed to take astronauts… Read More at Seattle Times…
NASA completed a full-scale rocket motor test on Thursday, July 17, to further development of the Orion jettison motor, which will separate the spacecraft’s launch abort system from the crew module during launch. Read More at SPX Jul 22, 2008 …
NASA and industry engineers have successfully completed the first drop test of a drogue parachute for the Ares I rocket. The drogue parachute is designed to slow the rapid descent of the spent first-stage motor, cast off by the Ares I rocket during its climb to space. Read More at PR Newswire via Yahoo! News…
Just four years after President Bush announced his vision to send astronauts back to the moon and then on to Mars, legendary astronaut Buzz Aldrin is leading an effort to re-examine the whole idea — in particular, NASA’s choice of rockets for the mission. Read More at Houston Chronicle…
With the dinosaur Space Shuttle set to retire in 2010, and Orion due to be finished (optimistically) by 2015, NASA may purchase the $131 million unmanned HTV cargo vehicle from JAXA, Japan’s space… Read More at Gizmodo…
(PhysOrg.com) — NASA completed a full-scale rocket motor test on Thursday, July 17, to further development of the Orion jettison motor, which will separate the spacecraft’s launch abort system from the crew module during launch. Orion, the Constellation Program’s crew exploration vehicle now under development, will fly to the International Space Station and be part [...]