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NASA spacecraft releases first video of moon's far side
2012-02-02 14:18:00 From CNET News: Equipped with a video camera, one of NASA's twin lunar spacecrafts reveals a rare glimpse of the far side of the moon. Read the whole article
Jan. 19, 2006: NASA's New Horizons Blasts Off Toward Pluto
2012-01-19 14:04:00 From Wired Top Stories: NASA successfully launches the New Horizons probe, beginning a 10-year mission to Pluto and other objects in the Kuiper Belt, a little-studied band of debris from the formation of the Solar System. Read the whole article
APPLE FUEL CELL PATENT
2011-12-28 18:30:00 Apple has recently filed for the patenting of some very intriguing hydrogen fuel cell technology. According to sources there are two specific patents in the works: "Fuel Cell System to Power a Portable Computing Device" and ?Fuel Cell System Coupled to a Portable Computing Device.? If there's one thing you need to know about the technology, it's that it's what NASA uses to power its satellites! Now imagine that kind of long-lasting energy powering up the next wave of Apple products...
Joe Satriani, Sammy Hagar: Chickenfoot II... a Nasa project
2011-12-16 23:49:00 After overwhelming pressure, Joe Satriani, Chad Smith, Michael Anthony and Sammy Hagar finally tell the true story behind the missing "Chickenfoot II" projec Behind The Foot: The Truth Behind Chickenfoot II (EXTENDED BONUS VERSION)
NASA Crossbow!
2011-12-16 10:15:00 Yup Nasa are making a big crossbow to shoot a sampling probe into an asteroid. It ain't rocket science, but it amused me. Del
Nasa Develops Space Comet Harpoon
2011-12-15 14:15:00 From BBC News - Science & Environment: US space agency Nasa is building a harpoon designed to recover material from comets to avoid the risks involved with landing on them. Read the whole article
NASA To Launch Hubble Space Telescope Successor in 2018
2011-12-08 15:12:00 From Engadget: You know you're going to miss the Hubble Space Telescope once ceases operation and they let it simply burn up in orbit. But don't cry, dry your eye, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration has announced plans to put its successor, the James Webb Space Telescope,
Giant Nasa Rover Launches to Mars
2011-11-28 14:48:00 From BBC News - Science & Environment: Nasa launches its most ambitious mission to Mars yet - a 900kg robot to find out whether the Red Planet is, or ever has been, suitable for life. Read the whole article
Boeing to use NASA Orbiter Processing Facility-3 to manufacture, assemble,
2011-10-31 23:33:00 Artist concept of Boeing?s Crew Space Transportation (CST)-100 spacecraft approaching the International Space Station. (Boeing Image)Image credit: Boeing image. Neg. #: MTF10-0014-02Boeing selects Florida for business advantage of facilities and location, and experienced workforce. CST-100 spacecraft to be manufactured and operated at Kennedy Space CenterKENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla., Oct. 31, 2011 -- The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] today announced plans to consolidate its Commercial Crew program office, manufacturing and operations at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC). Boeing, in partnership with Space Florida, has an arrangement to use the Orbiter Processing Facility-3 (OPF-3) to manufacture, assemble, and test the company?s Crew Space Transportation (CST)-100 spacecraft."We selected Florida due to the cost benefits achieved with a consolidated operation, the skilled local workforce, and proximity to our NASA customer,? said John Mulholland, vice president and program manager of Commercia...
NASA's Mars Rover Curiosity Gains DAN Apparatus
2011-10-28 16:22:00 From Engadget: "You can think of DAN as a reconnaissance instrument." That's a quote from Igor Mitrofanov of the Space Research Institute, Russia, who is being deemed the "principal investigator" of the Dynamic Albedo of Neutrons. Shortened to DAN for obvious reasons, this guy will soon
Genetically Altered Astronaut Poo? NASA Wants to Know
2011-10-27 21:46:00 From Discovery News - Top Stories: Preserving lunar heritage sites -- and items left behind by astronauts -- is critical for history and science, NASA says. Read the whole article
Tweeple! NASA Calling Its Loyal Followers To The Mars Rover Launch
2011-09-29 11:02:00 NASA all set to now invite 150 of its Twitter followers to be spectators of the Curiosity Mars Rover Launch from Kennedy Space Center, Florida. This is a culmination of “Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V 541 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station†NASA says. This mission is predicted as the Curiosity arrival at the Red Planet in 2012 at Gale Crater. The rover will  be on duty to excavate all imploring details on environmental conditions for microbial life as well as collecting evidence as to whether life at all existed in Mars. Well this time this promotion via social media will take Twitter people by storm. This tweet-up will begin prior to the launch Window at 10:21 a.m on November 25th this year. This event is one great opportunity to be friends with the NASA staff and tour their arena. Even if the weather is bad, invites will be allowed an extended stay for the next 24 hours to compensate for the anticipated sabotage. In the yea...
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Tweeple! NASA Calling Its Loyal Followers To The Mars Rover Launch
2011-09-29 11:02:00 NASA all set to now invite 150 of its Twitter followers to be spectators of the Curiosity Mars Rover Launch from Kennedy Space Center, Florida. This is a culmination of “Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V 541 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station†NASA says. This mission is predicted as the Curiosity arrival at the Red Planet in 2012 at Gale Crater. The rover will  be on duty to excavate all imploring details on environmental conditions for microbial life as well as collecting evidence as to whether life at all existed in Mars. Well this time this promotion via social media will take Twitter people by storm. This tweet-up will begin prior to the launch Window at 10:21 a.m on November 25th this year. This event is one great opportunity to be friends with the NASA staff and tour their arena. Even if the weather is bad, invites will be allowed an extended stay for the next 24 hours to compensate for the anticipated sabotage. In the yea...
By: WATblog
To Prove The Theory: NASA To Launch GRAIL Mission To Moon
2011-09-06 14:25:00 National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is voiced to launch the much-awaited, ultimate moon mission, in a few days time. The mission tagged as Gravity Recovery And Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) will mark its launch from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Launch Pad, located in Florida on September 8th. According to the officials, the first launch ...
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NASA Probe Has a Valentine's Day Date With a Comet
2011-01-20 20:10:00 From Discover Magazine | rsslist: This NASA probe had its Valentine's Day plans set well in advance. On February 14 at 11:37 p.m. eastern time, the Stardust-NExT spacecraft will swoop past the comet Tempel 1 to snap photos and collect data about this solar system wanderer. The prob
Can You Help NASA Find Its Missing Nanosatellite?
2011-01-20 18:11:00 From Popular Science - New Technology, Science News, The Future Now: Space is a big place, and NASA has lost a tiny satellite somewhere up there. Now the space agency is seeking the help of ham radio operators to find their misplaced NanoSail-D, a nanosatellite that was depoyed fro
Desian Pesawat Masa Depan NASA
2011-01-18 03:57:00 Desian Pesawat Masa Depan NASA: Pada akhir 2010 lalu, Badan Antariksa AS, NASA, memberikan kontrak pada tiga tim yakni Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, dan Perusahaan Boeing untuk meneliti konsep desain canggih pesawat terbang masa depan yang bisa digunakan pada tahun 2025.Seperti dimuat situs NASA, masing-masing desain pesawat yang dihasilkan tiga tim nampak beda, Namun, apapun desainnya, harus memenuhi kriteria yang dipatok NASA, yakni: tidak berisik, tidak mengeluarkan asap buangan, dan hemat bahan bakar.Itu artinya, setiap pesawat harus menyeimbangkan semua teknologi canggih dan keramahan lingkungan. NASA juga mengharuskan pesawat masa depan bisa dioperasikan dengan aman dalam manajemen lalu lintas udara yang lebih modern di masa depan.Syarat yang lain: masing-masing pesawat harus bisa terbang sekurang-kurangnya 85 persen dari kecepatan suara, bisa melintasi jarak setidaknya 7.000 mil, dan bisa mengangkut 50.000 sampai 100.000 pon muatan, penumpang ditambah kargo.Selama ...
NASA Taking A Second Look At Mercury
2010-11-09 19:38:00 After six long years of space travel, NASA’s Messenger probe will finally be able to experience a close encounter with the world known as Mercury. Although most of the planet has already been mapped, scientists are hoping that Messenger will be able to confirm whether or not the first rock from the Sun harbors water ...
By: Colony Worlds
NASA, DARPA Planning One-Way Human Trip to Mars
2010-10-27 17:12:00 From Extremetech: It's straight out of a Kim Stanley Robinson novel—not to mention the dreams of many a stargazing person for decades. NASA Ames Director Simon "Pete" Worden announced that the organization has begun work on a joint project with DARPA to develop a "Hundred Yea
Beautiful Images Taken by NASA
2010-10-25 12:16:00 This is a beautiful collection of images taken by NASA in March 2010. Some pictures show places of the Earth seen from the space or the sky, some show the space itself.
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NASA New Study Shows Atmospheric CO2 Acts As Earth?s Thermostat
2010-10-15 18:45:00 There is a pretty important news story, regarding climate change and how carbon dioxide has been shown to increase global temperatures pretty dramatically by NASA. CO2: The Thermostat that Controls Earth’s Temperature A study by GISS climate scientists recently published in the journal Science shows that atmospheric CO2 operates as a thermostat to control the temperature of ...
NASA Send Robotic Plane to Study Mars
2010-10-11 12:34:00 NASA wants to send a super-fast robotic plane to study Mars As a general rule, when NASA flies a scientific mission all the way to Mars, we expect that mission to last for a while. For instance, the Spirit and Opportunity rovers were slated to run for three months and are still operating 6 years later. But one NASA engineer wants to send a mission all the way to the Red Planet that would last
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Israel To Partner With NASA For The Final Frontier?
2010-08-12 21:11:00 Even though Israel has already partnered with NASA before (although the results of that were tragic), the Jewish state is now joining forces with the American space agency in order to help conquer the final frontier. During a meeting Tuesday at NASA Headquarters in Washington, NASA Administrator Charles Bolden and Israel Space Agency Director General Zvi ...
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Former Alaskan Senator Ted Stevens and NASA Figure Sean O?keefe ?Feared Dea
2010-08-10 21:36:00 C.S. Bell AlternativeScape.com Yet another high-profile plane crash has swept America’s headlines. In an article by KTUU it has been reported that ex-senator Ted Stevens was killed in a plane crash in the southwest region of Alaska, although no “official confirmation has been made.” Also among the victims were Sean O’keefe, who previously worked for ...
Microsoft and NASA bring the Red Planet closer to Earth
2010-07-16 12:29:00 When two behemoths of technology unite, the produce or output usually tends to be astounding. And astounding it is, with Microsoft and National Aerodynamics Space Administration (NASA) yet again found guilty (pun intended) for the fabrication of an invention that is set to redefine the way the Red Planet is viewed. Mars will be seen like it was never seen before, almost as though bringing life onto the fourth planet of the solar system. This exaggeration that I make is justified through the synergy of Microsoft Research’s product WorldWide Telescope (an online virtual telescope) and NASA’s images of Mars compiled from various spacecrafts from across the world. Sounds simple, doesn’t it. Well, there was a lot of hard work, time and energy that the team has gone through for this innovation to take birth, and it is quite easily worth every ounce of sweat spend in developing it. Now, you must wonder that to experience this, it must cost you quite a few doubloons which is not the c...
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Obama?s Latest Reform? NASA: Norm Augustine?s Subversive Agenda
2010-07-12 04:04:00 buried deep within the Augustine report was a call for the United States to completely scrap the International Traffic in Arms Regulations, which govern the licensing, export, transfer, re-export or re-transfer of sensitive military weapons and technology listed on the United States Munitions list.
NASA Updates Website
2010-07-06 15:04:00 In addition to all the space missions, NASA has been busy with a much needed update to their website. They already had the best website of all the US Government agencies, but the site now has a much better navigational interface and better options for visitors to share information on Social Networks like Facebook. In a future website update, they will be adding a ‘Like’ button that will directly integrate with Facebook. You can easily spend a TON of time looking at the hundreds of uber-cool images and videos on the site and now they will be easier to navigate to and view. If you have not visited their site in a while, you should check it out http://www.nasa.gov/. Good stuff.
NASA confirms liquid on Saturn's moon
2009-12-20 14:15:00 NASA has captured a stunning image of light reflection in the northern hemisphere of Titan, the largest moon of the planet Saturn, illustrating the presence of surface liquid on the planetary body.The image, taken by the Cassini Spacecraft's visual and infrared mapping spectrometer on July 8, is the first of its kind.Scientists had previously discovered lakes of surface liquid in the moon's
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Microsoft And NASA Say ?Be A Martian? (Launch Website)
2009-11-17 20:17:00 It looks like the worlds largest tech company has teamed up with the worlds largest space agency in order to promote us Earthlings to explore the red planet. (NASA) NASA and Microsoft Corp. of Redmond, Wash., have collaborated to create a Web site where Internet users can have fun while advancing their knowledge of Mars. ... “We’re ...
By: Colony Worlds
3-2-1 NASA We Have Lucky Twitter User VegasBill For Shuttle Liftoff
2009-11-11 00:04:00 VegasBill Once again takes tweeting to new heights with access to the first NASA Tweetup around the launch of the Space Shuttle Atlantis (STS-129), which he will head to the International Space Station in Florida. VegasBill will be one of the few participants with inside access and the ability to speak with shuttle astronauts, ...
NASA Tech Briefs
2009-09-23 01:20:00 Authored by the engineers or scientists who did the work, the briefs span a wide array of fields, including electronics, physical sciences, materials, computer software, mechanics, machinery/automation, manufacturing/fabrication, mathematics/information sciences, and life sciences. NASA Tech Briefs also contains feature articles on successful NASA spinoffs, profiles of NASA tech transfer resources, news briefs, and application stories. Regular columns describe new patents, industry products, software, and literature.Request Free!
NASA Testing Breakthrough In Water Safety
2009-09-17 16:16:00 From Slashdot: NASA and University of Utah chemists are developing advanced tech for testing the drinkability of water. The process just began a six month run aboard the International Space Station. Water will be sampled either from the Space Station's or Shuttle's galley using a s
NASA Purified urine to be drinking water
2009-09-15 20:41:00 Purified urine to be astronauts' drinking waterAs NASA prepares to double the number of astronauts living aboard the International Space Station, nothing may do more for crew bonding than a machine being launched aboard the space shuttle Endeavour on Friday.It's a water-recycling device that will process the crew's urine for communal consumption."We did blind taste tests of the water," said NASA's Bob Bagdigian, the system's lead engineer. "Nobody had any strong objections. Other than a faint taste of iodine, it is just as refreshing as any other kind of water.""I've got some in my fridge," he added. "It tastes fine to me."Delivery of the $250 million wastewater recycling gear is among the primary goals of NASA's 124th shuttle mission, which is due to launch at 7:55 p.m. EST on Friday from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.Meteorologists predicted a 70 percent chance the weather would be suitable for launch.With no technical issues, NASA managers told the launch team on Fri...
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NASA Levitates Mouse Using Magnetic Fields
2009-09-10 17:52:00 From Neatorama: Charles Q. Choi of Live Science writes that scientists working for NASA used a superconducting magnet that simulates some of the effects of gravity to lift a mouse into the air. The agency has been working on such technology in the hope of alleviating the bone deca
Panel Calls Program of NASA Unfeasible
2009-09-09 15:59:00 From NYT > Science: A blue-ribbon panel said Tuesday that a lack of financing has left NASA's current space program on an "unsustainable trajectory" and that the Obama administration should consider using private companies to launch people into low-Earth orbit. Read the w
Should NASA Move to Metric?
2009-08-28 14:28:00 An article in New Scientist notes that NASA some five years ago agreed to comply with a directive that all departments of the U.S. Federal government move toward exclusive use of the metric system of measurement. And with the space shuttle now being phased out, to be replaced by an all-new launch ve
To the Moon, NASA? Not on this Budget, Experts Say
2009-08-27 16:05:00 From USATODAY.com Tech - Top Stories: NASA will test the powerful first stage of its new Ares moon rocket Thursday, a milestone in a program that already has spent $7 billion for a rocket that astronauts may never use. When that first stage is tested, it will be mounted horizont
Is it time to "Scrap" NASA?
2009-08-27 01:55:00 Has NASA outlived its usefulness? Is Funding for NASA's lnter-planetary adventures better spent on Inner-planetary pursuits?
Bad Valve Forces NASA to Call Off Shuttle Launch
2009-08-26 14:50:00 From PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories: Launch officials halted the countdown midway through the fueling process. The seven astronauts had not yet boarded the shuttle for the scheduled early Wednesday morning flight to the international space station. A ne
NASA scientist William Robbins dies in Ohio at 82
(AP)
2009-08-25 23:44:00 AP - A retired NASA scientist honored for improving satellite communications technology has died in Ohio at age 82.
NASA?s Earth-Friendly Flight Challenge
2009-08-08 06:02:00 Aviation plays such an important role in our lives today that despite the aviation industry?s harm to the environment we, as a society, cannot just cease flying. In an effort to promote more earth-friendly flying NASA recently announced the Green Flight Challenge.
NASA Convinced it Can Find Earth-Like Planets
2009-08-07 15:33:00 From TG Daily - All News: The Kepler Space Telescope has shown itself capable of finding Earth-like planets - if they exist - by detecting the atmosphere of a known gas giant. The discovery was made just ten days after launch, even before the calibration and data analysis softwa
Q&A With: Michael D. Griffin, Former NASA Administrator
2009-07-21 21:37:00 As the Endeavour shuttle headed into orbit and a new NASA administrator was being approved, the most recent chief of the U.S. space program offered his thoughts on his term in office. Michael D. Griffin, 59, served as the eleventh administrator of NASA from April 2005 to January 2009. He was br
Jupiter Smashed, Leaving Scar, NASA Confirms
2009-07-21 17:09:00 From Discovery News Top Stories : Discovery Channel: Fifteen years after being battered by Comet Shoemaker-Levy, Jupiter has drawn the fire of another renegade body. A dark scar near the planet's southern polar region, first noticed by an amateur astronomer in Australia, is beli
NASA Has the Lost Tapes
2009-07-14 16:45:00 From Slashdot: As speculated a few weeks ago, NASA has found and is starting to restore the lost Apollo 11 tapes. A Briefing will be held July 16th at the Newseum in Washington to 'release greatly improved video imagery from the July 1969 live broadcast of the Apollo 11 moonwalk...
NASA to Take Photos of Lunar Landing Sites, End Conspiracy Theories
2009-07-08 22:38:00 From Gizmodo: Suck it up, conspiracy theorists, because soon your cuckoo stories about the US simulating the Moon landings will be over forever. NASA has confirmed to Gizmodo that the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter will take photos of all the Apollo landing sites: Jesus Diaz: Woul
GE and NASA to Revive Open Rotor Jet Engines
2009-07-08 18:37:00 Back in the mid 1980s, GE and NASA began testing on a new propulsion system that used counter rotating fan assemblies in an attempt to boost efficiency. The testing ultimately led to the design of the GE36 experimental aircraft engine, but was then set aside to explore other options. Now, GE and NASA are planning on revisiting the design and adding some new technology to the mix.
NASA: Fuel Test a Success, Shuttle Launch Day Set
2009-07-06 15:33:00 From USATODAY.com Tech - Top Stories: o NASA's relief, a fueling test on space shuttle Endeavour uncovered no hydrogen gas leaks Wednesday and paved the way for another launch attempt late next week for the delayed mission. Last month, potentially dangerous leaks of hydrogen gas
Mapa de la NASA para ver 99% de la tierra
2009-07-02 17:42:00 Un mapa digital ha sido publicado por la NASA (Administración Nacional de la Aeronáutica y del Espacio) y se puede ver un 99% de la tierra. Para ello contó con la colaboración de Japón. Pronto se podra ver por Internet de forma gratuita, de hecho por este enlace puede bajarse. Según dice la ...
NASA Wants Your Ideas for Digitizing Rocket Scientist's Notes
2009-06-29 15:44:00 From Wired Top Stories: NASA is taking the rare step of reaching out to the public for help. The space agency is looking for the best way to analyze and electronically catalog a precious collection of notes that chronicle the early history of the human space flight program. "We' |
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