Even in the company of other astronauts, Buzz Aldrin is still the hippest guy in the room. At the 2010 Astronaut Hall of Fame induction ceremony, which took place earlier this month at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, Buzz was the Jack Nicholson to NASA’s Oscars. He exuded an effortless cool just by smiling [...]
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A group of seventh-graders in California has discovered a mysterious cave on Mars as part of a research project to study images taken by a NASA spacecraft orbiting the red planet. The 16 students from teacher Dennis Mitchell’s 7th-grade science class at Evergreen Middle School in Cottonwood, Calif., found what looks to be a Martian skylight [...] The U.S. Great Lakes have some competition. The moon. Yes, that old thing in the sky may hold more than all of the water contained in the Great Lakes, according to a NASA-funded study. Water bottling companies and thirsty-but-dry states are already scurrying to find ways of bringing the H2O back to Earth. Think of [...] It’s possible that a huge ocean covered one-third of the surface of Mars some 3.5 billion years ago, a finding likely to reignite an old argument about that amount of water on the red planet, according to a new report. The study by the University of Colorado at Boulder is the first [...] The Falcon 9, SpaceX’s highest hope for transferring astronauts and cargo to and from the International Space Station had a successful test launch today. One of the remarkable technological features of this spacecraft is its ability to reinitiate a launch sequence soon after a launch abort. With the Space Shuttle, if a launch abort was [...] The X-51A Waverider flew today, and it flew fast. The scramjet engine in the experimental aircraft burned for a little over three minutes at around 10 a.m. PDT Wednesday in a test range over the Pacific Ocean, pushing the X-51A to the hypersonic speed of Mach 5, or five times the speed of sound. That was [...] NASA’s Phoenix Mars lander, subjected to extreme low temperatures and crippling ice buildups it was never designed to endure, apparently suffered severe damage during the Martian winter that ended any chance of additional science operations, officials said Monday. Designed to operate for just three months, Phoenix exceeded expectations, beaming back a steady stream of scientific data [...] From Minnesota Public Radio: Hundreds of people are in Grand Forks this week talking about the future of unmanned aircraft. The rapidly growing industry could mean big economic development opportunities for the region. Aerospace giant Northrup Grumman opens a new office in Grand Forks Friday, and local officials say that could be just the start of a [...] |
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Congress Develops New Bill To Slash Commercial Space Funding
The Senate subcommittee charged with NASA oversight will present a $19 billion bill this week that kills President Barack Obama’s proposed shakeup of the agency’s human-spaceflight program, in the process cutting billions from commercial rocket and technology projects that supporters say would have benefited Kennedy Space Center.
Though the bill effectively cancels the delayed and [...]