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SpaceX Wins $440 Million NASA Contract to Replace the Space Shuttle
Aerospace firm SpaceX announced Friday that it won a $440 million contract from NASA to modify its Dragon capsule for human space flight as a private-sector successor to the Space Shuttle. The plan is...
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How Java, Other IT Drive Curiosity Mars Rover Mission
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is offering mere mortals a chance at experiencing their own Mars landing with a Java-powered simulator. This slide show takes a look at the Curiosity Mars rover...
View ArticleNASA Starts Work on Real Life Star Trek Warp Drive [Space]
Jesus Diaz - Perhaps a Star Trek experience within our lifetime is not such a remote possibility.” These are the words of Dr. Harold “Sonny” White, the Advanced Propulsion Theme Lead for the NASA...
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NASA offers free e-book for iPad owners
What a nice holiday gift from NASA: it’s an interactive e-book available in the iBookstore called Hubble Space Telescope: Discoveries, featuring beautiful images, video and animations relating to the...
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Space Christmas: Festive Photos of Cosmic Beauty
Snow Angel S106 Nebula – Hubble Space TelescopeCredit: NASA/ESAThis image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows Sh 2-106, or S106 for short. This is a compact star forming region in the constellation...
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Orion assemblage on track for 2014 Launch
Want to stay on top of all the space news? Follow @universetoday on Twitter…. Read more: … Continue reading →The post Orion assemblage on track for 2014 Launch appeared first on Cybercon Services...
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Could Future Astronauts 3D Print Habitats Using Mars and Moon Soil?
Right now, there are dozens of theoretical proposals for how humans could eventually populate Mars (or the Moon), each as crazy as the next: Space elevator. Inflatables. Giant 3D printer. But there’s...
View ArticleHow NASA will use MAVEN to find out why Mars lost its atmosphere
By Graham Templeton - When it comes to Mars, NASA is mostly interested in history. Of course the agency cares about the current state of the Red Planet, about its suitability for colonization and even...
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Why Is Our Solar System Missing The Universe’s Most Common Planet?
Forbes – As NASA’s New Horizons mission approaches Pluto, we’re poised to get our best-ever look at an object from the outskirts of our Solar System: formed from the ice-and-rock that was far too...
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NASA will test the Orion spacecraft’s landing system with failing parachutes
By Loren Grush – theverge.com – Tomorrow, NASA will drop its Orion crew capsule out of a plane flying at 35,000 feet over the Arizona desert, and two of its five parachutes will fail. On purpose....
View ArticleSpaceX successfully landed its Falcon 9 rocket
With this mission, SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket will deliver 11 satellites to low-Earth orbit for ORBCOMM, a leading global provider of Machine-to-Machine communication and Internet of Things solutions....
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We Could Be Living On The Moon In 10 Years Or Less
So said the opening line of a brochure for a workshop that took place in August 2014. It was a meeting of some of the greatest scientists and professionals in the space business and beyond, including...
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