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NASA’s Next Step For Mars

TECH & INNOVATION The technology and infrastructure are needed to make the exploration of Mars possible. The National Aeronautics and Space administration (NASA) is a United States government agency responsible for the study of space and space travel.

Exploration Of The International Space Station

The International Space Station (ISS) is a low Earth orbiting, habitable artificial space station. The International Space Station is considered as the most complex international engineering and scientific project in the history of the structures humans have set in space.

NASA's Europa Mission To Look For Life After Earth

NASA has reconsidered its Europa mission trip by sending a lander to Jupiter’s moon. Characterizing the icy satellite from afar during flybys is Europa Multiple Flyby Mission's primary goal, which is set to launch in the mid-2020s.

Int'l Space Station Welcomes Denmark's First Astronaut, Two Others

Three more staff were landed at the International Space Station (ISS) on Friday, Sept. 4. They were cosmonauts Aidyn Aimbetov from Kazakhstan, Sergei Volkov of Russia and Denmark's first astronaut, Andreas Mogensen. The international crew reached the ISS after the two-day travel through a Soyuz-FG rocket.

NASA Develops Gecko-Inspired Robot

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory developed a gecko-inspired robot, Lemur 3, that can perform task along the exterior walls of the International Space Station.

NASA captures 'crab-like' image on Mars

The car-size robotic rover tag as the "Curiosity" of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration or NASA has recently captured a 'crab-like' image on the red planet's surface.

NASA Begins Mission To Find Life on Jupiter’s Moon

NASA has now begun its mission to learn if Europa, Jupiter’s icy moon could potentially harbor an ocean filled with alien life. So far, the mission is just in its early stages, but the agency has selected nine science instruments for the trip, which is a follow to the Galileo mission that found strong evidence that Europa could be concealing an ocean beneath its frozen crust.

Four New Inductees into the Astronaut Hall of Fame

The Astronaut Hall of Fame is now four members stronger after NASA's Associate Administrator for the Science Mission Directorate John Grunsfeld and former astronauts Steve Lindsey, Kent Rominger, and M. Rhea Seddon were inducted on Saturday, bringing the total number of Hall of Fame explorers to 91.

Hubble Spots Collisions and Cosmic Disarray At the Center of Black Hole

When it comes to high-speed collisions, nobody here on Earth has anything on black holes. Astronomers have witnessed a new first: two high-speed knots of matter colliding in a sort of rear-end impact. They saw this after creating a time-lapse video of a super-speed jet of plasma as it shot out of a supermassive black hole. The knots of matter were inside the black hole until it blasted them out-and into each other.

NASA Begins Testing Its Next Generation Mars Lander, InSight

NASA has begun testing its latest Mars Lander, called InSight, that is set to launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California and land on Mars approximately six months later. Once on the surface, the mission is scheduled to last approximately two Earth years, or 720 Earth days and is expected to begin delivering data in October 2016.

NASA Orders First Ever Commercial Human Spaceflight from Boeing

Since the retirement of the shuttle program, the restoration of launching American astronauts to the International Space Station from American soil by 2017 has been a goal of NASA. Now, that goal has taken a giant leap forward as NASA has ordered its first commercial spaceflight mission from Boeing.

New Horizon's Beams Back New Images of Pluto

NASA's New Horizon's spacecraft is already on target for an historic rendezvous with Pluto in July, but while it travels it continues to snap new images of the little dwarf planet. The new images reveal even more detail about its complex and high contrast surface.

SpaceX Earns Certification for the Pentagon

Although it took millions of dollars, some heated words and even a court case, Elon Musk's SpaceX has finally earned the right to launch satellites for the Pentagon. The Air Force announced that SpaceX has completed and won certification from the Pentagon after a long certification process.

The Deceptive Surface of Mars

The team in charge of the Curiosity rover recently had to find a new route to some interesting rocks that they wanted to study because the original path proved too difficult for the rover to safely traverse.

See What Tools Made the Cut Aboard the Upcoming Europa Clipper Mission

What would you pack for the 390 million mile trip to Jupiter's icy moon, Europa? Last year, NASA posed that question to a bevy of scientists and after whittling down the final 33 proposals, they have decided on nine items that will rocket aboard the Europa Clipper, which is set to blast off sometime after 2020.

New App Brings Pluto to the Palm of Your Hand

New Horizons is currently closing in on its historic meeting with Pluto, the dwarf planet situated at the very edge of our Solar System, and now a new app will let you follow its progress right on your smartphone or tablet.
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