WASHINGTON — NASA’s Radiation Belt Storm Probes (RBSP), the first twin-spacecraft mission designed to explore our planet’s radiation belts, launched…
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Mars Curiosity Rover phones home and “Talks” to Earth
NASA Rover Returns Voice and Telephoto Views from Martian Surface PASADENA, Calif. — NASA’s Mars Curiosity has debuted the first…
Neil Armstrong, American Hero passes at 82
Today Neil Armstrong, first man to walk on the Moon passed. He died from complications related to heart surgery at…
India Plans New Mission to Mars
NASA recently made news with it’s MSL rover and now India is looking to flex it’s own technical capabilities with…
Kepler Failure Interrupts Science Data Collection
Kepler Hardware Failure causes it to temporarily stop observations The Kepler Satellite, known for many discoveries of planets outside of…
Second JWST Main Instrument Delivered
(Source NASA ) – The second of four main instruments to fly aboard NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (Webb) has…
SpaceX wins $440 Million Contract to Return Astronauts to Space.
Hawthorne, CA – According to the SpaceX Web site on August third Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) won a $440 million…
First 360-Degree Panorama from Curiosity Mars Rover
PASADENA, Calif. — Remarkable image sets from NASA’s Curiosity rover and Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) are continuing to develop the…
