• NASA's "Public" Technology Meetings That They Never Told the Public About

    Updated: 2011-01-31 19:48:12
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  • Release of ISS National Lab CAN Delayed

    Updated: 2011-01-31 17:34:44
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  • Challenger Center: Looking Ahead

    Updated: 2011-01-31 17:32:35
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  • Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter HiRISE Images: The Music Video

    Updated: 2011-01-31 17:03:10
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  • More Space Anniversaries: Apollo 14 and Ham

    Updated: 2011-01-31 13:41:24
    Forty years ago today, the Apollo 14 crew launched on their Saturn V rocket, the 6th human flight to the Moon and the third that landed. Following the heart-stopping problems of Apollo 13, almost ten months elapsed before Commander Alan Shepard (the first American in space), Command Module Pilot Stuart Roosa, and Lunar Module Pilot [...]

  • ESA's Mercury mapper feels the heat

    Updated: 2011-01-31 03:42:35
    Key components of the ESA-led Mercury mapper BepiColombo have been tested in a specially upgraded European space simulator. ESA's Large Space Simulator is now the most powerful in the world and the only facility capable of reproducing Mercury's hellish environment for a full-scale spacecraft. read more

  • MSL Needs More Money

    Updated: 2011-01-31 00:41:27
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  • STS-134 Commander Decision In Mid-Feb

    Updated: 2011-01-30 22:22:43
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  • Once Again, NASA Seeks Animal Irradiation Proposals

    Updated: 2011-01-30 19:33:29
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  • Does Blue Origin Patent Unveil Key Operations Plan?

    Updated: 2011-01-29 23:12:32
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  • Kepler Has Found More Planets

    Updated: 2011-01-29 18:23:00
    NASA To Announce New Planetary Discoveries by Kepler "NASA will host a news briefing at 1 p.m. EST, Wednesday, Feb. 2, to announce the Kepler mission's latest findings about planets outside our solar system. The briefing will be held in the NASA Headquarters auditorium at 300 E St S.W. in Washington and carried live on NASA Television and the agency's website."

  • Ken Kremer on Today’s APOD

    Updated: 2011-01-29 17:59:29
    Congrats to Universe Today writer Ken Kremer and his image processing partner Marco Di Lorenzo for their handiwork being featured on today’s Astronomy Picture of the Day. It’s one of their great images they have enhanced of the Opportunity Rover peering into its current location at Santa Maria Crater on Mars. Check it out on [...]

  • A Bigelow Module on the ISS?

    Updated: 2011-01-29 17:49:03
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  • Carnival of Space 182

    Updated: 2011-01-29 16:38:22
    The Carnival of Space 182 is up at nextbigfuture After a one month hiatus, the Carnival of Space is back. Nextbigfuture will be working with Universe today on the organization of the Carnival of Space. There are hosts signed up into April already. This week Carnival of space has an animation video of the Mars [...]

  • Save U-233, explore space video

    Updated: 2011-01-28 20:15:51
    The video presentation of the TechTalk I gave at Google on January 13th is available: Save the Uranium-233, Explore Space, Save Lives

  • A Memorial On The Top of the World

    Updated: 2011-01-28 05:01:00
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  • NASA Day of Remembrance

    Updated: 2011-01-28 05:00:08

  • Bolden and Warner Mark Challenger Anniversary

    Updated: 2011-01-28 01:56:03
    NASA Administrator Bolden and Sen. Warner to Visit Challenger Learning Center Location in Richmond, Virginia "NASA Administrator Charles Bolden will address students this Friday, January 28, at the MathScience Innovation Center in Richmond, Virginia, home of a Challenger Learning Center. Bolden will be joined at this event by U.S. Senator Mark Warner."

  • Day of Remembrance

    Updated: 2011-01-27 18:16:47
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  • Stars and Remembrance

    Updated: 2011-01-27 16:20:04
    A Time to Pause The last week in January and the first week of February marks three tragedies that befell NASA since its formation: the Apollo 1 fire on January 27, 1967, the breakup of 51L — space shuttle Challenger on January 28, 1986, and the loss of the space shuttle Columbia on February 1, 2003. [...]

  • JSC &LaRC PAO Refuse To Answer Simple Questions About Aircraft Usage

    Updated: 2011-01-26 20:55:36
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  • House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology Shaping Up

    Updated: 2011-01-26 17:24:07
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  • Plutonium-238 Production

    Updated: 2011-01-22 04:39:44
    I hope Jon doesn’t get too mad at me for “cross-posting” like this, but I published something at “Energy from Thorium” that may be of interest to this blog community as well: Google TechTalk Slides: “Save the Uranium-233″ Please direct comments over there.

  • Dual-Fluid Single-Launch Propellant Depots

    Updated: 2011-01-22 01:05:16
    [Note: Welcome AIAA Daily Launch readers!  Feel free to check out other posts on propellant depots, as well as the Altius Space Machines blog where I talk about what my current company is up to.] I was going to write a short post today about a variant on the Dual-Fluid, Single-Launch Propellant Depot idea, when I [...]

  • Press Release: Planetary Society Congratulates NanoSail-D Team

    Updated: 2011-01-21 08:00:00
    On the Planetary Society web site: Planetary Society Congratulates NanoSail-D Team

  • Aerojet wants SLS Booster Contract Competed

    Updated: 2011-01-18 00:51:42
    If they follow through with their intent mentioned earlier today to try and force an honest competition for the SLS booster system, that’s great news.  One of my single biggest pet peeves about CxP was that NASA, behind closed doors, and without open input from industry (other than ATK) comes up with a plan that [...]

  • 'The Daily Galaxy' January Contest -Win a Free $500 Apple Gift Card!

    Updated: 2011-01-04 09:56:50
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    Updated: 2011-01-03 09:54:12
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  • In The News: Carl Sagan: 10 Cosmic Contributions to Science

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    On the Planetary Society web site: Carl Sagan: 10 Cosmic Contributions to Science

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