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Month: May 2013
Boeing CST-100 One Step Closer

Boeing Completes New Spacecraft, Rocket Milestones, NASA “The Boeing Company of Houston, a NASA Commercial Crew Program (CCP) partner, recently performed wind tunnel testing of its CST-100 spacecraft and integrated launch vehicle, the United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket.” “… Boeing now has completed two of eight performance milestones under CCiCap and is on track to complete all 19 of its milestones around mid-2014.”

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  • May 31, 2013
Heads Up Marshall

NASA Image of the Day – Huntsville, Alabama From Space (Large view and downloads), NASA “The ISS SERVIR Environmental Research and Visualization System or ISERV – a camera aboard the International Space Station – captures an image of her hometown. ISERV was designed and built at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala.”

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  • May 31, 2013
Hit an Asteroid with Another Asteroid

Russians Propose Space Billiards for Planetary Defense “The way out just might be to hit dangerous asteroids with other asteroids, Russian scientists say. Several near-Earth asteroids can be towed into the vicinity of the planet to serve as a cache of celestial projectiles against incoming space threats, said Natan Eismont of the Space Research Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences. ‘I was skeptical about it myself, until we actually tried […]

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  • May 31, 2013
Get Your NASA Education Opportunities While You Can

NASA Education Express, NASA “Guidance for Education and Public Outreach Activities Under Sequestration NASA has taken the first steps in addressing the mandatory spending cuts called for in the Budget Control Act of 2011. The law mandates a series of indiscriminate and significant across-the-board spending reductions totaling $1.2 trillion over 10 years. As a result, NASA has been forced to implement a number of new cost-saving measures, policies, and reviews […]

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  • May 31, 2013
It's Summer Vacation Time

Keith’s note: My postings on NASA Watch are going to be far less frequent for a while. But I will post from time to time. I am taking the Summer off to work on other things and spend as much time possible in the woods or on my deck. I will be trying to focus on things that do not involve watching the White House and Congress go back and […]

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  • May 30, 2013
Moon Mystery Solved by GRAIL

NASA’s Grail Mission Solves Mystery of Moon’s Surface Gravity, NASA “NASA’s Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) mission has uncovered the origin of massive invisible regions that make the moon’s gravity uneven, a phenomenon that affects the operations of lunar-orbiting spacecraft.” “Because of GRAIL’s findings, spacecraft on missions to other celestial bodies can navigate with greater precision in the future. GRAIL’s twin spacecraft studied the internal structure and composition of […]

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  • May 30, 2013
SwRi-led Team Calculates the Radiation Exposure with a trip to Mars

Southwest Research Institute Team Calculates the Radiation Exposure with a trip to Mars, SwRI “Energetic protons constitute about 85 percent of the primary galactic cosmic ray flux and easily traverse even the most shielded paths (reds) inside the MSL spacecraft. Heavy ions tend to break up into lighter ions in thick shielding, but can survive traversal of thin shielding (blues) intact.”

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  • May 30, 2013
Asteroid 1998 QE2 has a Moon

The Asteroid Set to Make a Close Encounter with the Earth on Friday Has a Moon (Watch), NASA “New radar data obtained by NASA shows Asteroid 1998 QE2 has a moon. The asteroid will get no closer than about 3.6 million miles (5.8 million kilometers), or about 15 times the distance between Earth and the moon. The new radar data was obtained on May 29th when the asteroid was about […]

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  • May 30, 2013
Space and Art

Heaven and Earth, NASA “There are patterns of beauty across our Earth and throughout the Universe.” Marc’s note: You can watch a large version on SpaceRef’s updated OnOrbit site.

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  • May 30, 2013
Planetary Resources Crowdfunds A Space Telescope

Planetary Resources Embarks on First Crowdfunded Space Telescope, Planetary Resources “Planetary Resources, Inc., the asteroid mining company, has launched a campaign for the world’s first crowdfunded space telescope to provide unprecedented public access to space and place the most advanced exploration technology into the hands of students, scientists and a new generation of citizen explorers.” Planetary Resources Falls Back on Kickstarter For Funding, earlier post (2012) “At the ISDC conference […]

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  • May 30, 2013