NASA Narrows List Of Potential Sites For Next Mars Lander Zero-G News Admin September 4, 2013 Mars, NASA, Planetary Science, Press Releases NASA has narrowed to four the number of potential landing sites for the agency's next mission to the surface of Mars, a 2016 lander to study the planet's interior. The stationary Interior Exploration Using...
NASA Astronaut Candidate Class Of 2013 Introduced To The Public Zero-G News Admin August 20, 2013 Human Spaceflight, NASA, Press Releases NASA Administrator Charles Bolden on Tuesday formally welcomed the eight newest candidates to the astronaut corps and unveiled a space exploration roadmap that makes clear the global community is working...
Watch Out NASA, The Next Mission To The Moon Might Not Be Yours Zero-G News Admin July 4, 2013 Commercial Space, CubeSat, CubeSats, Nanosatellites, News, Press Releases In 1959, the author Martin Caidin ("Marooned") wrote, "The mysterious Moon may well be Man's next outpost in the conquest of space. How will he reach it? What will he find there? Will we be the first to land...
NASA Commercial Crew Partner Boeing Completes New Spacecraft, Rocket Milestones Zero-G News Admin June 2, 2013 Commercial Space, Human Spaceflight, NASA, Press Releases, space station, Spaceflight HOUSTON, TX - 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...
ATK Successfully Tests New Upper Stage For Antares Rocket Zero-G News Admin March 28, 2013 Business, Press Releases ATK successfully tested its newly developed CASTOR® 30XL upper stage solid rocket motor today at the U.S. Air Force's Arnold Engineering Development Complex (AEDC) in Tennessee. The test was the final...
NASA’s Exploration Design Challenge Offers Students Unique Opportunity Zero-G News Admin March 11, 2013 Human Spaceflight, NASA, Press Releases NASA unveiled an Exploration Design Challenge on Monday to give students from kindergarten through 12th grade the opportunity to play a unique role in the future of human spaceflight. The innovative...
Cassini Spies Bright Venus From Saturn Orbit Zero-G News Admin March 7, 2013 NASA, Planetary Science, Press Releases PASADENA, CA - A distant world gleaming in sunlight, Earth's twin planet, Venus, shines like a bright beacon in images taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft in orbit around Saturn. One special image of Venus...
NASA’s Van Allen Probes Reveal A New Radiation Belt Around Earth Zero-G News Admin March 6, 2013 NASA, Press Releases NASA's Van Allen Probes mission has discovered a previously unknown third radiation belt around Earth, revealing the existence of unexpected structures and processes within these hazardous regions of...
A Window into Europa’s Ocean Right at the Surface Zero-G News Admin March 6, 2013 NASA, Press Releases If you could lick the surface of Jupiter's icy moon Europa, you would actually be sampling a bit of the ocean beneath. A new paper by Mike Brown, an astronomer at the California Institute of Technology in...
“Inspiration Mars” To Pursue Human Mission To The Red Planet In 2018 Zero-G News Admin February 27, 2013 Human Spaceflight, Mars, Press Releases New nonprofit foundation to move U.S. farther and faster toward its destiny as world leader in technical innovation, science, exploration and discovery. A unique window of opportunity for humankind will open...
