September 2nd, 2018
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NASA hasn’t used American-made spacecraft to send our astronauts to space since 2011 – and a website has been established to decry that fact. “Watch U.S. Fly is a community of Americans that believes that America should lead the world in technological advancements. We realize that in order to maintain our edge, American aerospace must […]
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Orbitz, the travelling services group, has a new venue to view: extraterrestrial tourism…but Earth is on the receiving end of out-of-sate, country and world travelers. They note: “We are not alone. Reports of UFO sightings, and encounters of the first, second, and third kind date back to Ancient Egypt, and continue throughout the course of […]
Exploration Vessel (E/V) Nautilus is exploring regions of the ocean seeking out new discoveries in biology, geology, and archaeology. As part of this assignment, a research team is probing an underwater area that may mimic Saturn’s moon Enceladus. The expedition is currently collecting fluid samples from Pele’s Pit for a project studying hydrothermal vents as […]
NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover is now performing Sol 2158 weekend duties. Meanwhile, some recent imagery relayed from the robot show it busy at work:
In 1976, when two NASA Viking landers came full stop on the Red Planet, the stationary spacecraft were seeking to answer a weighty question: Is there life on Mars? Gilbert Levin was the principal investigator of the Viking Labeled Release (LR) life detection experiment. The instrument at both landing locales got positive responses. […]
Now in Sol 2156, the NASA Curiosity Mars rover is on duty. “After an extremely productive couple of weeks, we are finishing up our work at Stoer!” That’s the report from Abigail Fraeman, a planetary geologist at NASA/JPL in Pasadena, California. The plan calls for taking quick Chemistry and Camera (ChemCam) and Mastcam observations […]
It was a personal shock to me yesterday to learn of the passing of Paul Spudis, a leading Moon expert, a great friend over the decades, and an in-your-face space policy debater when it came to Moon-first over humans on Mars. Word first came to me via a posting by Samuel Lawrence, Chair, Lunar Exploration […]
NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover has just entered Sol 2155. Reports Michelle Minitti, a planetary geologist at Framework in Silver Spring, Maryland, if all had gone according to plan over the weekend, scientists would be seeing a nice pile of drill fines in a rover image. “Alas, a slight hiccup in the sample dump process meant […]
The NASA Advisory Council’s (NAC’s) Human Exploration and Operations Committee has been meeting August 27-28 at NASA’s Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, California. Today, NASA’s Human Exploration and Operations (HEO) Mission Directorate leaders, William Gerstenmaier and Jason Crusan, presented a detailed look at the Lunar Gateway. Here are some key charts used in the […]
The Department of Commerce has been charged with the complex mission of establishing a new U.S. space traffic management (STM) approach for commercial space activities. What existing practices and standards could help fulfill that mission and maintain U.S. leadership in space? On June 18, 2018, the White House released Space Policy Directive-3, National Space Traffic […]
