August 11th, 2017
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NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover is now wrapping up Sol 1782 science duties. Rachel Kronyak, a planetary geologist at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, reports that the robot is busily taking measurements as it climbs Mount Sharp. Up Mount Sharp “Lately, one of our biggest science objectives is to conduct bedrock […]
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Boeing is pressing ahead on scoping out its deep space gateway and transport systems plans. A recent Future In-Space Operations (FISO) seminar hosted Boeing’s Matt Duggan who spoke on: “Next Steps in Human Exploration: Cislunar Systems and Architectures.” He is the Boeing Manager for Exploration Integration and leads Boeing’s advanced development projects on extending […]
A striking new radar view of the Moon has been produced, one that reveals craters and other geological features hidden beneath the lunar surface. Astronomers from the Smithsonian’s Air and Space Museum have used the Arecibo and Green Bank radio telescopes to produce the image. Radar signals were transmitted from the Arecibo telescope in […]
A proposed multi-part plan to obtain international protection of the Apollo Lunar Landing Sites is being rolled out today at the Starship Congress 2017 in Monterey, California. For All Moonkind, Inc. is a non-profit organization which seeks to work with the United Nations and the international community to preserve each of the six human lunar […]
Now in Sol 1780, NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover has entered its first full day of operations after conjunction and the fifth anniversary of its landing in August 2012. “Curiosity remained healthy over the month long break, so without missing a beat, Curiosity is ready to resume the Vera Rubin Ridge imaging campaign and the […]
When NASA lofted two spacecraft — Voyager 1 and 2 — on a grand tour of the solar system, each probe carried a golden record containing a message for any extraterrestrial intelligence that might encounter it, perhaps billions of years from now. Called the Voyager Interstellar Record, it could be the last vestige of […]
Micro-spacecraft and satellite formation-flying can be a key enabler in the quest to spot exoplanets orbiting distant stars. Stanford University researchers are working on mDOT – standing for Miniaturized Distributed Occulter/Telescope. Simone DAmico’s, director of the Space Rendezvous Laboratory at Stanford University is leading the work on mDOT. He is also assistant professor of aeronautics […]
Most of the cast and crew of One Way Trip to Mars are now in Maine, on final approach to taking off and premiering the rock opera at the Waterville Opera House August 24-27. One Way Trip to Mars – an innovative hybrid rock opera — has been likened to the tradition of The Who’s […]
The group, Quindar, repurposes NASA’s visual and audio archives to create an improvisational, electronic journey through memorable days of the early space age. The pieces are a result from collaboration between Mikael Jorgensen of the musical group, Wilco, and art historian/curator James Merle Thomas. New album These “ear-do-wells” have taken inspiration from “Quindar tones” and […]
On September 5 the Voyager 1 will cross its own “time zone” – cruising the vacuum void for four decades. To spotlight that fact, NASA is asking the public to create messages to Voyager. One of those communiques will be selected for beaming up to the faraway spacecraft. So you’re invited to send via social […]
