December 8th, 2014
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NASA’s Curiosity Rover is chalking up “powerful new evidence” to how water helped shape the Martian landscape. But the rumor mill is also flowing about a new finding that the robot has detected methane. On-going observations by the robot indicate Mars’ Mount Sharp was built by sediments deposited in a large lake bed over […]
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Following its first test flight and ocean recovery on December 5, the NASA Orion crew module is seen in the well deck of the amphibious transport dock ship USS Anchorage (LPD 23). The EFT-1 flight of Orion was the fifth at-sea testing of the Orion crew module using a Navy well deck recovery method. Navy […]
Smiles all around! That’s the scene at the New Horizons Mission Operations Center at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland. Data has streamed in from a long distance runner – NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft – showing its transition from hibernation to active mode on December 6. New Horizons is on track […]
On December 5, NASA’s Orion Crew Module descends to the Pacific Ocean under its three main parachutes as part of the Orion Program’s first exploration flight test. Navy Divers assigned to Explosive Ordnance Disposal Mobile Unit 11 and Fleet Combat Camera Pacific attach a “horse collar” towing device to the NASA Orion Crew Module. The […]
The new entry in human-carrying spacecraft, the Orion capsule, has been lofted into deep space – and onboard is a photograph of the first man on the Moon, as well as the last. A photograph of the Apollo program’s Neil Armstrong (Apollo 11) and Eugene Cernan (Apollo 17) — the first person and last man […]
A unique effort is now underway to establish an Asteroid Day. As part of the initiative, a number of well-known dignitaries have put forth the 100x Asteroid Declaration, advocating the vital need for Near-Earth Asteroid detection. Asteroid Day is to be held on the anniversary of the 1908 Siberian Tunguska event, the largest asteroid impact […]
After a successful liftoff, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) received signals from the Asteroid Explorer Hayabusa2 at 3:44 p.m. on December 3, 2014 (Japan Standard Time) at the NASA Goldstone Deep Space Communication Complex (in California). There is confirmation that the spacecraft’s initial sequence of operations — including the solar array paddle deployment and […]
There is an active “We the People – Your Voice in Government” petition to the White House/Obama administration that calls for an increase in NASA funding to one percent of the federal budget. What’s being flagged by the petition is that for every dollar a U.S. citizen pays in federal taxes, less than one-half of […]
WANDERERS is a short science fiction film by Erik Wernquist – a digital artist and animator from Stockholm, Sweden. Wernquist notes that the film is a vision of our humanity’s future expansion into the Solar System. Although admittedly speculative, the visuals in the film are all based on scientific ideas and concepts of what our […]
For the answer, courtesy of Astro Watch, go to: http://www.astrowatch.net/2014/11/history-made-as-90000-earthlings-send.html
