Tag: NASA
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Tech titan Nathan Myhrvold revisits NASA asteroid argument in peer-reviewed paper
in his office at Intellectual Ventures in Bellevue, Wash., Nathan Myhrvold shows off a fragment of the Chelyabinsk meteorite, which was left behind by an asteroid impact in 2013. (GeekWire Photo / Alan Boyle) Nathan Myhrvold is back, and this time he’s got peer review on his side. Two years ago, the Seattle tech pioneer…
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Spacewalkers install HD video cameras to monitor future SpaceX and Boeing trips
NASA astronaut Ricky Arnold looks out from the International Space Station’s Quest airlock at the beginning of a spacewalk. (Oleg Artemyev / Roscosmos via Twitter) News Brief: NASA astronauts Drew Feustel and Ricky Arnold installed new high-definition video cameras on the exterior of the International Space Station today during a spacewalk that lasted nearly seven…
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Good news! NASA says Opportunity rover should be able to wait out Martian storm
An artist’s conception shows NASA’s Opportunity rover under sunnier conditions. (NASA Illustration) NASA has had to put its power-starved Opportunity rover into an induced coma on Mars, but that drastic maneuver — plus some luck — should be enough to save it from one of the worst dust storms ever observed on the Red Planet. That doesn’t…
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NASA loses contact with its dust-choked Opportunity rover on Mars, but stay tuned
This series of images shows simulated views of a darkening Martian sky blotting out the sun from the Opportunity rover’s point of view, with the right side simulating Opportunity’s current view in the current dust storm. (NASA / JPL-Caltech / TAMU) News Brief: NASA’s Opportunity rover on Mars has lost touch with its handlers back…
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Aloha! Three new crewmates welcomed aboard space station, Hawaiian-style
News Brief: The orbital welcoming committee wore Hawaiian shirts when three new crew members arrived at the International Space Station today. “We’re really glad to see them, finally,” Russian cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev said. NASA’s Serena Aunon-Chancellor, Germany’s Alexander Gerst and Russia’s Sergey Prokopyev floated through the hatch after a two-day trip aboard a Russian Soyuz…
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NASA’s chief talks about handing over space station to commercial consortium
An artist’s conception shows a Boeing Starliner space taxi approaching the International Space Station. (Boeing Illustration) For months, the White House has been talking about transitioning the International Space Station to commercial control by 2025, and now NASA’s administrator says he’s working on it. In a Washington Post interview, Administrator Jim Bridenstine says “there are people…
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One trio comes home from the space station just as another gets set to launch
A Russian Soyuz spacecraft fires its retro rockets as it touches down in Kazakhstan, marking the return of three spacefliers from the International Space Station. (NASA Photo / Bill Ingalls) News Brief: The hatch to the International Space Station’s Rassvet module has a lot in common with a revolving door this week, due to today’s…
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Blue Origin gets in on NASA studies for resource utilization on moon and Mars
An artist’s conception shows Blue Origin’s Blue Moon lander on the lunar surface. (Blue Origin Illustration) Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture is among 10 teams that will share about $10 million in NASA funding to look into techniques for using resources from the moon and Mars. The studies are aimed at advancing…
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Tethers Unlimited delivers 3-D printer and recycler combo to NASA for space station
Tethers Unlimited’s Refabricator is a recycler and 3-D printer in one unit, which is about the size of a dorm-room refrigerator. This is the technology demonstration unit that’s been undergoing tests at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama. (NASA Photo / Emmett Given) Tethers Unlimited Inc. says it’s delivered a combination 3-D printer and…
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Alan Bean, moonwalker turned artist, dies at 86
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION Former astronaut Alan Bean in his Houston art studio. Credit: Smithsonian Institution Alan Bean, a Navy test pilot and astronaut who walked on the moon and then spent two months aboard America’s first space station before leaving NASA and becoming an accomplished artist, painting moonscapes and space vistas…