Pres. Obama still wants to end the Constellation space program, which will cost NASA millions
According to an announcement made by Lori Garver, NASA’s deputy administrator, on Tuesday, April 13, 2010, President Barack Obama has decided to use the Orion space capsule, one part of the now defunct Constellation Program, as an on-board emergency escape system for the International Space Station.
In a successful test for the escape system of the Orion space capsule, NASA shows that it works perfectly for the now defunct Constellation program. However, Orion may never get off the ground in that capacity.
The most detailed off-lunar photograph so far taken of the Apollo 11 landing site was recently taken from 15 miles (24 kilometers) above the lunar surface by the NASA Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) -- for any of you skeptics out there who still believe the Moon has never before felt the footsteps of man.
NASA scientists discovered that the Moon's Shackleton crater, which is about three billion years old, contains ice, as found out by its Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft.
{loadposition william08}The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) is an orbiting spacecraft that NASA sent to the Moon to analyze the lunar surface.
A team of NASA scientists used laser light from the altimeter onboard LRO to
The NASA Science article "Down the Lunar Rabbit-Hole" tells of the distinct possibility of giant caverns, caves, and tunnels under the Moon’s surface. Giant holes on the lunar surface could lead to "entrances to a geologic wonderland." Go tell Alice we’ll be there eventually.
The U.S. space agency NASA announced that it has launched its own network on SlideShare.net called “The NASA Universe”. NASA says: "What a treasure trove of information for researchers, students, and the general public!"
NASA is eager to move its IT infrastructure to open-source cloud systems over the next 10 to 20 years.
The design of the new NASA rocket that will take astronauts out beyond low-Earth orbit has been selected by the U.S. agency. It’s a whopper, eventually being the most powerful rocket ever built. NASA calls the entire program the Space Launch System.
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