Space

ESA/NASA’s Solar Orbiter Returns First Data, Snaps Closest Pictures of the Sun

Article By Miles Hatfield NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-Ra9p9WVbs The first images from ESA/NASA’s Solar Orbiter are now…

July 16, 2020

NASA Awards SETI Institute Contract for Planetary Protection Support

NASA has awarded the SETI Institute in Mountain View, California, a contract to support all phases of current and future…

July 10, 2020

Astronaut Edgar Mitchell, Oral History Interview, Conducted September 3, 1997

Background The following interview of Dr. Edgar Mitchell was conducted in Houston, Texas, on September 3, 1997, by Sheree Scarborough…

July 10, 2020

Meet NASA’s Mars Rover, Perseverance, Launching Summer 2020

By Lyle Tavernier (NASA/JPL) Perseverance, NASA's most advanced Mars rover yet, is scheduled to leave Earth for its seven-month journey…

June 17, 2020

THE KIDNAPPING OF THE LUNIK By Sydney Wesley Finer, 1967

Background A number of years ago the Soviet Union toured several countries with an exhibition of its industrial and economic…

June 16, 2020

NASA Selects Astrobotic to Fly Water-Hunting Rover to the Moon

NASA has awarded Astrobotic of Pittsburgh $199.5 million to deliver NASA’s Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover (VIPER) to the Moon’s…

June 11, 2020

Soviet Intentions Concerning Manned Lunar Landing, 25 April 1963

Background According to the summary of the memorandum: "Three unmanned lunar launchings this year, together with other new evidence and…

March 11, 2020

Eagleworks Laboratories: Advanced Propulsion Physics Research, December 5, 2011

Background According to this document: NASA/JSC is implementing an advanced propulsion physics laboratory, informally known as "Eagleworks", to pursue propulsion…

February 18, 2020

Propulsion Systems For Launch Vehicles And Spacecraft, 1977

Background This document was referenced in a report bibliography obtained from the Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC). The record was…

February 5, 2020

Brane Craft, by Siegfried W. Janson, Final Report, February 1, 2017

Background A Brane Craft is a membrane spacecraft with solar cells, command and control electronics, communications systems, antennas, propulsion systems,…

January 14, 2020