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Review of NASA's Exploration Technology Development Program: An Interim Report

NASA requested that a committee under the auspices of the National Research Council's Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board carry out an assessment of NASA's Exploration Technology Development Program (ETDP). Organizationally, this program functions under the direction of NASA's Exploration Systems Mission Directorate and is charged with developing new technologies that will enable NASA to conduct future human and robotic exploration missions, while reducing mission risk and cost. The Committee to Review NASA'S Exploration Technology Development Program has been tasked to examine how well the program is aligned with the stated objectives of the President's Vision for Space Exploration (VSE), to identify gaps in the program, and to assess the quality of the research.

NASA Completes First Full-Scale Motor Test for Orion Spacecraft

Contact: Grey Hautaluoma of NASA Headquarters, Washington, +1- 202-358-0668, grey.hautaluoma-1@nasa.gov, Emily Outen of NASA's Langley Research Center, Hampton, Va., +1-757-864-7022, emily.s.outen@nasa.gov, or Jennifer Morcone of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Ala., +1-256-544-7199, Jennifer.J.Morcone@nasa.gov

NASA Running Out of Plutonium

PRB_Ohio takes us to Space.com for a story about NASA's plutonium shortage, and how it may affect future missions to the far reaches of the solar system. The U.S. hasn't produced plutonium since 1988, instead preferring to purchase it from Russia. We discussed the U.S. government's plans to resume production in 2005, but those plans ended up being shelved. If NASA is unable to find an additional source, it could limit missions that take spacecraft too far from the Sun. Quoting: "Alan Stern, NASA associate administrator for science, ... said he believed the United States had sufficient plutonium-238 on hand or on order to fuel next year's Mars Science Lab, an outer planets flagship mission targeted for 2017 and a Discovery-class mission slated to fly a couple years earlier to test a more efficient radioisotope power system NASA and the Ene

NASA, NIA Announce NASA Education Television Partnership

SAN JOSE, Calif., May 14 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA Deputy Administrator Shana Dale announced Wednesday the launch of NASA Education TV (NASA eTV), a partnership with the National Institute of Aerospace (NIA) to produce new educational television programs for distribution on NASA Television and the Internet.

NASA Awards Contracts for Design Study of Lunar Landing Craft

Contact: Stephanie Schierholz or Grey Hautaluoma of NASA Headquarters, Washington, +1-202-358-4997, +1-202-358-0668, stephanie.schierholz@nasa.gov, grey.hautaluoma@nasa.gov, or Lynnette Madison of NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, +1-281-483-5111, lynnette.b.madison@nasa.gov

NASA Wants its MMO Created for Free

fyc writes "It seems that the educational MMORPG NASA's proposing will no longer have a budget of $3 million. Instead, any prospective development partner is being asked to create and maintain the MMORPG for free under a 'non-reimbursable Space Act Agreement'. It won't be a one-sided agreement, though. From NASA's RFP: 'In exchange for a collaborator's investment to create and manage a NASA-based MMO game for fun and to enhance STEM [science, technology, engineering and mathematics], NASA will consider negotiating brand placement, limited exclusivity and other opportunities.'"

Send Your Name to the Moon on NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter

Lro_trailer NASA is taking names to send to the moon on a microchip on the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, slatted to launch this fall. LRO, built at NASA Goddard in Maryland, is set to be NASA's first major mission as America returns to the moon. NASA links to a website with the press release and a 30-second video of two young guys in an office. 20 bonus points for attempting to use humor (keep it up NASA) and reach out to an 18+ audience. It may not be their best work, but we'll take anything at this point. (Hint: next time get someone else to do the soundtrack.) The person who dared to get this through should still be commended. Now do more.

NASA Does a U-Turn, Opens To Private Industry

mattnyc99 writes "Popular Mechanics is reporting that NASA — faced with the looming retirement of the space shuttle, and planning for longer missions like the one to Mars we've been discussing — is looking to free up its budget and depend a lot more on private space startups to carry key payloads into orbit in the next few years. For an agency so steeped in bureaucracy, it seems like everyone from NASA chief Mike Griffin to contracted officials to the key players in this in-depth podcast roundtable is finally acknowledging that commercial rocketeering (space tourists aside) is a more efficient a means of getting back into space for NASA. Quoting: 'Because of a new focus for NASA's strategic investments — not to mention incentives like the Ansari X Prize, which spurred the space-tourism business, and the Google Lunar X Prize, which c

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13 year old German school boy corrects NASA and finds the chance that the asteroid Apophis would hit the Earth is 100times more than NASA thought before

NASA had estimated the chance that the asteroid Apophis would hit the Earth at 1 in 45,000. But a 13 year old German boy found mistakes in NASA’s calculations. Nico Marquardt correctly estimated that the chance really is at 1 in 450. NASA told its sister organization, the European Space Agency (ESA), that the student's calculations were, in fact, correct. Marquardt made his discovery as part of a regional science competition.

NASA Official Wants a Six Month Stay on Moon

NASA is exploring the possible designs for lunar bases, intended for an extended stay on the Moon. A NASA official from the Advanced Capabilities Division also said on Friday that they may be inspired by a concept based on the technology of the International Space Station (ISS). Very little official indication about the future of NASA's lunar policy has come to light, so this is interesting news. Although the statement was suitably sketchy, a six-month extended mission to the Moon seems to be most likely. How does this development compare with the lunar settlement designs already proposed?

NASA Awards Institutional Support Services Contract at Kennedy

Contact: Katherine Trinidad, NASA Headquarters, Washington, +1- 202-358-3749, katherine.trinidad@nasa.gov, or Allard Beutel, NASA Kennedy Space Center, Fla., +1-321-867-2468, allard.beutel@nasa.gov

NASA's GLAST Satellite Gets Twin Solar Panels in Prep for Launch

Preparations for launching NASA's Gamma-ray Large Area Telescope (GLAST) satellite are underway at NASA's Kennedy Space Center (KSC), Fla. NASA KSC's "NASA Expendable Launch Vehicle Status Report" on Thursday, March 20, noted that GLAST's twin solar panels have been attached. The panels will provide electrical power for GLAST after its launch into earth orbit.

NASA's GLAST Satellite Gets Twin Solar Panels In Prep For Launch

Preparations for launching NASA's Gamma-ray Large Area Telescope (GLAST) satellite are underway at NASA's Kennedy Space Center (KSC), Fla. NASA KSC's "NASA Expendable Launch Vehicle Status Report" on Thursday, March 20, noted that GLAST's twin solar panels have been attached. The panels will provide electrical power for GLAST after its launch into earth orbit.

NASA's GLAST Satellite Gets Twin Solar Panels In Prep For Launch

Preparations for launching NASA's Gamma-ray Large Area Telescope (GLAST) satellite are underway at NASA's Kennedy Space Center (KSC), Fla. NASA KSC's "NASA Expendable Launch Vehicle Status Report" on March 20, noted that GLAST's twin solar panels have been attached. The panels will provide electrical power for GLAST after its launch into earth orbit.

NASA Ames Partners With M2mi for Small Satellite Development

Contact: Michael Curie of NASA Headquarters, Washington, +1-202- 358-4715, michael.curie@nasa.gov, Michael Mewhinney of NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif., +1-650-604-3937, +1-650-207- 1323, michael.s.mewhinney@nasa.gov; or Sarah Cooper of m2mi Corporation, Moffett Field, Calif., +1-650-961-5376, sarah.cooper@m2mi.com

NASA Contract for Administrative Support Services

Contact: Sonja Alexander of NASA Headquarters, Washington, +1- 202-358-1761, sonja.r.alexander@nasa.gov, or Angela Storey of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Ala., +1-256-544-0034, angela.d.storey@nasa.gov

NASA Sets Briefing for April Space Station Crew Change

HOUSTON, March 27 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA will hold a briefing at 1 p.m. CDT Wednesday, April 2, to preview the activities of the next residents of the International Space Station and to look back at the accomplishments of the current station crew. The briefing will originate from NASA's Johnson Space Center and will be broadcast live on NASA Television. Questions will be taken from reporters at participating NASA locations.

NASA Sets Briefing for April Space Station Crew Change

HOUSTON, March 27 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA will hold a briefing at 1 p.m. CDT Wednesday, April 2, to preview the activities of the next residents of the International Space Station and to look back at the accomplishments of the current station crew. The briefing will originate from NASA's Johnson Space Center and will be broadcast live on NASA Television. Questions will be taken from reporters at participating NASA locations. Conducted on the eve of the docking of the Jules Verne European Automated Transfer Vehicle to the station, the briefing will focus on the upcoming Expedition 17 mission. Expedition 17 Commander Sergei Volkov and Flight Engineer Oleg Kononenko, along with South Korean Spaceflight Participant So-yeon Yi, will launch April 8 on a Soyuz spacecraft from Kazakhstan.

NASA Sets Briefing for April Space Station Crew Change

HOUSTON, March 27 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA will hold a briefing at 1 p.m. CDT Wednesday, April 2, to preview the activities of the next residents of the International Space Station and to look back at the accomplishments of the current station crew. The briefing will originate from NASA's Johnson Space Center and will be broadcast live on NASA Television. Questions will be taken from reporters at participating NASA locations.

NASA Administrator Announces Science Mission Directorate Leadership Changes

Contact: Bob Jacobs +1-202-358-1600, bob.jacobs@nasa.gov, or Dwayne Brown, +1-202-358-1726, dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov, both Headquarters, Washington, or Edward Campion, Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md., +1-301-286-0697, edward.s.campion.1@gsfc.nasa.gov, all of NASA

NASA's Chariot: Not Your Father's Lunar RoverGeneration Y Urges NASA to Give New Exploration Missions More InteractivityDARPA's Vulture Aircraft To Function Like SatelliteFrom Earth to the Station: Europe's First Space Cargo Ship

While designing the lunar truck, JSC engineers threw out some traditional assumptions on what a vehicle needs — such as doors and seats — and added new capabilities such as active suspension, six-wheel drive with independent steering for each wheel. Credit: NASA

NASA Cut Means No Roving for Mars Rover

In this image provided by NASA, a robotic arm from NASA's Mars Exploration rover Spirit is shown on the 1,277th Martian day in this Aug. 6, 2007, file photo. Scientists plan to put Spirit to sleep and limit the activities of its sister rover Opportunity to fulfill a NASA order to cut $4 million from the program's budget, mission team members said Monday, March 24, 2008. (AP Photo/NASA)

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