NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) reached two significant milestones in recent days, and in doing so, it has put the agency firmly back in the race to Mars. The agency has announced that all work platforms outside the launch vehicle have now been installed. This is seen as being a huge achievement, considering that …
NASA has recently announced their intention to use a newly developed “Poop Suit” when the Orion spacecraft carries a crew into space sometime in. The agency recently ran a completion where competitors were required to design an in-suit waste disposal system, with the winner getting a $30,000 cash reward. In order to qualify for …
SpaceX is set to launch a rocket from the historic Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. If everything goes according to plan, the rocket will lift off on Feb, 18 and it will be the company’s 10th resupply mission to the International Space Station. SpaceX has been modifying the pad for some time …
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Scott Kelly spent a well-documented year in space, as his identical brother spent the same time here on Earth. The study was to determine the effects that space has on the human body. Both in the physiological sense and the psychological. What researchers have discovered so far is that Scott’s white blood cells grew …
Boeing Launches WGS-8 Satellite Nearly 9 billion dollars was added to Boeing’s Wideband Global Satcom contract by the U.S. Air Force. This money will help to maintain and operate the constellation satellite system through 2017. This information was released by Department of Defense on the 19th of December. Currently, constellation is the military’s primary …
Mars Exploration Conference Soon … The Humans to Mars Summit or H2M is a Mars exploration conference that will be addressing scientific and technical issues as well as any policy changes or challenges that have arisen that might impede humans from getting to Mars. It will also be covering how this mission and missions …
Possibility of Life on Mars. There has been a lot of talk about the potential for life on mars. We are not however talking about at traditional image of an E.T. The life that many scientists feel could be present on mars is that of a more microscopic nature. How realistic is it though to …
A telescope known as the GRAPES-3 muon recorded a burst of cosmic rays. These rays were about 20 GeV. This occurred on June 22nd of 2015. The burst lasted 2 hours and happened due to a solar corona. It was moving at about 2.5 million kph when it hit our planet. The hit caused …
NASA’s spacecraft, New Horizons, picked up a new analysis that may mean that there is a subsurface ocean on Pluto! How did they deduce this? Sputnik Planitia is a low lying plain on Pluto and according to the new images it is very well aligned with Pluto’s tidal axis. It’s so certain that scientists …
Mars is an important planet when it comes to space exploration. It’s the next big target for manned missions, and could even become a research colony in the future, with a possibility that small areas could be terraformed to support human life. Even as the boundaries between science and science fiction continue to blur, …