Installing the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer
On April 3, NASA announced the first results from the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS). The instrument detects cosmic ray passage and other particle... Read more →
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Source: NASA Research scientists at NASA’s Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif., negotiated the transfer of three Aerovironment RQ-14... Read more →
MRO Catches Curiosity Parachute Blowing in the Wind
NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter's HiRISE camera has captured seven images over five months of the parachute that slowed Curiosity's descent on... Read more →
Seth Green Talks Microgravity on Conan
Actor Seth Green put in an appearance on the Conan O'Brien show on March 28 to talk about an upcoming movie...but instead spent most of his visit... Read more →
Xombie Makes Highest, Longest Flight
As promised, Masten Space System's Xombie campaign continued throughout March, culminating with the vertical take off vertical landing vessel's... Read more →
Tim Pickens on Watching Your Rocket Engine’s First Test Flight
Now chief propulsion engineer for Google Lunar X Prize team Moon Express, Tim Pickens is an old hand at X Prizes. In 2004, Pickens designed the... Read more →
![A trajectory analysis that used a computational fluid dynamics approach to determine the likely position and velocity histories of the foam (Credits: NASA Ref [1] p61).](https://www.spacesafetymagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/fluid-dynamics-trajectory-analysis-50x50.jpg)
