News1

NASA’s Space Launch System Passes Review

By Merryl Azriel on July 26, 2012

The various configurations of SLS are designed to achieve a system that can be used for anything from low Earth orbit cargo runs to deep space... Read more →

Destination Mars1

Preparing for Safe Exploration of Mars

By Staff Writers on July 26, 2012

Source: David J. Geaney for Mars Travel Sometime between July 2005 and October 2008, a weak impactor broke up in the atmosphere of Mars and it's... Read more →

Spin Off Technology

British Company Teams with NASA to Develop New Hydrogen Fuel

By Pedro Vaz Teixeira on July 26, 2012

Hydrogen nanobeads could potentially be used like gasoline fuel without speacial storage requirements (Credits: Cella Energy). UK-based Cella... Read more →

News

Progress Cargo Ship Fails to Dock

By Merryl Azriel on July 25, 2012

Progress M-15M successfully completed second and third rendezvous stages before failing to dock with ISS (Credits: NASA). On July 22, the... Read more →

Media

Baikonour Gopher Wins Fans Worldwide

By Staff Writers on July 25, 2012

Smack in the middle of launch preparations, heavy machinery moving directly overhead, a gopher lives in his hole in the center of Baikonour... Read more →

Space Medicine

Mice Return from Long Duration Spaceflight, Show Reproductive Effects

By Maria Fischer on July 25, 2012

Astronaut Nicole Stott displays the Mice Drawer System on ISS during Expedition 21 (Credits: NASA). Three mice have returned to Earth alive after... Read more →