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Related tags: science [+], space [+], star [+], robot [+], moon [+], mars [+], drunk [+], distant [+]
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First Details of Manned Mars Mission From NASA
Posted: November 28th, 2007, 4:47pm MST by ScuttleMonkey
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OriginalArlen writes "The BBC has a first look at NASA's initial concepts for a manned Mars mission, currently penciled in for 2031. The main vehicle would be assembled on orbit over three or four launches of the planned Ares V heavy lift rocket. New abilities to repair, replace, and even produce replacement parts will be needed to provide enough self-sufficiency for a 30 months mission, including 16 months on the surface. The presentation was apparently delivered at a meeting of the Lunar Exploration Management Group, although there's nothing on their site yet."
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Report: NASA Let Astronauts Fly Drunk
Posted: July 27th, 2007, 3:04pm MDT
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NASA let astronauts fly drunk on at least two occasions, according to an independent panel.
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NASA rethinking death in mission to Mars
Posted: May 1st, 2007, 6:45pm MDT
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Two die in NASA standoff
Posted: April 20th, 2007, 9:55pm MDT
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A gunman killed himself and a male hostage while holed up in a barricaded building at NASA's Johnson Space Center, police say. Houston Police spokesman Capt. Dwayne Ready said a female hostage survived the ordeal. It is not know what, if any, relationship the killer had with his hostages. Houston police and NASA security were called about 1:40 p.m. CT and quickly surrounded Building 44, where work focuses on the engineering end of tracking spacecraft.
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NASA's PILOT project could autonomously extract oxygen from lunar soil
Posted: April 6th, 2007, 10:28am MDT by Darren Murph
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We've got means to extract oxygen from water, a portable bar, and even ways to deprive entire server farms of the sustenance, but a new project being tackled by Lockheed Martin is hoping to create O2 on the moon. A critical part of NASA's PILOT (Precursor In-situ Lunar Oxygen Testbed) initiative, this digger bot will work hand-in-hand with a "processing plant that will add hydrogen to moon soil, heat it to 1,652-degrees Fahrenheit, condense the steam, and finally extract the oxygen." Additionally, the blue LIDAR (Light Detection And Ranging) box atop the three-foot-long machine can assist it in locating "oxygen-rich lunar soil and autonomously carry it to a processing plant." The overriding goal is to use the newly extracted O2 for air, or moreover, to combine it with hydrogen and produce water for the four astronauts that the lunar base could support. Unfortunately, there's no timetable as to when we'll actually see the PILOT roll into action, but we're most interested in porting this bad boy over to Mars along with half the traffic in LA.
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NASA To Probe Atmospheric Substorms
Posted: February 17th, 2007, 12:00am MST
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Feb. 17 -- Five science satellites on a single rocket blasted off into a golden sunset Saturday on a mission to try to figure out the source of powerful geomagnetic substorms in the Earth's atmosphere.
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Astronomer Discovers the Most Distant Stars Ever Observed From Earth
Posted: January 10th, 2007, 3:47pm MST by ScuttleMonkey
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Cryolithic writes to tell us The Vancouver Sun is reporting that a University of B.C. astronomer recently used NASA's Hubble telescope to see a cluster of stars one billion light-years from Earth, the farthest stars ever observed from Earth. From the article: "That's interesting, he explains, because given that light travels at a finite speed -- 300,000 km a second -- the light emitted from the star cluster he and Kalirai saw was emitted one billion years ago. That means the cluster as it appeared to them two months ago was the way it looked one billion years ago. In other words, they were looking one billion years back in time." -
NASA Will Go Metric On the Moon
Posted: January 9th, 2007, 3:23pm MST by kdawson
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An anonymous reader writes "Space.com is reporting that NASA has decided to use the metric system for its new lunar missions. NASA hopes that metrication will allow easier international participation and safer missions. The loss of the Mars Climate Orbiter was blamed on an error converting between English units and metric units. 'When we made the announcement at the meeting, the reps for the other space agencies all gave a little cheer,' said a NASA official."