NASA’s first asteroid samples land on Earth after release from Spacecraft
From Newsmax NASA’s first asteroid samples fetched from deep space parachuted into the Utah desert Sunday to cap a seven-year journey. In a flyby of Earth, the Osiris-Rex spacecraft released the sample capsule from 63,000 miles (100,000 kilometers) out. The…
We can terraform Mars, possibly Venus too, says NASA’s retiring top scientist
By Jeremy Frankel From Newsmax Jim Green, NASA’s retiring chief scientist, spoke with The New York Times about one of his most significant recent proposals, a scale for verifying the detection of alien life, called the “Confidence of Life Detection” (CoLD) scale. The scale ranges…
NASA astronauts are preparing for the Moon in a big water tank
By Mike Wehner From BGR NASA astronaut candidates have to meet a long list of criteria before the space agency decides they’re fit to carry out important duties in space. When astronauts return to the Moon in the near future,…
How the customer interview illuminates innovation
By Christie Nicholson From Core77 Few companies set up their customer conversations in ways that lead to accurate and useful data. The key is to ask better questions. Often our most painful experiences lead to our best lessons. Here’s a…
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SpaceX contracted by NASA to launch black hole and neutron star research craft
By Derrell Etherington From TechCrunch SpaceX has been awarded a new contract by NASA to launch the agency’s Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer, or IXPE. This research spacecraft will study polarized light from sources including neutron stars, pulsar wind nebulae and supermassive black holes,…
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NASA’s Curiosity rover finds levels of gas on Mars that could suggest possibility of life
By Darrell Etherington From TechCrunch NASA’s Curiosity Rover has detected high levels of methane output during its mission on the Martian surface, the New York Times reports. The discovery, found during a measurement taking on Wednesday by the robot and observed…
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NASA is going to fire an atomic clock into space so astronauts know where they’re going
By mike Wehner From BGR As NASA and other organizations begin to lay the groundwork for crewed missions to places other than an orbiting space station or even the Moon, they’re beginning to better understand the potential challenges such missions…
Blue Origin and SpaceX get million-dollar NASA nod to test Moon lander tech
By Devin Coldewey From TechCrunch Eleven aerospace companies will share more than $45 million in funds from NASA to design and test prototypes for the Artemis Moon missions, the agency has announced. Among the established names like Northrop Grumman and Sierra Nevada are…
NASA will test asteroid defenses by slamming a spacecraft into a space rock in 2022
By Mikw Wehner From BGR If Earth were ever to be threatened by a large space rock — and it definitely will at some point in the future — humanity is going to need to have a plan. Astronomers know…
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NASA photos capture immense flooding of a vital U.S. Air Force base
By Mark Kaufman From Mashable In 1948, Air Force Secretary Stuart Symington stationed the United States’ long-range nuclear bombers at Offutt Air Force Base in eastern Nebraska, a location safe in the middle of the nation and well-insulated from the coast. But…
