NASA is planning to launch the Demonstration of Autonomous Rendezvous Technology (DART) flight demonstrator in late…
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SPACEFLIGHT MAY DECREASE HUMAN IMMUNITY
A NASA-funded study has found the human body’s ability to fight off disease may be decreased…
MARS DRILL
It will be drilling for information first, then for resources, though oil is not likely to…
NASA SELECTS INNOVATIVE SMALL BUSINESS PROJECTS
NASA has selected 125 research proposals for negotiation of Phase 2 contract awards for NASA’s 2003…
ASTRONAUT GORDON COOPER DIES
Leroy Gordon Cooper, Jr., (Colonel, USAF, Ret.) an original Mercury 7 astronaut, died earlier today at…
ISS STATUS REPORT: SS04-032
With less than a month remaining in their stay aboard the International Space Station, Expedition 9…
ATACAMA ROVER HELPS NASA
A dedicated team of scientists is spending the next four weeks in northern Chile’s Atacama Desert.…
SCIENTISTS REPORT THINNING OF ANTARCTIC GLACIERS
Glaciers in West Antarctica are shrinking at a rate substantially higher than observed in the 1990s.…
GLACIERS SURGE WHEN ICE SHELF BREAKS UP
Since 2002, when the Larsen B ice shelf broke away from the coast of the Antarctic…
PROMETHEUS MISSION TO JUPITER
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), Pasadena, Calif., selected Northrop Grumman Space Technology, Redondo Beach, Calif., as…