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LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — Monotony was the hardest part of a yearlong NASA experiment about the mental and psychological rigors of longterm spaceflight, crew members said after the test ended. The six-member crew emerged Sunday from a dome in Hawaii, on the barren northern slope of the Mauna Loa volcano, where they were studied as part of the US space agency’s mission to send people to Mars by the 2030s. On Monday, US […]
LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — The six people who went into isolation for a year in Hawaii to help NASA plan for a mission to Mars emerged Sunday, happy to breathe fresh air and meet new people. The team was based on a barren, northern slope of Mauna Loa, living inside a dome that is 36 feet (11 meters) in diameter and 20 feet tall. French astrobiologist Cyprien Verseux said that he was “feeling […]
NASA engineers successfully conducted the second to last splashdown tests with the Orion spacecraft on Thursday (August 25) bringing the agency one step closer to its goal of eventually carrying humans to Mars. The test, conducted at the Langley facility in Hampton, Virginia was designed to simulate one of the Orion spacecraft’s most stressful landing scenarios with crash test dummies inside, a case where one of the capsule’s three main parachutes fails to deploy. […]
HAMPTON, Virginia (Reuters) — National Aeronautics and Space Administration engineers successfully conducted the second to last splashdown tests with the Orion spacecraft on Thursday (August 25) bringing the agency one step closer to its goal of eventually carrying humans to Mars. The test, conducted at the Langley facility in Hampton, Virginia was designed to simulate one of the Orion spacecraft’s most stressful landing scenarios with crash test dummies inside, a case where one of the […]
REUTERS — National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) celebrated a historical milestone on Wednesday (July 20): the 40th anniversary of the first U.S. spacecraft to land on Mars. On July 20, 1976, NASA successfully reached the Martian surface with their Viking Lander 1. The Viking project – comprised of two separate spacecraft – together took more than 65,000 images of the planet and collected overwhelming amounts of data. The primary goal of the Viking mission […]
MIAMI,United States (AFP) — SpaceX chief Elon Musk announced Wednesday that he will send an unmanned spaceship to Mars as early as 2018, as part of his quest to colonize the Red Planet some day. Few details of the plan were released by Musk, the Internet entrepreneur who rose to fame as the cofounder of PayPal and currently also runs Tesla Motors. “Planning to send Dragon to Mars as soon as 2018,” Musk announced on […]
MOSCOW, Aug. 26 (PNA/Sputnik) — Star Wars fans couldn’t believe their eyes. NASA’s Curiosity Rover took a photo which appears to have captured an object which looks strikingly similar to a Star Destroyer from the blockbuster series. Freshly unveiled photos taken by NASA’s Curiosity Rover caused media hype, as one of them depicts something that looks like the wreckage of a craft from the Star Wars movies. Many franchise fans thought they recognized an Imperial […]
AUGUST 17 (Reuters) — A German university has created a computer-animated video showing a simulated flight over a regions of Mars. Using data gathered from a High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) on board the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Mars Express aircraft which is operated by the German Aerospae Center (DLR), scientists at the Freie Universitaet in Berlin were able to piece together and create a computer-animated video showing how the ground could look in a […]
Hundreds of thousands of would-be astronauts have been narrowed down to 100 who will proceed to the next round of the Mars One project for a chance to create a human colony on the red planet. The candidates, 50 men and 50 women, come from all around the world. The majority, 39, are from the United States, with 31 from Europe, 16 from Asia, seven from Africa, and seven from Oceania. Student Maggie Lieu, 24, […]
(Courtesy NASA) Sept. 11, 2014 — NASA’s Mars Curiosity rover has reached the Red Planet’s Mount Sharp, a Mount-Rainier-size mountain at the center of the vast Gale Crater and the rover mission’s long-term prime destination. “Curiosity now will begin a new chapter from an already outstanding introduction to the world,” said Jim Green, director of NASA’s Planetary Science Division at NASA Headquarters in Washington. “After a historic and innovative landing along with its successful science […]
