The SpaceX 'Dragon' docks with ISS

Source: MSNBC Blogs

Score one for corporate America. This morning at 8:56am the SpaceX Dragon, a privately owned space module, became the first of its kind to dock with the International Space Station. This is the first step in NA ...
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Picture from Mars Captures Endeavour Crater

Source: FOX 4 WDAF Kansas City

NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has captured a stunning view of Endeavour Crater — one of many craters on Mars. The image was taken from the western rim looking east. NASA says the crater is about 14 miles in diamete ...
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Opportunity takes image of huge crater

Source: Press TV

The image catches a shadow of the rover, located on the western rim of Endeavour, in the foreground and the giant crater in the distance. The final picture has been presented in false color in order to emphasize ...
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Nasa receives widespread concepts for future Mars missions

Source: PhysOrg.com

NASA's call to scientists and engineers to help plan a new strategy to explore Mars has resulted in almost double the amount of expected submissions with unique and bold ideas. About 400 concepts or abstr ...
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Mars or Bust! Scientists Flood NASA With 400 Ideas to Explore Red Planet

Source: Space.com

A photo of Mars from NASA's Viking spacecraft, which launched in 1975. CREDIT: The Viking Project/NASA Scientists have responded in a big way to NASA's call to help reformulate its Mars robotic exploration strategy, submitting about 400 id ...
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Nasa concludes wind tunnel testing to aid in SpaceX reusable launch system design

Source: PhysOrg.com

(Phys.org) -- NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., completed wind tunnel testing for Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) of Hawthorn, Calif., to provide Falcon 9 first stage re-entry data for the comp ...
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Wind-Driven, Tumbleweed-Shaped Rover Could Explore Mars

Source: Softpedia

Exploring the Red Planet using standard robots is a fairly tricky task, primarily because of terrain limitations. By definition, rovers are very sensitive pieces of high-tech equipment, and they need to be looked after all the time. But what if ...
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"Part-Time" Scientists Aim To Build Autonomous Moon Rover

Source: Slashdot

First time accepted submitter ziegenberg writes "The lunar rover 'Asimov' developed by the Part-Time Scientists , and due to land in 2014, will be the first autonomously navigated rover on the Moon . It's autonomous navigation syste ...
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TRMM satellite sees heavy rainfall in Tropical Storm Bud

Source: PhysOrg.com

The TRMM satellite passed over Bud on May 22, 2012, at 6:43 p.m. EDT. This 3-D image from TRMM shows that some of the strong convective towers near Bud's center were taller than 15 km (~9.3 miles). Credit: NASA/TRMM, Hal Pierce Tropical S ...
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