False alarm! on CNET New proof of life on Mars? Sadly, no A stunning new image taken by NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter creates an optical illusion.
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NASA’s Scrubbed Escape Pod Glides to New Home
To the future and ……. …… The museum? NASA’s Scrubbed Escape Pod Glides to New Home NASA’s cute, wingless escape pod for the International Space Station, which was in development until 2002, finally has a home. Sadly, it’s not in space, but in Ashland, Nebraska at the Strategic Air and Space Museum.
Canadian astronaut Thirsk bound for International Space Station
That’s going to be interesting! http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/05/22/space-robert-thirsk-space-station-astronaut.html?ref=rss Canadian astronaut Robert Thirsk is a member of a six-person crew that will live on the International Space Station for six months. On May 27, he and two other crewmates are scheduled to launch from Kazhakstan to join the other three already aboard the station.
Water
Thirsty? http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090520/ap_on_sc/us_space_urine
We need more nuke. Please
Why do I feel we are going backward sometime! http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/b5zKGZ73loo/nasa-running-out-of-fuel-for-deep-space-missions-because-nobody-makes-nukes-anymore Supplies of NASA’s go-to fuel for space exploration , plutonium-238, are dwindling. The U.S. stopped making it 20 years ago and now NASA’s Russian suppliers are running out after production shut down. The problem? Nobody makes nukes anymore. Deep space probes beyond Jupiter can’t use…
From the Space Shutte to this :
http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/N03JnxMKYGc/the-next-space-shuttles 500 days
The new hitchhiker guide to the galaxy?
From Yahoo news: Astronaut Class of 2009 Has No Spaceship WASHINGTON – Nearly five decades after announcing the seven original Mercury astronauts, NASA is again set to reveal a new class of spaceflyers. But the 2009 astronaut class will be the first in nearly 30 years that will enter training without the prospect of flying…