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NASA Connect – VASIMR

This is an educational video about an advance space propulsion system. This is for learning. If you don’t want to learn the pictures funny! An unmanned cargo capability based on VASIMR propulsion offers significant cost savings to NASA and commercial lunar exploration programs. VASIMR can deliver twice as much payload to the lunar surface, compared […]

NASA Cassini Significant Events 08/04/10 – 08/10/10

NASA Cassini Significant Events 08/04/10 – 08/10/10 The most recent spacecraft telemetry was acquired on Aug. 10 from the Deep Space Network tracking complex at Goldstone, California. The Cassini spacecraft is in an excellent state of health and all subsystems are operating normally. Read more on SpaceRef Countdown To Vesta Let the countdown begin. NASA’s […]

NASA gets set for next technological leaps

NASA gets set for next technological leaps Science editor Alan Boyle’s Weblog: On-orbit rocket filling stations and new kinds of engines for deep-space travel are at the top of NASA’s wish list for new technologies. NASA – Technology – Space – Alan Boyle – Education Read more on MSNBC Latest News Do you like this […]

NASA – Dawn’s Mission to the Asteroid Belt

The Dawn spacecraft will employ ion propulsion to explore two of the asteroid belt’s most intriguing and dissimilar occupants: asteroid Vesta and the dwarf planet Ceres. Dawn’s goal is to characterize the conditions and processes of the solar system’s earliest epoch by investigating in detail two of the largest protoplanets remaining intact since their formations. […]

NASA – Dawn Spacecraft Enroute to Asteroid Belt

NASA’s Dawn spacecraft is on its way to study a pair of asteroids after lifting off Thursday, September 27, 2007 from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station at 7:34 am EDT (4:34 am PDT). Mission controllers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., received telemetry on schedule at 9:44 am EDT (6:44 am PDT) indicating […]

Wouldn’t this be a good start for NASA?

You know they put nuclear reactors in submarines. NASA should put a nuclear reactor in a space ship, and using the energy to create ion propulsion for the thrust. Wouldn’t that work out great?