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October 24, 2008

If At First You Don't Succeed: NASA Successfully Fires Up Hubble Backup System

Camera Observations Expected To Resume Saturday

NASA is cautiously optimistic the Hubble Space Telescope is finally on its way back to almost-normal operations, following a three-week hiatus.

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Pilot Recounts Tale Of 1957 UFO Encounter

Says He Has "Not The Foggiest Idea" What Actually Happened

More than a half-century after being ordered to fire on a massive UFO, a retired American pilot remains frustrated that he's been unable to uncover the truth behind the encounter.

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NASA'S Next Moon Mission Begins Thermal Vacuum Test

LRO Undergoes Environmental Testing At Goddard SFC

NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, has begun environmental testing in a thermal vacuum that simulates the harsh rigors of space.

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Expedition 17 Lands Safely In Kazakhstan

No Sign Of Previous Soyuz Reentry Woes

Commander Sergei Volkov and Flight Engineer Oleg Kononenko of the 17th International Space Station crew landed safely on the steppes of Kazakhstan at 2337 EDT Thursday, after more than six months in space.

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PlanetSpace Strengthens Bid For NASA ISS Commercial Resupply Services Contract

Adds Boeing To Lockheed Martin/ATK Team

PlanetSpace announced this week it has added Boeing's Space Exploration division to its existing teammates, Alliant Techsystems and Lockheed Martin, on the proposed solution to NASA for the Commercial Resupply Services to the International Space Station.

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Raytheon Miniaturized Radio System Onboard Indian Lunar Probe

Chandrayaan-1 To Search For Ice On Moon

Sensing technology developed by Raytheon will help to determine whether the polar regions of the moon contain ice.

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Orbital Outfitters Selected For NASA Space Suit Work

Joins Texas A&M University On Moon–Mars Suit Design Project

Orbital Outfitters, the Texas Engineering Experiment Station (TEES) of the Texas A&M University System, has been selected by NASA with its partner Dittmar Associates  to develop new concepts for a "soft shoulder" for NASA's new Constellation space suit that is to support future missions to the International Space Station and beyond.  These missions include the return of humans to the moon and potentially to Mars. 

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