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October 31, 2013

NASA Seeking Student Science Experiments For Balloon Flight

Targeting Fall 2014 For Flight Opportunity

NASA is accepting applications from graduate and undergraduate university students to fly experiments to the edge of space aboard a high-altitude scientific balloon. This balloon flight competition is a joint project between NASA and the Louisiana Space Consortium (LaSPACE) in Baton Rouge.

High-Strength, Low-Weight Graphite Composite Case Reaches Key Milestone

A significant milestone in ATK's NASA Research Announcement (NRA) Advanced Booster risk-reduction program for the Space Launch System (SLS) has been reached with the successful completion of filament winding of a pathfinder Advanced Booster composite case.

Completes First Two-Day Autonomous Drive

NASA's Mars rover Curiosity completed its first two-day autonomous drive Monday, bringing the mobile laboratory to a good vantage point for pictures useful in selecting the next target the rover will reach out and touch. When it drives autonomously, the rover chooses a safe route to designated waypoints by using its onboard computer to analyze stereo images that it takes during pauses in the drive. Prior to Monday, each day’s autonomous drive came after a segment earlier that day that was exactly charted by rover team members using images sent to Earth.