Week of Nov. 28 – Dec. 2, 2016
How Will We Safely Send the First Humans to the Red Planet?
Sure, you follow NASA on Facebook and Twitter, but what about Tumblr? A new NASA Tumblr post details how NASA’s Space Launch System, Orion Spacecraft, Curiosity Mars Rover, International Space Station and more are making human exploration of the Mars possible.
(Video 1:47) Is BEAM the Future of Space Habitats?
Crew members on the International Space Station are helping with a technological demonstration the Bigelow Expandable Activity Module. The test will examine the overall performance of expandable habitats where crews could live and work on future missions, including NASA’s Journey to Mars. The space station, a test bed for demonstrating new technologies, is the springboard to the next great leap in exploration.
A Stellar Circle of Life
A snapshot of the stellar life cycle has been captured in a new portrait from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and the Smithsonian’s Submillimeter Array. A cloud that is giving birth to stars has been observed to reflect X-rays from Cygnus X-3, a source of X-rays produced by a system where a massive star is slowly being eaten by its companion black hole or neutron star.
NASA Fluid Shifts Study Advances Journey to Mars
The reason why some International Space Station astronauts have returned to Earth with changes in their vision has been a mystery, but new noninvasive techniques to examine crew health in orbit may provide researchers with much needed insight into the problem. See how flight controllers in NASA Marshall Space Flight Center’s Payload Operations Integration Center helped crew members perform eye exams on each other.
(Video 4:51) Planetary Society Tours Marshall on Their Rocket Road Trip
Check out NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center and our Michoud Assembly Facility through the eyes of the Planetary Society. In the second and third videos of their 10-day, 450-mile journey across the southern United States, the group highlights NASA’s efforts as the agency builds the Space Launch System, the world’s most powerful rocket that will send astronauts deeper into space than ever before.
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