He explores the ambitious program of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to bring humans on the moon and lead to eventual manned exploration of Mars. He comments that robots are better suited than humans to be in space and explore the moon and other planets....
NASA Free Screenshots iPhone iPad Description Welcome to the International Space Station! It’s your job to make sure the H-II Transfer Vehicle is successfully berthed to the ISS. But can you perform your tasks while experiencing the effects of microgravity?
The ultimate aim of human spaceflight is “to extend life to there”, to use the phrase from NASA’s vision statement, to establish habitats beyond Earth. Although life on Earth is diverse and long-standing, it has been restricted to this planet and has failed to go any further. Humans c...
ThoughNASA does intend to support commercial,private efforts to get people into space, Colbert and Tyson feel that theend of the astronaut era bodes badly for space science in general. Colbertsaid that "Once upon a time, astronauts were America's heroes. Now weeliminate them in the third roun...
"I think the real value of this report is if we can get NASA to pay attention," Jakosky told Space.com in an exclusive interview. "We see a lot of work going on in planning the architecture for human Mars missions. But science isn't on the table at all. My goal as chair of the...
A partnership with NASA on a Mars mission — perhaps one where NASA astronauts and terrestrial support staff conduct a mission using one of SpaceX’s planned BFR craft to get to the red planet — is certainly conceivable, but it’s not the plan right now. Still, such a plan could prove...
there have been other astronauts of Indian origin who have travelled to space: Kalpana Chawla (who died in the NASA mission of Space Shuttle Columbia disaster in 2003); Sunita Williams; Raja Chari, and; Sirisha Bandla who flew on a brief private sector Virgin Galactic test flight in 2021. ...
For government space programs, it requires significant political support and, most often, the underlying support of the country's population. In early 2010, economics and politics in the United States indefinitely postponed NASA's latest plans for a moon base. Later that year, however, the Japan...
NASA already deployed a fleet of robotic spacecraft and rovers on Mars. These robots are sending back data, such as radiation data, to help us learn more about the Red Planet before we establish our first colony. To further prepare, a group of six people from Hawai’i Space Exploration An...
NASA is exploring space suits with added resistance to counteract this. In the meantime, astronauts from the US and Russia are undergoing year-long studies on the space station so that we can better understand the effects of the lower gravity on the human body, and if we can adapt. Water,...