nasa space program

With apologies to Arthur C. Clarke! NASA's Perseverance rover is due to touch down on Mars on Feb 18th 2021. It is fitted with a couple of microphones. You'll be able to listen to the sounds from the Red Planet assuming it gets there in one piece. I suppose if it crashes that might make an...

Is President Obama's plan for NASA a good idea or not? I watched a comment by a former director of NASA say that it is not a good idea because a private company launching people into space is not the same as a government agency because of the likely fatalities. It would be more cost effective...

January 26, 2010 - Full text Is it just me, or is it hard not to feel an anthropomorphic sadness at this? Though on a happier note: 01-Feb-2010 - Opportunity Passes 12-Mile Marker

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35182959/ns/technology_and_science-space/ While this isn't unexpected, some fans of manned space flight will be disenheartened to see the president slice a NASA program that needed another $3 billion per year to stay alive. I concur with where the President's...

I laughed a while back when Neil Cavuto ridiculed NASA for wasting taspayers dollars on crashing a probe into the moon. CAvuto thought the whole thing was a waste of money and worked hard to ignore the NASA scientist trying to tell him the interesting things that might be learned and the fact...

From Here "A spacecraft named Galileo, flying from Earth on a 14-year voyage that covered nearly 3 billion miles through the hostile environment of the planet Jupiter, is about to die -- The $1.5 billion Galileo mission will finally end on Sunday, and radio signals from its low-gain antenna...