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NASA Reverses Controversial Budget Cut |
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NASA is finally talking business and is clearly determined to put a manned mission on the surface of the Moon within the next decade and, why not, to establish a lunar base on our only natural satellite. The new lunar rover demonstrated by the NASA team during the Space Exploration Conference, which took place betwee... |
28 February 2008
09:12 GMT |
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Forget about sending a nuclear powered rover to the surface of the Red Planet, NASA officials say! The mission may stop right before it even stars due to related costs rising at an alarming rate. The mission is dead in the water since previous tests have shown that the current design of the vehicle, which is supposed... |
29 February 2008
06:44 GMT |
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It's no secret now, Mars is thought to have been much hotter in its past, basically meaning that it could also have had liquid water on its surface at some point in time. NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter and ESA's Mars Express routinely return evidence of what seems to be gullies or lake beds possibl... |
7 March 2008
04:33 GMT |
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Although still healthy and working round the clock of the surface of the Red Planet, NASA's twin rovers Spirit and Opportunity may soon find themselves hibernating for a undefined amount of time. If mechanical and software problems won't disable them permanently, NASA will surely do so. According to a NASA ... |
25 March 2008
05:11 GMT |
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Well, it seems that NASA 'did it again', so to say. Just recently the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, responsible for the Mars Exploration Rover program, was ordered to apply a budget cut of 4 million US dollars for the 2008 fiscal year. Yet another cut was scheduled for the 2009, totaling 8 million ... |
26 March 2008
04:00 GMT |
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