Plans A, B and C to the Moon
Nasa’s Review of U.S. Human Space Flight (HSF) Plans Committee have been hearing proposals for alternative Shuttle replacement craft. The Ares I crew and Ares V cargo launch vehicles are Plan A. The HSF Committee has heard two other proposals at their meeting last week. Discovery News is calling one of these proposals Plan B: [...]
In: Space · Tagged with: Ares, Moon, NASA, Shuttle
When in doubt, reboot
Behold the power of the reboot. Just as effective in space as on earth. The malfunction lasted about 14 hours before engineers were able to jumpstart the 19-year-old Hubble by shutting the telescope off, then restarting it remotely from the telescope’s mission operations center at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. via SPACE.com [...]
In: Space · Tagged with: Computer, Hubble, NASA, Reboot
LRO and LCROSS mission info
NASASpaceFlight.com gives a detailed explanation of the science hoped to be preformed by the LRO and LCROSS missions: Together, the LRO/LCROSS missions – which are components of the Lunar Precursor Robotic Program from the Marshall Spaceflight Center in Huntsville, AL – will help map the moon’s surface and pave the way for future robotic and [...]
