Category Archives: Space

Red Rover – Google Lunar X Prize

Posted on September 12, 2010 by dkohn96

If you don’t know, Google has a contest call the Lunar X Prize which “is a $30 million competition for the first privately funded team to send a robot to the moon, travel 500 meters and transmit video, images and … Continue reading →

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Building Curiosity: Robotic Arm Attached

Posted on August 24, 2010 by dkohn96

The latest report from the clean room where Curiosity (Mars Science Laboratory) is being built. This week, the robotic arm was attached to the rover. Friday, August 20, 2010 2:00 AM

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ATHLETE Rover Busts a Move: A Dancing Robot

Posted on August 24, 2010 by dkohn96

So you think you can dance? The ATHLETE rover thinks it can, too.

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First Test Drive for Next Mars Rover

Posted on July 24, 2010 by dkohn96

This video shows the first test drive of the next Mars Rover, Curiosity, in a clean room at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., on July 23, 2010.

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Armstrong: Obama NASA plan ‘devastating’

Posted on April 13, 2010 by dkohn96

Astronauts warn plan would put U.S. on path to “mediocrity” April 13: Former astronauts Neil Armstrong, James Lovell and Eugene Cernan urged President Obama to reconsider what they warn would be “devastating” new policies for the future of NASA. NBC’s … Continue reading →

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Open Letter to President Obama Regarding Space Policy

Posted on April 13, 2010 by dkohn96

This open letter first appeared in wide circulation on the Orlando Sentinel’s blog and has since made the rounds elsewhere. Dear President Obama; America is faced with the near-simultaneous ending of the Shuttle program and your recent budget proposal to … Continue reading →

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Mars rover Spirit remains stuck in sand

Posted on January 28, 2010 by dkohn96

Washington Post Thursday, January 28, 2010 The Mars rover Spirit will rove the red planet no more. That’s because the six-wheeled vehicle that was sent to Mars along with its twin rover, Opportunity, in 2004 got stuck in a Martian … Continue reading →

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Ares I Launch – New era in Space

Posted on October 29, 2009 by dkohn96

Today, Ares I finally launched! In other news, Russia announced a proposed plan to go to Mars with an Atomic Powered Rocket (Link). All we can do is hope for another space race! Editorial Comment: Yes I want to return … Continue reading →

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Remembering APOLLO 11

Posted on July 20, 2009 by dkohn96

NASA just released restored video of the Apollo 11 mission…….

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Remembering APOLLO 11

Posted on July 18, 2009 by dkohn96

Just found a wonderful website done by NASA commemorating the 30th Anniversary of Apollo 11 [wish I found it 10 years ago] Also, I find it rather fitting that Walter Cronkite died yesterday. I was brought up on both the … Continue reading →

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