photo: NASA / Bill Ingalls
The second and final qualification motor (QM-2) test for the Space Launch System’s booster is seen, Tuesday, June 28, 2016, at Orbital ATK Propulsion Systems test facilities in Promontory, Utah. During the Space Launch System flight the boosters will provide more than 75 percent of the thrust needed to escape the gravitational pull of the Earth, the first step on NASA’s Journey to Mars.

Booster rocket fires in key NASA test for Mars missions

Edit The Himalayan 29 Jun 2016
CAPE CANAVERAL. NASA’s fireworks came early this year with a successful rocket test in Utah ... NASA plans to use the mega-rocket for trips to Mars in the 2030s ... “Really a delight,” he said ... The post Booster rocket fires in key NASA test for Mars missions appeared first on The Himalayan Times. ....

NASA boasts success in Utah test of jumbo booster for Mars missions

Edit Japan Times 29 Jun 2016
NASA’s fireworks came early this year with a successful rocket test in Utah. On Tuesday, NASA fired a booster intended to hoist astronauts into true outer space. The ground test lasted the full two minutes, and the early word is that everything went well. NASA plans to use the mega-rocket for trips to Mars in appeared first on The Japan Times. > ... ....

Watch: NASA tests booster rocket for Mars missions

Edit NZ Herald 29 Jun 2016
Source. Youtube.com/NASA's Marshall CentreOn Tuesday, NASA fired a booster intended to hoist astronauts into true outer space. The ground test lasted the full two minutes, and the early word is that everything went well.NASA... ....

Video: NASA tests new rocket booster for Mars missions

Edit Belfast Telegraph 29 Jun 2016
... farther mission into space and is to take astronauts to Mars....

NASA Is Setting Up A Solar System-Wide Internet Connection

Edit IFL Science 28 Jun 2016
The International Space Station (ISS) has become the first piece of a Solar System-wide Internet network. Thanks to a piece of technology called Delay/Disruption Tolerant Networking (DTN), future Moon and Mars missions will be able to link up to the ISS and beam information efficiently back and forth. One day, when Martian settlers are engaging in a bit of Netflix binge-watching, they’ll have DTN to thank ... How DTN works ... ....

High court won't hear dispute over service dog at school

Edit Business Insider 28 Jun 2016
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is taking up an appeal from a 12-year-old Michigan girl with cerebral palsy who wasn't allowed to bring her service dog to school. The justices said Tuesday they will consider whether Ehlena Fry's family can sue the school district for violations of federal disability laws ... ___ ... Booster rocket fires in key NASA test for Mars missions Injuries reported in head-on train collision in Texas Officer ... ....

NASA Weighs Use of Rover to Image Potential Mars Water Sites (Jet Propulsion Laboratory)

Edit Public Technologies 24 Jun 2016
Pending approval of a mission extension, NASA's Curiosity Mars rover will continue to climb to progressively higher and younger strata on Mount Sharp, investigating how long the ancient, water-rich environments found so far persisted as Mars dried out ... NASA's most ambitious Mars mission to date, its goal was to study the Martian environment and determine if Mars is, or was, suitable for life ... http.//mars.nasa.gov/msl/....

Time For NASA To Double Down On Journey To Mars

Edit Universe Today 23 Jun 2016
By and large, the meeting focused on possible concepts for the Mars mission, which included using SEP and chemical propellants for sending hardware to cis-lunar space and near-Mars space, in advance of a mission to Phobos and the Martian surface ... For instance, NASA has indicated that it is laying the groundwork for Phase One of the Mars mission, which calls for flight testing to cis-lunar space....

[The Stats Man]China’s Scientific Leap Forward (University of Science and Technology of China)

Edit Public Technologies 23 Jun 2016
(Source. University of Science and Technology of China) ... The next mission, due this year, is to launch the Hard X-Ray Modulated Telescope, which uses an innovative technique to build up highresolution images of events in the vicinity of black holes and neutron stars ... China has also planned the launch of five new space science satellites, including a Sino-European joint mission, in the next five years, apart from a Mars mission in 2020....

India launches 20 satellites in single mission

Edit Al Jazeera 22 Jun 2016
The rocket carries the highest ever number of satellites on a single Indian mission and the third highest in history ... India's mission to Mars ... In 2013, the ISRO sent an unmanned rocket to orbit Mars at a cost of just $73 million, compared with American space agency NASA's Maven Mars mission that had a $671 million price tag. The successful mission was ......

India sends 20 satellites into space in single mission

Edit Press TV 22 Jun 2016
India has successfully sent 20 satellites into space in a single mission, a record-breaking event for the country’s space agency that received its premier’s warm praise ... Back in 2013, it also sent an unmanned rocket to orbit Mars on a low budget of just $73 million, compared with NASA’s $671 million Maven Mars mission....

India launches record 20 satellites in single mission

Edit Dawn 22 Jun 2016
The rocket blasted off from the southern spaceport of Sriharikota carrying satellites from the US, Germany, Canada and Indonesia, the most in a single Indian mission ... The highest number of satellites launched in a single mission is 37, a record that Russia set in 2014 ... India in 2013 sent an unmanned rocket to orbit Mars at a cost of just $73 million, compared with NASA's Maven Mars mission which had a $671 million price tag....

Inside NASA's Mars Mission

Edit Popular Science 21 Jun 2016
Exclusive photos of the capsule and rocket that could carry humankind to Mars ....
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