Asteroids
Human Mission to an Asteroid: Getting There With the New Space Launch System
[/caption] With NASA’s announcement of its new, mammoth Space Launch System (SLS), preparations can begin in earnest for the first…
Dramatic 3 D Imagery Showcases Vesta’s Pockmarked, Mountainous and Groovy Terrain
[/caption] Try not to plummet off a steep crater cliff or be buried under a landslide while gazing at the…
Finding NEEMO: NASA’s Underwater Simulations Focus on Human Asteroid Mission
[/caption] The sight of NASA mission specialists performing mission training underwater has been fairly common over the years. On October…
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Rheasilvia – Super Mysterious South Pole Basin at Vesta is Named after Romulus and Remus Roman Mother
http://youtu.be/tYiOOScjPFI Video caption: Rheasilvia Impact Basin and Vesta shape model. This false-color shape model video of the giant asteroid Vesta…
Space Spectacular — Rotation Movies of Vesta
http://youtu.be/FU65KCwxA6A Take us into orbit Mr. Sulu! The Dawn science team has released two spectacular rotation movies of the entire…
Human Mission to an Asteroid: Asteroid Field Testing
How will we work and set up a base camp on an asteroid? NASA is currently doing some field work…
Human Mission to an Asteroid: The Orion MPCV
Back in 2007, when the Constellation program to return to the Moon was still the program of record for NASA,…
Human Mission to an Asteroid: Why Should NASA Go?
Imagine, if you can, the first time human eyes see Earth as a distant, pale blue dot. We’ve dreamed of…
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3 D Alien Snowman Graces Vesta
[/caption] An alien ‘Snowman’ on an alien World. The ‘Snowman’ is a string of three craters and is among the…
Astronomy Without A Telescope – Impact Mitigation
[/caption] The save-the-Earth rehearsal mission Don Quijote, commissioned by the European Space Agency, is planned to test the potential of…