Porn and movies, not tech secrets, found on Chinese spy suspect's NASA laptop The Chinese national taken into custody on an airplane waiting to take off for home had pornography and illegally downloaded movies on his NASA computer, not government secrets, reports say. He is now set to plead guilty to a misdemeanor charge of violating NASA computer rules. More
One flight closer to space tourism Virgin Galactic is one flight closer to becoming a commercial "spaceline." The company's passenger spacecraft, SpaceShipTwo, completed its first rocket-powered flight Monday morning above the Mojave Desert in California. More
U.S. plans to drop gray wolves from endangered list The planned ruling would eliminate protection for the top predators, but scientists and conservationists say the proposal is flawed. Federal authorities intend to remove endangered species protections for all gray wolves in the Lower 48 states, carving out an a exception for a small pocket of about 75 Mexican wolves in the wild in Arizona and New Mexico, according to a draft document obtained by The Times. More
Too expensive, too slow: NASA asks for help with JPL’s Mars Sample Return mission rubble and dust that have already been gathered and sealed into tubes by the Perseverance rover. The current design relies on a lander that would retrieve those tubes from the Red Planet’s ... 04/15/2024 - 9:55 am | View Link
NASA says it's revising the Mars Sample Return mission due to cost, long wait time NASA announced Monday it is revising plans for its Mars Sample Return (MSR) mission due to the estimated cost and long wait time for samples to return to Earth.The mission's g ... 04/15/2024 - 7:04 am | View Link
Video: Video reveals what solar eclipse looks like from Mars NASA's Perseverance Mars rover used its Mastcam-Z camera system to shoot video of Phobos, one of Mars' two moons, eclipsing the Sun. It's the most zoomed-in, highest frame-rate observation of a Phobos ... 04/9/2024 - 1:14 am | View Link
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover begins exploring possible dried-up Red Planet river Currently in the twelfth year of its mission, NASA's Curiosity rover continues to press on while treading the world of Mars, delving into areas no rover has gone before. The latest phase of ... 04/2/2024 - 12:59 pm | View Link
From Canal Fulton to Mars: Tim Schlernitzauer helped design Curiosity rover landing gear Canal Fulton native Tim Schlernitzauer was part of the Timken Co. team that designed the landing gear for the Mars rover Curiosity. Curiosity's mission was to investigate whether Mars ever had the ... 03/31/2024 - 12:06 am | View Link