Nasa Definition and 304 Threads

This is from last week (I was on vacation and then I worked like a dog to make up for the vacation): Nature news article on the subject: http://www.nature.com/news/nasa-funding-shuffle-alarms-planetary-scientists-1.14304 Eric Berger on the subject...

http://spaceref.com/nasa-hack-space/propulsion/clarifying-nasas-warp-drive-program.html I don't know how good the source is and the issue date is suspect but could NASA really be on the road to developing something like this? They mention that $50k has been put into the program but if something...

I am an aspiring astronaut want to go in International Space Station also want to work in nasa. I am a 16 year old guy from India...will complete studies till 20... I want to know what are the criterion for reaching my goal, has all the qualities which an aspirant should have.. just need a...

Is 18 billion dollars for the first two launches of the SLS a good buy? It seems NASA could buy the same weight to orbit today from Space-X for about 0.6 billion dollars. Why not just use the existing provider?

Has anyone here had any experience with the NASA JPL Graduate Fellowship Program? I am interested in applying for it, and was wondering how competitive it may be, or what the chances of getting it were. Does it depend on which lab you want to join? I am also a Canadian citizen attending a...

Is the experiment to find water on Mars by NASA is most idiotic experiment ever conducted by mankind. I mean, spacecraft send to Mars use hydrocarbons or hydrogen as fuel; this fuels byproduct is water. So there is a greater chance that after some exploration if NASA find traces of water on...

hi all just got back from a trip to New Zealand. Whilst at Christchurch City Airport, I was pleased to snap a few pics of the NASA SOFIA ( Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy ) aircraft that is down in this part of the world to do southern hemisphere astronomy...

Ok, this is slightly creepy. A few years ago, I did a little project, for fun - modeling the launch of a Saturn V into orbit in MS Excel. I got all of the info I needed for the Saturn V parameters from the Nasa Technical Reports Server. They recently shut it down in order to put "export...

In 2018, NASA will launch "Solar Probe Plus" in an orbit that will swing by close to the sun. It is expected to reach speeds as high as 450,000 mph (0.067 percent the speed of light). At what speed would you (if you were inside the spacecraft ) start to see relativistic effects inside the...

I've been trying to follow these experiments that NASA is doing to try and warp space-time on a microscopic scale. Obviously that won't have us traveling at FTL speeds yet, but it would be proof of concept. From what I read, they are using a laser, and some kind of special ceramic material (I...

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/msl/news/msl20130312.html

(1) What do people make of NASA'a page on Low Energy Nuclear Reactions? (2) Is there anything to the "Widom-Larsen Weak Interaction LENR Theory"? Is anyone aware of any peer-reviewed publications? (3) Is there any evidence for NASA's claim that, "several labs have blown up studying LENR...

NASA could build a warp drive?!? I just read in a article that NASA has revisited an older theory and found they can improve on it greatly. here is a link to the journal (i guess that is what it is called) of the scientist who is working in this...

NASA's current report on their EAGLEWORKS lab for spacecraft propulsion http://ntrs.nasa.gov/search.jsp?R=20110023492&hterms=eagleworks&qs=Ntx%3Dmode%2520matchallpartial%2520%26Ntk%3DAll%26N%3D0%26Ntt%3Deagleworks The actual PDF is here: http://hdl.handle.net/2060/20110023492 EDIT: A mod...

NASA yesterday on the 29th published a survey in which they claimed the detection of many new stellar objects. The press release continues to say this includes super-massive black holes 2/3 of which were previously undiscovered. This is a lot more mass than we previously knew existed. What are...

http://phys.org/news/2012-08-nasa-mars-flight-explore-core.html Aww. Titan Mare Explorer looks way more exciting to me, even if we had results only when I'm 37 years old.

Can someone please point me to a deceleration graph over the 7 minutes of terror from the 13,000 mph re-entry speed through to the parachute release and landing of the Curiosity Rover on Mars? Thanks very much. :smile: PS: Mods please feel free to move this topic to the appropriate forum...

Curiosity will hopefully land safely on Mars at 1:31am EDT, after "Seven Minutes of Terror" and NASA TV will be broadcasting a a show for this starting at 11pm EDT at http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/ustream.html I'm more excited and anxious about this than I have been for every Olympic...

Hello everyone not sure if this has been brought to the attention of the forum yet but there is a kickstarter project going on called Fight For Space about the neglect of the American Space Program. Go and watch the trailer and let me know what you think. I personally think it is an awesome...

Maybe this is a topic for another thread, but I'm not completely clear on how that makes SpaceX different from, say, Lockheed or North American/Rockwell/Boeing. Is it simply that NASA has less control over the design/construction and mostly just pays for it as opposed to directing (contracting)...

The phone call came like a bolt out of the blue, so to speak, in January 2011. On the other end of the line was someone from the National Reconnaissance Office, which operates the nation’s fleet of spy satellites. They had some spare, unused “hardware” to get rid of. Was NASA interested? ... For...

http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2012/27mar_enceladus/ March 27, 2012: There's a tiny moon orbiting beyond Saturn's rings that's full of promise, and maybe -- just maybe -- microbes. In a series of tantalizingly close flybys to the moon, named "Enceladus," NASA's Cassini...

What is the scope of btech in PHYSICAL SCIENCES from IIST(indian institute of space science and technology)? after that course it is compulsory to work in ISRO for 5 years...(if you get first class) will that be enough to get into NASA?

I thought some of you might find this interesting: http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/r62jp/iama_nasa_astronaut_that_recently_returned_to/ :smile:

NASA's Stardust Mission -- Interplanetary Dust Particles Hello all, I'm currently working on a research paper about IDPs, and I'd like to spend some time discussing NASA's Stardust Mission. I'm wondering if anyone might know of some links to some scholarly articles concerning the matter...

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LRO/news/lunar-graben.html A brief video from NASA showing curious geological features of the lunar surface. Graben indicate stretching of the Moon, lobate scarps tell a story of shrinkage. Respectfully submitted, Steve

1/2/2012 One new NASA spacecraft is orbiting the moon, another aproaching, to study moon structure via its gravity. 2nd NASA probe en route to moon on New Year’s Day http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/dec/31/nasa- spacecraft -reaches-moons-orbit/

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/astronomers-detect-first-earth-sized-planets-orbiting-another-star/2011/12/20/gIQAuRIJ7O_story.html

Reference: Forbes - NASA Satellite May Have Found The Smallest Known Black Hole The State Column - NASA’s RXTE reveals secrets of tiny black hole

Ok fellas, what is it? http://gizmodo.com/5865808/has-nasas-satellite-captured-an-unidentified-object-near-mercury/

Joseph M. Zawodny of NASA has applied for a US patent on "Method for Producing Heavy Electrons". The full text of the patent is available at the US Patent Office website. By heavy he means effectively heavy in the context of the metallic surface. I am not a condensed matter person. Can...

Do NASA use Einsteinian corrections (either SR or GR) when doing interplanetary missions? or is it purely Newtonian calculations? -I'm almost certain that it was purely Newtonian mechanics for the moon missions...

There is a story doing round in e-mails and FB recently. The story is this: A satellite sent by Nasa, while going round the globe, slows down automatically when it crosses a particular spot over the Saneeswarar temple (a Hindu temple dedicated for Saturn), in Thirunallar, Tamil nadu, India...

Don't know whether this belongs in chemistry or Earth science but there has been discussion about salinity here. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-15033532

see http://slatest.slate.com/posts/2011/09/16/kepler_16b_nasa_discovers_planet_with_two_suns_like_tatooine_in_.html

I saw this in http://www.space.com/12928-falling-satellite-crash-late-september-nasa.html" about the debris from the UARS satellite. This seems like an extremely large probability to me. They do not make any reference on how they computed this. Does anyone here know how they could have come...

First we had the Muslim outreach: "to find a way to reach out to the Muslim world and engage much more with dominantly Muslim nations to help them feel good about their historic contribution to science ... and math and engineering." BHO...

Chris McKay told me that they do take grad students, but I can't find any more information on the Internet (the Ames page points to a dead link for the "Graduate Student Researchers Program") - see http://hr.arc.nasa.gov/student/gradfaculty.html

http://spacescience.arc.nasa.gov/staff/chris-mckay We're spending a weekend with him (as part of a summer program)

I go to a small liberal arts college but I have a good GPA, comfortably above 3.5, could be higher if I wasn't forced to take a bunch of writing courses that don't pertain to my major. Could I go into astronomy with these two degrees?

Some may already be aware of this but I discovered it for the first time today- http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=36068 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nautilus-X Looks like they may be testing the centrifuge on the ISS some time in 2013.

Hi Folks, How has space exploration during NASA's shuttle program benefitted mankind? Thanks

I thought today would be a good time to give NASA some thanks for all the http://www.nasa.gov/audience/forstudents/k-4/home/spinoffs_feature_k_4.html" , being it's the last Shuttle mission to lift off today. Thank you NASA.

According to both NOAA and Wikipedia, an X1 Class solar flare produces 0.0001 watts of energy per square meter, or greater. Therefore, an X45 solar flare would produce 0.0045 watts of energy per square meter. However, that cannot be correct. That is too absurdly small...

A possible breakthrough for space travel, yet lacking an explanation in physics, they say. http://ntrs.nasa.gov/search.jsp?R=20140006052...

I have always loved space and the universe. I think that as a civilization we need to dedicate more time, funds, and efforts to exploring and studying the things beyond our own Earth. A freshman in college, I need to soon settle on a major that I want to aim for (Bachelor's degree). Let me make...

http://money.cnn.com/2014/09/16/news/companies/nasa-boeing-space-x/?hpt=hp_t2 http://www.nasa.gov/press/2014/september/nasa-to-make-major-announcement-today-about-astronaut-transport-to-the/index.html#.VBhxFvk7vWc

So, this is something that's got me wondering; The CCCP landed crafts on Venus, and more recently, NASA landed the Huygens on Titan. Both of these worlds are shrouded in clouds that block any visible light from coming back from the surface, though. But to send a lander, you obviously...

I am currently a freshman at Penn State University. I have always been greatly interested in astronomy, space, and the universe. Especially cosmology and the "larger pictures" of our existence. I have decided that this is what I want to do with my life...study the universe, help discover new...

Hello, I've taken a leave of absence from UCSD (polisci major) to finish pre-requirements for a compsci degree. Initially, I left to pursue an astrophysics degree, but after taking a C++ and intro to Java class, CS has me hooked - I love the logic. So the major prep requires either two phys...