NASA Reviews Mix-Up That Doomed Capsule
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Five years ago, after two NASA missions to Mars were doomed by elementary mistakes - a software glitch and a mix-up between English and metric units - the space agency devised more elaborate
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Scientists sifting through the wreckage from Wednesday's space capsule crash say some of the experiments can be salvaged, but it won't be easy. By Amit Asaravala.
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: After peering inside Nasaâs broken Genesis capsule with flashlights and mirrors, scientists said yesterday the craftâs unexpected crash landing left solar material intact and most scientific objectives within reach.
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WASHINGTON : NASA&#39;s Genesis capsule slammed into the Utah desert after its parachutes failed, leaving scientists unsure if they could retrieve the bits of solar dust captured on its three-year mission.
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NASAÂs administrator, Michael D. Griffin, says the current period of space exploration will come to be seen as a mistake.
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By Traci Watson The flagship instrument on the Hubble Space Telescope has failed and can't be fully repaired, NASA officials said Monday. The Advanced Camera for Surveys took the snapshot of the universe in its infancy that is one of Hubble's most famous images.
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HANDING IT OVER: NASA grudgingly released some results Monday from an $11.3 million federal air safety study it previously withheld from the public.
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A capsule carrying samples of solar wind was supposed to be plucked out of midair by a helicopter, but its chutes apparently malfunctioned. Amit Asaravala reports from Dugway Proving Grounds, Utah.
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Russian and NASA engineers worked into the evening yesterday to figure out why two computer systems essential to the operation of the international space station crashed, and the agency began making contingency plans that include potentially abandoning the $100 billion facility if they should fail.
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Scientists are optimistic that they will retrieve useful information from the smashed capsule that fell to earth in the Utah desert after three years in space.
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Tycho: You might have heard that NASA was trying to gin up an MMO. We just received a mail from a human being involved in the project, someone who wants to make sure they collect the best ideas from the best people. Naturally, she thought of the readership here. Her mail follows:I know how incredibly unpleasant this could end up being if we don'thave the right minds behind it, and would just like the chance to get itin front of as many potentially talented people as possible. Would youguys consider posting a sentence on this in the news section soon?"The purpose of this RFI is to solicit information from organizationswith proven immersive synthetic environments expertise who areinterested in potentially forming a MMO platform development partnershipwith NASA. We are currently targeting releasing a Request for Proposalin March 2008."Here's a couple of run-downs in English from people outside NASA:http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/01/nasa-seeks-inpu.htmlhttp://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/01/would-you-play.html#previouspostAnd the NASA sites:http://procurement.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/eps/synopsis.cgi?acqid=128415http://ipp.gsfc.nasa.gov/mmo/submit.htmlNASA gets surprisingly tiny amounts of money (about $17B/yr) to go tofreakin' space and do a whole lot of discovering of varioushumanity-impacting things. And a lot of people just don't know theamount of awesomeness we do for that. We're working on many things totry and communicate to people better about what we do (that's part ofour forming mandates, actually), and this is one initiative.And I think it would be cool if it wasn't a big mess, or even just an"eh" thing. I'd like to see it be *good*.For the space program, guys?Oh, but darling: you had us at immersive synthetic environments.(CW)TB
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A well-researched study by the National Academy of Sciences makes a persuasive case for refurbishing the Hubble Space Telescope. NASA, which is reluctant to take this mission, should rethink its position.
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NASA is wrestling with a potentially dangerous problem in a spacecraft, this time in a moon rocket that hasn't even been built yet.
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The tiny but significant hole was from a collision with a piece of space debris, NASA officials said.
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Trying to save the famed Hubble Space Telescope with a robot would cost &#36;2 billion with just a 50-50 chance of success, an aerospace research group is advising NASA in the coming days.
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NASA says the space capsule, built by Lockheed Martin, went down in the Utah desert because a crucial switch was put on backward. By John Johnson.
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SeaDour writes &quot;As if the failed oxygen generator on the International Space Station wasn&#39;t bad enough, rumor has it that the planned launch of a Russian Soyuz capsule to change crews onboard the station may be delayed due to a mishap during ground testing