Mars Challenge

NASA Contest Wants Your Ideas to Keep Astronauts Safe on Mars
by Elizabeth Howell, Space.com Contributor   |   May 07, 2015 

 

To prepare for future colonies on Mars, NASA is asking the public for ideas on how to keep Red Planet astronauts safe that require minimal resupplies from Earth.
The "Journey to Mars Challenge" will give a $5,000 award to each of the three winning participants who describe an original idea that could assist the human exploration of Mars.

Season's Greetings!

Wishing everyone a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! See you on the other side of the universe.  

Happy Birthday! Dr. Who!

Happy belated Birthday, Dr. Who for taking us on a wild adventure through time and space for 50 years. (Nov. 23, 1963 - Nov. 23, 2013) Keep it real Doctor and continue for another 50 years, and save me a seat in the TARDIS this time, I‘m ready to go see the universe like never before! Peace.

SPACE SHUTTLE ENDEAVOUR GLIDES OVER LA

After about twenty years in service the space shuttle Endeavour is retiring. For nearly 30 years the space shuttle program has operated as the public's best known space vehicles and now officially has come to an end, and some wonder does NASA have a replacement program set in place to continue manned mission in space? Some say we may have bigger and better space ships, hidden away in some secret military installation, while other speculate robots and AI machine will take over exploration of outer space. I certainly want to see man missions to Mars and a return to the Moon.

For what ever the reasons to discontinued the space shuttle program, economic or simply obsolete, nevertheless, the news of the final space shuttle was broadcast all over America. As reported in the Los Angeles Times a week ago, it is still intriguing to see and read about the fly-bye of the last of the space shuttle. The Endeavour space shuttle buzzed over LA and San Fransisco flying low enough for everyone to see. A completely awestruck once in a lifetime experience to behold. Later, after safety landing at LAX, the shuttle will stay a few weeks there before making its final journey over the streets of Los Angeles as it travels to its new home at the California Science Center.