At just after 1100 EDT Friday morning, Dragon became the first commercial spacecraft to dock with the International Space Station. The crew of the ISS is scheduled to open the hatch of the Dragon Saturday, and begin transferring supplies from the spacecraft to the orbital outpost.
Asks Google Lunar X Prize Foundation, Others To Assure Preservation Of Apollo Landing Sites
NASA and the X Prize Foundation of Playa Vista, CA, announced Thursday the Google Lunar X Prize is recognizing guidelines established by NASA to protect lunar historic sites and preserve ongoing and future science on the moon. The foundation will take the guidelines into account as it judges mobility plans submitted by 26 teams vying to be the first privately-funded entity to visit the moon.
Nearly Double The Number Of Expected Submissions Received
NASA's call to scientists and engineers to help plan a new strategy to explore Mars has resulted in almost double the amount of expected submissions with unique and bold ideas. About 400 concepts or abstracts were submitted to the Concepts and Approaches for Mars Exploration Workshop in Houston, which was organized to gather input for the reformulation of NASA's Mars Exploration Program.
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