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Protecting Mars - And Earth - From What - And Why Bother? Our Inheritance Of Unopened Astrobiological Treasure Chests

... Zubrin, founder and head of the Mars Society, and one of NASA’s former planetary protection officers, John Rummel. They debate the ... Rummel has studied planetary protection for years, was NASA's planetary protection officer before Cassie Conley, and has written many ...

Article - Robert Walker - May 29 2018 - 6:08pm - 0 attachments

NASA Is Sending A Helicopter To Mars. That Is Not A Typo.

What started as a technology development project at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in August 2013, has become The ...

Article - News Staff - May 11 2018 - 3:51pm - 0 attachments

Yes, Near Certainty Hit By Tiny Asteroid Within Centuries - Chance It Hits You Miniscule - $50 Million Could Retire 70% Of Risk

... detection telescopes keep getting shelved (most recently NASA chose two missions to visit asteroids and study them close up, Lucy for a ... many small countries, it doesn’t have to be an ESA or NASA project. India, Japan, even private foundations could afford it easily. ...

Article - Robert Walker - May 2 2018 - 9:09am - 0 attachments

Polar Regions Of Mars Of Outstanding Interest For Astrobiology - Why We Haven't Searched For Life There Yet

... vulnerability of the polar regions to Earth microbes, NASA made two attempts, the Mars Polar Lander which crashed, and Phoenix which ... the engines, and for electric cars for similar reasons. NASA has also been working for some time to develop a rover able to withstand ...

Article - Robert Walker - Apr 30 2018 - 4:09pm - 0 attachments

Copy / Paste / Publish: Fake Doomsday - April 23 - Astronomically Absurd Story Shared Virally By Journalists Including Fox News

... is inconsistent with modern astronomy. David Morrison, NASA space scientist explains that after just one previous flyby of Earth, such ... Nibiru does not exist - David Morrison He is senior NASA space scientist and astrobiologist, known for his work on asteroid impacts ...

Article - Robert Walker - Apr 13 2018 - 12:49am - 0 attachments

Too Big To Fail, Too Difficult To Complete: James Webb Space Telescope Now Maybe 2020

... schedule it would already need to be replaced.  NASA has been forced to create an external Independent Review Board, whose ... Board. It is hoped that an outside bolster confidence in NASA’s claims about when they will complete the final integration and test ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 27 2018 - 1:16pm - 0 attachments

How To Deal With Trash On Moon? More To It Than You'd Think

... if we are interested to find out about native organics. A NASA study in 2015 re-analysed some Apollo samples , using modern methods ... December 2013, we had an excellent chance to find out as NASA's LADEE is still in orbit analysing the lunar atmosphere. ...

Article - Robert Walker - Mar 18 2018 - 11:18pm - 0 attachments

Let's Make Sure Astronauts Won't Extinguish Native Mars Life - Op Ed

Lisa Pratt, the new planetary protection officer for NASA takes up her job at a challenging time for astrobiology. We are ... is there, saying: A human mission to Mars is NASA's stated “horizon goal,” but this is not the same as a serious ... Cassie Conley has just been succeeded by Lisa Pratt as NASA's new planetary protection officer. The few statements she has made in her ...

Article - Robert Walker - Mar 12 2018 - 12:38am - 0 attachments

恭賀新禧 And The Moon

... Intrepid Sea, Air and Space museum, who is a scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. Here is an hour-and-a quarter long ...

Article - Robert H Olley - Mar 1 2018 - 1:19pm - 0 attachments

Is This Why We Haven't Found Life On Mars Yet? Value Of Actually Looking

... to Mars, not yet anyway. So far it's been entirely up to NASA, the only ones to successfully land rovers or even stationary landers on ... instruments to Mars since Viking. It's not that NASA have any kind of a prohibition of astrobiological instruments to Mars. ...

Article - Robert Walker - Feb 21 2018 - 3:47pm - 0 attachments