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»» Researcher Warns Space Weather Hole Blocks Manned Mars Mission
[Wednesday, August 3, 2005] Research published in the journal Space Weather warns that massive gaps in our understanding and monitoring of space weather will effectively block U.S. plans for a manned mars space mission.
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»» Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter To Be Launched Aboard Atlas V Rocket August 10
[Wednesday, August 3, 2005] Launch of NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) spacecraft is scheduled for Wednesday, Aug. 10, at 7:54 a.m. EDT from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla. The launch window extends until 9:39 a.m., a duration of 105 minutes.
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»» NASA Mars Exploration Rover Status Report 2 August 2005
[Thursday, August 4, 2005] Spirit has reached a target-rich area of the Columbia Hills. In the week of July 21 to 28, 2005, Spirit performed extensive investigations on two rocks, "Descartes" and "Bourgeoisie."
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»» Mars Express radar collects first surface data
[Friday, August 5, 2005] Marsis, the sounding radar onboard ESA's Mars Express spacecraft, is collecting the first data about the surface and ionosphere of Mars.
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»» President Bush Comments on NASA, Shuttle Discovery, and Exploration
[Friday, August 5, 2005] "And that's important for the American people to understand, that, one, exploration is important; two, there will be some good coming out of exploration; and, three, that we've got a new vision embraced by NASA and its pioneers."
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»» NASA Set To Reveal Exploration Architecture Plans
[Saturday, August 6, 2005] According to senior NASA sources, the space agency will begin briefing the major conclusions of the combined 60-day exploration architecture studies the week of August 15th.
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»» HMP Research Station Field Update August 5, 2005
[Sunday, August 7, 2005] "At this time 14 people are scheduled to leave the Research Station today and tomorrow leaving a small group for the last 4 days before the Research Station is closed for the year."
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»» NASA's New Launch Systems May Include the Return of the Space Tug
[Sunday, August 7, 2005] NASA planners are finalizing the configuration for the next generation cargo heavy lift launch vehicles. An integral part of these studies includes upper stages and other hardware needed to move payloads once they are in space.
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»» NASA's Next Leap in Mars Exploration Ready for Launch
[Tuesday, August 9, 2005] NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) is ready for a morning launch on Wednesday, Aug. 10. The MRO will arrive at Mars in March 2006 for a mission to understand the planet's water riddles and to advance the exploration of the mysterious red planet.
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»» Carnegie Mellon rover heads to Atacama Desert for final mission in 3-year search for life
[Wednesday, August 10, 2005] Carnegie Mellon University researchers and their colleagues from NASA are preparing for the final stage of a three-year project to develop a prototype robotic astrobiologist, a robot that can explore and study life in the driest desert on Earth.
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»» NASA's Multipurpose Mars Mission Successfully Launched
[Friday, August 12, 2005] A seven-month flight to Mars began this morning for NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO). It will inspect the red planet in fine detail and assist future landers.
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»» NRC Space Studies Board Report: Review of Goals and Plans for NASA's Space and Earth Sciences
[Saturday, August 13, 2005] "The main sources of gaps and potential missed opportunities in some roadmaps are a shortage of scientific justification for their stated goals and an overly narrow interpretation of the presidential vision by the NASA roadmap teams."
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»» Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Mission Status 17 August 2005
[Wednesday, August 17, 2005] NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, launched on Aug. 12, has completed one of the first tasks of its seven-month cruise to Mars, a calibration activity for the spacecraft's Mars Color Imager instrument.
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»» NASA Mars Exploration Rover Status 16 August 2005
[Wednesday, August 17, 2005] Spirit has completed investigations with its robotic arm on "Assemble" rock. The investigation included pictures taken with the microscopic imager.
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»» NASA Mars Rovers Status Report 19 August 2005
[Tuesday, August 23, 2005] Spirit has made 54 meters (177 feet) of forward progress towards the summit of "Husband Hill" this past week. This is excellent progress considering Spirit is on restricted sols, so it can only drive every other sol.
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»» NASA scientists say liquid water formed recent gullies on Mars
[Thursday, August 25, 2005] "The gullies may be sites of near-surface water on present-day Mars and should be considered as prime astrobiological target sites for future exploration," ventured Jennifer Heldmann, principal author of the study.
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»» NASA Briefing Will Present News From A Martian Hilltop
[Thursday, August 25, 2005] NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit has reached the summit of Husband Hill, part of the range the rover first observed on the distant horizon from its landing site in January 2004.
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»» Squyres writes the book on Mars and the little rovers that could
[Friday, August 26, 2005] It has been an amazing mission from the beginning. Getting two tremendously intricate machines funded, designed, built, tested, approved, launched, landed safely on a planet millions of miles from Earth.
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