1st SLS 2nd Stage Arrives at Cape for NASA's Orion Megarocket Moon Launch in 2018

By ken-kremer - March 08, 2017 04:02 PM UTC | Space Exploration
PORT CANAVERAL - Bit by bit, piece by piece, the first of NASA's SLS megarockets designed to propel American astronauts on deep space missions back to the Moon and beyond to Mars is at last coming together on the Florida Space Coast. And the first big integrated piece of actual flight hardware - the powerful second stage named the Interim Cryogenic Propulsion Stage (ICPS) - has just arrived by way of barge today (Mar. 7) at Port Canaveral, Fl.
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Curiosity Watches a Dust Devil Go Past

By ken-kremer - March 02, 2017 11:22 PM UTC | Planetary Science
Tis a season of incredible wind driven activity on Mars like few before witnessed by our human emissaries ! Its summer on the Red Planet and the talented scientists directing NASA's Curiosity rover have targeted the robots cameras so proficiently that they have efficiently spotted a multitude of 'Dust Devils' racing across the dunes fields of Gale Crater.
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