The latest presentation to the Future In-Space Operations (FISO) study group is now posted in the FISO Working Group Presentations Archive. Both slides (pdf) and audio (mp3) are available for the talk, Surface Telerobotics, Ed Tunstel , APL/JHU – July 10, 2013.
Check out this great collection of spaceship cover art works for 1970s British sci-fi books: Mind-Blowing Spaceships from 1970s British Paperbacks – io9.com
Find links to more galleries of classic sci-fi cover art and illustrations in the HS Space Art section.
This video of a Google+ Hangout on NASA TV about the NASA’s Missions: Imagine and Build competition:
During a Google+ Hangout on NASA Television, Astronaut Leland Melvin, NASA experts, and representatives from LEGO discussed the “NASA’s Missions: Imagine and Build” competition. Anyone age 13 and over can enter a futuristic aircraft or spacecraft design built with the toy bricks into the competition. Entry deadline is July 31, with winners announced the week of Sept. 1. NASA and LEGO are partnering to inspire the next generation of aerospace engineers.
On July 19th, artist Renate Pohl at Artspaceport.com (a new advertiser here at HS) will present a free teleseminar on “How to Launch Your Art Into Space”. The goal is to inform artists who are creating space inspired art on how to “get people coming to you for your art”.
Here is her video about the project:
The Curiosity Rover begins its journey to Mount Sharp: Curiosity Rover Report (July 11, 2013): Trek to Mount Sharp Begins – YouTube
Third Drive of Curiosity’s Long Trek Covers 135 Feet
PASADENA, Calif. – NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity drove 135 feet (41 meters) on Tuesday, July 9, the third drive of a journey of many months from the “Glenelg” area to Mount Sharp.
Last week, the mission finished investigating science targets in the Glenelg area, about 500 yards (half a kilometer) east of where Curiosity landed. The mission’s next major destination is at the lower layers of Mount Sharp, about 5 miles (8 kilometers) southwest of Glenelg. The July 9 drive brought Curiosity’s odometry to about 325 feet (99 meters) since completing the Glenelg investigations and about 0.51 mile (0.95 kilometer) since landing on Mars in August 2012.
Mount Sharp, in the middle of Gale Crater, exposes many layers where scientists anticipate finding evidence about how the ancient Martian environment changed and evolved. At targets in the Glenelg area, where Curiosity worked for the first half of 2013, the rover found evidence for an ancient wet environment that had conditions favorable for microbial life. This means the mission already has accomplished its main science objective.
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, manages the Mars Science Laboratory Project for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate, Washington. JPL designed and built the project’s Curiosity rover.
More information about Curiosity is online at http://www.nasa.gov/msl and http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/ . You can follow the mission on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/marscuriosity and on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/marscuriosity .