Sending astronauts to a deep-space outpost beyond the moon’s far side could help lay the groundwork for more ambitious manned missions to Mars, some researchers say. Such a lunar effort would take humanity farther from Earth than it’s ever been before, allowing scientists and engineers to work their way up to even more distant targets such as asteroids and Marsin a stepwise fashion, advocates say Continue reading
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Britain's Gurdon, Japan's Yamanaka share Nobel medicine prize for stem cell research
NEW YORK, N.Y. – Two scientists from different generations won the Nobel Prize in medicine Monday for the groundbreaking discovery that cells in the body can be reprogrammed into completely different kinds, work that reflects the mechanism behind cloning and offers an alternative to using embryonic stem cells. The work of British researcher John Gurdon and Japanese scientist Shinya Yamanaka who was born the year Gurdon made his discovery holds hope for treating diseases like Parkinson’s and diabetes by growing customized tissue for transplant Continue reading
NASA finally confirms yearlong ISS mission
The first-ever yearlong mission to the International Space Station will launch in 2015 and feature an American-Russian crew, NASA revealed Friday. A crew of two one Russian cosmonaut and one American astronaut will launch together in spring 2015 on an experimental endurance mission that will last twice as long as current stays aboard the orbiting lab. The main goal is to gather data that will help lay the groundwork for manned flights to destinations in deep space, officials said Continue reading
NASA, Russia eye yearlong space station assignments
* Mission would help prepare for flights beyond Earth * Cosmonaut Valery Polyakov spent 438 days in orbit * Longest flight by U.S. astronaut is 215 days CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., Oct 4 (Reuters) – NASA is considering doubling the amount of time an astronaut spends at the International Space Station to a year, laying the groundwork for future missions deeper into space, officials said Thursday. If approved, a mission likely would begin in 2015, said NASA spokesman Rob Navias. Continue reading
NASA unveils 'InSight', the next mission to probe Mars' core in 2016
NASA has decided to take a much deeper look inside Mars to try to figure out why the Red Planet evolved so differently from Earth. The space agency announced late on Monday that it will launch a new mission in 2016, named InSight, to hopefully figure out whether the core of Mars is solid or liquid like Earth’s, and why Mars’ crust is not divided into tectonic plates that drift like they do on Earth Continue reading
NASA, FAA working on commercial space-flight rules
by Christopher Smith Gonzalez / The Daily News khou.com Posted on June 19, 2012 at 8:43 AM HOUSTON Commercial flights into space might be a few years away, but NASA and the Federal Aviation Administration are laying the groundwork for the licensing and regulation requirements for those flights. Heads of the two government agencies signed a memorandum of agreement that aviation administration acting Administrator Michael Huerta said provides a regulating framework and avoids conflicting sets of requirements and standards. Continue reading
Krames StayWell Announces Collaboration with MEDITECH
YARDLEY, Pa.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Krames StayWell, the nations leading health care communication and engagement company, has announced its library of discharge instructions is now available directly through the MEDITECH Electronic Health Record (EHR), a leader in health care IT. Continue reading