NASA Selects Investigations for Future Key Missions

Posted by brandoniswrite on May 7, 2011

NASA has selected three science investigations from which it will pick one potential 2016 mission to look at Mars’ interior for the first time; study an extraterrestrial sea on one of Saturn’s moons; or study in unprecedented detail the surface of a comet’s nucleus. NASA‘s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., would lead the Mars investigation. [...]

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STS-134 moves to NET May 16 target amid APU wiring and thermos work

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Endeavour’s final mission is now tracking a No Earlier Than (NET) May 16 launch date, following a Program level meeting to evaluate the schedule for the troubleshooting work on the orbiter’s Auxiliary Power Unit (APU-1) heater system. Work has – and continues to – focus on the Aft Load Controller Assembly (ALCA-2), while additional work [...]

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