NASA contract May Put Inflatable secretive Module on Space Station

NASA and Bigelow Aerospace have reached a contract that could cover the method for attaching a Bigelow-built inflatable space habitat to the International Space Station, a NASA spokes man said.The $17.8 million agreement was signed in late December, NASA spokesman Trent Perrotto told Space News Monday. Perrotto declined to offer other conditions of the accord, except to speak that it centers on the Bigelow extended Aerospace Module. He said an official statement is in the works.The contract signed...

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NASA Eyes Wild Plan to haul Asteroid close to the Moon

Capturing a near-Earth asteroid and dragging it into path around the moon could aid humanity put boots on Mars sometime, proponents of the design say. NASA is allowing for a $2.6 billion asteroid-retrieval assignment that could transport a space rock to tall lunar orbit by 2025 or so, New Scientist reported last week. The plan could help jump-start manned examination of deep space, carving out a pathway to the Red Planet and maybe even more far-flung destinations, its developers keep. "Experience...

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NASA could revolve space waste into radiation shields

NASA researchers are testing strips made of trash — including plastic water bottles; clothing scraps, canal tape and foil drink pouches — in a try to twist astronauts' garbage into a space mission’s treasure. Like their earthbound counterparts, astronauts make junk in their day-to-day lives, but different us; they can’t just bag it and abscond it on the curb. "If NASA doesn't do something about it, then the spacecraft will become like a landfill, with the astronauts totaling waste to it all...

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