| Mars Rover + Rocket + Trajectory = My Job I work for NASA with the Launch Services Program (LSP) at Kennedy Space Center. So what does LSP do? LSP interfaces between the rocket and NASA unmanned spacecraft. The rockets, or launch vehicles, are actually owned by companies, not NASA. So LSP has to be the [...]
| Yesterday, NASA JPL released Spacecraft 3D, an augmented reality application for the iPhone and iPad that allows you to create a 3D version of either Curiosity, the Mars rover current en-route to the Red Planet, or the GRAIL spacecraft, currently orbiting the moon. Although it may sound simple, the technology behind making the models appear [...]
| Yesterday, NASA and Microsoft unveiled the latest version of WorldWide Telescope, featuring the highest resolution and most complete map of Mars images ever released.