Before China sent its first unmanned spacecraft Chang’e 3 to the Moon, NASA had already sent few probes for different purposes. As Chang’e 3 is now exploring the Moon, all NASA’s probes are keeping a sharp eye on Chang’e 3.
![[Video] NASA Unveils Its Humanoid Rescue Robot Valkyrie](https://thetechjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/NASAs-Humanoid-Rescue-Robot-Valkyrie-139x200.jpg)
Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA) has been hosting a DARPA Robotics Challenge (DRC) since last year that challenged some participants to create robots that can be used in the real world. Space agency NASA accepted the challenge and hence, had been building a humanoid rescue robot named Valkyrie. Lately, NASA has unveiled Valkyrie. It looks like Iron Man.
![[Video] Amazing View Of Moon Rotating Earth From NASA’s Juno Spaceship](https://thetechjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Earth-And-Moon-Captured-By-Juno-150x88.jpg)
Juno has captured images of the Earth and the Moon, showing how Earth would appear to alien visitors first time from their starship windows. Here we have several photos with the amazing video.
Water is essential for supporting life. Space agency NASA believes that Mars has the capability to support life or once upon a time it had supported life. We already reported that Mars rover Curiosity has found ancient lakebed on Mars. And now NASA says that ancient lakebed may have supported life on Mars 3.6 billion years ago.
Remember last year we reported that space agency NASA was developing a lowest-cost Android powered small satellite named ‘PhoneSat’ and planning to send it into space? The good news is, around two weeks ago the space agency sent that Android powered small satellite into space and recently, it successfully made a phone call to Earth from there.
NASA recently announced that the Kepler probe it had sent out into the space back in 2009 could no longer work as it should. So an ingenious plan was devised to make some changes to the probe and keep it at its work.
A couple of days ago we reported that comet ISON will pass through the corona of the Sun on Nov 28. In the mean time, astronomers have become very anxious to find out whether the space projectile will disintegrate from the Sun’s intense heat and gravity, or if it will manage to slingshot around the star. Regarding this, space agency NASA has made a stunning video where you can see comet ISON heading towards the Sun.
American billionaire Dennis Tito, who is widely known as the first space tourist, lately has offered NASA to send a manned mission to Mars in 2017 for which he is even prepared to share the funding for the mission. The agency agreed to help in technology but declared can’t help in funding this. What’s the story?