CSExtra – Monday, May 24, 2010
Monday’s CSExtra offers the latest in reporting and commentary on NASA, U.S. space policy and space activities around the globe. The U.S. GPS system to get an upgrade, asteroids become the new focus of human exploration, This Week in Space with Miles...This Week in Space, May 22, 2010
CSExtra-Sunday, May 23, 2010
Sunday’s CSExtra includes the new reporting and commentary on space policy and NASA’s future. An expert examines how other nations are viewing U.S. space intentions. Initial efforts to human rate commercial launch vehicles unfold. After five centuries, Nicolaus...Book Review: Me and The Biospheres – A Memoir by the Inventor of Biosphere 2
Me and The Biospheres: A Memoir by the Inventor of Biosphere 2 by John Allen; Synergetic Press, Santa Fe, New Mexico; (paperback) $39.95; 2009. The term “biosphere” was coined by geologist Eduard Seuss in 1875, which he defined as the place on Earth’s surface where...Explorer Students Quiz Astronauts
With their mission to the International Space Station drawing to a close, astronauts aboard the shuttle Atlantis took time on Saturday to speak with students from NASA Explorer Schools and take their questions about spaceflight. What, wondered one student, is it like...CSExtra – Saturday, May 22, 2010
Saturday’s CSExtra includes the latest reporting and commentary on the formulation of U.S. space policy and NASA’s future. More momentum for international cooperation. Students make an unpaid pitch to Congress for future space exploration. NASA and...Extraterrestrial Bombardment – New Finding
It was a mighty blast from outer space! Scientists from The Australian National University (ANU) have identified a dome at least 50 kilometers in diameter, buried under the Timor Sea – a sea bounded to the north by the island of Timor, to the east by the Arafura...X-51A Waverider Readied for May 25 Flight
Prepare to accelerate! If all goes as planned, the X-51A Waverider is to make its first hypersonic flight test attempt on May 25 off the southern coast of California. Once released from a B-52 Stratofortress carrier plane, the unpiloted X-51A is expected to fly...NASA New York TweetUp Registration begins TODAY at 10:00 a.m. EDT
Source: NASA NASA and the World Science Festival Host a Tweetup in the Big Apple NASA and the World Science Festival invite Twitter followers to a behind-the scenes Tweetup at 2 p.m. EDT on Saturday, June 5 at the World Science Festival in New York City. Now in its...Space Talk
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