Nov 30, 2010 | Blog, Coalition News, CSExtra
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Nov 29, 2010 | Blog, Coalition News, CSExtra
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Nov 28, 2010 | Ask the Expert, Blog, Book Reviews, Education Station, Exploration, Hubble Space Telescope, Kids Space, Space and Science
How Old is the Universe? by David Weintraub; Princeton University Press; Princeton, New Jersey; $29.95; January 2011. This is a very engaging and readable book that will help you wrap your mind around an agreed to astronomical actuality: The universe is 13.7 billion...
Nov 26, 2010 | Blog, Education Station, European Space Agency, Exploration, International Cooperation, NASA, Our Solar System, Space and Science
It is the first time a spacecraft has captured direct evidence of an oxygen atmosphere at a world other than Earth. The flyby measurements of the Cassini-Huygens spacecraft at Saturn’s moon Rhea reveal a tenuous oxygen-carbon dioxide atmosphere. The NASA-led...
Nov 26, 2010 | International Cooperation, International Space Station, NASA
A Soyuz spacecraft carrying NASA astronauts Doug Wheelock and Shannon Walker and Fyodor Yurchikhin of Russia, descended safely into northern Kazakhstan on Thanksgiving night, ending their 5 1/2 month mission to the International Space Station. The Soyuz capsule...
Nov 25, 2010 | International Space Station, Space Shuttle, NASA, Uncategorized
NASA shuttle managers sounded a cautious note on Wednesday, as they announced further delays in efforts to launch the shuttle Discovery on the senior orbiter’s final flight, an 11-day assembly mission to the International Space Station. The soonest Discovery could...
Nov 24, 2010 | Blog, Coalition News, CSExtra
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Nov 24, 2010 | Benefits of Space Exploration, NASA, Planet Earth, Space and Science, Uncategorized
Traditional collaborations between U. S. federal agencies on space and Earth science projects can lead to increased rather than lower costs, the National Research Council concludes in a new report. The Congressionally-chartered think tank urged the White House and...
Nov 23, 2010 | Education, International Space Station, NASA, Planet Earth, Space and Science, The Moon, The Sun
Three U. S. members of the International Space Station crew raved about the beauty of the Earth and discussed the risks associated with their work on Tuesday, as they fielded questions about life aboard the orbiting laboratory from students who attend two Washington...
Nov 23, 2010 | Blog, Commercial Space, Education Station, Kids Space, Mars, NASA, Orion Crew Exploration Vehicle, Our Solar System, The Moon
Industry space planners are scoping out next steps beyond low Earth orbit – but with a trajectory twist: Exploring the Moon’s hidden farside from the L2 Lagrange Point. Stationed in that L2 slot a piloted spacecraft would be synchronized with the Moon in its orbit...