Dec 30, 2010 | International Space Station, Space Shuttle, NASA
NASA shuttle program managers on Thursday ordered additional repairs to new cracks found on shuttle Discovery’s external fuel tank. Discovery’s 39th and final mission, an 11-day assembly flight to the International Space Station, has been on hold since a...
Dec 30, 2010 | Blog, Coalition News, CSExtra
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Dec 29, 2010 | Blog, Coalition News, CSExtra
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Dec 28, 2010 | Education, European Space Agency, International Cooperation, International Space Station, Space Shuttle, NASA, Uncategorized
Curious students took a break from the Christmas holidays Tuesday to gather at the Great Lakes Science Center in Cleveland, Ohio, for a question-and-answer session with U. S. and European astronauts aboard the International Space Station. The 20-minute session was...
Dec 28, 2010 | Blog, Coalition News, CSExtra
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Dec 27, 2010 | Ask the Expert, Blog, Education Station, Exploration, International Cooperation, NASA, Our Solar System, Space and Science
NASA’s Cassini spacecraft orbiting Saturn has imaged a huge storm – a raging event on the massive planet. “Just down on the ground today … our cameras on Cassini have captured sight of a gigantic storm recently erupted in the northern hemisphere of Saturn,”...
Dec 27, 2010 | Blog, Coalition News, CSExtra
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Dec 26, 2010 | Ask the Expert, Blog, Education Station, Exploration, Kids Space, Mars, NASA, Space and Science
NASA’s Opportunity Mars rover is busy examining Santa Maria crater within Meridiani Planum. The wheeled robot is inspecting the relatively fresh and large crater that’s about 312 feet (95 meters) in diameter. “We’ve been doing a lot of imaging of it from a set of...
Dec 25, 2010 | Ask the Expert, Blog, Book Reviews, Education Station, Exploration, Kids Space, Space and Science, Space Research
Confronting Space Debris – Strategies and Warnings from Comparable Examples Including Deepwater Horizon by Dave Baiocchi and William Welser IV; RAND Corporation; Santa Monica, California; $21.60 (paperback/special web discount); 2010. This is an absorbing and...
Dec 24, 2010 | Blog, Education Station, Exploration, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Kids Space, Our Solar System
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has received financial backing to proceed on development of Hayabusa 2 – a spacecraft designed to collect samples of asteroid 1999JU3. The Hayabusa 2 is a follow-on probe to Hayabusa 1 that surveyed asteroid Itokowa in...