Apr 27, 2011 | International Space Station, Space Shuttle, NASA, Space Research
UPDATE: 9 p.m., EDT, Brush Fires Near Shuttle Launch Pad Contained A brush fire flared not too far from Endeavour’s launch pad at the Kennedy Space Center on Wednesday afternoon. Though smokey, the blaze did not disrupte the countdown leading to Endeavour...
Apr 27, 2011 | Blog, Coalition News, CSExtra
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Apr 27, 2011 | International Space Station, Space Shuttle, NASA, Space and Science
The countdown for shuttle Endeavour’s final mission, a two week voyage to equip the International Space Station with a $2 billion physics experiment, got under way on Tuesday, with a mostly favorable weather outlook. Endeavour’s lift off from...
Apr 26, 2011 | Blog, Coalition News, CSExtra
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Apr 26, 2011 | features
Apr 26, 2011 | Blog, China, Education Station, Exploration, Kids Space, Space Race
Credit: CMSEO The director of the China Manned Space Engineering Office (CMSEO) has called upon Chinese people around the world for a logo and a distinctive name for that country’s first crewed space station. CMSEO’s Wang Wenbao announced the plan to have ideas and...
Apr 25, 2011 | Benefits of Space Exploration, Blog, Commercial Space, Education Station, Exploration, Hubble Space Telescope, Kids Space, NASA, Space Research, Why Space
Credit: NASA Spinoff HowStuffWorks.com has posted an impressive listing of what breakthroughs in medicine came from NASA. The roster of medical advances that came at least in part from NASA research includes: Cool suit to lower body temperature in treatment of...
Apr 25, 2011 | Blog, Coalition News, CSExtra
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Apr 24, 2011 | Education, Exploration, International Space Station, Legislative Activity, NASA, The Moon
A recently introduced House bill, the Reasserting American Leadership in Space Act, would require the United States to resume efforts to return human explorers to the moon, this time by 2022, and establish a “sustained presence.” The legislation, H. R....
Apr 24, 2011 | Ask the Expert, Blog, Book Reviews, Education Station, Exploration, Kids Space, NASA, Our Solar System, Planet Earth, Space and Science, Space Research, Why Space
Exoplanets, Edited by Sara Seager; University of Arizona Press; Tucson, Arizona; $35.00 (Cloth); 2011. The editor of this volume, Sara Seager, is the Ellen Swallow Richards Professor of Planetary Science and Professor of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of...