Jun 30, 2011 | Blog, China, Education Station, Exploration, Kids Space, Space Race
The next step in China’s space program is launch of that country’s first space station module. The Tiangong-1module has been transported to the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Gansu Province. Now on site, the hardware is slated to undergo final tests before its...
Jun 30, 2011 | Blog, Coalition News, CSExtra
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Jun 30, 2011 | Ask the Expert, Blog, Education Station, Exploration, Kids Space, NASA, Space and Science, The Moon
NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) continues to crank out scads of data and imagery of Earth’s Moon. The Moon-circling spacecraft was launched on June 18, 2009. It has been busy providing new scientific information about our celestial neighbor in gravitational...
Jun 29, 2011 | Blog, Education Station, Exploration, Kids Space, Mars, NASA, Our Solar System, Space and Science, This Week in Space
This day…50 years ago! The Earth-orbiting Transit IV-A became the first flight test of a nuclear power source developed for use in spacecraft. Transit IV-A was powered both by solar cells and a radioisotope thermoelectric generator (RTG) using Plutonium 238 for fuel....
Jun 29, 2011 | Blog, Coalition News, CSExtra
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Jun 29, 2011 | Ask the Expert, Blog, Comets, Education Station, Exploration, International Cooperation, NASA, Our Solar System, Space and Science, The Moon
Scientists are puzzled. Our Moon is dotted with swirls, considered among the most puzzling features on the surface of the Moon. These bright, looping patterns are unlike anything seen in the solar system. While the origin of the lunar swirls has been discussed for...
Jun 28, 2011 | International Space Station, Space Shuttle, NASA
NASA on Tuesday officially set July 8 as the launch date for the 135th and final flight of the 30-year long space shuttle program. Atlantis, carrying a crew of four and 12 tons of equipment, is scheduled to lift off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center at 11:26 a.m.,...
Jun 28, 2011 | Blog, Coalition News, CSExtra
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Jun 27, 2011 | Blog, Commercial Space, Education Station, Exploration, Space Tourism, Spaceports
SpaceShipTwo – the private spaceliner for space tourists – flew today on its 15th drop test over the Mojave Air and Space Port in California. The unique and futuristic suborbital vehicle is being readied to haul pay-per-view passengers to and from the edge of space....
Jun 27, 2011 | Blog, Commercial Space, Education Station, Exploration, International Cooperation, International Space Station, Planet Earth, Space and Science
A Canadian firm has announced it intends to offer the world’s first ever, live HD video feed of Earth from space. UrtheCast (pronounced “EarthCast”) is working in an exclusive relationship with Russia’s RSC Energia to build, launch, install, and operate two cameras on...