Jul 26, 2011 | Blog, Coalition News, CSExtra
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Jul 25, 2011 | Blog, Education Station, Exploration, Hubble Space Telescope, International Cooperation, International Space Station, Space Shuttle, NASA, NASA, Space Shuttle
Check out this just issued and impressive video from the Nature Video Channel. NASA’s 30-year Space Transportation System (STS) program came to an end on 21st July 2011. The Space Shuttle fleet delivered the Hubble Space Telescope, the International Space Station, and...
Jul 25, 2011 | Blog, Coalition News, CSExtra
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Jul 24, 2011 | Biographies, Blog, Book Reviews, Education Station, Exploration, NASA, The Moon
Falling to Earth: An Apollo 15 Astronaut’s Journey to the Moon by Al Worden with Francis French; Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D.C.; $29.95 (hardcover); July 2011. This is a great read, one that is frank in telling the tale of an Apollo astronaut first...
Jul 24, 2011 | Asteroid Exploration, Blog, Education Station, Exploration, International Cooperation, NASA, Our Solar System
NASA’s Dawn spacecraft has relayed an impressive new image of asteroid Vesta. Making use of its Framing Camera – a project funded by Germany’s Max Planck Society, the DLR German Aerospace Center, and NASA/JPL — the smallest detail visible on Vesta is about 1.2...
Jul 23, 2011 | Exploration, Hubble Space Telescope, International Space Station, Space Shuttle, NASA, Mars, Orion Crew Exploration Vehicle, Planet Earth, The Moon, The Sun
The crew of NASA’s final shuttle mission completed the last leg of their mission on Friday, as they returned to Houston, where hundreds from the Texas city welcomed them back as colleagues and neighbors. Neither the rush hour traffic nor the high heat seemed...
Jul 22, 2011 | Blog, Commercial Space, Education Station, Exploration, General, Kids Space, Market Research, NASA, Research, Space Race, Space Shuttle, Why Space
A new CNN/ORC International Poll has found that 50 percent of Americans say curtailing the NASA space shuttle program is bad for country. The findings from the new national survey were released shortly after the space agency’s last shuttle mission came to a wheel’s...
Jul 22, 2011 | Ask the Expert, Blog, Education Station, Exploration, Mars, NASA
Official word from NASA this morning: The Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) — the huge Curiosity rover — will touch down at Gale crater. That site offers access to diverse rock strata, including interbedded sulfates and phyllosilicates in a three mile (5...
Jul 22, 2011 | Blog, Coalition News, CSExtra
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Jul 21, 2011 | Blog, Coalition News, CSExtra
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