Aug 26, 2011 | Education, Exploration, NASA, Space and Science, Space Research, Space Shuttle
NASA Administrator Charles Bolden and his staff acted properly and without political influence in their choice of U. S.venues for the display of the retired space shuttle orbiters, Discovery, Endeavour, Atlantis and the test glider Enterprise, the...
Aug 25, 2011 | Blog, Coalition News, CSExtra, Newsroom
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Aug 24, 2011 | Canadian Space Agency, Commercial Space, European Space Agency, Exploration, International Cooperation, International Space Station, Space Shuttle, NASA, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Roscosmos, Space Research
A Russian Progress supply craft bound for the International Space Station crashed back to Earth early Wednesday, potentially impacting future crew as well as cargo transportation activities aboard the orbiting science lab — barely a month after...
Aug 24, 2011 | Blog, Coalition News, CSExtra, Newsroom
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Aug 23, 2011 | Asteroid Exploration, Benefits of Space Exploration, Comets, Commercial Space, Exploration, Mars, NASA, Our Solar System, Planet Earth, Space Research, The Moon, The Sun
NASA will invest $175 million in a trio of new technology demonstration flights that promise to hasten much more capable missions of deep space exploration by humans as well as robots. The demo flights, which the space agency intends to undertake in 2015 and 2016,...
Aug 23, 2011 | Blog, Education Station, Exploration, International Space Station, Kids Space, NASA, Planet Earth
It’s big, powerful, and has caught the eyes of astronauts on the International Space Station. The large and looming hurricane Irene was caught on camera yesterday from the ISS by astronaut Ron Garan. The image above shows the storm passing over the Caribbean. In a...
Aug 23, 2011 | Blog, Coalition News, CSExtra, Newsroom
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Aug 22, 2011 | Blog, Education Station, Exploration, Kids Space, Mars, NASA
NASA’s Opportunity Mars rover is inspecting an interesting feature – a flat-topped rock. It was chosen by the rover team as a stop for inspecting with tools on Opportunity’s robotic arm, just a few days after the rover arrived at the western rim of...
Aug 22, 2011 | Asteroid Exploration, Exploration, International Cooperation, International Space Station, Space Shuttle, NASA, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Mars, Space Research, The Moon
Astronauts aboard the International Space Station powered up Robonaut 2 for the first time on Monday, though the legless humanoid was not permitted to move head and arms during the two hour exercise. “First motion” is likely several weeks...
Aug 22, 2011 | Blog, Coalition News, CSExtra, Newsroom, Uncategorized
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