Sep 16, 2011 | Ask the Expert, Asteroid Exploration, Blog, Education Station, Exploration, International Cooperation, NASA, Our Solar System, Space and Science
NASA’s Dawn spacecraft is circling asteroid Vesta – a world that’s an eye-full of oddness. A video has been created to show the rocky world with enormous craters and mountains. The spacecraft is carrying a German camera system on board, has been orbiting the asteroid...
Sep 16, 2011 | Blog, Coalition News, CSExtra, Newsroom
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Sep 16, 2011 | Canadian Space Agency, European Space Agency, International Cooperation, International Space Station, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), NASA, Roscosmos, Space and Science
Human operations aboard the International Space Station will continue uninterrupted under a new Russian Soyuz launch strategy announced Thursday, following a meeting of the NASA-led Space Station Control Board. The station’s 15-nation partnership faced...
Sep 15, 2011 | Ask the Expert, Blog, Education Station, Exploration, Kids Space, Mars
There is exciting news streaming in from Mars. That’s the word as NASA’s Opportunity Mars rover appears to be on the verge of a new discovery – more evidence of a wet Mars. The Mars rover Opportunity has been scouting about after reaching the rim of the huge Endeavour...
Sep 15, 2011 | Blog, Coalition News, CSExtra, Newsroom
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Sep 14, 2011 | Asteroid Exploration, Benefits of Space Exploration, Commercial Space, Constellation Program, Exploration, International Space Station, Space Shuttle, NASA, Mars, Space and Science, The Moon
NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, flanked by a bi-partisan gathering of Washington lawmakers, unveiled the agency’s heavy lift rocket strategy on Wednesday, a monstrous spacecraft that will eventually eclipse the legendary Saturn V and propel future...
Sep 14, 2011 | Blog, Coalition News, CSExtra, Newsroom
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Sep 14, 2011 | Ask the Expert, Blog, Education Station, Exploration, Kids Space, Mars, NASA, Space Research, The Moon
How best to develop a way to measure astronauts’ physical capacities and keep them safe in space, whether they are onboard the International Space Station, working on the Moon or outbound on a future mission to Mars? A research project at Kansas State University is...
Sep 13, 2011 | Blog, Coalition News, CSExtra, Newsroom
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Sep 12, 2011 | Benefits of Space Exploration, Education, Exploration, NASA, Space and Science, Space Shuttle
As NASA continues to distribute property from the agency’s long running space shuttle program, it is offering surplus food prepared for the astronauts who flew on the winged orbiters and thermal protection tiles that fended off the heat buildup...