Oct 31, 2012 | Ask the Expert, Blog, Education Station, Exploration, NASA, The Moon
There’s been a quip circulating for years. That is, the first restaurant on the Moon will have little atmosphere. But a future lunar probe is being readied to detail just that – how much atmosphere is present surrounding the Moon. NASA’s Lunar Atmosphere and Dust...
Oct 31, 2012 | Blog, Coalition News, CSExtra, Newsroom
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Oct 30, 2012 | Education Station, Exploration, Kids Space, NASA, Space and Science
Over the past three years the NASA Kepler spacecraft and the project’s science team have discovered 77 confirmed planets and 2,321 planet candidates. The Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Md. has announced all of Kepler’s upcoming observations will...
Oct 30, 2012 | Blog, Coalition News, CSExtra, Newsroom
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Oct 29, 2012 | Blog, Coalition News, CSExtra, Newsroom
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Oct 28, 2012 | Canadian Space Agency, Commercial Space, International Space Station, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), NASA, Space Research, Space Shuttle
SpaceX’s Dragon capsule splashed down safely in the Pacific Ocean off the southern California coast Sunday afternoon, successfully restoring a U. S. cargo delivery and return capability to the International Space Station once shouldered by NASA’s long...
Oct 28, 2012 | Blog, Education Station, Exploration, International Cooperation, Kids Space, Space and Science, Space Research
The most challenging large astronomical mirror ever made has been completed. The mirror – one of seven — will be part of the 25-meter Giant Magellan Telescope that will explore planets around other stars and the formation of stars, galaxies and black holes in...
Oct 27, 2012 | Ask the Experts — Answers, Blog, Education Station, Exploration, Kids Space, Multimedia, NASA, Our Solar System, Planet Earth, Research, Space and Science, Space Research
There’s a new website in space town! JPL Infographics is available to you, a way to transform NASA data into scientific works of art. The site provides extensive collections of NASA science and mission data, graphics and space images that users can download to create...
Oct 26, 2012 | Ask the Experts — Answers, Asteroid Exploration, Blog, Education Station, Exploration, International Cooperation, Kids Space, Our Solar System, Planet Earth
An incoming asteroid with Earth’s name on it…what to do is a constant concern of Near Earth Object experts. How about a volley or two of space-launched paintballs? Sung Wook Paek, a graduate student in MIT’s Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, says if timed...
Oct 26, 2012 | Blog, Coalition News, CSExtra, Newsroom
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