Nov 30, 2012 | Ask the Expert, Blog, Education Station, Exploration, Kids Space, Multimedia, NASA, Planet Earth, Why Space
A new NASA app features time-lapse satellite images of locations on Earth undergoing significant change over decades. This app celebrates Earth’s aesthetic beauty in the patterns, shapes, colors, and textures of the land, oceans, ice, and atmosphere. The app has a...
Nov 30, 2012 | Blog, Coalition News, CSExtra, Newsroom
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Nov 30, 2012 | European Space Agency, International Cooperation, NASA, Planet Earth, Space and Science
An international alliance of scientists, using a wide array of data gathered by satellites as well as airborne sensors, confirms a 20 year record of ice melt from Antarctica as well as Greenland, findings that suggest significant losses related to global warming that ...
Nov 29, 2012 | Blog, Education Station, Exploration, Kids Space, Mars, NASA
While the world anxiously awaits next week’s news from the NASA Curiosity rover, the elder rover on Mars – Opportunity – continues to grind away at Red Planet science. Opportunity has begun a science campaign on some high-value surface targets. The robot’s set of...
Nov 29, 2012 | Blog, Coalition News, CSExtra, Newsroom
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Nov 28, 2012 | Education Station, Exploration, Kids Space, Mars, NASA, Space Research, The Moon
Turns out that you can leave home Earth without it! If you’re on the moon and in need of that needed wrench or replacement part, why not just 3-D print the item? Amit Bandyopadhyay, professor in the School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering at Washington State...
Nov 28, 2012 | Honorary Board Members
Former NASA astronaut and a former captain in the United States Navy, Jim is most famous as the commander of the Apollo 13 mission. He was also the command module pilot and navigator of Apollo 8, the first Apollo mission to enter lunar orbit. He is a recipient of the...
Nov 28, 2012 | Honorary Board Members
Former flight director for NASA through the Apollo program (including Apollo 11 and 13) as well as the Gemini and Skylab programs, Gene was the leader of the “Tiger Team” of NASA flight directors who guided the crippled Apollo 13 spacecraft safely back to...
Nov 28, 2012 | Honorary Board Members
Selected as a scientist-astronaut by NASA in June 1965, Joe was one of the capsule communicators on Apollo 13, as well as a science pilot for Skylab 2. Following Skylab 2, he was in charge of the on-orbit branch of the astronaut office. He also served as the director...
Nov 28, 2012 | Honorary Board Members
The first member of Congress to fly in space (former U.S. Senator from Utah) is also the chairman of Global Space. Jake retired in 1993, from the United States Senate after three terms. He currently serves as Managing Director, Summit Ventures LLC, Salt Lake City and...