One Year after Chelyabinsk: Action on Planetary Defense
It has been over a year since the space rock explosion over Chelyabinsk, Russia. The February 15, 2013 event damaged thousands of houses and other structures, shattered windows, and injured many people due to broken glass due to the powerful atmospheric blast. That...“Superhabitable” Worlds: Possible Home for Extraterrestrial Life
A planetary system around our nearest star, beyond our own Sun, is emerging. That’s the stellar forecast that suggests scientists are getting closer to discovering Earth-like planets close to Earth. Word is that “superhabitable” worlds must be considered for future...STARE into the Future: Space Cops!
Mini-satellites may become “space cops” to help control traffic in space. If so, the idea could help avoid collisions in space of satellites and the creation of even more space debris. The work is underway by a team of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)...NASA Administrator Charles Bolden Named 2014 National Space Trophy Recipient
The selection of NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, former astronaut and retired U.S. Marine Corps major general, as the 2014 recipient of the Rotary National Award for Space Achievement Foundation’s annual National Space Trophy was announced...NASA Spacecraft Dodge Chinese Debris
It was seven years ago this month that China purposely destroyed its own Fengyun-1C meteorological-monitoring spacecraft via a Chinese anti-satellite (ASAT) weapon. That January 11, 2007 event represents the worst single debris contamination of low Earth orbit. NASA’s...Video: International Space Exploration Forum Focuses on Global Cooperation
The United States hosted the International Space Exploration Forum (ISEF), the first-ever ministerial-level meeting to build support for global cooperation in space exploration, at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C. on January 9, 2014. ISEF brought...
White House Endorses Extension of Space Station Operations from 2020 to 2024
A White House endorsement Wednesday of an extension of operations aboard the U. S. led International Space Station from 2020 to at least 2024 sets a wide stage for more work on life support systems for future human deep space missions, the maturing of U. S. commercial...New Details: First of the Year Asteroid Strike
“Let’s start 2014 with a bang! Hello and goodbye to asteroid 2014 AA” posted José Luis Galache, an astronomer at the Minor Planet Center in Cambridge, Mass. On January 1, Richard Kowalski at the Mount Lemmon observatory in Arizona spotted an incoming asteroid, later...New Year’s Eve Times Square Celebration to Feature Space Station Astronauts
Astronauts from the International Space Station will appear before millions world wide as part of annual New Year’s Eve festivities broadcast from One Times Square in New York City. NASA’s Rick Mastracchio and Mike Hopkins as well as Japan Aerospace...Space Talk
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