Apr 27, 2010 | Blog, Exploration, NASA
Source: Space.com Space exploration has been the guiding star of American innovation. The Mercury, Gemini, Apollo and shuttle programs have rallied generations of Americans to devote their careers to science and engineering, and NASA’s achievements in exploration and...
Apr 27, 2010 | Capitol Hill News, Legislative Activity
The New York Times praises NASA”s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) in an editorial today. Calling the quality of the images of the Sun produced by SDO “extraordinary,” the newspaper says that the spacecraft “creates a new solar effect, which is...
Apr 27, 2010 | International Space Station, Space Shuttle, NASA, Space Research
NASA’s space shuttle program has received a brief reprieve from retirement. The last of three missions still remaining had been scheduled for a Sept. 16 launching aboard the shuttle Discovery. On Monday, shuttle managers moved the planned July 29 launching of...
Apr 27, 2010 | Education Station, Exploration, Kids Space, Space and Science, The Moon
NASA orbiter spots Lunokhod 1 on the MoonScientists have located on the lunar surface a long lost light reflector attached to the former Soviet Union’s Lunokhod 1 rover. The French-built laser reflector was sent aboard the robotic Luna 17 mission. That craft landed on...
Apr 27, 2010 | Capitol Hill News, Legislative Activity
A SpacePolicyOnline.com summary of the Senate Appropriations Commerce-Justice-Science subcommittee hearing last week is now available. Look on our left menu under “Our Hearing Summaries” or simply click here.
Apr 26, 2010 | Capitol Hill News, Legislative Activity
It may not be space policy, but it is the first A in NASA — aeronautics. The Space and Aeronautics subcommittee of the House Science and Technology Committee will hold a hearing next week on the impact of volcanic ash on aviation. The hearing follows the...
Apr 26, 2010 | Blog, Coalition News, features, Newsroom
The following presentations are from the Presidential Space Summit, April 15, 2010 at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla. Click on the title of the presentation to view. A New Exploration Strategy Dr. Edward F. Crawley, Ford Professor of Engineering at MIT...
Apr 26, 2010 | Blog, Commercial Space, Constellation Program, NASA, NASA News
The following presentations are from the Presidential Space Summit, April 15, 2010 at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla. Click on the title of the presentation to view. A New Exploration Strategy Dr. Edward F. Crawley, Ford Professor of Engineering at MIT...
Apr 26, 2010 | Benefits of Space Exploration, Blog, Coalition News, Exploration, Hubble Space Telescope, NASA
Source: BBC Happy birthday, Hubble. It’s 20 years since the shuttle blasted off from the Kennedy Space Center to place the famous observatory in orbit. The telescope’s achievements are immense. Few instruments in the history of science have had quite the...