CSExtra-Friday, May 21, 2010
Friday’s CSExtra includes reporting and commentary on space policy and NASA’s future. A Mars celebration. Japan launches a Venus probe. Meanwhile, spacewalking astronauts from the shuttle Atlantis are scheduled to complete a battery exchange outside the...Human Sunspots! Incredible Image
Skywatcher Thierry Legault has snapped an image of the solar transit of the International Space Station (ISS) and Space Shuttle Atlantis. The spectacular shot was taken just 50 minutes before docking of the two vehicles, taken from the area of Madrid, Spain on May...NASA Kicks Off Virtual Education Program for College Students
Source: NASA NASA will provide college students from across the country with the opportunity to participate in virtual interactive educational sessions focusing on NASA technical challenges and competitions. The agency’s new Minority InnovationChallenges...CSExtra-Thursday, May 20, 2010
Thursday’s CSExtra features new reporting and commentary on U.S. space policy and NASA’s future. More testing of the Ares 1 unlikely. Support for a shuttle extension. Russians, Europeans and Chinese rehearse a Mars mission. New climate report. Atlantis...CSExtra-Wednesday, May 19, 2010
Wednesday’s space news scan: A top Russian officials proposes closer cooperation with the United States for deep space exploration. More comment on U. S. space policy and NASA’s future. The Atlantis astronauts embark on the second spacewalk of their...Biotech Companies: Making Money in Space?
Paul Livingstone, Senior Editor at R&D Magazine has written an interesting update on NASA, university and industry looks at space-based research. Livingstone’s article is as follows, reprinted here with permission: Space biotech: growing industry or space shot?...A New Clue to Explain Existence
Source: The New York Times Physicists at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory are reporting that they have discovered a new clue that could help unravel one of the biggest mysteries of cosmology: why the universe is composed of matter and not its evil-twin...Phoenix Mars Lander Gets Last Chance to Rise From the Dead
Source: Space.com NASA has given its long-silent Phoenix Mars Lander one last chance to rise again this week, and has ordered a workhorse orbiter around the red planet to listen for any beeps of life from the arctic Martian probe. From May 17 to 21, Odyssey will...Space Station Experiment: Breaking the Data Logjam
The International Space Station (ISS) is being used as a test-bed platform to help break the data logjam from Earth-orbiting satellites. NASA’s “Materials on the International Space Station Experiment” (MISSE) program, under the direction of the Naval Research...Space Talk
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