Feb 8, 2011 | International Cooperation, Planet Earth, Space and Science
The recently released National Security Space Policy outlines a strategy for greater U. S. global leadership in the uses of near-Earth space, a realm increasingly essential to America’s well being while at the same time growing increasingly congested, contested...
Feb 8, 2011 | Blog, Coalition News, CSExtra
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Feb 7, 2011 | Blog, Commercial Space, Education Station, Exploration, International Space Station, Kids Space, Mars, NASA, The Moon
NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver is given a tour of the Bigelow Aerospace facilities on February 4 by the company’s President Robert Bigelow. The tour showcased the private firm’s work on expandable space modules. Photo: NASA/Bill Ingalls NASA is reviewing use...
Feb 7, 2011 | Blog, Coalition News, CSExtra
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Feb 4, 2011 | International Space Station, Space Shuttle, NASA
Veteran astronaut Mark Kelly will remain in command of NASA’s final scheduled shuttle flight, Endeavour’s 14-day assembly mission to the International Space Station, which is currently scheduled for an April 19 lift off. Kelly is the husband of Arizona Congresswoman...
Feb 4, 2011 | Blog, Coalition News, CSExtra
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Feb 3, 2011 | Blog, China, Education Station, European Space Agency, Exploration, International Cooperation, Mars, Space Research
Mars500 crew (from left) Alexey Sitev, Yue Wang, Romain Charles, Alexandr Smoleevskiy, Diego Urbina and Sukhrob Kamolov. Mars isolation modules in Moscow – home for the Mars 500 project. A major simulation of a human voyage to Mars has reached a key milestone –...
Feb 3, 2011 | Blog, Coalition News, CSExtra
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Feb 3, 2011 | Exploration, NASA, Our Solar System, Space and Science, Space Research, The Sun
NASA’s Kepler space telescope has made major new strides in the search for extrasolar planets, producing its first candidates for Earth-sized worlds and the first worlds orbiting within what’s considered the habitable zones of stars, astronomers...
Feb 2, 2011 | Ask the Expert, Book Reviews, Education Station, European Space Agency, Exploration, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Kids Space, Mars, NASA, Our Solar System, Planet Earth, Space and Science, The Moon, The Sun, Why Space
The 50 Most Extreme Places In Our Solar System by David Baker and Todd Ratcliff; The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press; Cambridge, Massachusetts; $27.95 (Hardcover); 2010. Readers of all backgrounds will love this book. The volume is beautifully produced,...