Jun 19, 2011 | Ask the Experts — Answers, Blog, Education Station, Kids Space, NASA, Planet Earth
Satellite images are helping emergency managers fight the largest fire in Arizona history. For example, the Landsat 5 satellite has captured images of the raging fires. Landsat is a joint effort of both NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). Both emergency...
Jun 18, 2011 | Asteroid Exploration, Blog, Commercial Space, Education Station, Exploration, Mars, NASA
High-power solar electric propulsion is viewed by NASA as a vital and necessary future capability. This crucial technology is flagged within NASA’s strategic roadmaps for exploration, science and advanced technology. NASA issued late last week a Solar Electric...
Jun 17, 2011 | Blog, Coalition News, CSExtra
To subscribe to CSExtra via RSS feed click here. If you would prefer to receive CSExtra in e-mail format, e-mail us at Info@space.com with the word SUBSCRIBE in the subject line. Now on orbit – the Coalition for Space Exploration’s latest Think Outside the Circle PSA....
Jun 16, 2011 | Blog, Comets, Education Station, Exploration, NASA, Our Solar System
Visited last fall by NASA’s Deep Impact spacecraft during its EPOXI mission was comet Hartley 2. Scientists have published their findings about the flyby – offering some new twists to the encounter of a cometary kind. On its EPOXI mission the Deep Impact spacecraft...
Jun 16, 2011 | Blog, Coalition News, CSExtra
To subscribe to CSExtra via RSS feed click here. If you would prefer to receive CSExtra in e-mail format, e-mail us at Info@space.com with the word SUBSCRIBE in the subject line. Now on orbit – the Coalition for Space Exploration’s latest Think Outside the Circle PSA....
Jun 15, 2011 | Blog, Education Station, Exploration, Kids Space, Mars, NASA
NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) mission is being readied for a fall 2011 liftoff from Florida. Preparations are in full-swing on readying the MSL Curiosity rover for its red planet mission. Plans now call for the Curiosity robot and its descent stage to be...
Jun 15, 2011 | Blog, Coalition News, CSExtra
To subscribe to CSExtra via RSS feed click here. If you would prefer to receive CSExtra in e-mail format, e-mail us at Info@space.com with the word SUBSCRIBE in the subject line. Now on orbit – the Coalition for Space Exploration’s latest Think Outside the Circle PSA....
Jun 15, 2011 | Constellation Program, Exploration, Mars, NASA, The Moon
A flight tested version of NASA’s Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle, the spacecraft that may send future explorers on missions to asteroids and perhaps Mars, will make a series of public stops as it is transported across country from the Dryden Flight Research Center...
Jun 14, 2011 | Ask the Expert, Blog, Commercial Space, Education Station, Space Tourism, Spaceports
Another glide flight of the SpaceShipTwo took place today at the Mojave Air and Space Port in California. Today’s high-altitude drop from the carrier airplane – WhiteKnightTwo – was the eleventh glide flight for the SpaceShipTwo. Onboard the vessel, putting the...
Jun 14, 2011 | Blog, Education Station, Exploration, Kids Space, Mars, NASA, Space and Science
NASA’s Opportunity Mars rover is rolling its way toward Endeavour crater, eyeing the western rim of the huge feature as seen in new imagery. Endeavour crater has a diameter of about 14 miles (22 kilometers). Scientists are expecting the robot to gain access to...