Mar 23, 2012 | Benefits of Space Exploration, Education, International Space Station, NASA, Space Research
Bacteria and Spiders may seem like an unwelcome combination. But put them tegether with some astronauts aboard the International Space Station and something quite fascinating is bound to happen. So figured Dorothy Chen and Sara Ma, both 16 of Troy, Mich., and Amr...
Mar 23, 2012 | Blog, Coalition News, CSExtra, Newsroom
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Mar 22, 2012 | Blog, Education Station, Exploration, Kids Space, NASA, Our Solar System
THE WOODLANDS, Texas – NASA’s MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging – long hand for the MESSENGER spacecraft – has provided surprising new looks at the planet Mercury. Details of MESSENGER’s findings are being presented this week here at...
Mar 22, 2012 | Blog, Coalition News, CSExtra, Newsroom
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Mar 21, 2012 | Asteroid Exploration, Blog, Education Station, Exploration, Kids Space, NASA, Our Solar System
THE WOODLANDS, TEXAS – New images and data highlight the diversity of Vesta’s surface and reveal unusual geologic features, some of which were never previously seen on asteroids. These results were detailed here today at the Lunar and Planetary Science...
Mar 21, 2012 | Blog, Coalition News, CSExtra, Newsroom
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Mar 20, 2012 | Blog, Coalition News, CSExtra, Newsroom
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Mar 19, 2012 | Blog, Coalition News, CSExtra, Newsroom
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Mar 18, 2012 | Asteroid Exploration, Exploration, NASA, Space and Science, Uncategorized
A new portrait of the universe, 14 years in the making by NASA’s workhorse Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer space telescope, reveals a surprising half-billion celestial objects — some far and others quite close and potentially imposing. The $320...
Mar 18, 2012 | Blog, Education Station, Exploration, Kids Space, Space Race
Here’s a retro-fire back into the space-time continuum. It was on this day, back on March 18, 1965, that the first spacewalk – or extravehicular activity (EVA) took place. Soviet cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov left his Voskhod 2 capsule and floated about for several minutes...