Jan 16, 2013 | Ask the Expert, Ask the Experts — Answers, Blog, Book Reviews, Education Station, International Space Station, Kids Space, Multimedia, NASA, Planet Earth, Space Research
What to do about human-made space junk? A first step is get up to speed on speeding orbital clutter! The NASA Academy of Program/Project & Engineering Leadership (APPEL) has made public release of Orbital Debris Management and Risk Mitigation, its first...
Dec 27, 2012 | Ask the Expert, Ask the Experts — Answers, Benefits of Space Exploration, Blog, Book Reviews, Commercial Space, Constellation Program, Education Station, Exploration, International Cooperation, International Space Station, Kids Space, NASA, Orion Crew Exploration Vehicle, Space Shuttle, Why Space
NASA has issued an impressive volume, just right for reading as the space agency encounters a new year. NASA at 50: Interviews with NASA’s Senior Leadership is edited by Rebecca Wright, Sandra Johnson, and Steven J. Dick. The 50th anniversary of NASA on 1...
Oct 27, 2012 | Ask the Experts — Answers, Blog, Education Station, Exploration, Kids Space, Multimedia, NASA, Our Solar System, Planet Earth, Research, Space and Science, Space Research
There’s a new website in space town! JPL Infographics is available to you, a way to transform NASA data into scientific works of art. The site provides extensive collections of NASA science and mission data, graphics and space images that users can download to create...
Oct 26, 2012 | Ask the Experts — Answers, Asteroid Exploration, Blog, Education Station, Exploration, International Cooperation, Kids Space, Our Solar System, Planet Earth
An incoming asteroid with Earth’s name on it…what to do is a constant concern of Near Earth Object experts. How about a volley or two of space-launched paintballs? Sung Wook Paek, a graduate student in MIT’s Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, says if timed...
Jul 6, 2012 | Ask the Experts — Answers, Blog, Education Station, Exploration, Kids Space, Mars, NASA, Space Research
A team of researchers from the University of Hawaii at Mānoa and Cornell University are testing new forms of food and food preparation strategies for deep-space travel. The university investigators have picked six volunteers to make up the crew of a simulated Mars...
Mar 24, 2012 | Ask the Experts — Answers, Blog, Book Reviews, Education Station, Exploration, Kids Space, Mars, Space Race
Rockets and People: The Moon Race (Volume IV) by Boris Chertok; NASA History Program Office; Washington, D.C.; Note: Available as free E-book (also Government Printing Office, Hard Cover); $79.00; 2012. This is the last volume of a four-volume set of memoirs by the...
Jan 25, 2012 | Ask the Experts — Answers, Blog, Education Station, Exploration, Kids Space, NASA, Planet Earth, Space and Science, The Sun
Talk about your sunny disposition! The Sun is brewing with activity following one of the longest and weakest periods of action in many cycles In late January 2012, our nearest star offered a preview of coming attractions in the solar maximum of 2012–13. The...
Aug 19, 2011 | Ask the Experts — Answers, Blog, Education Station, Exploration, Kids Space, NASA, Planet Earth, Space and Science, The Sun
Scientists making use of NASA’s STEREO spacecraft have created the first detailed images of a three-day journey by solar wind that slams into the Earth at speeds up to a million miles per hour. Researchers at Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) and the National Solar...
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...
May 14, 2010 | Ask the Experts — Answers, Benefits of Space Exploration, Blog, Education Station, Exploration, Mars, NASA, Newsroom, Planet Earth, Space and Science, Space Research, Uncategorized
Could drilling on the red planet offer some insight into dealing with that horrific, on-going saga of an oil spill off the Louisiana coast? A host of solutions are being reviewed to cut off spewing oil from 5,000 feet below sea-level. U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu...