Oct 19, 2013 | Ask the Expert, Ask the Experts — Answers, Asteroid Exploration, Benefits of Space Exploration, Blog, Education Station, Exploration, Kids Space, Our Solar System, Planet Earth, Space and Science
In dealing with asteroids that could cause damage to people and property, Earth has a blind spot. According to space rock expert, Jay Melosh, a distinguished professor of earth, atmospheric and planetary sciences and physics at Purdue University in West Lafayette,...
Sep 24, 2013 | Asteroid Exploration, Blog, Education Station, Exploration, Kids Space, Planet Earth, Space and Science
The famous February 15th meteorite that exploded over the frozen Chebarkul Lake in Russia is making news once again. Fragments of the Chelyabinsk meteorite have been discovered and recovered from the bottom of the lake. Early this month, divers and scientists teamed...
Sep 21, 2013 | Asteroid Exploration, Benefits of Space Exploration, Commercial Space, Education, Exploration, International Cooperation, International Space Station, Mars, NASA, Space and Science, Space Research, The Moon
Expect more on Earth from space as human explorers begin to push beyond the International Space Station to the moon, the asteroids and Mars, the International Space Exploration Coordination Group suggests in a new 21 page white paper, Benefits Stemming from...
Sep 12, 2013 | Asteroid Exploration, Benefits of Space Exploration, Commercial Space, Exploration, International Space Station, Space Shuttle, NASA, Mars, Our Solar System, Space and Science, Space Research, The Moon
Experts within NASA and outside are making strides in their plans for a bold Asteroid Retrieval Mission, a joint robotic and human enterprise that would take U. S. explorers beyond low Earth orbit for the first time since the final Apollo mission to the moon....
Sep 4, 2013 | Ask the Experts — Answers, Asteroid Exploration, Blog, Education Station, European Space Agency, Exploration, International Cooperation, Kids Space, Our Solar System, Planet Earth, Space Research, Why Space
The worrisome thought of an asteroid hitting the Earth is not science fiction – and our planet has the scars to prove it. What scientists are focused on today is how best to deal with a space rock that has Earth’s name on it. Joining in on the global research...
Aug 30, 2013 | Asteroid Exploration, Benefits of Space Exploration, Commercial Space, Constellation Program, Exploration, International Cooperation, International Space Station, Space Shuttle, NASA, Mars, Space and Science, Space Research, The Moon
Portions of U. S. space policy focused on the future of human space exploration are seriously adrift, according to two George Washington University experts in the field. The declarations from Scott Pace, the director of GWU’s Space Policy Institute and a...
Aug 26, 2013 | Asteroid Exploration, Exploration, NASA, Our Solar System, Planet Earth, Space and Science, Space Research
NASA’s Asteroid Redirect Mission Notional Concept Video, released on YouTube, offers a fast paced account of how U. S. astronauts might launch aboard an Orion spacecraft mounted atop a Space Launch System rocket to rendezvous with a small asteroid and gather...
Aug 22, 2013 | Asteroid Exploration, Benefits of Space Exploration, Exploration, NASA, Our Solar System, Planet Earth, Space and Science, Space Research
NASA will bring its Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, a 16 inch space telescope, out of retirement in September to scan the solar system for potential destinations for the agency’s proposed Asteroid Retrieval Mission — an ambitious bid to corral...
Aug 20, 2013 | Asteroid Exploration, Commercial Space, Exploration, International Space Station, Space Shuttle, NASA, Mars, Space and Science, Space Research, The Moon
NASA Administrator Charles Bolden greeted eight new astronaut candidates at the Johnson Space Center in Houston on Tuesday, the first of their profession to join the space agency in four years. The four men and four women will train for two years at NASA’s...
Aug 10, 2013 | Asteroid Exploration, Blog, Education Station, Exploration, NASA, Our Solar System, Planet Earth, Space and Science, Space Research, Why Space
A NASA sample return mission to an asteroid is geared to provide important clues as to how to mine asteroids in the future. Called the OSIRIS-REx – NASA short-hand for the Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security and Regolith Explorer – this...