Aug 7, 2013 | Ask the Expert, Asteroid Exploration, Blog, Comets, Education Station, Exploration, Kids Space, NASA, Our Solar System, Space Research
Plotting a course to those hard-to-reach destinations – say Mercury, Jupiter, Saturn, and most comets and asteroids – can now be easier thanks to a NASA technologist offering a “paradigm shift” in charting long-haul missions. Called the Evolutionary Mission Trajectory...
Jul 31, 2013 | Asteroid Exploration, Benefits of Space Exploration, Education, Exploration, International Space Station, Mars, NASA, Our Solar System, Planet Earth, Space and Science, Space Research
The U. S. Curiosity rover will mark a triumphant first anniversary on the surface of Mars on Tuesday, Aug. 6. The anniversary activities will include a live NASA Webcast featuring top agency officials as well as astronauts aboard the International Space Station...
Jul 11, 2013 | Asteroid Exploration, Benefits of Space Exploration, Comets, European Space Agency, Exploration, International Cooperation, Mars, NASA, Our Solar System, Planet Earth, Roscosmos, Space and Science
NASA is refining plans for a second SUV-sized Curiosity rover mission to Mars in 2020 that would search for evidence of past biological activity, a potential international enterprise whose results may address the prospects for life elsewhere in the solar system and...
Jul 1, 2013 | Ask the Expert, Ask the Experts — Answers, Asteroid Exploration, Benefits of Space Exploration, Blog, Education Station, Exploration, International Space Station, Kids Space, Mars, NASA, Space Research, Why Space
New grants have been awarded, dedicated to detecting bone loss of astronauts in microgravity, as well as infectious disease risks for crews during long-term space travel. NASA and the National Space Biomedical Research Institute (NSBRI) have announced that two Arizona...
Jun 19, 2013 | Asteroid Exploration, Benefits of Space Exploration, Exploration, International Cooperation, NASA, Our Solar System, Planet Earth, Space and Science, Space Research, The Moon
NASA’s proposed asteroid identification and redirect mission proposal was elevated to “Grand Challenge” status in Washington on Tuesday by the Obama Administration. The featured theme of President Obama’s proposed 2014 NASA budget is now on par...
Jun 18, 2013 | Asteroid Exploration, Benefits of Space Exploration, Exploration, International Space Station, Mars, NASA, Planet Earth, Space and Science, Space Research, The Moon, Why Space
NASA has chosen four men and four women, most of them with military aviation in their wide ranging professional backgrounds, to help define the nation’s post-space shuttle era. They report to NASA’s Johnson Space Center in August to prepare...
May 28, 2013 | Ask the Expert, Asteroid Exploration, Blog, Book Reviews, Commercial Space, Education Station, Exploration, International Cooperation, Kids Space, NASA, Space Research, Space Shuttle, Space Tourism, The Moon, Why Space
The Little Book of Space Law by Matthew J. Kleiman; ABA Book Publishing; Bolingbrook, Illinois; $19.95 (Regular)/$17.95 (American Bar Association Member); 2013. This is an excellent and very readable treatment regarding space law – the international and national laws...
May 22, 2013 | Asteroid Exploration, Benefits of Space Exploration, Constellation Program, Exploration, International Cooperation, Mars, NASA, Space and Science, Space Research, The Moon
Plans to robotically capture and corral a small asteroid into a stable lunar orbit so it can be explored byU. S.astronauts as early as 2021 got a chilly reception as the strategy was outlined Tuesday before the House Space Subcommittee, a NASA oversight...
Apr 29, 2013 | Asteroid Exploration, Benefits of Space Exploration, Commercial Space, Exploration, International Space Station, Space Shuttle, NASA, Mars, Space Research
Kay Bailey Hutchison, retired long time U. S. Senator from Texas who helped to shape and fund NASA’s future over nearly two decades as a Washington legislator, was honored Friday as the 2013 recipient of the Rotary National Award for Space Achievement and the...
Apr 21, 2013 | Asteroid Exploration, Benefits of Space Exploration, Education, Exploration, Hubble Space Telescope, International Space Station, Mars, NASA, Space and Science, Space Shuttle
Three NASA shuttle-era astronauts, two of them women, were inducted into the U. S. Astronaut Hall of Fame on Saturday. Those honored in ceremonies at the Hall, close to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, Fla., included Eileen Collins, the first woman...