Apr 11, 2013 | Asteroid Exploration, Benefits of Space Exploration, Comets, Exploration, Hubble Space Telescope, International Space Station, Mars, NASA, Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle, Space Research
President Obama seeks steady NASA budgets of $17.7 billion through 2018 in the funding request he presented to Congress on Wednesday, enough to start the space agency on an ambitious mission to identify and maneuver an asteroid into lunar orbit, where U. S. astronauts...
Apr 6, 2013 | Asteroid Exploration, Benefits of Space Exploration, Comets, Exploration, Mars, NASA, Space and Science, Space Research, The Moon
President Obama will likely seek Congressional endorsement for missions to robotically capture an asteroid and park the 500 ton space rock in a stable lunar orbit, where U. S. astronauts could pay a visit as early as 2021, according to U. S. Sen. Bill Nelson, of...
Apr 1, 2013 | Asteroid Exploration, Blog, Education Station, Exploration, International Cooperation, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Kids Space, Multimedia, Our Solar System, Space Research
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) is preparing for launch its Hayabusa2 spacecraft – set to depart in 2014 then land on an asteroid in 2018. Then the mission will return samples of the space rock back to Earth in 2020. JAXA has opened up a Haybusa2 name...
Mar 25, 2013 | Ask the Experts — Answers, Asteroid Exploration, Blog, Education Station, Exploration, International Cooperation, Kids Space, NASA, Our Solar System, Planet Earth, Space and Science, The Moon, Why Space
Howardites and eucrites are meteorite classifications, both of which are providing surprising clues to solar system-wide impact bombardment billions of years ago. New research unveils an unexpected link between asteroid Vesta and the Moon, providing new means for...
Mar 11, 2013 | Asteroid Exploration, Benefits of Space Exploration, Education, Exploration, Mars, NASA, Space and Science, The Moon, Why Space
NASA and Lockheed Martin, the space agency’s aerospace company partner in the development of the Orion crew vehicle, asked students in kindergarten through high school on Monday to assist them in the development of critical radiation shielding for the...
Mar 10, 2013 | Asteroid Exploration, China, Commercial Space, Constellation Program, Exploration, International Space Station, Mars, NASA, Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle, Planet Earth, Space Race, Space Research, The Moon
Congress is considering some substantial changes in the way NASA is led, managed from the outside and funded, as policy makers attempt to give the nation’s civil space program a sharper focus as well as the stability to ensure the sustained...
Feb 21, 2013 | Asteroid Exploration, Blog, Education Station, Exploration, Kids Space, Multimedia, NASA, Planet Earth, Space and Science, Why Space
If an asteroid has Earth’s name on it, how best to deflect such an incoming menace? A spurt of special spray paint is the possible answer from Dave Hyland, professor of physics and astronomy and also a faculty member in the aerospace engineering department at Texas...
Feb 18, 2013 | Asteroid Exploration, Blog, Education Station, Exploration, Kids Space, Planet Earth, Space and Science, Space Research
That close flyby of Earth by a space rock should provide new data critical to understanding the potential hazards that other asteroids could pose if they collide with the Earth. Shortly after the destructive Russian fireball event on February 15, asteroid 2012 DA14...
Feb 18, 2013 | Asteroid Exploration, Benefits of Space Exploration, Comets, Exploration, International Cooperation, Legislative Activity, NASA, Our Solar System, Planet Earth, Space and Science, Space Research
The skies have spoken, and their message was one of concern. Early Friday, while people around the world watched and waited for an asteroid half the size of a football field, 2012 DA14, to skim by the Earth between the orbits of communications and navigational...
Feb 12, 2013 | Ask the Expert, Asteroid Exploration, Blog, Education Station, Exploration, International Cooperation, Kids Space, Our Solar System, Planet Earth, Space and Science
The up-coming close flyby of asteroid DA14 is stirring up considerable attention. On Friday, Feb. 15, the 50-meter-wide asteroid DA14 will pass within 17,000 miles of Earth, closer than a typical communications satellite. This space rock, if it were to impact our...