Feb 9, 2011 | Benefits of Space Exploration, NASA, Space Research, Why Space
NASA played a key role in the long running Department of Transportation investigation into Toyota’s runaway car mystery. The sudden acceleration issue forced the Japanese automaker to recall 11 million Toyota and Lexus automobiles and pay nearly $50 million...
Feb 2, 2011 | Benefits of Space Exploration, International Cooperation, Space and Science, Space Research
NASA satellites, some of them positioned to monitor hurricanes and others involved in climate research, are watching the massive winter storm that has much of the Central and Eastern United States in its grips. Everyday, these spacecraft help people plan their...
Jan 28, 2011 | Benefits of Space Exploration, Education, Exploration, International Space Station, Space Shuttle, NASA, Space and Science
. Family, friends and co-workers gathered at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on Friday to pay tribute to the seven astronauts who perished aboard the shuttle Challenger, which shattered moments after thundering into a blue Florida sky 25 years ago. The ceremony...
Jan 25, 2011 | Benefits of Space Exploration, Exploration, NASA, Our Solar System, Planet Earth, Space and Science, Space Research
NASA is rounding up amateur photographers who would like a chance to win up to $500 for the best photographs of the recently deployed NanoSail-D spacecraft, an orbiting solar sail experiment. NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center and Ames Research Center...
Dec 24, 2010 | Benefits of Space Exploration, Canadian Space Agency, Education, European Space Agency, International Cooperation, International Space Station, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), NASA, Planet Earth, Space and Science
Wave to the U. S., European and Russian astronauts living and working aboard the International Space Station this week through a global campaign organized by www.isswave.org. The web site offers five different ways to find out when and where to look in the...
Dec 22, 2010 | Benefits of Space Exploration, Commercial Space, Exploration, International Space Station, Space Shuttle, NASA, Space and Science, Space Research
NASA offered strong evidence on Wednesday that its missions and activities represent long range investments in breakthrough technologies that demonstrate down-to-Earth benefits for the vast majority of us – the men and women who will never see the inside of a...
Dec 3, 2010 | Benefits of Space Exploration, Exploration, Our Solar System, Planet Earth, Space and Science, Space Research
Scientists have identified a surprising form of bacteria that incorporates toxic arsenic rather than traditional phosphorus into the backbone of its DNA, the microscopic genetic material found in the nucleus of cells. The surprising finding re-defines under what...
Nov 24, 2010 | Benefits of Space Exploration, NASA, Planet Earth, Space and Science, Uncategorized
Traditional collaborations between U. S. federal agencies on space and Earth science projects can lead to increased rather than lower costs, the National Research Council concludes in a new report. The Congressionally-chartered think tank urged the White House and...
Oct 29, 2010 | Benefits of Space Exploration, International Cooperation, NASA, Space Research
President Obama offered praise this week to five from NASA for their efforts to assist with the rescue of 33 Chilean miners trapped a half mile underground for 69 days. The men were rescued on Oct. 13, an event broadcast live by CNN. Early on, Chile’s...
Oct 28, 2010 | Benefits of Space Exploration, Commercial Space, European Space Agency, Exploration, International Space Station, Space Shuttle, NASA, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Mars
Tuesday will mark an historic milestone, as the United States, Russia, the European Space Agency, Japan and Canada celebrate the 10th anniversary of a continuous human presence aboard the NASA-led International Space Station. Does a decade with at least two humans and...