Oct 24, 2010 | Benefits of Space Exploration, International Space Station, Space Shuttle, NASA, Mars, Planet Earth, Space Research, The Moon
Well Rob Ambrose, who leads NASA’s Robonaut 2 project, has been asking people that question for 20 years. And with good reason, Robonaut 2, a joint project between NASA and General Motors, to develop a humanoid suitable for space travel, is headed for the...
Oct 10, 2010 | Ask the Expert, Benefits of Space Exploration, Blog, Education Station, Exploration, NASA, Planet Earth
Trapped underground since early August, thirty-three miners in Chile will be using a modified NASA-designed rescue capsule – able to bring each miner topside from over 2,000 feet below ground. News reports have spotlighted the efforts of NASA engineer Clinton Cragg,...
Oct 9, 2010 | Benefits of Space Exploration, Blog, Commercial Space, Education Station, Exploration, Kids Space, NASA, Space Race, Space Tourism, Spaceports
Space industrialization and settlement of the high frontier will be the theme of a threshold conference to be held at month’s end. Space Manufacturing 14: Critical Technologies for Space Settlement conference will bring together futurists, space scientists and...
Oct 6, 2010 | Benefits of Space Exploration, Blog, Exploration, NASA, Space and Science
Space Manufacturing 14: Critical Technologies for Space Settlement will be held at NASA Ames Conference Center in Mountain View, CA, October 30 and 31, 2010. Attendance will be limited to 200 participants. (Non-US Citizens, please allow 30 days for approvals to...
Oct 6, 2010 | Benefits of Space Exploration, Exploration, NASA, Space and Science, Space Research, The Moon
NASA’s 2009 Lunar CRater Observation and Sensing Satellite, or LCROSS, was honored Tuesday night in New York City as the recipient of a Breakthrough award for innovation in science and technology from Popular Mechanics Magazine. The lunar probe was launched on...
Sep 29, 2010 | Ask the Expert, Benefits of Space Exploration, Blog, Commercial Space, European Space Agency, Exploration, International Cooperation, NASA, Space Research
PRAGUE, Czech Republic – Political, institutional or industrial uncertainties are a real handicap for space agencies as well as for industry. That’s a take home message from a plenary meeting dedicated to the impact of governments’ space policy changes on industry –...
Sep 15, 2010 | Benefits of Space Exploration, Blog, Commercial Space, Education Station, Exploration, NASA, Space Race, Space Tourism
A memorandum of agreement between the Boeing Company and space tourist company, Space Adventures, may lead to passenger seats available on Boeing’s Crew Space Transportation-100 (CST-100) spacecraft to LEO. Boeing and Space Adventures have not yet set a price per seat...
Sep 8, 2010 | Benefits of Space Exploration, Exploration, International Cooperation, International Space Station
Thirty-three miners trapped in a collapsed Chilean gold and copper mine as well as the families who await their rescue face a long and difficult ordeal, according to a small delegation of NASA experts in health, psychology and engineering who responded to a call for...
Sep 2, 2010 | Benefits of Space Exploration, Uncategorized
Much of the U. S. East Coast is focused on Hurricane Earl as the Labor Day weekend approaches. As part of their weather forecasting and Earth observation missions, spacecraft from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and NASA as well as the astronauts...
Aug 24, 2010 | Benefits of Space Exploration, Constellation Program, Exploration, Space and Science, The Moon, Uncategorized
Stretched across much of northern Arizona, the Black Point Lava Flow resembles an alien landscape on Earth, the perfect place for NASA to test rovers, habitats, space suits and the other equipment that future astronauts will need when they explore the moon, the...