European Space Agency Backs China as Space Station Partner
A Chinese news source is reporting today that the European Space Agency (ESA) supports China’s inclusion in the International Space Station (ISS) partnership. ESA’s agency’s director-general Jean-Jacques Dordain made the remarks during a Global Lunar Conference...NASA: Future technologies, maybe even nuclear rockets, needed for Mars
Source: Houston Chronicle I’m in Galveston this morning for NASA’s Exploration Enterprise Workshop, a two-day program to expand on the agency’s plans for exploration under President Obama’s budget. Organizers have been careful to call these...Norm Augustine explains how committee concluded Constellation ‘unsustainable’
Source: Huntsville Times HUNTSVILLE, AL – The man whose blue-ribbon panel gave President Obama the argument he used to kill NASA’s Constellation program came here Monday expecting “deep concern, even hostility” from a town with 2,200...Space Station Experiment: Breaking the Data Logjam
The International Space Station (ISS) is being used as a test-bed platform to help break the data logjam from Earth-orbiting satellites. NASA’s “Materials on the International Space Station Experiment” (MISSE) program, under the direction of the Naval Research...Drilling on Mars: Space Solution to Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill?
Could drilling on the red planet offer some insight into dealing with that horrific, on-going saga of an oil spill off the Louisiana coast? A host of solutions are being reviewed to cut off spewing oil from 5,000 feet below sea-level. U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu...Astronomers Could Soon Find Moons Outside the Solar System–Even Habitable Ones
Source: Scientific American In the past two decades, the roster of known planets in the galaxy has mushroomed. Astronomers have added to the handful in our own solar system roughly 450 so-called exoplanets orbiting other stars. Most of those planets are more massive...Absent a Moon or Mars, Recreating Space 65 Feet Under the Sea
Source: The New York Times Astronauts will not be sent by the United States to the Moon or Mars for at least a decade, but they can still get an idea of what it would be like by living 65 feet underwater. On Monday, a crew of six, including two veteran astronauts,...Where is Dark Matter Hiding?
Source: Discovery News Dark matter is one of those things that keep astronomers in business. It make up 23% of the energy of the universe, however, we don’t yet know what it IS. Particle physicists are on the hunt, and a tantalizing possible detection was...We must remain a nation of spacefarers
Source: The Arizona Republic By: June Scobee Rogers Robert McCall – space artist, Arizona resident and my dear friend who recently passed away – understood a vital lesson. Vision drives action. Bob painted futuristic scenes about space exploration....Space Talk
@bonzack You got a hell of a weather week to be here in a suit. Good luck!
Sometimes the messy middle is the best part...
@NASAHubble caught lenticular galaxy NGC 1266 during its transition from a major burst of star formation to a quieter period. Growth doesn't always look linear, but that doesn't mean it's not beautiful.
https://go.nasa.gov/4dyruaI
Sometimes the messy middle is the best part...
@NASAHubble caught lenticular galaxy NGC 1266 during its transition from a major burst of star formation to a quieter period. Growth doesn't always look linear, but that doesn't mean it's not beautiful.
https://go.nasa.gov/4dyruaI
Sometimes the messy middle is the best part...
@NASAHubble caught lenticular galaxy NGC 1266 during its transition from a major burst of star formation to a quieter period. Growth doesn't always look linear, but that doesn't mean it's not beautiful.
https://go.nasa.gov/4dyruaI