Rocket Boosts Education to New Heights
Photo credit: Bob Martin KRQE Television SPACEPORT AMERICA, New Mexico -A suite of student-built experiments received “high marks” thanks to a boost into space earlier this week to celebrate a New Mexico Second Annual Education Launch. An UP Aerospace SpaceLoft XL...Plasma Rocket May Shorten Space Voyages
Source: Discovery News If tests prove successful, this innovative new rocket could one day take astronauts to Mars in a little more than a month. THE GIST NASA is looking at flying a plasma-powered rocket to survey an asteroid. The rocket is a twin of one being...U.S. Space Leadership Seen At Risk
Source: Aviation Week and Space Technology By: Frank Morring, Jr. A preliminary version of an upcoming report on the link between national security and U.S. commercial launch capabilities warns that U.S. leadership in space is threatened by poor coordination in...Declining U.S. Space Power Requires Greater Cooperation
Source: The Huffington Post In 2007, the Chinese blew up one of their own weather satellites 530 miles above the Earth by hitting it with a missile. The satellite itself was essentially worthless, but the test had greater implications. It was the first time the...Bolden Seeks Support, Gerstenmaier Receives National Space Trophy
NASA Administrator Charles Bolden urged aerospace veterans on Friday to support President Obama’s initiative to develop a commercial space industry that can transport astronauts to Earth orbit as part of a long range international effort to resume human deep...Government contests offer different way to find solutions for problems
Source: The Washington Post The U.S. government is giving away prizes. In seeking solutions to problems, it has discovered the magic of contests, or challenges — also known as open grant-making or open innovation. Or crowd-sourcing. Whatever you call this new...Shepherding a new era of GPS satellites to orbit
Source: Spaceflight Now A cadre of military and industry workers at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station is readying the first-of-its-kind satellite for the Global Positioning System, an advanced bird that will be shipped to the launch pad and bolted atop a Delta 4...An FAQ on NASA’s human spaceflight plans
Source: The Houston Chronicle So much has happened with the future of NASA’s human spaceflight program during the last two months I wanted try to provide a summary of what’s transpired, and what may happen now. Feel free to ask additional questions below....Presidential Space Summit Speaker Presentations–April 15, 2010
The following presentations are from the Presidential Space Summit, April 15, 2010 at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla. Click on the title of the presentation to view. A New Exploration Strategy Dr. Edward F. Crawley, Ford Professor of Engineering at MIT...Space Talk
@Arkshol93 Neptune going from this to this was a crime against my heart and I can’t forgive it
@lolidk4200 Every planet orbits a larger object, it is called being in the SOLAR (sun) system
@jfbg_200 @TiagoNugent A very good point. Pretty much everyone calls Pandora a planet, even though it is a natural satellite, making it a Moon, so I think that supports my case that moons can be planets and vise versa
@kez611_ the moon is currently classified as a "planetary mass object"
The only reason it isnt currently a planet is because we use the IAU definition instead of the geophysical definition.
I reject the IAU definition, and only use the Geophysical definition