Sep 23, 2011 | Blog, China, Education Station, Exploration, Space Race
China is gearing up for this month’s launch of its Tiangong 1 spacecraft – hardware dedicated to that country’s first space rendezvous and docking mission. According to Chinese space authorities, the integrated Tiangong 1is now encapsulated atop a CZ-2F booster. The...
Sep 23, 2011 | Ask the Expert, Blog, Education Station, Exploration, Kids Space, NASA, Planet Earth, UARS Re-entry
Note: Go to: http://www.nasa.gov/pdf/591662main_UARS%20Map.pdf NASA UPDATE: Sat, 24 Sep 2011 09:37:25 AM MDT NASA’s decommissioned Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite fell back to Earth between 11:23 p.m. EDT Friday, Sept. 23 and 1:09 a.m. EDT Sept. 24. The...
Sep 16, 2011 | Ask the Expert, Asteroid Exploration, Blog, Education Station, Exploration, International Cooperation, NASA, Our Solar System, Space and Science
NASA’s Dawn spacecraft is circling asteroid Vesta – a world that’s an eye-full of oddness. A video has been created to show the rocky world with enormous craters and mountains. The spacecraft is carrying a German camera system on board, has been orbiting the asteroid...
Sep 15, 2011 | Ask the Expert, Blog, Education Station, Exploration, Kids Space, Mars
There is exciting news streaming in from Mars. That’s the word as NASA’s Opportunity Mars rover appears to be on the verge of a new discovery – more evidence of a wet Mars. The Mars rover Opportunity has been scouting about after reaching the rim of the huge Endeavour...
Sep 14, 2011 | Ask the Expert, Blog, Education Station, Exploration, Kids Space, Mars, NASA, Space Research, The Moon
How best to develop a way to measure astronauts’ physical capacities and keep them safe in space, whether they are onboard the International Space Station, working on the Moon or outbound on a future mission to Mars? A research project at Kansas State University is...
Sep 12, 2011 | Ask the Expert, Blog, Education Station, NASA, Planet Earth, Space Shuttle, UARS Re-entry
NASA’s Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite, or UARS, is expected to re-enter later this month. According to a NASA-posted UARS update, as of Sept. 12th, the orbit of UARS was 145 mi by 165 mi (235 km by 265 km). Re-entry is expected during the last week of September,...
Sep 10, 2011 | Asteroid Exploration, Blog, Education Station, Exploration, Kids Space, Mars, NASA, Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle
Construction is underway on the first space-bound Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle. Engineers at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans have started welding together the craft. The first welds were completed last week using an innovative new friction...
Sep 9, 2011 | Benefits of Space Exploration, Blog, Education Station, Exploration, Hubble Space Telescope, International Space Station, Kids Space, NASA
For the moment, forget crop circles and off-Earth aliens playing havoc with a farmer’s real estate! Here’s a new and more down to Earth space-farm connection. In collaboration with NASA, seven farms across the U.S. will invite the public to get lost in space this...
Sep 7, 2011 | Blog, Education Station, Exploration, Kids Space, NASA, Planet Earth, Space Research, Space Shuttle
A hefty NASA satellite is nearing a nose-dive to Earth – almost six years after the end of a productive scientific life. The Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite — or UARS — is expected to re-enter Earth’s atmosphere in late September or early October 2011....
Sep 7, 2011 | Blog, Education Station, Exploration, Kids Space, NASA, The Moon
All is in readiness at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station’s Space Launch Complex 17B in Florida for Thursday’s liftoff of NASA’s twin Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory, or GRAIL, spacecraft. A United Launch Alliance Delta II rocket is being used for the...