Dec 16, 2010 | Blog, Education Station, Exploration, Kids Space, NASA, Space and Science
Dive in on data gleaned by NASA’s Kepler mission – on the lookout for planets beyond our own solar system – and help professional astronomers in their search for Earth-like planet. Web users around the globe can join a new online citizen science project. The effort is...
Dec 15, 2010 | Ask the Expert, Blog, Education Station, Multimedia, NASA, Space Shuttle
An extraordinary and must-see You Tube video is Ascent, a 45-minute tour-de-force that brings to sharp focus the intricacies of a shuttle liftoff. Created at the NASA Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio, the video was produced by space agency aerospace engineer,...
Dec 14, 2010 | Blog, Education Station, European Space Agency, Exploration, International Cooperation, NASA, Space and Science, Space Research, The Sun
See the Sun like never before – and no shades needed! A new software tool is available from the European Space Agency (ESA), allowing online lookers to view the entire library of imagery from the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO). SOHO is a project of...
Dec 14, 2010 | Ask the Expert, Blog, Education, Education Station, Exploration, Kids Space, NASA, Our Solar System, Space and Science, The Sun
Launched back in 1977, the 33-year odyssey of NASA’s Voyager 1continues, chalking up another milestone. The spacecraft has reached a distant point at the edge of our solar system where there is no outward motion of solar wind. Voyager 1 has crossed into an area where...
Dec 9, 2010 | Blog, Education Station, Exploration, Mars, NASA
Things are busy for NASA’s Opportunity Mars rover. It’s over half-way towards its next exploration site: Endeavor crater. But sistership, Spirit, is the real problem child. First, a status update on the healthy and rolling, rolling, rolling robot – Opportunity. “We...
Dec 8, 2010 | Blog, Education Station, Exploration, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Kids Space, Our Solar System, Space and Science
Japan’s Venus orbiter — the AKATSUKI spacecraft — has failed to reach an intended orbit insertion around the veiled planet. Officials at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) have announced that the planned December 7 injection into Venus orbit was...
Dec 6, 2010 | Blog, Education Station, European Space Agency, Exploration, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Kids Space, Our Solar System, Space and Science
Japan is initiating a hoped for start of a new era in Venusian exploration with the orbit insertion around the veiled planet on December 7 of its AKATSUKI spacecraft. However, the exact whereabouts of the orbiter is not known due to loss of contact with the craft by...
Dec 5, 2010 | Blog, Education Station, Exploration, International Cooperation, Kids Space, Mars, NASA, Space and Science, Space Research
What every good Mars explorer needs – an exercise plan for the red planet. At the Haughton-Mars Project on Devon Island, High Arctic, researchers there will be using a Made-in-USA handheld exerciser – a unique patented device that has resistance in two directions and...
Dec 3, 2010 | Blog, Education Station, Space Race, Space Research
It came from outer space, on its own, and landed on a runway at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. The Boeing-built X-37B is the U.S. Air Force’s first unpiloted re-entry spacecraft. It landed today in the early morning hours after performing an autonomous...
Dec 1, 2010 | Blog, Education Station, Exploration, Mars, NASA, Space and Science
NASA’s next robot to explore the Red Planet is undergoing extensive checkout. The Mars Science Laboratory, named Curiosity, can now be viewed on a webcam as engineers and technicians work on the huge rover. The “Curiosity Cam” is mounted in the viewing gallery of the...