Sep 6, 2010 | Ask the Expert, Blog, Book Reviews, Constellation Program, Education Station, Exploration, NASA, Space Race, Space Shuttle, Space Tourism, Spaceports, The Moon
The Spaceflight Vault – A History of NASA’s Manned Missions by Mark Mayfield; Whitman Publishing, LLC; Atlanta, Georgia; $49.95 (hard cover/box); 2010. Here’s a book that keeps on giving and giving. This volume is designed as a scrapbook, but also provides a...
Sep 4, 2010 | Ask the Expert, Blog, Education Station, European Space Agency, Exploration, International Cooperation, Kids Space, NASA, Our Solar System, Space and Science
The Cassini spacecraft orbiting Saturn has churned out new images of the moon, Dione. Imagery was taken on Sept. 4, 2010 and includes the best views of Dione’s north pole region that Cassini has captured to date. “Just in … crisp, detailed raw images from...
Sep 3, 2010 | Blog, Education Station, International Cooperation, Kids Space, Planet Earth, Space and Science, Space Research
ANAHEIM, California – Dealing with the messy facts of orbital debris circling the Earth is receiving the attention of researchers here at SPACE 2010, a major meeting of the American Institute for Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA). A look at how to deal with derelict...
Sep 2, 2010 | Blog, Education, Education Station, Exploration, features, International Space Station, Space Shuttle, NASA, NASA, Space and Science
Aug 31, 2010 | Blog, Education, Education Station, Exploration, features, NASA, Space and Science
Aug 31, 2010 | Ask the Expert, Blog, Constellation Program, Education Station, Exploration, Kids Space, Mars, NASA, The Moon
ANAHEIM, California – Sending humans into deep space to make an up-close-and-personal survey of an asteroid is getting increased attention. Speaking last April at the John F. Kennedy Space Center in Florida on space exploration in the 21st century, President...
Aug 30, 2010 | Blog, Education, Education Station, Exploration, NASA, Space Shuttle
Atlantis: http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/large/2010-4450.jpg Endeavour: http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/large/2010-4454.jpg Columbia: http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/large/2010-4452.jpg Challenger:...
Aug 27, 2010 | Blog, Education Station, NASA, Planet Earth
In early August 2005, Katrina was just a name. By September, it had become synonymous with the costliest and one of the deadliest tropical cyclones in U.S. history. Five years later, NASA is revisiting Hurricane Katrina with a short video that shows the storm as...
Aug 27, 2010 | Blog, Commercial Space, Education Station, Exploration, Space Race, Space Tourism, Spaceports
Stand by for acceleration! The Danish non-profit Copenhagen Suborbitals is readying its HEAT-1X-Tycho Brahe – an unpiloted sounding rocket, but a precursor to a larger rocket designed to carry a human passenger on a suborbital voyage. The effort is based entirely on...
Aug 25, 2010 | Ask the Expert, Blog, Education Station, Exploration, Kids Space, NASA, Our Solar System, Space and Science, Space Race, Why Space
BOULDER, Colorado — Finding ET out there sooner rather than later – what are the odds? Turns out that Paddy Power — Ireland’s largest bookmaker and a leading provider of gaming services in the UK, Australia and Ireland – have slashed their odds on...