May 25, 2010 | Blog, Education, Education Station, Exploration, NASA
Source: The Union Bulletin, Walla Walla, WA Dottie Metcalf-Lindenburger propelled her career to the highest reaches, all the way to space, by challenging herself in school and letting her curiosity be a guide. Metcalf-Lindenburger graduated from Whitman College in...
May 25, 2010 | Blog, Education, Education Station, Exploration, NASA
Source: The Spokesman Review Idaho schoolteacher Barbara Morgan was next in line to be NASA’s teacher in space when the first designee for that post, Christa McAuliffe, was killed in the Challenger space shuttle explosion in 1986. Twenty-one years later, Morgan went...
May 25, 2010 | Blog, Education Station, Exploration, NASA, NASA News, Space and Science, Space Research
The sky is making way for a new astronomical tool. It is wheels up on NASA’s Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) as this modified Boeing 747SP fitted with a 2.7-meter German-built telescope makes a May 25 debut flight. Flight of the airborne...
May 22, 2010 | Blog, Book Reviews, Commercial Space, Education Station, Exploration, International Space Station, Space Shuttle, NASA, NASA, Newsroom, Planet Earth, Space and Science, Space Research
Me and The Biospheres: A Memoir by the Inventor of Biosphere 2 by John Allen; Synergetic Press, Santa Fe, New Mexico; (paperback) $39.95; 2009. The term “biosphere” was coined by geologist Eduard Seuss in 1875, which he defined as the place on Earth’s surface where...
May 21, 2010 | Blog, Education Station, Exploration, Newsroom, Our Solar System, Planet Earth, Space and Science
It was a mighty blast from outer space! Scientists from The Australian National University (ANU) have identified a dome at least 50 kilometers in diameter, buried under the Timor Sea – a sea bounded to the north by the island of Timor, to the east by the Arafura...
May 21, 2010 | Blog, Education Station, Newsroom, Space Research
Prepare to accelerate! If all goes as planned, the X-51A Waverider is to make its first hypersonic flight test attempt on May 25 off the southern coast of California. Once released from a B-52 Stratofortress carrier plane, the unpiloted X-51A is expected to fly...
May 21, 2010 | Blog, Education Station, Exploration, International Cooperation, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Newsroom, Our Solar System, Space and Science, Space Research, Spaceports
Japan’s H-IIA Launch Vehicle has successfully lofted the Venus Climate Orbiter, a solar sail experiment and several small mini-payloads. The booster lifted off on May 21 from the Tanegashima Space Center. AKATSUKI, the Venus Climate Orbiter mission (PLANET-C), is on...
May 20, 2010 | Ask the Expert, Blog, Education Station, Exploration, International Space Station, Space and Science, Space Shuttle, The Sun
Skywatcher Thierry Legault has snapped an image of the solar transit of the International Space Station (ISS) and Space Shuttle Atlantis. The spectacular shot was taken just 50 minutes before docking of the two vehicles, taken from the area of Madrid, Spain on May...
May 20, 2010 | Blog, Education, Education Station, Exploration, NASA
Source: NASA NASA will provide college students from across the country with the opportunity to participate in virtual interactive educational sessions focusing on NASA technical challenges and competitions. The agency’s new Minority InnovationChallenges...
May 18, 2010 | Ask the Expert, Blog, Commercial Space, Education Station, Exploration, International Space Station, NASA, Space Research, Space Shuttle, Why Space
Paul Livingstone, Senior Editor at R&D Magazine has written an interesting update on NASA, university and industry looks at space-based research. Livingstone’s article is as follows, reprinted here with permission: Space biotech: growing industry or space shot?...