May 22, 2010 | Education, International Space Station, Space Shuttle, NASA
With their mission to the International Space Station drawing to a close, astronauts aboard the shuttle Atlantis took time on Saturday to speak with students from NASA Explorer Schools and take their questions about spaceflight. What, wondered one student, is it like...
May 21, 2010 | Blog, Education, Exploration, NASA
Source: NASA NASA and the World Science Festival Host a Tweetup in the Big Apple NASA and the World Science Festival invite Twitter followers to a behind-the scenes Tweetup at 2 p.m. EDT on Saturday, June 5 at the World Science Festival in New York City. Now in its...
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 12, 2010 | Education, Education Station, Exploration, Space and Science, Space Research
Source: Mashable.com From robotics to space research, from physics to computer science, the Internet is a vast trove of information about the sciences. Resources such as Wikipedia (and its easy-on-younger-minds counterpart, Simple English Wikipedia) and online video...
May 11, 2010 | Benefits of Space Exploration, Blog, Education, Exploration
Source: Scientific American In the past two decades, the roster of known planets in the galaxy has mushroomed. Astronomers have added to the handful in our own solar system roughly 450 so-called exoplanets orbiting other stars. Most of those planets are more massive...
May 11, 2010 | Blog, CSExtra, Education, Exploration, NASA
The Coalition for Space Exploration presents CSExtra, a daily overview of the top space news. Offering a concise selection of reports and editorials published each day by respected news organizations on developments within the global space community and the U.S....
May 10, 2010 | Blog, Education, Exploration, NASA
Source: Florida Today Everything was just as the astronauts left it when Ron Delaney climbed into Discovery’s cockpit. The shuttle’s crew of seven had boarded a convoy truck on Kennedy Space Center’s runway to begin medical exams, their 15-day...
May 10, 2010 | Benefits of Space Exploration, Blog, Education, Exploration
Source: Discovery News Dark matter is one of those things that keep astronomers in business. It make up 23% of the energy of the universe, however, we don’t yet know what it IS. Particle physicists are on the hunt, and a tantalizing possible detection was...
May 7, 2010 | Commercial Space, Education, Education Station, Kids Space, Space and Science, Space Research, Spaceports, Uncategorized
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...
May 7, 2010 | Blog, Education, Education Station
By Popular Demand, MoonBots Challenge Now Open to Youth 9 Years and Up Since the initiation of MoonBots: A Google Lunar X PRIZE LEGO® MINDSTORMS® Challenge was launched on April 15th, we have had many inquiries as to who can register. Due to the great number of...