Nov 9, 2010 | Education, Exploration, International Space Station, Space Shuttle, NASA, Uncategorized
School children seem a natural mix, when it comes to growing plants in space. The European Space Agency plans to make a little hay of its own with the pairing when Italian Paulo Naspoli heads for the International Space Station in mid-December. Students from 12 to...
Nov 3, 2010 | Blog, Education, Education Station, Exploration, NASA, Space and Science
Source: Houston Chron We must prepare children for careers of innovation Math, science studies are essential to success After nearly seven days aboard space shuttle Discovery, orbiting the Earth at 18,000 miles per hour and circling the globe every 90 minutes, I was...
Nov 1, 2010 | Blog, Education, Education Station, Exploration, International Space Station, Space Shuttle, NASA, NASA, Newsroom, Press Releases, Space and Science
The Coalition for Space Exploration today launched its Think Outside the Circle campaign with the release of an online public service announcement featuring the space shuttle Discovery on its final “rollout.” The 60-second online video depicts Discovery in unexpected...
Sep 29, 2010 | Education, Exploration, NASA, Space and Science
Some of the nation’s leading experts in science, technology and innovation warned the House Science and Technology Committee on Wednesday that the United States is continuing to lose its global pre-eminence in science and engineering, a trend that will have...
Sep 20, 2010 | Blog, Education, Education Station, Kids Space, NASA, Space and Science, Space Research
Here’s a high-flying mix: Newton’s Laws of Motion, teachers and ping pong balls. Thanks to the Northrop Grumman Corporation Foundation, a novel science experiment was recently held in Cincinnati skies, making use of Zero Gravity Corporation’s aircraft. The flight was...
Sep 8, 2010 | Education, Exploration, Mars, NASA, Space and Science, The Moon
Astronaut Stan Love and NASA geologist Jake Bleacher have wrapped up their Desert RATS Space Exploration Rover test drive with some pretty down to Earth impressions of the prototype for a mobile habitat that would enable new generations of explorers to traverse the...
Sep 7, 2010 | Blog, Education, Exploration, NASA, Planet Earth, Space and Science
Coalition for Space Exploration Continues its Support of Participatory Exploration at NASA For the next ten days Challenger Center will be reporting live from NASA’s Desert RATS in Arizona as humans use robots and rovers to learn what it would be like to live...
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 | Education, Exploration, International Space Station, Mars, The Moon
. While the White House and Congress debate the nation’s future course in the exploration of space, NASA is preparing its engineers and scientists to carry out their decision, whether it be ambitious missions to the moon, the asteroids, or Mars. And this year,...