NASA PhoneSats in Orbit – A “Ringing” Success

Apr 27, 2013 | Benefits of Space Exploration, Blog, Commercial Space, Education Station, Exploration, Kids Space, NASA, Planet Earth, Space and Science, Space Research, Why Space

NASA’s Smartphone Nanosatellite mission is underway. Now circling the Earth are Alexander, Graham and Bell! The trio of smartphones rode to space April 21 aboard the maiden flight of Orbital Science Corp.’s Antares rocket from NASA’s Wallops Island Flight Facility in...

U. S. Astronaut Hall of Fame Welcomes Three

Apr 21, 2013 | Asteroid Exploration, Benefits of Space Exploration, Education, Exploration, Hubble Space Telescope, International Space Station, Mars, NASA, Space and Science, Space Shuttle

Three NASA shuttle-era astronauts, two of them women, were inducted into the U. S. Astronaut Hall of Fame on Saturday. Those honored in ceremonies at the Hall, close to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, Fla., included Eileen Collins, the first woman...

2014 NASA Budget Starts Ambitious Asteroid Mission

Apr 11, 2013 | Asteroid Exploration, Benefits of Space Exploration, Comets, Exploration, Hubble Space Telescope, International Space Station, Mars, NASA, Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle, Space Research

President Obama seeks steady NASA budgets of $17.7 billion through 2018 in the funding request he presented to Congress on Wednesday, enough to start the space agency on an ambitious mission to identify and maneuver an asteroid into lunar orbit, where U. S. astronauts...