Sep 20, 2011 | Asteroid Exploration, Benefits of Space Exploration, Exploration, NASA, Our Solar System, Planet Earth, Space Research
Scientists involved in NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE , mission may have cleared a suspect in what is perhaps one of the Earth’s greatest mysteries. What was the source of the giant asteroid that smacked into the Earth 65...
Sep 16, 2011 | Benefits of Space Exploration, Exploration, International Space Station, Mars, Space Research
NASA medical, psychological and engineering experts who leaped to the aide of 33 trapped Chilean miners in 2010 were recognized this week for their contributions to a successful rescue effort with the National Security and International Affairs Medal, an annual award...
Sep 16, 2011 | Ask the Expert, Asteroid Exploration, Blog, Education Station, Exploration, International Cooperation, NASA, Our Solar System, Space and Science
NASA’s Dawn spacecraft is circling asteroid Vesta – a world that’s an eye-full of oddness. A video has been created to show the rocky world with enormous craters and mountains. The spacecraft is carrying a German camera system on board, has been orbiting the asteroid...
Sep 15, 2011 | Ask the Expert, Blog, Education Station, Exploration, Kids Space, Mars
There is exciting news streaming in from Mars. That’s the word as NASA’s Opportunity Mars rover appears to be on the verge of a new discovery – more evidence of a wet Mars. The Mars rover Opportunity has been scouting about after reaching the rim of the huge Endeavour...
Sep 14, 2011 | Asteroid Exploration, Benefits of Space Exploration, Commercial Space, Constellation Program, Exploration, International Space Station, Space Shuttle, NASA, Mars, Space and Science, The Moon
NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, flanked by a bi-partisan gathering of Washington lawmakers, unveiled the agency’s heavy lift rocket strategy on Wednesday, a monstrous spacecraft that will eventually eclipse the legendary Saturn V and propel future...
Sep 14, 2011 | Ask the Expert, Blog, Education Station, Exploration, Kids Space, Mars, NASA, Space Research, The Moon
How best to develop a way to measure astronauts’ physical capacities and keep them safe in space, whether they are onboard the International Space Station, working on the Moon or outbound on a future mission to Mars? A research project at Kansas State University is...
Sep 12, 2011 | Benefits of Space Exploration, Education, Exploration, NASA, Space and Science, Space Shuttle
As NASA continues to distribute property from the agency’s long running space shuttle program, it is offering surplus food prepared for the astronauts who flew on the winged orbiters and thermal protection tiles that fended off the heat buildup...
Sep 10, 2011 | Asteroid Exploration, Blog, Education Station, Exploration, Kids Space, Mars, NASA, Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle
Construction is underway on the first space-bound Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle. Engineers at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans have started welding together the craft. The first welds were completed last week using an innovative new friction...
Sep 9, 2011 | Benefits of Space Exploration, Blog, Education Station, Exploration, Hubble Space Telescope, International Space Station, Kids Space, NASA
For the moment, forget crop circles and off-Earth aliens playing havoc with a farmer’s real estate! Here’s a new and more down to Earth space-farm connection. In collaboration with NASA, seven farms across the U.S. will invite the public to get lost in space this...
Sep 7, 2011 | Commercial Space, Exploration, International Space Station, NASA, Space Research, Space Shuttle
NASA’s shrinking astronaut corps is headed toward a post shuttle era shortfall because of the demands of long duration missions aboard the International Space Station, uncertainties over the role the fliers will play in nurturing commercial space...