Aug 14, 2011 | Blog, Education Station, Exploration, Kids Space, Mars, NASA, Space and Science
New imagery from NASA’s Opportunity Mars rover has revealed more details from the rim of Endeavour crater. The Mars robot has rolled itself to the large impact crater that measures about 14 miles (22 kilometers) in diameter. In pulling up to the crater, Opportunity’s...
Aug 14, 2011 | Education, Exploration, Hubble Space Telescope, International Space Station, Space Shuttle, NASA, Space Research
NASA on Monday is making approximately 2,000 artifacts from the shuttle-era and earlier spaceflight programs available for display at NASA visitor centers as well as qualified museums, libraries, planetariums and other venues. The agency will accept requests...
Aug 12, 2011 | Commercial Space, Exploration, International Space Station, Space Shuttle, NASA, Mars
NASA on Friday created the Human Exploration and Operations Directorate, a single Washington-led organization that combines the agency’s former exploration and space operations directorates. The space agency previously announced its intention to merge the...
Aug 11, 2011 | Exploration, Mars, NASA, Our Solar System, Space Research
NASA’s long-lived Opportunity Mars Exploration Rover reached the rim of Endeavour crater on the Red Planet late Tuesday, surveying new terrain that the mechanical geologist will explore for evidence of past warmer and wetter...
Aug 10, 2011 | Ask the Expert, Blog, China, Education Station, Exploration, International Space Station, Kids Space, Space Race
China continues to press forward in its plans to loft an experimental space laboratory – and according to one space watcher, China’s Tiangong I may fly sooner than expected. According to Gregory Kulacki, a senior analyst and China Project manager at the Union of...
Aug 10, 2011 | Commercial Space, Education, Exploration, NASA, Space and Science
NASA selected seven emerging commercial suborbital spaceflight services on Tuesday to foster future research under a $10 million two- year Flight Opportunities Program agreement. The companies include Armadillo Aerospace, of Heath, Tex.; Near Space...
Aug 9, 2011 | Blog, Education Station, Exploration, Kids Space, NASA, Space and Science, Space Shuttle
One of the last experiments to be flown on the NASA space shuttle program is helping to unravel the role of microgravity and its impact on plants and bacteria. QinetiQ North America today announced the results of its first Symbiotic Nodulation in a Reduced Gravity...
Aug 8, 2011 | Canadian Space Agency, European Space Agency, Exploration, International Cooperation, Mars, NASA, Space Research, The Moon, Uncategorized
NASA will focus its energies on preparations for a mission to a near Earth asteroid late this month, as it joins forces with dozens of experts from academia and industry, the European and Canadian space agencies on the Black Rock Lava Flow...
Aug 7, 2011 | Blog, Education Station, Exploration, NASA, Our Solar System, Space and Science
Now en route to Jupiter, NASA’s Juno spacecraft has begun its five-year cruise to the giant planet. Juno roared off into Florida skies on Friday, August 5th. Engineers report they have received communications from the spacecraft, and its trio of large solar arrays...
Aug 6, 2011 | Exploration, Mars, NASA, Our Solar System, Space and Science, Space Research
Recently discovered linear features on sloped Martian terrains suggest water flows on some regions of the Red Planet, raising the prospects for conditions favorable for life, say scientists. The features were imaged by NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter,...