Jun 24, 2011 | Ask the Expert, Blog, Education Station, Exploration, International Space Station, Kids Space, NASA, Planet Earth, Space and Science, Space Research
The development of exam techniques for use on the International Space Station (ISS) is expanding the use of ultrasound on Earth. These techniques are in use by non-physician astronauts to perform ultrasound exams on their space colleagues. Why ultrasound? Ultrasound...
Jun 23, 2011 | Blog, Commercial Space, Education Station, Exploration, Kids Space, NASA, Space Research, Spaceports
The desert landscape of New Mexico’s Spaceport America is a perfect setting for testing rockets. In fact, the father of American rocketry, Robert Goddard, found the area ideal for his trial testing of hardware. Armadillo Aerospace of Rockwall, Texas is now test flying...
Jun 23, 2011 | Blog, Education Station, Exploration, Mars, NASA, Space and Science
NASA is readying the Mars Science Laboratory’s Curiosity rover for its sendoff to the red planet – but first things first. A new video has captured the crating up of the huge robot at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory for shipment to Florida. Check out this fast-paced...
Jun 22, 2011 | Blog, Education Station, European Space Agency, Exploration, Kids Space, NASA, Our Solar System, Space and Science, Space Research
Want to be known as a far out “Ice Hunter” for NASA’s New Horizons mission now en route to the Pluto system? A citizen science project has been established – one that can help scientists search through specially-obtained telescopic images for currently unknown objects...
Jun 21, 2011 | Ask the Expert, Benefits of Space Exploration, Blog, Education Station, Exploration, International Cooperation, Kids Space, NASA, Our Solar System, Space and Science, Space Research, Why Space
There’s no question that the search for life elsewhere is a profound enterprise in human history. As the quest continues to search and find other planets circling other stars, the hunger to find out just how crowded the universe is out there also grows. The search for...
Jun 21, 2011 | Blog, Education Station, European Space Agency, Exploration, International Cooperation, Kids Space, Planet Earth, Space and Science, Space Research
The first maps of ice thickness courtesy of the European Space Agency’s (ESA) CryoSat mission are in – a new tool to advance polar science. ESA’s CryoSat was lofted in April 2010. From orbit, the spacecraft has spent the last seven months delivering precise...
Jun 18, 2011 | Asteroid Exploration, Blog, Commercial Space, Education Station, Exploration, Mars, NASA
High-power solar electric propulsion is viewed by NASA as a vital and necessary future capability. This crucial technology is flagged within NASA’s strategic roadmaps for exploration, science and advanced technology. NASA issued late last week a Solar Electric...
Jun 16, 2011 | Blog, Comets, Education Station, Exploration, NASA, Our Solar System
Visited last fall by NASA’s Deep Impact spacecraft during its EPOXI mission was comet Hartley 2. Scientists have published their findings about the flyby – offering some new twists to the encounter of a cometary kind. On its EPOXI mission the Deep Impact spacecraft...
Jun 15, 2011 | Blog, Education Station, Exploration, Kids Space, Mars, NASA
NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) mission is being readied for a fall 2011 liftoff from Florida. Preparations are in full-swing on readying the MSL Curiosity rover for its red planet mission. Plans now call for the Curiosity robot and its descent stage to be...
Jun 15, 2011 | Constellation Program, Exploration, Mars, NASA, The Moon
A flight tested version of NASA’s Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle, the spacecraft that may send future explorers on missions to asteroids and perhaps Mars, will make a series of public stops as it is transported across country from the Dryden Flight Research Center...