May 28, 2011 | Asteroid Exploration, Blog, Education Station, Exploration, International Cooperation, Kids Space, NASA, Our Solar System, Space and Science
Dawn Mission Patch. Credit: McREL NASA’s Dawn spacecraft is healthy and on course as it approaches asteroid Vesta. Dawn has traveled 2.7 billion kilometers (1.7 billion miles) since leaving Earth. The craft was launched on September 27, 2007. Now, as of May 27, Dawn...
May 27, 2011 | Blog, Education Station, Exploration, NASA, Space Race, The Moon
Photos: Courtesy of Bonhams There was an off-world look to the recent Bonhams annual Space History Sale earlier this month. The New York scene is a room packed with active bidders as they competed with each other, along with online bidders and buyers listening in...
May 26, 2011 | Ask the Expert, Benefits of Space Exploration, Blog, Book Reviews, Education Station, Exploration, Kids Space, Mars, NASA, Our Solar System, Planet Earth, Space and Science, Why Space
First Contact – Scientific Breakthroughs in the Hunt for Life Beyond Earth by Marc Kaufman; Simon & Schuster; New York, New York; $26.00 (hard cover); 2011. The author is a science and space reporter for the Washington Post – and capitalizes on his aptitude...
May 25, 2011 | Asteroid Exploration, Blog, Education, Education Station, Exploration
OSIRIS-Rex spacecraft makes contact with asteroid 1999 RQ36. NASA has selected mission for launch in 2016, with samples returned to Earth in 2023. Credit: NASA NASA has announced it has selected a New Frontiers mission – a sample-return mission dubbed OSIRIS-Rex....
May 25, 2011 | Blog, Education Station, Exploration, Mars, NASA
Spirit’s last picture show. One of the last images from the Mars rover. Credit: NASA/JPL/Cornell NASA’s Opportunity Mars rover continues on its long-distance trek. Credit: NASA/JPL/Cornell It appears that it’s all over for NASA’s spirited Mars rover. The...
May 25, 2011 | Commercial Space, Constellation Program, Exploration, International Space Station, Space Shuttle, NASA, Mars, The Moon
The four person Orion spacecraft, once part of the Constellation program, will emerge as a center piece of U. S. plans to resume the exploration of deep space with astronauts, NASA Administrator Charles Bolden and other agency officials announced on Tuesday. The...
May 23, 2011 | Education, Exploration, International Space Station, Space Shuttle, NASA, Planet Earth
The Endeavour astronauts made Sunday night a special occasion for students at the Mesa Verde Elementary School in Tucson, Ariz., who assembled to visit with two of the six space travelers parked at the International Space Station. “It’s great to have you...
May 21, 2011 | Blog, Commercial Space, Education, Education Station, Exploration, Kids Space, NASA, Space and Science, Space Research, Spaceports
UP Aerospace rocket liftoff from New Mexico carries student experiments to the edge of space. Credit: Spaceport America SPACEPORT AMERICA, New Mexico – NASA’s Summer of Innovation had a special liftoff here on May 20 with a powerful suborbital rocket scooting to the...
May 21, 2011 | Exploration, International Cooperation, International Space Station, Space Shuttle, NASA, Space and Science
Pope Benedict XVI spoke with the U.S., Russian and European astronauts aboard the International Space Station on Saturday, reflecting together with them about life on Earth, the environment and the mysteries of space. “Welcome aboard, Your Holiness,”...
May 16, 2011 | Blog, Education Station, Exploration, International Cooperation, Kids Space, The Moon
Courtesy: Technicolor Foundation for Cinema Heritage Before Apollo moonwalkers did it for real, movie audiences went to the Moon in 1902. Thanks to the movie magic of Georges Méliès’, his A Trip to the Moon – original title, Le voyage dans la lune —...