Apr 28, 2011 | Exploration, International Cooperation, International Space Station, Space and Science, Space Research
The European Space Agency has formally agreed to an extension of U. S.-led International Space Station operations until at least 2020, adding its commitment to those of the Russian federal space agency, Roscosmos, and the Japan Exploration Aerospace Agency, or JAXA,...
Apr 27, 2011 | Blog, Education Station, Exploration, International Space Station, Kids Space, Space Research, Space Shuttle
Courtesy: Cornell University/Provided Courtesy: Cornell University/Provided Onboard space shuttle Endeavour — on target for launch this Friday — thin, one-inch square chips are headed for mounting on the International Space Station. Developed by...
Apr 26, 2011 | Blog, China, Education Station, Exploration, Kids Space, Space Race
Credit: CMSEO The director of the China Manned Space Engineering Office (CMSEO) has called upon Chinese people around the world for a logo and a distinctive name for that country’s first crewed space station. CMSEO’s Wang Wenbao announced the plan to have ideas and...
Apr 25, 2011 | Benefits of Space Exploration, Blog, Commercial Space, Education Station, Exploration, Hubble Space Telescope, Kids Space, NASA, Space Research, Why Space
Credit: NASA Spinoff HowStuffWorks.com has posted an impressive listing of what breakthroughs in medicine came from NASA. The roster of medical advances that came at least in part from NASA research includes: Cool suit to lower body temperature in treatment of...
Apr 24, 2011 | Education, Exploration, International Space Station, Legislative Activity, NASA, The Moon
A recently introduced House bill, the Reasserting American Leadership in Space Act, would require the United States to resume efforts to return human explorers to the moon, this time by 2022, and establish a “sustained presence.” The legislation, H. R....
Apr 24, 2011 | Ask the Expert, Blog, Book Reviews, Education Station, Exploration, Kids Space, NASA, Our Solar System, Planet Earth, Space and Science, Space Research, Why Space
Exoplanets, Edited by Sara Seager; University of Arizona Press; Tucson, Arizona; $35.00 (Cloth); 2011. The editor of this volume, Sara Seager, is the Ellen Swallow Richards Professor of Planetary Science and Professor of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of...
Apr 21, 2011 | Education, European Space Agency, Exploration, Hubble Space Telescope, International Cooperation, NASA, Space and Science
The Hubble Space Telescope, among the best known and most accomplished spacecraft ever launched, will mark its 21st birthday on Sunday. The 350 mile high observatory, which has been upgraded five times by space shuttle crews since its April 24, 1990 launching aboard...
Apr 21, 2011 | Ask the Expert, Blog, Education Station, Exploration, NASA, Planet Earth, Space and Science
Atmospheric sciences professor Stephen Nesbitt, left, and graduate student Daniel Harnos analyzed passive microwave satellite data to identify telltale structural rings in tropical storms that are about to intensify into hurricanes. Photo courtesy Univ. of Illinois/L....
Apr 19, 2011 | Ask the Expert, Blog, Education Station, Exploration, International Cooperation, NASA, Our Solar System, Space and Science, The Sun
NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory has been used to monitor the birth of a sunspot over a period of eight hours. Researchers at the University of Central Lancashire made use of the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) to observe the growth of the sunspot. How sunspots...
Apr 17, 2011 | Commercial Space, Constellation Program, Exploration, International Space Station, Mars, NASA
President Obama has signed into law the 2011 budget continuing resolution, a deficit cutting compromise with the House and Senate that funds the federal government through Sept. 30 and includes $18.485 billion for NASA. The measure, which is $239 million less for the...