Jan 14, 2011 | Blog, Commercial Space, Education Station, Exploration, Space Tourism, Spaceports
The privately-backed SpaceShipTwo has taken wing again, chalking up its fourth drop test on January 13 after being released from its mothership, WhiteKnightTwo, high above the Mojave Air and Space Port in California. Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo is capable of...
Jan 13, 2011 | Ask the Expert, Blog, Book Reviews, Education Station, Exploration, Kids Space, Mars, Space and Science, Space Research
The Doomsday Lobby – Hype and Panic from Sputniks, Martians and Marauding Meteors by James T. Bennett; Copernicus Books/Springer; New York, New York; $24.95; (soft cover); 2010. I think you’ll find this scholarly book of value – and somewhat surprising in its...
Jan 12, 2011 | Blog, Commercial Space, Education Station, Exploration, International Cooperation, International Space Station, Kids Space, Space Tourism
If you’re anxious to travel into space – and have the tens of millions of dollars to shoulder your passion – then the news today from Space Adventures you’ll like. Working with the Federal Space Agency of the Russian Federation (FSA) and Rocket Space Corporation...
Jan 11, 2011 | Exploration, International Space Station, NASA, Space Research, Space Shuttle
U. S. Air Force Maj. Gen. Susan Helms and U. S. Air Force Col. (Ret) Karol J. Bobko will be inducted in to the U. S. Astronaut Hall of Fame in Titusville, Fla., the Astronaut Scholarship Foundation announced. Induction ceremonies are planned for May 7 at the Kennedy...
Jan 10, 2011 | Blog, Education Station, Exploration, NASA, Our Solar System, Space and Science
In about a month from now, audiences on Earth will be treated to yet another encounter with a comet. This time it’s a repeat look! NASA’s Stardust spacecraft is closing in on comet Tempel 1 for a Valentine’s Day flyby. And if comet Tempel 1 seems familiar to you, it...
Jan 6, 2011 | Blog, Education Station, Exploration, NASA, Our Solar System, Space and Science
In the fast-moving world of worry about rocks from space that are harmful to Earth, there’s growing support for putting in place a space-based near Earth object (NEO) hunter capability. One idea that is percolating in scientific circles is placement of an infrared...
Jan 4, 2011 | Blog, Book Reviews, Education Station, Exploration, Hubble Space Telescope, International Space Station, Kids Space, Mars, NASA, Our Solar System, Planet Earth, Space and Science, Space Shuttle, The Moon, The Sun, Why Space
Space – From Earth to the Edge of the Universe by editors Carole Stott, Robert Dinwiddie, David Hughes and Giles Sparrow; Dorling Kindersley(DK) Publishing; New York, New York; $40.00 (hard cover); 2010. Space is big…but so is this large format book. This is a...
Jan 3, 2011 | Blog, Education Station, Exploration, Mars, NASA, Space and Science
NASA’s always on the go Opportunity Mars rover is inspecting Santa Maria crater – providing new imagery showing the geology of the relatively fresh feature. Scientists are delighted with the new photos that show outcrop exposures at the crater’s rim. Santa Maria...
Jan 2, 2011 | Education, European Space Agency, Exploration, International Cooperation, NASA, Our Solar System, Space Research, The Sun
With the help of a prolific Polish astronomy student, the joint NASA and European Solar and Heliospheric Observatory mission has detected its 2,000th comet, a pursuit the 15-year-old spacecraft accomplished with the help of dozens of citizen observers from around...
Dec 27, 2010 | Ask the Expert, Blog, Education Station, Exploration, International Cooperation, NASA, Our Solar System, Space and Science
NASA’s Cassini spacecraft orbiting Saturn has imaged a huge storm – a raging event on the massive planet. “Just down on the ground today … our cameras on Cassini have captured sight of a gigantic storm recently erupted in the northern hemisphere of Saturn,”...