Book Review: Confronting Space Debris – Strategies and Warnings from Comparable Examples Including Deepwater Horizon
Confronting Space Debris – Strategies and Warnings from Comparable Examples Including Deepwater Horizon by Dave Baiocchi and William Welser IV; RAND Corporation; Santa Monica, California; $21.60 (paperback/special web discount); 2010. This is an absorbing and...Japan’s Next Asteroid Mission Receives Financial Green-light
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has received financial backing to proceed on development of Hayabusa 2 – a spacecraft designed to collect samples of asteroid 1999JU3. The Hayabusa 2 is a follow-on probe to Hayabusa 1 that surveyed asteroid Itokowa in...Space Spinoffs Benefit All Walks of Life
NASA offered strong evidence on Wednesday that its missions and activities represent long range investments in breakthrough technologies that demonstrate down-to-Earth benefits for the vast majority of us – the men and women who will never see the inside of a...Lunar Eclipse Thrills
The full lunar eclipse of Monday night and early Tuesday was spectacular, according to eye witness accounts gathered by NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center and others. “Was spectacular,” said one witness from the Dominican Republic who participated...Meteorite Hunters: On the Ice!
A team of newly arrived rock hounds are on the ice! They are researchers taking part in the Antarctic Search for Meteorites (ANSMET) program. Their job during the 2010-2011 field season is to recover meteorite samples from the Antarctic. ANSMET field work has been...NASA to Host Live Web Programming to Accompany Spectacular Lunar Eclipse Late Monday/Early Tuesday
North America is in for a celestial treat late Monday and early Tuesday, Dec. 20-21, as the moon enters a full eclipse. The overnight event starts at 12:29 a.m., EST, which is 5:29 UTC. That’s when the Earth’s shadow begins to fall across the lunar...Wanted! Stamp of Approval for Moon Landing Postal Stamp
Let your fingers do the moonwalking – and pick the U.S. Postal Office’s Moon Landing stamp! The federal post office agency wants help on selecting an iconic stamp to represent the USA in an upcoming international gallery being built – and on the list is the classic...NASA’s Mercury Mission: En Route to the “Promised Land”
In just about 90 days, NASA’s MESSENGER will execute a 15-minute maneuver. That propulsion burn – slated for March 18, 2011– will nudge the spacecraft into orbit about Mercury – the first craft ever to do so. Once in orbit, MESSENGER will start a one-year...Citizen Call: Join the Planet Hunters
Dive in on data gleaned by NASA’s Kepler mission – on the lookout for planets beyond our own solar system – and help professional astronomers in their search for Earth-like planet. Web users around the globe can join a new online citizen science project. The effort is...Space Talk
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