Sep 8, 2010 | Blog, Education Station, Exploration, Kids Space, NASA, Our Solar System, Space and Science
Sixty days before its flyby, NASA’s Deep Impact spacecraft has snapped a picture of its quarry – comet Hartley 2. The spacecraft is on track for a November 4 flyby of the comet, ready to inspect Hartley 2 for over two months. The spacecraft is on an extended...
Sep 8, 2010 | Benefits of Space Exploration, Exploration, International Cooperation, International Space Station
Thirty-three miners trapped in a collapsed Chilean gold and copper mine as well as the families who await their rescue face a long and difficult ordeal, according to a small delegation of NASA experts in health, psychology and engineering who responded to a call for...
Sep 8, 2010 | Blog, Constellation Program, Education Station, Exploration, Kids Space, NASA, Our Solar System, Why Space
Thanks to data from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, scientists are finding out that asteroids somewhat near Earth – termed Near-Earth Objects, or NEOs – come in all sorts of colors and compositions. Getting to know these space rocks is a step closer in dispatching...
Sep 7, 2010 | Blog, Education Station, European Space Agency, Exploration, International Cooperation, NASA, Our Solar System, Planet Earth, Space and Science, Why Space
One new assignment for NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope: Spot erupting volcanoes on rocky worlds orbiting distant stars. The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is a large, infrared-optimized space telescope, scheduled for launch in 2014. JWST will find the first...
Sep 7, 2010 | Blog, Education, Exploration, NASA, Planet Earth, Space and Science
Coalition for Space Exploration Continues its Support of Participatory Exploration at NASA For the next ten days Challenger Center will be reporting live from NASA’s Desert RATS in Arizona as humans use robots and rovers to learn what it would be like to live...
Sep 6, 2010 | Ask the Expert, Blog, Book Reviews, Constellation Program, Education Station, Exploration, NASA, Space Race, Space Shuttle, Space Tourism, Spaceports, The Moon
The Spaceflight Vault – A History of NASA’s Manned Missions by Mark Mayfield; Whitman Publishing, LLC; Atlanta, Georgia; $49.95 (hard cover/box); 2010. Here’s a book that keeps on giving and giving. This volume is designed as a scrapbook, but also provides a...
Sep 6, 2010 | Exploration, Mars, NASA, The Moon, Uncategorized
NASA’s Desert RATS is nearing the half-way point of its 15-day, 2010 field exercises on the Black Point Lava Flow in Northern Arizona. It’s been nearly 24/7 for the 100 engineers and scientists involved in the high tech demonstration of rovers, habitats...
Sep 5, 2010 | Exploration, Our Solar System, Space and Science
Sunday marked the 33rd anniversary of NASA’s Voyager I launching, the second of twin spacecraft that conducted historic flyby missions of the solar system’s outermost planets, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. Voyager 2 lifted off on Aug. 20, 1977....
Sep 4, 2010 | Ask the Expert, Blog, Education Station, European Space Agency, Exploration, International Cooperation, Kids Space, NASA, Our Solar System, Space and Science
The Cassini spacecraft orbiting Saturn has churned out new images of the moon, Dione. Imagery was taken on Sept. 4, 2010 and includes the best views of Dione’s north pole region that Cassini has captured to date. “Just in … crisp, detailed raw images from...
Sep 2, 2010 | Blog, Education, Education Station, Exploration, features, International Space Station, Space Shuttle, NASA, NASA, Space and Science