May 28, 2010 | Blog, Education Station, Exploration, Space Research, Space Shuttle
An important step: More economical access to space – that’s one possible outcome from the May 26 first flight of the X-51A Waverider. This super-slick unpiloted vehicle made the longest ever supersonic combustion ramjet-powered hypersonic flight off the Southern...
May 27, 2010 | Constellation Program, Exploration, International Space Station, Mars, NASA, Our Solar System, Space Research, The Moon
The technology and commercially themed exploration strategy outlined by President Obama earlier this year would mean the launching of new NASA robotic spacecraft at a rapid clip to set the stage for the human exploration of deep space. They would join robotic...
May 27, 2010 | Blog, Commercial Space, Constellation Program, Exploration, NASA
Source: The Houston Chronicle It was during long flights to the Middle East for goodwill visits to American troops that former astronauts Neil Armstrong, Eugene Cernan and James Lovell hatched a plan to step out of the pages of history with a mission to change its...
May 26, 2010 | Blog, Education, Education Station, Exploration, NASA
Source: NASA NASA EDGE, an award-winning agency talk show, will host a live webcast from the Lunabotics Mining Competition at 11 a.m. EDT on May 28 from the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex’s Astronaut Hall of Fame. More than 20 university teams from around...
May 26, 2010 | Benefits of Space Exploration, Blog, Commercial Space, Exploration, NASA
Source: Houston Chronicle I’m in Galveston this morning for NASA’s Exploration Enterprise Workshop, a two-day program to expand on the agency’s plans for exploration under President Obama’s budget. Organizers have been careful to call these...
May 26, 2010 | Blog, Commercial Space, Education Station, Exploration, Newsroom, Space Tourism, Spaceports
Credit: Virgin Galactic Spaceport America in New Mexico continues to take shape, the future site of commercial space tourism flights. Hundreds of construction workers are busily churning up dirt, completing a huge runway and terminal at the site. Sir Richard...
May 25, 2010 | Blog, Education, Education Station, Exploration, NASA
Source: The Union Bulletin, Walla Walla, WA Dottie Metcalf-Lindenburger propelled her career to the highest reaches, all the way to space, by challenging herself in school and letting her curiosity be a guide. Metcalf-Lindenburger graduated from Whitman College in...
May 25, 2010 | Blog, Education, Education Station, Exploration, NASA
Source: The Spokesman Review Idaho schoolteacher Barbara Morgan was next in line to be NASA’s teacher in space when the first designee for that post, Christa McAuliffe, was killed in the Challenger space shuttle explosion in 1986. Twenty-one years later, Morgan went...
May 25, 2010 | Blog, Education Station, Exploration, NASA, NASA News, Space and Science, Space Research
The sky is making way for a new astronomical tool. It is wheels up on NASA’s Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) as this modified Boeing 747SP fitted with a 2.7-meter German-built telescope makes a May 25 debut flight. Flight of the airborne...
May 22, 2010 | Blog, Book Reviews, Commercial Space, Education Station, Exploration, International Space Station, Space Shuttle, NASA, NASA, Newsroom, Planet Earth, Space and Science, Space Research
Me and The Biospheres: A Memoir by the Inventor of Biosphere 2 by John Allen; Synergetic Press, Santa Fe, New Mexico; (paperback) $39.95; 2009. The term “biosphere” was coined by geologist Eduard Seuss in 1875, which he defined as the place on Earth’s surface where...