May 10, 2010 | Blog, Education, Exploration, NASA
Source: Florida Today Everything was just as the astronauts left it when Ron Delaney climbed into Discovery’s cockpit. The shuttle’s crew of seven had boarded a convoy truck on Kennedy Space Center’s runway to begin medical exams, their 15-day...
May 10, 2010 | Education Station, Exploration, International Cooperation, International Space Station, Space Shuttle, NASA, Mars, Space Race, Space Research
Starting next month, a crew of six that involves two Europeans, three Russians and one Chinese will participate in the first full-duration simulated mission to Mars. The Mars 500 experimentΒ mimics aΒ mission to Mars in a mockup that includes an interplanetary...
May 10, 2010 | Benefits of Space Exploration, Blog, Education, Exploration
Source: Discovery News Dark matter is one of those things that keep astronomers in business. It make up 23% of the energy of the universe, however, we don’t yet know what it IS. Particle physicists are on the hunt, and a tantalizing possible detection was...
May 10, 2010 | Blog, Exploration, NASA
Source: Space Politics At the Utah Republican Party convention in Salt Lake City yesterday, delegates effectively ousted Sen. Robert Bennett, failing to nominate him for a fourth term. Bennett didnβt make it past the second round of balloting, which ended with two...
May 10, 2010 | Blog, Constellation Program, Exploration, NASA
Source: Space.comΒ By: Robert Pearlman, Collect Space NASA on ThursdayΒ successfully tested an astronaut abort system, recreating a sceneΒ last staged during the Apollo program while buildingΒ upon technologyΒ first demonstrated 50 years ago this week. “The Orion...
May 10, 2010 | Benefits of Space Exploration, Blog, Exploration, NASA
Source: The Arizona Republic By: June Scobee Rogers Robert McCall – space artist, Arizona resident and my dear friend who recently passed away – understood a vital lesson. Vision drives action.Β Bob painted futuristic scenes about space exploration....
May 9, 2010 | Education Station, Exploration, Space Race, Spaceports
Add two females to Chinaβs growing cadre of astronauts according to China’s National Space Administration (CNSA) and as reported by Chinese media outlets.Β Word from China Daily last week is that the two women are both aged 30 to 35, married, have college...
May 8, 2010 | Commercial Space, Education Station, Exploration, International Cooperation, Space Race, Spaceports, Uncategorized
The scene is the French Guiana launch site for Arianespace β a spaceport that has been a busy hub for commercial satellite liftoffs for decades. A new milestone is to be met this year β the first launch from that facility of a Russian Soyuz launcher. Once Soyuz joins...
May 7, 2010 | Blog, Exploration, NASA
Source: The Los Angeles Times NASA successfully launched a $220 million escape pod on Thursday while the agency’s future exploring space remains in limbo. The launch thrust a candlestick-shaped rocket a mile above the white sands of New Mexico within seconds. A...
May 7, 2010 | Blog, Exploration, NASA
Source: Scientific American At a test in the New Mexico desert this morning, NASA carried off what it called a successful test of a launch abort system for Orion, the crew capsule designed to return astronauts to orbit and beyond after the space shuttle retires this...