Apr 30, 2010 | Benefits of Space Exploration, Blog, Education, Exploration, NASA, Planet Earth
Source: Space.com An asteroid on the list of potentially dangerous space rocks that could endanger the Earth was caught on camera as it zoomed past our planet this month, and found to be larger than astronomers originally thought. The asteroid buzzed the Earth on...
Apr 29, 2010 | Blog, Exploration, International Cooperation, NASA
Source: Space.com The final frontier must become more of an international endeavor or space exploration could stagnate, according to three veteran astronauts from two different countries. Only through further collaboration between nations to reach humanity’s...
Apr 29, 2010 | Blog, Constellation Program, Exploration, NASA
Source: The Houston Chronicle NASA Administrator Charles Bolden sought to rally space workers to President Barack Obama’s proposed overhaul of the agency during an employees-only meeting Wednesday at Johnson Space Center. Bolden told employees there were clear...
Apr 28, 2010 | Benefits of Space Exploration, Blog, Education, Exploration, Our Solar System, Planet Earth
Source: USA Today Pandora, for the ancient Greeks, was a problem, popping open a pithos vase filled with all the ills of mankind. But thanks to the movie Avatar, Pandora offers a solution to one problem β what to call any hypothetically habitable moons orbiting one of...
Apr 28, 2010 | Blog, Exploration, International Cooperation, NASA
Source: National Geographic, Breaking Orbit blog It might not be in the stars for humans to return to the moon anytime soon. But NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, launched last year in part to scout locations for a moon base, is proving that there’s...
Apr 28, 2010 | Blog, Exploration, NASA
Source: The Orlando Sentinel Now that NASA has had to push the planned launch date for space shuttle Endeavour on STS-134 to no earlier than November, an interesting phenomenon could take place. The commander of STS-134 is Mark Kelly, pictured left. Mark Kellyβs...
Apr 28, 2010 | Blog, Exploration, Mars
Source: The New York Times With rock music blaring, fifth graders count down from 10-9-8 to the rocket boostersβ firing up, and blasting the computer-generated astronauts toward space. βHey, the future looks good, huh?β says Ken Larson, jumping to center stage at the...
Apr 28, 2010 | Blog, Commercial Space, Education, Exploration, NASA
Source: The Houston Chronicle So much has happened with the future of NASA’s human spaceflight program during the last two months I wanted try to provide a summary of what’s transpired, and what may happen now. Feel free to ask additional questions below....
Apr 28, 2010 | Blog, Exploration, NASA, NASA News
Source: The Houston Chronicle With the fiscal year 2011 budget proposal and a recent speech in Florida, President Barack Obama has provided NASA with all the assets and vision needed to make a critical shift in our human spaceflight program. We are working with...
Apr 27, 2010 | Education Station, Exploration, Hubble Space Telescope, Kids Space, Mars, NASA, Planet Earth, Space and Science
Itβs called βforward contaminationβ in terms of inadvertently sending Earth bacteria to other worlds. Indeed, fouling the nest of say Mars β perhaps a niche for microbial life β is a concern of NASA researchers. New research published in the April issue of the journal...