Apr 22, 2010 | Exploration, Space Race, Space Research, Space Shuttle
All appears on schedule for tonight’s maiden flight of the reusable X-37B space plane. This U.S. Air Force Orbital Test Vehicle, or OTV, will be boosted into orbit atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas booster. Its mission is to demonstrate a reliable, reusable,...
Apr 22, 2010 | Blog, Education, Exploration, International Space Station, NASA
Atlantis reached the launch pad at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center this morning, where the spacecraft is under going preparations for a May mission to the International Space Station, one of three, possibly four final missions before the winged spacecraft reach...
Apr 22, 2010 | Blog, Coalition News, Exploration, features, NASA, Newsroom, Our Solar System, Space and Science, The Sun
Source: NASA.gov View related briefing materials here. NASA’s recently launched Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, is returning early images that confirm an unprecedented new capability for scientists to better understand our sun’s dynamic processes. These...
Apr 21, 2010 | Blog, Education, Exploration, Hubble Space Telescope, NASA
Source: New Scientist Twenty years after its launch, the Hubble Space Telescope’s spectacular images are a familiar sight. Yet it is incredible that the observatory has survived this long, given the near-death experiences it has faced along the way, says David...
Apr 21, 2010 | Blog, Exploration, NASA, Space Shuttle
Source: Orlando Sentinel Space shuttle Discovery landed today at Kennedy Space Center after a 15-day mission to the International Space Station. Now the real countdown begins and those wishing to see the last of the shuttle launches have only three shots left —...
Apr 21, 2010 | Blog, Education, Exploration, NASA, Space Shuttle
Source: US News and World Report 1. The space shuttle was the first reusable, human-carrying spacecraft designed to orbit around Earth. 2. Space shuttles have four fundamental elements: the orbiter craft, two rocket boosters, an external fuel tank, and the engines. 3....
Apr 21, 2010 | Blog, Exploration, NASA
Source: The New York Times The space shuttle Discovery returned to Earth on Tuesday with a fiery dawn plunge across the heartland of America, closing out a complex space station resupply mission with a smooth Florida landing. The space shuttle Discovery landed at...
Apr 21, 2010 | Blog, Exploration, NASA, The Moon
Source: The Examiner.com There is an old saying – talk is cheap. However, it would appear that talk is about to get a whole lot more expensive. The Obama Administration has turned away from NASA and its family of contractors and toward the new, private companies that...
Apr 21, 2010 | Blog, Exploration, NASA, Planet Earth
Source: The Orlando Sentinel Folks here should quit whining about President Obama whacking our boondoggle moon trip and get with the new space program: saving planet Earth from certain destruction. That gig could keep us fat in NASA pork for decades to come. Forget...
Apr 21, 2010 | Blog, Exploration, NASA
Source: The Huffington Post Share Comments 22 “Words, words, words” – that’s what the cartoon character Butthead used to mumble when adults were speaking to him, and it all sounded like one big blur. It leapt to mind again, when I was trying to...