Feb 23, 2015 | Benefits of Space Exploration, Blog, features, Hubble Space Telescope, James Webb Space Telescope, Space and Science, Why Space
Actor Eddie Redmayne, star of the film “The Theory of Everything,” speaks on the importance of NASA’s mission and...
May 15, 2014 | Ask the Expert, Benefits of Space Exploration, Blog, Book Reviews, Commercial Space, Education Station, Exploration, Hubble Space Telescope, International Space Station, Kids Space, Space Research, The Moon, Why Space
Innovation the NASA Way: Harnessing the Power of Your Organization for Breakthrough Success by Rod Pyle; McGraw Hill, New York, New York; $30.00 (hard cover); 2014. Author Rod Pyle has taken an up-close look at NASA’s on-going ability to innovate, be it during the...
Mar 24, 2014 | Asteroid Exploration, Benefits of Space Exploration, Blog, Commercial Space, Education Station, Exploration, Hubble Space Telescope, International Cooperation, International Space Station, Space Shuttle, NASA, James Webb Space Telescope, Kids Space, Mars, NASA, Planet Earth, Space and Science, Space Research, The Moon, Why Space
NASA has released its 2014 Strategic Plan, with the space agency’s Office of Strategy Formulation identified as the responsible office. “Our long-term goal is to send humans to Mars. Over the next two decades, we will develop and demonstrate the technologies and...
Jan 22, 2014 | Benefits of Space Exploration, Commercial Space, Exploration, Hubble Space Telescope, International Cooperation, International Space Station, Space Shuttle, NASA, Mars, Planet Earth, Space and Science, Space Research
The selection of NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, former astronaut and retired U.S. Marine Corps major general, as the 2014 recipient of the Rotary National Award for Space Achievement Foundation’s annual National Space Trophy was announced...
Oct 24, 2013 | Benefits of Space Exploration, Education, Exploration, Hubble Space Telescope, NASA, Space and Science, Space Research
Three of NASA’s most capable space telescopes are joining forces for “Frontier Fields,” a three year campaign to study six of the most massive galaxy clusters in the universe. They will start with Abell 2744, also known as Pandora’s Cluster, a...
Oct 11, 2013 | Benefits of Space Exploration, Education, Exploration, Hubble Space Telescope, NASA, Our Solar System, Planet Earth, Space and Science, Space Research
Comet ISON is increasingly likely to appear brightly in the night skies of Earth in early December. The results of studies released this week suggest ISON has the qualities needed to survive its Nov. 28th brush with the sun, a point in its journey toward...
Sep 20, 2013 | Blog, Canadian Space Agency, Education Station, European Space Agency, Exploration, Hubble Space Telescope, International Cooperation, James Webb Space Telescope, Kids Space, NASA, Space and Science
More progress has been reported in the James Webb Space Telescope program, the world’s next-generation space observatory and successor to the Hubble Space Telescope. The fabrication of all template layers for NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) sunshield has been...
Jul 24, 2013 | Benefits of Space Exploration, Comets, Exploration, Hubble Space Telescope, NASA, Our Solar System, Planet Earth, Space and Science, Space Research
Though more than three million miles distant, Comet ISON, also known as the “soda pop” comet, is putting on quite a show for the planet’s best equipped observatories. The active comet is headed heads towards a close encounter with the sun in late...
Jul 15, 2013 | Benefits of Space Exploration, Exploration, Hubble Space Telescope, NASA, Our Solar System, Space and Science, Space Research
Some persistent detective work by SETI astronomer Mark Showalter turned up a tiny new moon of Neptune, the distant blue-green planet’s 14th. Showalter made the discovery July 1 after tracking the movement of a white dot that surfaced over and over again in 150...
Jun 9, 2013 | Ask the Expert, Ask the Experts — Answers, Blog, Book Reviews, Comets, Education Station, Exploration, Hubble Space Telescope, International Space Station, Space Shuttle, NASA, Kids Space, Mars, NASA, Our Solar System, Space Research, The Moon, The Sun, Why Space
The Space Book: From the Beginning to the End of Time, 250 Milestones in the History of Space & Astronomy by Jim Bell; Sterling Publishing Co. Inc; New York, New York; (hard cover) $29.95; May 2013. This elegant, eye-catching book offers stunning photographs and...