Book Review: Innovation the NASA Way: Harnessing the Power of Your Organization for Breakthrough Success
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...NASA’s Strategic Plan 2014 Released
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...NASA Administrator Charles Bolden Named 2014 National Space Trophy Recipient
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...Hubble, Chandra, Spitzer Great Observatories to Join Forces
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...Prospects for Comet ISON Viewing Grow
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...Milestone Reached in Sunshield for James Webb Space Telescope
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...Comet ISON Bubbles, Reveals Secrets of Early Solar System
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...Astronomer Identifies Neptune’s 14th Moon
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...Book Review: The Space Book: From the Beginning to the End of Time, 250 Milestones in the History of Space & Astronomy
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...Space Talk
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#BlueOrigin is eyeing the launch of an uncrewed lander to the Moon within the next 12–16 months. The launch is to demonstrate #MK1's capabilities, which include the ability to deliver up to three tons of payload anywhere on the #Moon.
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.@NASAWebb is providing new scientific insight into how stars and their protoplanetary disks form planets. The #JWST recently observed a system that just finished forming its planets.
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#NASA's latest class of #astronaut candidates has graduated and is now eligible for missions to the Moon, Mars, and the @Space_Station. The agency is also accepting applications for a new class of astronauts.
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The @NASA astronaut selection window is open! #ArtemisGeneration #BeAnAstronaut