Something Like the Ultimate Science Fair — A Chance for YouTube Savvy Teens to Fly an Experiment Aboard the International Space Station

Oct 11, 2011 | Education, European Space Agency, Exploration, International Space Station, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), NASA, Space and Science, Space Research, Space Tourism

  NASA is teaming with global space agencies as well as some of the top names in commercial space, Internet communications and personal computers to underwrite a pair of out of this world opportunities for teens to develop a life science or  physics experiment...

Pick of the Crop! Space Farm 7 Corn Maze Contest

Oct 8, 2011 | Benefits of Space Exploration, Blog, Education Station, Exploration, Hubble Space Telescope, International Space Station, International Space Station, Space Shuttle, NASA, Kids Space, Mars, NASA, Our Solar System, Planet Earth, Space Tourism

It is being called the newest form of “agritainment”. In a special outreach titled Space Farm 7, seven of the nation’s top agritourism farms have been selected to celebrate and honor the U.S. space program in collaboration with NASA this fall. Each farm has planted...

New Findings! NASA’s Dawn Spacecraft Surveys Asteroid Vesta

Oct 3, 2011 | Ask the Expert, Asteroid Exploration, Blog, Education Station, Exploration, International Cooperation, Kids Space, NASA, Our Solar System, Space and Science

NASA’s Dawn mission has been orbiting asteroid Vesta since mid-July – and scientists are overjoyed with what they are seeing! For instance, the southern hemisphere of the asteroid boasts one of the largest mountains in the Solar System. Other results show that Vesta’s...

Astronaut Mike Fossum, the International Space Station Commander, Goes 1 on 1 with the Middle School Students at the Hispanic Engineering, Science and Technical Conference

Sep 27, 2011 | Ask the Expert, Benefits of Space Exploration, Education, Exploration, International Space Station, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), NASA, Roscosmos, Why Space

  International Space Station commander Mike Fossum, a NASA astronaut, took a series of wide ranging questions from middle school students on Tuesday. The students are participants in the Hispanic Engineering, Science and Technical Conference at the University of...

Could Human Missions to Mars be Possible in 25 years? A Collection of the World’s Most Capable Space Agencies Believes So

Sep 25, 2011 | Canadian Space Agency, European Space Agency, Exploration, International Cooperation, International Space Station, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Mars, NASA, Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle, Roscosmos, Space Research, The Moon

A collaboration among 12 national  space agencies, including NASA — and working under the wing of the International Space Exploration Coordination Group believes so.   They established a blue print, The Global Exploration Roadmap, which was made public...

Book Review: Psychology of Space Exploration

Sep 24, 2011 | Ask the Expert, Blog, Book Reviews, Education Station, Exploration, International Cooperation, Kids Space, Mars, NASA, Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle, The Moon, Why Space

Psychology of Space Exploration, Edited by Douglas Vakoch, NASA History Series SP-2011- 4411, Government Printing Office (GPO); (Hardcover) $27.00; (Paperback) $23.00; Washington, D.C.; 2011. You’re going to find a rich, motherload of information here regarding a...