Oct 10, 2010 | Blog, Education Station, NASA
Community college students in a pilot program will take the first steps toward potential technology careers as they develop robotic explorers at NASA field centers. Ninety students from community colleges in 23 states have been selected to travel to NASA’s...
Oct 9, 2010 | Benefits of Space Exploration, Blog, Commercial Space, Education Station, Exploration, Kids Space, NASA, Space Race, Space Tourism, Spaceports
Space industrialization and settlement of the high frontier will be the theme of a threshold conference to be held at month’s end. Space Manufacturing 14: Critical Technologies for Space Settlement conference will bring together futurists, space scientists and...
Oct 8, 2010 | Blog, Education Station, Exploration, International Cooperation, NASA, Our Solar System, Space and Science, Space Research
Titan is Saturn’s largest moon, enshrouded by a smog-like haze. Work by a University of Arizona (UA) research team has simulated that haze, finding amino acids and nucleotide bases – the most important ingredients of life on Earth. “Our team is the first to be able to...
Oct 6, 2010 | Benefits of Space Exploration, Blog, Exploration, NASA, Space and Science
Space Manufacturing 14: Critical Technologies for Space Settlement will be held at NASA Ames Conference Center in Mountain View, CA, October 30 and 31, 2010. Attendance will be limited to 200 participants. (Non-US Citizens, please allow 30 days for approvals to...
Oct 6, 2010 | Benefits of Space Exploration, Exploration, NASA, Space and Science, Space Research, The Moon
NASA’s 2009 Lunar CRater Observation and Sensing Satellite, or LCROSS, was honored Tuesday night in New York City as the recipient of a Breakthrough award for innovation in science and technology from Popular Mechanics Magazine. The lunar probe was launched on...
Oct 5, 2010 | Blog, China, Education Station, Exploration, Mars, NASA, Space and Science
BOULDER, Colorado – An innovative NASA Mars Orbiter is moving into the development stage. The mission is NASA’s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution, or MAVEN for short. It will probe the past climate of Mars, including its potential for harboring life over...
Sep 29, 2010 | Education, Exploration, NASA, Space and Science
Some of the nation’s leading experts in science, technology and innovation warned the House Science and Technology Committee on Wednesday that the United States is continuing to lose its global pre-eminence in science and engineering, a trend that will have...
Sep 29, 2010 | Ask the Expert, Benefits of Space Exploration, Blog, Commercial Space, European Space Agency, Exploration, International Cooperation, NASA, Space Research
PRAGUE, Czech Republic – Political, institutional or industrial uncertainties are a real handicap for space agencies as well as for industry. That’s a take home message from a plenary meeting dedicated to the impact of governments’ space policy changes on industry –...
Sep 29, 2010 | Blog, Education Station, European Space Agency, International Cooperation, Kids Space, NASA, Our Solar System, Space and Science
Just down from space to Earth ground control: Images of some of the largest clouds that cameras on the Cassini spacecraft have yet seen on Titan! According to Carolyn Porco, Cassini Imaging Team Leader and Director of the Cassini Imaging Central Laboratory for...
Sep 28, 2010 | Ask the Expert, Blog, Capitol Hill News, Commercial Space, Education Station, European Space Agency, International Cooperation, International Space Station, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Mars, NASA, Planet Earth, Space and Science
PRAGUE, Czech Republic – Here at the 61st International Astronautical Congress, some 3,000 experts from around the world are discussing every facet of 21st century space activity. The theme of the gathering taking place September 27 – October 1 is “Space for human...