Sep 7, 2010 | Blog, Education, Exploration, NASA, Planet Earth, Space and Science
Coalition for Space Exploration Continues its Support of Participatory Exploration at NASA For the next ten days Challenger Center will be reporting live from NASA’s Desert RATS in Arizona as humans use robots and rovers to learn what it would be like to live...
Sep 6, 2010 | Ask the Expert, Blog, Book Reviews, Constellation Program, Education Station, Exploration, NASA, Space Race, Space Shuttle, Space Tourism, Spaceports, The Moon
The Spaceflight Vault – A History of NASA’s Manned Missions by Mark Mayfield; Whitman Publishing, LLC; Atlanta, Georgia; $49.95 (hard cover/box); 2010. Here’s a book that keeps on giving and giving. This volume is designed as a scrapbook, but also provides a...
Sep 6, 2010 | Exploration, Mars, NASA, The Moon, Uncategorized
NASA’s Desert RATS is nearing the half-way point of its 15-day, 2010 field exercises on the Black Point Lava Flow in Northern Arizona. It’s been nearly 24/7 for the 100 engineers and scientists involved in the high tech demonstration of rovers, habitats...
Sep 4, 2010 | Ask the Expert, Blog, Education Station, European Space Agency, Exploration, International Cooperation, Kids Space, NASA, Our Solar System, Space and Science
The Cassini spacecraft orbiting Saturn has churned out new images of the moon, Dione. Imagery was taken on Sept. 4, 2010 and includes the best views of Dione’s north pole region that Cassini has captured to date. “Just in … crisp, detailed raw images from...
Sep 2, 2010 | Blog, Education, Education Station, Exploration, features, International Space Station, Space Shuttle, NASA, NASA, Space and Science
Aug 31, 2010 | Blog, Education, Education Station, Exploration, features, NASA, Space and Science
Aug 31, 2010 | Constellation Program, Exploration, Mars, NASA, Space Shuttle, The Moon
With a thunderous roar, the world’s most powerful solid rocket motor, developed by Alliant Techsystems Inc., as the first stage for NASA’s Ares 1 crew exploration vehicle, fired for two minutes Tuesday at a desert test facility in Promontory, Utah. DM-2...
Aug 31, 2010 | Ask the Expert, Blog, Constellation Program, Education Station, Exploration, Kids Space, Mars, NASA, The Moon
ANAHEIM, California – Sending humans into deep space to make an up-close-and-personal survey of an asteroid is getting increased attention. Speaking last April at the John F. Kennedy Space Center in Florida on space exploration in the 21st century, President...
Aug 30, 2010 | Blog, Education, Education Station, Exploration, NASA, Space Shuttle
Atlantis: http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/large/2010-4450.jpg Endeavour: http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/large/2010-4454.jpg Columbia: http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/large/2010-4452.jpg Challenger:...
Aug 29, 2010 | International Cooperation, International Space Station, Mars, NASA, The Moon
Early this week, a small team of experts from NASA’s Johnson Space Center will head for Chile under the sponsorship of the U. S. State Department to assist officials with what’s expected to be a long running effort to rescue 33 miners trapped a half-mile...