Jul 1, 2010 | Blog, Education Station, Exploration, Kids Space, NASA, Planet Earth, Space and Science
Credit: NASA/SVS At NASA Goddard Space Flight Center’s Scientific Visualization Studio (SVS), a team of “visualizers” take raw scientific data and translate that data into visual imagery. The visuals help both scientists and the general public better understand the...
Jun 30, 2010 | Blog, Education, NASA, Planet Earth
Source: Spaceflight Now A NASA spacecraft circling more than 400 miles above Earth has snapped a striking picture of oil streaming ashore in Mississippi, adding another photo to the growing catalog of satellite images of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. The Earth...
Jun 30, 2010 | Blog, NASA
Source: Alabama Local News HUNTSVILLE, AL. – A key NASA contractor laid off 102 aerospace workers in Huntsville Tuesday, sources said, bringing to nearly 300 the number reportedly sent home in the last week as the Constellation rocket program collapses toward a...
Jun 30, 2010 | European Space Agency, Mars, NASA, Our Solar System, Space and Science, Uncategorized
Scientists are assigning names to major features of the massive Martian impact crater Endeavour, that is the long-term destination of NASA’s Opportunity Mars Exploration Rover. The names — Cape Dromedary, Point Hicks and Cape Byron — pay tribute to...
Jun 29, 2010 | Blog, Commercial Space, NASA
Source: Bloomberg Obama Focuses Revised Space-Exploration Policy on Partnerships, Technology President Barack Obama called for greater international cooperation for space exploration and bolstering U.S. companies that build spacecraft. Obama vowed to maintain the U.S....
Jun 28, 2010 | Blog, NASA
Source: Florida Today Space Florida prototype investment could help former space workers ROCKLEDGE — Newly formed automaker Avera Motors has its first customer. The board of directors at Space Florida has agreed “to purchase” for $500,000 a prototype of...
Jun 25, 2010 | Blog, Education Station, Exploration, Mars, NASA, Newsroom, Planet Earth, Space and Science, Space Research, Space Tourism, The Moon
Credit: Pew Research Center for the People & the Press Many Americans see dramatic scientific and technological advancements on the horizon, with big developments in space travel, medicine, engineering, and computers. However, despite the widely anticipated...
Jun 25, 2010 | Blog, Education Station, Exploration, NASA, Newsroom, Our Solar System, Space and Science, Space Research
Over the weekend, NASA’s Deep Impact spacecraft will fly past Earth for the fifth and last time. Swinging by Earth on June 27th, the probe’s trajectory then places it on target for a close encounter with comet Hartley 2 later this year. The NASA Deep Impact mission...
Jun 24, 2010 | European Space Agency, Exploration, International Cooperation, Mars, NASA, Space and Science
The evidence comes from NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter and the European Space Agency’s Mars Express. MRO has been circling the Red Planet since March 2006, Mars Express since December 2003. The conclusions, which suggest ancient Mars hosted an...
Jun 24, 2010 | Blog, Education Station, Exploration, International Cooperation, NASA, Newsroom, Planet Earth, Space and Science, Space Research
BOULDER, Colorado – The Earth is encircled by menacing, human-made orbital debris. A new study suggests that long-term change in the Earth’s atmosphere is causing satellites – and troublesome space junk – to stay in orbit for longer than expected. A research...