Mar 28, 2011 | Ask the Expert, Blog, Book Reviews, Education Station, Exploration, Hubble Space Telescope, International Cooperation, Kids Space, Mars, NASA, Our Solar System, Space and Science, The Moon, The Sun, Why Space
Strange New Worlds – The Search for Alien Planets…and Life Beyond Our Solar Systemby Ray Jayawardhana ; Princeton University Press; Princeton, New Jersey; $24.95; (hard cover) March 2011. This delightful and engaging book tells the story of humankind’s quest to locate...
Mar 26, 2011 | Blog, Education Station, Exploration, Kids Space, MESSENGER, NASA, Our Solar System, Space and Science
Artist captures NASA’s MESSENGER spacecraft in orbit around the planet Mercury. Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington NASA’s MESSENGER spacecraft is the first spacecraft ever to enter Mercury’s...
Mar 18, 2011 | Ask the Expert, Blog, Education Station, Kids Space, Our Solar System, Space and Science
Arrival: MESSENGER Enters Mercury Orbit. Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington NASA’s MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging mission – better known as MESSENGER – is now in orbit...
Mar 11, 2011 | Blog, Education Station, Exploration, International Cooperation, Kids Space, NASA, Our Solar System, Space and Science
NASA’s next spacecraft that’s headed for giant Jupiter is currently undergoing testing at Lockheed Martin Space Systems near Denver. Designed and built by the aerospace firm, Juno is on track for an August liftoff – dispatched on a five-year cruise to Jupiter. Its...
Mar 8, 2011 | Blog, Education Station, Exploration, Kids Space, NASA, Our Solar System, Space and Science
THE WOODLANDS, Texas – All is in readiness for NASA’s MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging spacecraft – MESSENGER – to swing in orbit about the planet Mercury on March 17th. Scientists attending the 42nd Lunar and Planetary Science...
Feb 18, 2011 | Blog, Education Station, Kids Space, NASA, Our Solar System, Space and Science, The Sun
The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory built and operates the MESSENGER spacecraft and manages this Discovery-class mission for NASA. Credit: NASA/JHU-APL In about a month’s time, NASA’s MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging –...
Feb 16, 2011 | Blog, Comets, Education Station, Exploration, NASA, Our Solar System, Space and Science
Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Maryland/Cornell Scientists are elated given the imagery and other data relayed to Earth during NASA’s Stardust-New Exploration of Tempel 1 (Stardust-NExT) February 14 flyby of a previously visited comet. “This mission is...
Feb 15, 2011 | Blog, Comets, Education Station, Exploration, Kids Space, NASA, Our Solar System, Space and Science
Comet Tempel 1 – New imagery. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell Comet Tempel 1 – New imagery. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell NASA’s Stardust-New Exploration of Tempel 1 (Stardust-NExT) has successfully flown by a previously visited comet. The spacecraft...
Feb 15, 2011 | Commercial Space, Constellation Program, Education, Exploration, International Space Station, Space Shuttle, NASA, Mars, Our Solar System, Planet Earth, Space and Science, The Moon
President Obama’s proposed budget for 2012 locks NASA spending at $18.72 billion, or 2010 levels for the next five years, while at the same time initiating a delayed transition away from the previous administration’s Constellation program with plans...
Feb 14, 2011 | Blog, Comets, Education Station, Exploration, NASA, Our Solar System, Space and Science
NASA’s Stardust-New Exploration of Tempel 1 (Stardust-NExT) is on target. Mission controllers report that they are pleased with final optical navigation solutions that show the predicted delivery of the spacecraft for a comet rendezvous is within a “green zone.” The...