Nov 25, 2012 | Ask the Expert, Blog, Education Station, Exploration, Kids Space, Mars, NASA, Space and Science, Space Research
The scientific community is abuzz about NASAβs one-ton Mars rover, Curiosity, making a finding using a suite of instruments called SAM that can gulp in and analyze Martian soil samples. Those SAM findings have not yet been released. The story that kick-started all the...
Nov 21, 2012 | Blog, Coalition News, CSExtra, Newsroom
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Nov 20, 2012 | Blog, Coalition News, CSExtra, Newsroom
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Nov 19, 2012 | Blog, Education Station, Mars, NASA, Space and Science
NASAβs next mission to Mars is the spacecraft known as the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN, or MAVEN for short. MAVEN is set for launch in November 2013. As a Mars orbiter, MAVEN will be the first mission devoted to understanding the Martian atmosphere, with a...
Nov 19, 2012 | Blog, Coalition News, CSExtra, Newsroom
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Nov 19, 2012 | Canadian Space Agency, International Space Station, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), NASA, Roscosmos, Space Research
U. S., Japanese and Russian astronauts descended safely to Earth late Sunday, touching down aboard their Soyuz spacecraft in wintry northern Kazakhstan after a 127 day mission to the International Space Station The capsule carrying Sunita Williams, of...
Nov 18, 2012 | Exploration, International Space Station, Space Shuttle, NASA, Space Research
NASA’s Johnson Space Center, in Houston,Texas, and Glenn Research Center, in Cleveland, Ohio, will begin the New Year with new directors. Ellen Ochoa, a former astronaut, moves up from deputy director of NASA JohnsonΒ to replace Mike Coats, after seven years at...
Nov 16, 2012 | Blog, Coalition News, CSExtra, Newsroom
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Nov 15, 2012 | Benefits of Space Exploration, Exploration, Planet Earth, Space and Science
NASA’s prolific Kepler alien planet hunter has received a potential four-year extension to continue its search for Earth-like worlds circling within the habitable zones of distant stars. The Kepler space telescope’s just ending 3 1/2 year prime mission has...
Nov 15, 2012 | Blog, Coalition News, CSExtra, Newsroom
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