Aug 11, 2011 | Blog, Coalition News, CSExtra
To subscribe to CSExtra via RSS feed click here. If you would prefer to receive CSExtra in e-mail format, e-mail us at Info@space.com with the word SUBSCRIBE in the subject line. Now on orbit – the Coalition for Space Exploration’s latest Think Outside the Circle PSA....
Aug 11, 2011 | Exploration, Mars, NASA, Our Solar System, Space Research
NASA’s long-lived Opportunity Mars Exploration Rover reached the rim of Endeavour crater on the Red Planet late Tuesday, surveying new terrain that the mechanical geologist will explore for evidence of past warmer and wetter...
Aug 10, 2011 | Ask the Expert, Blog, China, Education Station, Exploration, International Space Station, Kids Space, Space Race
China continues to press forward in its plans to loft an experimental space laboratory – and according to one space watcher, China’s Tiangong I may fly sooner than expected. According to Gregory Kulacki, a senior analyst and China Project manager at the Union of...
Aug 10, 2011 | Blog, Coalition News, CSExtra
To subscribe to CSExtra via RSS feed click here. If you would prefer to receive CSExtra in e-mail format, e-mail us at Info@space.com with the word SUBSCRIBE in the subject line. Wednesday’s CSExtra offers a roundup of the latest reporting on space...
Aug 10, 2011 | Commercial Space, Education, Exploration, NASA, Space and Science
NASA selected seven emerging commercial suborbital spaceflight services on Tuesday to foster future research under a $10 million two- year Flight Opportunities Program agreement. The companies include Armadillo Aerospace, of Heath, Tex.; Near Space...
Aug 9, 2011 | Blog, Coalition News, CSExtra
To subscribe to CSExtra via RSS feed click here. If you would prefer to receive CSExtra in e-mail format, e-mail us at Info@space.com with the word SUBSCRIBE in the subject line. Tuesday’s CSExtra offers the latest reporting and commentary on space...
Aug 9, 2011 | Blog, Education Station, Exploration, Kids Space, NASA, Space and Science, Space Shuttle
One of the last experiments to be flown on the NASA space shuttle program is helping to unravel the role of microgravity and its impact on plants and bacteria. QinetiQ North America today announced the results of its first Symbiotic Nodulation in a Reduced Gravity...
Aug 8, 2011 | Canadian Space Agency, European Space Agency, Exploration, International Cooperation, Mars, NASA, Space Research, The Moon, Uncategorized
NASA will focus its energies on preparations for a mission to a near Earth asteroid late this month, as it joins forces with dozens of experts from academia and industry, the European and Canadian space agencies on the Black Rock Lava Flow...
Aug 8, 2011 | Blog, Coalition News, CSExtra
To subscribe to CSExtra via RSS feed click here. If you would prefer to receive CSExtra in e-mail format, e-mail us at Info@space.com with the word SUBSCRIBE in the subject line. Monday’s CSExtra offers the latest reporting and commentary on space related...
Aug 7, 2011 | Blog, Education Station, Exploration, NASA, Our Solar System, Space and Science
Now en route to Jupiter, NASA’s Juno spacecraft has begun its five-year cruise to the giant planet. Juno roared off into Florida skies on Friday, August 5th. Engineers report they have received communications from the spacecraft, and its trio of large solar arrays...