Feb 3, 2011 | Blog, China, Education Station, European Space Agency, Exploration, International Cooperation, Mars, Space Research
Mars500 crew (from left) Alexey Sitev, Yue Wang, Romain Charles, Alexandr Smoleevskiy, Diego Urbina and Sukhrob Kamolov. Mars isolation modules in Moscow – home for the Mars 500 project. A major simulation of a human voyage to Mars has reached a key milestone –...
Feb 3, 2011 | Blog, Coalition News, CSExtra
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Feb 3, 2011 | Exploration, NASA, Our Solar System, Space and Science, Space Research, The Sun
NASA’s Kepler space telescope has made major new strides in the search for extrasolar planets, producing its first candidates for Earth-sized worlds and the first worlds orbiting within what’s considered the habitable zones of stars, astronomers...
Feb 2, 2011 | Ask the Expert, Book Reviews, Education Station, European Space Agency, Exploration, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Kids Space, Mars, NASA, Our Solar System, Planet Earth, Space and Science, The Moon, The Sun, Why Space
The 50 Most Extreme Places In Our Solar System by David Baker and Todd Ratcliff; The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press; Cambridge, Massachusetts; $27.95 (Hardcover); 2010. Readers of all backgrounds will love this book. The volume is beautifully produced,...
Feb 2, 2011 | Benefits of Space Exploration, International Cooperation, Space and Science, Space Research
NASA satellites, some of them positioned to monitor hurricanes and others involved in climate research, are watching the massive winter storm that has much of the Central and Eastern United States in its grips. Everyday, these spacecraft help people plan their...
Feb 2, 2011 | Blog, Coalition News, CSExtra
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Feb 1, 2011 | Blog, Coalition News, CSExtra
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Feb 1, 2011 | International Space Station, Space Shuttle, NASA
UPDATE: Discovery reached Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Pad 39 A, just before 3 a.m., EST, on Tuesday, or about seven hours after emerging from the Vehicle Assembly Building. Shuttle Discovery left the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space...
Jan 31, 2011 | Blog, Coalition News, CSExtra
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Jan 30, 2011 | Canadian Space Agency, Commercial Space, European Space Agency, International Cooperation, International Space Station, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), NASA, Space Research, Space Shuttle
Russia’s 41st Progress supply capsule successfully docked with the International Space Station late Saturday, the latest in a series of unmanned global cargo vessels headed for the six person orbiting science laboratory. The Progress capsule linked to the...