Oct 11, 2010 | Blog, Education Station, features, NASA, Newsroom, Press Releases, Space and Science
The Coalition for Space Exploration (Coalition) is pleased that President Obama signed the FY2011 NASA Authorization Act into law today. This marks yet another critical step for NASA to achieve a bold and sustainable approach for the future. Additionally, it further...
Oct 11, 2010 | Augustine Committee, Commercial Space, Exploration, International Space Station, Space Shuttle, NASA, Mars, Space and Science, The Moon
President Obama on Monday signed the 2010 NASA Authorization bill, providing the space agency with a three-year road map that includes work on a new heavy lift rocket and multi-purpose crew vehicle for future deep space missions as well as funding to support...
Oct 11, 2010 | Blog, Education Station, Exploration, International Space Station, NASA
On your next camping trip to a national park, take a look skyward and connect with the International Space Station (ISS). NASA and the U.S. Department of Interior’s Park Service have partnered to share information with park visitors about where and when to look up to...
Oct 11, 2010 | 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 features a round up of weekend developments on the space...
Oct 10, 2010 | Blog, Commercial Space, Education Station, Exploration, Space Tourism, Spaceports
SpaceShipTwo has flown solo for the first time at the Mojave Air and Space Port in California. Released at altitude early this morning from its carrier plane – the WhiteKnightTwo – the first, on-its-own aerial flight of the Virgin Galactic space vehicle successfully...
Oct 10, 2010 | Ask the Expert, Benefits of Space Exploration, Blog, Education Station, Exploration, NASA, Planet Earth
Trapped underground since early August, thirty-three miners in Chile will be using a modified NASA-designed rescue capsule – able to bring each miner topside from over 2,000 feet below ground. News reports have spotlighted the efforts of NASA engineer Clinton Cragg,...
Oct 10, 2010 | International Space Station, NASA, Space and Science
A Soyuz spacecraft carrying two Russians and an American successfully docked with the International Space Station late on Saturday, restoring the orbital outpost to a full complement of six astronauts for the first time since Sept. 25. The linkup occurred on...
Oct 10, 2010 | Blog, Education Station, NASA
Community college students in a pilot program will take the first steps toward potential technology careers as they develop robotic explorers at NASA field centers. Ninety students from community colleges in 23 states have been selected to travel to NASA’s...
Oct 9, 2010 | Blog, Education Station, Exploration, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Our Solar System, Space and Science
There’s heightened excitement by officials at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). Analysis of the tiny contents within the Hayabusa sample capsule that returned to Earth from asteroid Itokawa may indeed be minute particles of the visited space rock....
Oct 9, 2010 | Benefits of Space Exploration, Blog, Commercial Space, Education Station, Exploration, Kids Space, NASA, Space Race, Space Tourism, Spaceports
Space industrialization and settlement of the high frontier will be the theme of a threshold conference to be held at month’s end. Space Manufacturing 14: Critical Technologies for Space Settlement conference will bring together futurists, space scientists and...