Jul 1, 2010 | Benefits of Space Exploration, Blog, Coalition News, Education, Exploration, Why Space
And we’re celebrating with a contest, Explore Our Space, which offers visitors the opportunity to win some cool prizes, including a chance to watch one of the final space shuttle launches from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Throughout July,...
Jul 1, 2010 | International Space Station, NASA, Planet Earth, The Moon, Uncategorized
Astronaut Doug Wheelock’s view of lunar eclipse. Photo credt: NASA International Space Station resident Doug Wheelock took this picture of the partial lunar eclipse on June 26. From his perch on the orbiting laboratory, Wheelock could see the shadow of the...
Jul 1, 2010 | Blog, Education Station, Exploration, Kids Space, NASA, Planet Earth, Space and Science
Credit: NASA/SVS At NASA Goddard Space Flight Center’s Scientific Visualization Studio (SVS), a team of “visualizers” take raw scientific data and translate that data into visual imagery. The visuals help both scientists and the general public better understand the...
Jul 1, 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. Thursday’s CSExtra features the latest in reporting and commentary in the debate...
Jun 30, 2010 | Blog, Education, NASA, Planet Earth
Source: Spaceflight Now A NASA spacecraft circling more than 400 miles above Earth has snapped a striking picture of oil streaming ashore in Mississippi, adding another photo to the growing catalog of satellite images of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. The Earth...
Jun 30, 2010 | Blog, NASA
Source: Alabama Local News HUNTSVILLE, AL. – A key NASA contractor laid off 102 aerospace workers in Huntsville Tuesday, sources said, bringing to nearly 300 the number reportedly sent home in the last week as the Constellation rocket program collapses toward a...
Jun 30, 2010 | European Space Agency, Mars, NASA, Our Solar System, Space and Science, Uncategorized
Scientists are assigning names to major features of the massive Martian impact crater Endeavour, that is the long-term destination of NASA’s Opportunity Mars Exploration Rover. The names — Cape Dromedary, Point Hicks and Cape Byron — pay tribute to...
Jun 30, 2010 | Blog, Education Station, European Space Agency, Exploration, Kids Space, Our Solar System, Space and Science, Space Research
Expect the unexpected. That’s likely to be the case on July 10 as the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Rosetta spacecraft encounters asteroid Lutetia. The spacecraft will whisk by the object, studying it with a bevy of scientific instruments. Lutetia will be the second...
Jun 30, 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. Wednesday’s CSExtra features reports on Tuesday’s House action on the White...
Jun 29, 2010 | Blog, Commercial Space, NASA
Source: Bloomberg Obama Focuses Revised Space-Exploration Policy on Partnerships, Technology President Barack Obama called for greater international cooperation for space exploration and bolstering U.S. companies that build spacecraft. Obama vowed to maintain the U.S....