Please Fence Me In! New Mexico Spaceport Progress
Credit: Virgin Galactic Spaceport America in New Mexico continues to take shape, the future site of commercial space tourism flights. Hundreds of construction workers are busily churning up dirt, completing a huge runway and terminal at the site. Sir Richard...CSExtra – Wednesday, May 26, 2010
Wednesday’s CSExtra includes the latest reporting and commentary on events shaping U.S. space policy and NASA’s future. A Congressional watchdog agency finds NASA acting appropriately in its handling of Constellation’s cancellation. The shuttle...NEW Q&A: Whitman grad Dottie Metcalf-Lindenburger talks about education and spaceflight
Source: The Union Bulletin, Walla Walla, WA Dottie Metcalf-Lindenburger propelled her career to the highest reaches, all the way to space, by challenging herself in school and letting her curiosity be a guide. Metcalf-Lindenburger graduated from Whitman College in...Astronaut and teacher talks about lessons, challenges of space
Source: The Spokesman Review Idaho schoolteacher Barbara Morgan was next in line to be NASA’s teacher in space when the first designee for that post, Christa McAuliffe, was killed in the Challenger space shuttle explosion in 1986. Twenty-one years later, Morgan went...Wheels Up! NASA’s Sky-high Telescope on Debut Flight
The sky is making way for a new astronomical tool. It is wheels up on NASA’s Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) as this modified Boeing 747SP fitted with a 2.7-meter German-built telescope makes a May 25 debut flight. Flight of the airborne...CSExtra – Tuesday, May 25, 2010
Tuesday’s CSExtra includes the latest on the U.S. Air Force and United Launch Alliance attempt to launch the first in a new generation of GPS satellites. Shuttle Atlantis to surpass the 120 million mile mark before a planned return to Earth early Wednesday...CSExtra – Monday, May 24, 2010
Monday’s CSExtra offers the latest in reporting and commentary on NASA, U.S. space policy and space activities around the globe. The U.S. GPS system to get an upgrade, asteroids become the new focus of human exploration, This Week in Space with Miles...This Week in Space, May 22, 2010
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLtU46K_3aMCSExtra-Sunday, May 23, 2010
Sunday’s CSExtra includes the new reporting and commentary on space policy and NASA’s future. An expert examines how other nations are viewing U.S. space intentions. Initial efforts to human rate commercial launch vehicles unfold. After five centuries, Nicolaus...Space Talk
The Universe is full of invisible radiation …but this is the tiny part we can actually see. ��🌌
Visible light is only a small part of the electromagnetic spectrum, yet it reveals stars, galaxies, nebulae, and planets directly to our eyes and telescopes.
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Sometimes, you don’t need an escape from the world—just a quiet moment to get lost in your own thoughts. 📚🎧#learning #space #nasa #isro
No, sending 6 people to Mars or to the Moon is not a a good investment. Specially since those billions could be use to provide Medicare for all Americans. Benefit millions of people or give a rocket ride to 6 people. Oh yeah, the inventions only help corporations not us #NASA 🤷♂️
Infrared lets us see what visible light can’t. 🌌
It can pass through cosmic dust and reveal hidden stars, warm dust, and regions where new stars are being born….giving us a different view of the Universe.
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