Drilling on Mars: Space Solution to Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill?
Could drilling on the red planet offer some insight into dealing with that horrific, on-going saga of an oil spill off the Louisiana coast? A host of solutions are being reviewed to cut off spewing oil from 5,000 feet below sea-level. U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu...CSExtra–Friday, May 14, 2010
Friday’s space news scan: The Senate Appropriations Committee includes a measure halting the cancellation of NASA’s Constellation Program in a spending bill for the Afghan war. More on a Senate hearing on Wednesday in which Apollo astronauts Neil Armstrong...Book Review: Packing for Mars – The Curious Science of Life in the Void
Packing for Mars – The Curious Science of Life in the Void by Mary Roach; W.W. Norton & Company, New York, New York; (hard cover) $25.95; August 2010. This is an appealing and original look at human space exploration. The author pulls back the Velcro to...CSExtra–Thursday, May 13, 2010
Thursday’s CSExtra finds an unusually large number of reports and commentary on Wednesday’s Senate Commerce Science and Transportation Committee hearing on the White House space policy. Universally, the focus was the opposition from the first and last...U.S. Space Leadership in Jeopardy, Armstrong, Cernan Tell Senate Panel
The first and the last of America’s Apollo moon walkers raised concerns before a Senate oversight panel on Wednesday that President Obama’s space exploration strategy could cause the United States to lose its global leadership in the exploration of...New Video: Orion Pad Abort-1 Test
An outstanding video is now available from last week’s NASA’s flight test, called Pad Abort-1 – a test of the launch abort system designed for the Orion crew exploration vehicle. The Pad Abort-1 hardware lifted off at 9 a.m. EDT May 6 at the U.S. Army’s White Sands...A Martian Moment – The New York Times
To read more: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/05/12/readers-19/6 Free Websites for Learning and Teaching Science
Source: Mashable.com From robotics to space research, from physics to computer science, the Internet is a vast trove of information about the sciences. Resources such as Wikipedia (and its easy-on-younger-minds counterpart, Simple English Wikipedia) and online video...CSExtra–Wednesday, May 12, 2010
Wednesday’s space news scan finds more reporting and commentary on U.S. space policy and NASA’s future. Some of the discussion is centered around a hearing of the U. S. Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee on the future of U. S. human...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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