NASA Opens Applications for ‘INSPIRED’ high school students
High school students in the United States are invited to participate in NASA’s Interdisciplinary National Science Program Incorporating Research Experience, or INSPIRE, through the program’s online learning community. Applications are being accepted from...Guenter Wendt, 85, ‘Pad Leader’ for NASA’s moon missions, dies
Source: Collect Space Guenter Wendt, the original pad leader for NASA’s manned space program who was the last man the Apollo astronauts saw before launching to the moon, died at his home in Merritt Island, Fla., early Monday morning after being hospitalized for...James Cameron at Caltech: The Science of Pandora
Source: Discovery News Last week, I had the good fortune to part of a packed house in Caltech’s Beckman Auditorium when director James Cameron came to Caltech on the evening of April 27 to talk about the fictional world called Pandora that he created in the...Making a Mars sample return mission more affordable
Source: Spaceflight Now Scientists are proposing splitting an ambitious multibillion-dollar mission to return samples from Mars into three pieces to ease budget concerns, officials said this week. Speaking to reporters from an astrobiology conference in Houston,...John Kelly, Florida Today: Test flights will help jobs crisis
Source: Florida Today From the “every little bit helps” department: Don’t be too quick to scoff at the billion or so dollars that some U.S. senators are trying to add to the NASA budget for test flights. Bill Nelson, D-Florida, seems to have support...White House unveils KSC task force
Source: Orlando Sentinel President Barack Obama is expected to release a memo on Monday that will outline the members of a task force that will decide how to spend $40 million in federal funds aimed at helping Kennedy Space Center workers find new jobs after the space...Bolden, Locke to lead jobs task force
Source: Florida Today President Barack Obama on Monday will appoint Cabinet secretaries and agency chiefs to lead a task force that will develop a $40 million job-creation plan for the Space Coast. Obama will issue a memorandum naming Commerce Secretary Gary Locke and...This Week in Space–April 30, 2010
This Week in Space, April 30, 2010 httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYNvbIfVLQgNew Mexico’s Rocket Week!
Credit: NASALAS CRUCES, New Mexico — It’s a big space week here for New Mexico. Preparations are underway for a major educational launch from the state’s Spaceport America and NASA’s preparing Pad Abort 1 – a step to develop safer vehicles for human spaceflight...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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