President Obama’s Vision for Space Exploration (part 2)
Source: The Space Review On April 15th President Obama outlined the administration’s new plan for civil space exploration in a speech at the Kennedy Space Center. This article is part 2 of an analysis of the President’s announcement. The first part of the analysis...Satellite view shows huge oil slick from gulf drilling rig explosion
Source: The Huntsville Times Oil leaking from a sunken drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico oozed slowly toward the coast Monday, endangering hundreds of miles of marshes, barrier islands and white sand beaches in four states from Louisiana to Florida, the Associated...Don’t Forsake U.S. Leadership in Space
Source: Space.com Space exploration has been the guiding star of American innovation. The Mercury, Gemini, Apollo and shuttle programs have rallied generations of Americans to devote their careers to science and engineering, and NASA’s achievements in exploration and...NASA Moves Final Shuttle Mission to Mid-November
NASA’s space shuttle program has received a brief reprieve from retirement. The last of three missions still remaining had been scheduled for a Sept. 16 launching aboard the shuttle Discovery. On Monday, shuttle managers moved the planned July 29 launching of...Reflect on This! Lost Light Reflector Found on the Moon
NASA orbiter spots Lunokhod 1 on the MoonScientists have located on the lunar surface a long lost light reflector attached to the former Soviet Union’s Lunokhod 1 rover. The French-built laser reflector was sent aboard the robotic Luna 17 mission. That craft landed on...Presentations from the Presidential Space Summit at Kennedy Space Center
The following presentations are from the Presidential Space Summit, April 15, 2010 at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla. Click on the title of the presentation to view. A New Exploration Strategy Dr. Edward F. Crawley, Ford Professor of Engineering at MIT...Presidential Space Summit Speaker Presentations–April 15, 2010
The following presentations are from the Presidential Space Summit, April 15, 2010 at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla. Click on the title of the presentation to view. A New Exploration Strategy Dr. Edward F. Crawley, Ford Professor of Engineering at MIT...Hubble, shuttle, humans and future exploration
Source: BBC Happy birthday, Hubble. It’s 20 years since the shuttle blasted off from the Kennedy Space Center to place the famous observatory in orbit. The telescope’s achievements are immense. Few instruments in the history of science have had quite the...An interview with one of the astronauts who flew Hubble into space 20 years ago
Source: The Houston Chronicle Two decades ago today space shuttle Discovery launched from Florida’s Kennedy Space Center, carrying the Hubble Space Telescope in its payload bay. Among the mission’s five NASA astronauts was Steven Hawley, an astronomer now...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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