Video contest a new frontier for space kids
Source: The Houston Chronicle Houston astronaut asks youths to give views on exploration Houston’s only native astronaut is reaching out to the next generation of Space City children to learn what NASA can do to motivate them. Shannon Walker, who will launch...Opinion: Mineta: Time to bring Silicon Valley spirit to space industry
Source: SiliconValley Mercury News Just over five years ago, as secretary of transportation I had the honor of presiding over the birth of a new industry in the United States: commercial human space transportation. Thousands of people gathered under the crisp Mojave...Obama’s NASA: Editorial from The Toledo Blade
Source: The Toledo Blade PRESIDENT Obama’s critics don’t believe he has the right stuff when it comes to charting NASA’s future. Yet the President’s vision of the space program, which he outlined recently, will keep it viable in the decades to...Kids Wanted! Send In Your Moon Station Design Drawings
Odyssey magazine has devoted their April issue to “Fly Me to the Moons” – including a heavy dose of exploring Earth’s next-door neighbor – our own Moon. Odyssey is an award-winning science magazine for young people ages 10 to above (grades 5 and up) and features...Click on Hubble: Galaxy Zoo Now Includes HST Images
Source: Universe Today The Hubble Space Telescope is 20 years old on Saturday and, to mark this anniversary, all the world’s space and astronomy fans have a chance to become part of the Hubble team. As part of the birthday celebrations NASA’s Space Telescope...GOP senator warns NASA budget cuts will help China beat U.S.
Source: The Hill Congressional opposition to the president’s proposed budget for NASA stiffened on Thursday, as top Republican appropriators accused the White House of attempting to rob the agency of its mission. While President Barack Obama retooled NASA’s spending...Space Agency for Mexico Okayed
It is official. Mexico’s congress green-lighted this week the creation of a “Mexican NASA”. The new agency is called AEXA (Agencia Espacial Mexicana). AEXA will specialize in the promotion, coordination and encouragement of all matters relating to the research,...NASA has escape plan for space station astronauts
Source: Los Angeles Times The agency may send the Orion capsule to the International Space Station in three years, Administrator Bolden says at a Senate hearing. NASA may be able to send a new vessel to the International Space Station within three years to provide...Lawmakers Question NASA’s Plan for Private Rockets
Source: The Wall Street Journal Citing safety and budget concerns, members of a Senate appropriations subcommittee Thursday voiced strong opposition to plans to have private rockets transport astronauts to the international space station by the middle of the decade....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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