Apr 22, 2010 | Blog, Coalition News, Exploration, features, NASA, Newsroom, Our Solar System, Space and Science, The Sun
Source: NASA.gov View related briefing materials here. NASA’s recently launched Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, is returning early images that confirm an unprecedented new capability for scientists to better understand our sun’s dynamic processes. These...
Apr 17, 2010 | Benefits of Space Exploration, Blog, Exploration, NASA, Space and Science, Space Race
Source: HOUSTON CHRONICLE Texas’ congressional delegation presented a united, bipartisan front on Friday, saying President Barack Obama’s compromise on his space budget doesn’t go far enough and calling upon him to visit Johnson Space Center. Meeting...
Apr 17, 2010 | Benefits of Space Exploration, Blog, Exploration, NASA, Our Solar System, Space and Science
Source: Space.com President Barack Obama set a lofty next goal this week for Americans in space: Visiting an asteroid by 2025. But reaching a space rock in a mere 15 years is a daunting mission, and one that might also carry the ultimate safety of the planet on its...
Apr 15, 2010 | Blog, International Cooperation, Space and Science
India’s blossoming space program was set back April 15 by the failure of their Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV-D3). The GSLV-D3 vehicle lifted off successfully, but the first flight of a home-grown cryogenic upper stage did not succeed. That flight test...
Apr 15, 2010 | Blog, Education, features, NASA, Space and Science
The NASA University Student Launch Initiative, or USLI, is a competition that challenges university-level students to design, build and fly a reusable rocket with scientific payload to one mile in altitude. The project engages students in scientific research and...
Apr 14, 2010 | NASA, Space and Science, The Moon, Uncategorized
New Mexico has designated the Apollo 11 moon landing site as “cultural property” – a decision to officially assign the artifacts left behind at Tranquility Base in the official registry of the New Mexico Register of Cultural Properties. The New Mexico Historic...
Apr 13, 2010 | NASA, Space and Science
Source: The New York Times During his trip to the Kennedy Space Center this week, President Obama will be confronted with an awkward political reality: when it comes to space exploration, sometimes even Republicans can be passionate advocates for the public option....
Mar 31, 2010 | International Cooperation, NASA, Space and Science
From the Economist ARISTOTLE believed that the heavens were perfect. If they ever were, they are no longer. The skies above Earth are now littered with the debris of dead satellites, bits of old rockets and the odd tool dropped by a spacewalking astronaut. Such is the...
Mar 31, 2010 | Education Station, Exploration, NASA, Our Solar System, Space and Science, Space Research
From Scientific American: What might future explorers of the solar system see? Artist Ron Miller takes the viewer on a journey to eight of the most breathtaking views that await explorers of our solar system. The scale of these natural wonders dwarfs anything Earth...
Mar 31, 2010 | Ask the Expert, Education Station, Exploration, NASA, Space and Science, Space Research, Space Shuttle
In a first-of-its-kind experiment, the unique conditions of space flight will be used to examine how cells remain healthy or succumb to disease, particularly in the face of stress or damage. At Arizona State University (ASU) in Tempe, Biodesign Institute researchers...