Jun 11, 2015 | Blog, Coalition News, CSExtra, Mars, NASA, Newsroom, Planet Earth, Space and Science, Space Race
Today’s CSExtra offers the latest reporting and commentary on space related activities from across the globe. The U.S. Senate Commerce, Justice and Science subcommittee responsible for NASA spending trims the agency’s 2016 Commercial Crew Program request,...
Feb 25, 2015 | Ask the Experts — Answers, Asteroid Exploration, Benefits of Space Exploration, Capitol Hill News, Commercial Space, Education Station, Exploration, International Space Station, Kids Space, Mars, NASA, Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle, Space Race, The Moon
U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), chairman of the Subcommittee on Space, Science, and Competitiveness, convened a hearing on Tuesday, February 24, 2015. The hearing was entitled “U.S. Human Exploration Goals and Commercial Space Competitiveness.” Former NASA astronauts...
Dec 18, 2014 | Biographies, Blog, Book Reviews, Education, Education Station, Exploration, Kids Space, Mars, NASA, Our Solar System, Space Race, The Moon, Why Space
Book Review: The Art of Space – The History of Space Art, From the Earliest Visions to the Graphics of the Modern Era by Ron Miller; Zenith Press/Quarto Publishing Group, Minneapolis, Minnesota; $35.00 (hardcover); September 2014. This is an impressive gathering of...
Oct 25, 2014 | Ask the Experts — Answers, Benefits of Space Exploration, Blog, Canadian Space Agency, China, Commercial Space, Education Station, European Space Agency, International Cooperation, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Kids Space, NASA, Space Race, Why Space
The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has unveiled their new report: The Space Economy at a Glance 2014. The report provides a statistical overview of the global space sector and its contributions to economic activity. This new edition...
Oct 8, 2014 | Ask the Experts — Answers, Blog, Book Reviews, Education Station, Exploration, Kids Space, Mars, NASA, Space and Science, Space Race, Why Space
Why Mars – NASA and the Politics of Space Exploration by W. Henry Lambright; Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, Maryland; $49.95 (hardcover); 2014. Wondering when humans will set boot on Mars? Author W. Henry Lambright has written an absorbing and...
Jul 6, 2014 | Ask the Expert, Blog, Book Reviews, Kids Space, NASA, Space Race, Space Research, Space Tourism, Spaceports, Why Space
Suborbital: Industry at the Edge of Space by Erik Seedhouse; Springer/Praxis, New York /Heidelberg; $34.99; 2014. As the dawn of commercial suborbital flight draws closer, author Erik Seedhouse has written an informative book on the topic. The reader will find...
Jun 1, 2014 | Ask the Expert, Asteroid Exploration, Blog, Education Station, Exploration, International Space Station, Kids Space, Market Research, Mars, NASA, Space Race, Why Space
A new report from the National Research Council (NRC) — Pathways to Exploration – Rationales and Approaches for a U.S. Program of Human Space Exploration – is slated for a June 4th release. Members of the authoring committee will present the report’s...
Mar 30, 2014 | Ask the Experts — Answers, Benefits of Space Exploration, Blog, Book Reviews, Education Station, Exploration, Gallup Polls, Kids Space, Market Research, Multimedia, NASA, Research, Space Race, The Moon, Why Space
Marketing the Moon – The Selling of the Apollo Lunar Program by David Meerman Scott & Richard Jurek; MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass.; $39.95 (hard cover); Feb. 2014. This is an absolutely marvelous and exceptional read! The authors, both marketing sages, have...
Mar 24, 2014 | Benefits of Space Exploration, Exploration, International Space Station, NASA, Our Solar System, Space and Science, Space Race, Space Research, Uncategorized
A bi-partisan letter from 32 members of the U.S. House urges the White House to structure a “safe, focused and expeditious return of American astronauts to deep space exploration on an American rocket launched from American soil.” The lawmakers, led by...
Mar 9, 2014 | Ask the Experts — Answers, Blog, Book Reviews, Education Station, Exploration, Kids Space, NASA, Space Race, Space Research, Space Shuttle, Why Space
X-15: The World’s Fastest Rocket Plane and the Pilots Who Ushered in the Space Age by John Anderson and Richard Passman; Zenith Press/Quayside Publishing Group, Minneapolis, MN.; Licensed by Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum; $30.00 (hard cover); 2014. This...