Mar 6, 2014 | Blog, Education Station, Exploration, Kids Space, Our Solar System, Space Race, Space Research, Spaceports, The Moon
A top-notch team of MIT engineers has scoped out orbiting way stations – one such depot placed somewhere between the Earth and the Moon. Once in place, this type of filling station could reduce the fuel a spacecraft needs to carry from Earth. That means, with less...
Feb 13, 2014 | Blog, China, Education Station, International Cooperation, Kids Space, Our Solar System, Space Race, The Moon
The word from Beijing is that China’s Yutu (Jade Rabbit) rover is indeed awake, apparently surviving some two weeks of low temperature trauma. China’s Yutu lunar robot first touched the Moon’s surface on Dec. 15, 2013, unleashed several hours after China’s lunar probe...
Feb 2, 2014 | Ask the Expert, Ask the Experts — Answers, Benefits of Space Exploration, Blog, Book Reviews, Commercial Space, Education Station, Exploration, International Cooperation, International Space Station, Space Shuttle, NASA, Kids Space, Mars, NASA, Space and Science, Space Race, Space Research, Space Shuttle
America’s Space Futures: Defining Goals for Space Exploration, Editor Eric Sterner; George C. Marshall Institute, Arlington, Va.; $12.99, shipping and handling $3.99; (soft cover); 2013. The George C. Marshall Institute has published a thought-provoking new book,...
Jan 19, 2014 | Ask the Expert, Blog, Education Station, Exploration, Kids Space, Mars, NASA, Space and Science, Space Race
It’s a bit of a detective story. NASA’s Opportunity Mars rover imagery shows a rock materializing in a spot where it wasn’t seen in earlier imagery. How’d it get there? Mars Exploration Rover (MER) scientists have dubbed the object “Pinnacle Island.” One view is that...
Jan 10, 2014 | Benefits of Space Exploration, Blog, Commercial Space, Education Station, Exploration, International Cooperation, Kids Space, Market Research, Mars, NASA, Space Race, Why Space
An interesting poll was taken last year focusing on space and funding the final frontier. Done by the London-based YouGov, the fieldwork was done between Nov. 28 and Dec. 1st. YouGov is an international, full service online market research agency founded in the UK in...
Dec 30, 2013 | Blog, China, Education Station, Exploration, Kids Space, NASA, Space Race, The Moon
China’s Chang’e 3 lander and rover have been spotted by NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter’s (LRO) powerful camera. At the time of the landing LRO’s orbit was far from the landing site so images of the landing were not possible. However, ten days later on December...
Dec 16, 2013 | Blog, China, Education Station, Exploration, International Cooperation, Kids Space, NASA, Space Race, The Moon
Previously taken NASA Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) images of the area in which China’s Chang’e 3 landed on the Moon December 14 have been matched up with descent images acquired by the Chang’e 3 lander as it dove down onto the lunar surface. According to imaging...
Dec 10, 2013 | Ask the Expert, Blog, International Cooperation, Kids Space, Mars, Space Race, Space Research
Mars One — a not-for-profit foundation established to plant a permanent human settlement on Mars — has secured lead suppliers for its first mission to Mars. The mission, slated for a 2018 launch, will include a robotic lander and a communications...
Nov 13, 2013 | Blog, Commercial Space, Education Station, Exploration, Kids Space, NASA, Space Race, Space Research, The Moon
At a press conference today, representatives of NASA and Bigelow Aerospace discussed the options for commercial sector involvement in space exploration beyond low-Earth orbit. Under a NASA Space Act Agreement, Bigelow Aerospace of North Las Vegas, Nevada has scoped...
Oct 31, 2013 | Ask the Expert, Blog, Book Reviews, Education Station, Exploration, Kids Space, NASA, Space Race, The Moon
Apollo 13 Owners’ Workshop Manual – An engineering insight into how NASA saved the crew of the failed Moon mission; Quayside publishing group/Zenith Press; Minneapolis, MN; $28.00; November 2013. For those of you that didn’t experience the “real deal” in 1970 – beyond...