Dec 15, 2012 | Exploration, International Cooperation, Mars, NASA, Planet Earth, Space and Science, Space Race, Space Research
The looming Fiscal Cliff could have dire consequences for NASA, the nation’s lead civil space agency, and NOAA, the agency responsible for satellite weather observations and climate studies, according to an analysis prepared for the Washington-based...
Nov 4, 2012 | Ask the Expert, Blog, Book Reviews, Education Station, Exploration, Kids Space, NASA, Space Race, Spaceports, Why Space
The Final Journey of the Saturn V by Andrew R. Thomas and Paul N. Thomarios; Ringtaw Books/Univ. of Akron Press; $24.95 (hard cover); 2012. This is a behind-the-scenes account of preserving an impressive piece of America’s space heritage. To literally boost President...
Oct 23, 2012 | Exploration, Multimedia, NASA, Space Race, The Moon
Experience the drama of humankind’s first moon landing in a new creative format. Thamtech, LLC, has developed a multimedia online recreation of the Apollo 11 July 20, 1969 landing at the Sea of Tranquility. The production weaves together...
Oct 23, 2012 | Blog, Commercial Space, Education Station, European Space Agency, Exploration, International Cooperation, Kids Space, Space Race, The Moon
Europe’s Astrium has briefed the major results of its Lunar Lander Phase B1 study, carried out on behalf of the European Space Agency (ESA). The study has consolidated the mission concept for automatic landing near the Moon’s south pole in 2019 as well as the...
Sep 12, 2012 | Asteroid Exploration, Exploration, Mars, Space Race, The Moon
NASA and the agency’s prime contractors for the Space Launch System and Orion/Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle, the primary elements of the first U. S. human deep space exploration capability since the Apollo program and potential major new science initiatives,...
Sep 5, 2012 | Blog, Capitol Hill News, Education Station, Exploration, Kids Space, NASA, Space Race, Space Research, The Moon
As a public memorial is being readied in Washington, D.C. to honor the recent passing of astronaut Neil Armstrong, work is underway to protect the Apollo 11 landing site on the Moon and make it a National Historic Landmark. A New Mexico State University NMSU professor...
Aug 10, 2012 | Ask the Expert, Blog, Education Station, Exploration, Kids Space, Mars, NASA, Space Race, Why Space
As NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover revs up to start rolling, a new poll has looked into public backing of a human mission to Mars. Now Americans are slightly more supportive of sending a human to the Red Planet. A Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 36...
Jun 16, 2012 | Blog, China, Space Race, Spaceports
China’s latest, milestone making, space voyage is underway. The June 16th liftoff of the Shenzhou 9 spacecraft placed into Earth orbit a three-person crew that included China’s first female space traveler. China’s astronauts for the flight are: Jing Haipeng, Liu Wang...
May 29, 2012 | China, Education Station, Exploration, Kids Space, Space Race
China is readying its crew-carrying Shenzhou-9 spacecraft to conduct that country’s first piloted docking mission. Shenzhou-9 will have three astronauts onboard – a crew that may include a woman — to manually rendezvous and dock with the already orbiting...
Mar 24, 2012 | Ask the Experts — Answers, Blog, Book Reviews, Education Station, Exploration, Kids Space, Mars, Space Race
Rockets and People: The Moon Race (Volume IV) by Boris Chertok; NASA History Program Office; Washington, D.C.; Note: Available as free E-book (also Government Printing Office, Hard Cover); $79.00; 2012. This is the last volume of a four-volume set of memoirs by the...