Sep 23, 2011 | Blog, China, Education Station, Exploration, Space Race
China is gearing up for this month’s launch of its Tiangong 1 spacecraft – hardware dedicated to that country’s first space rendezvous and docking mission. According to Chinese space authorities, the integrated Tiangong 1is now encapsulated atop a CZ-2F booster. The...
Aug 18, 2011 | Benefits of Space Exploration, Canadian Space Agency, China, Commercial Space, Education, European Space Agency, International Cooperation, International Space Station, Space Shuttle, NASA, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle, Roscosmos, Space and Science, Space Race, Space Research, Space Tourism, Spaceports, The Moon, Why Space
The Futron Corp’s 2011 Space Competiveness Index finds the United States perched atop 10 global competitors in the field, yet slipping as the nation’s space policy undergoes a transition, especially in the realm of human space flight. The Bethesda,...
Aug 10, 2011 | Ask the Expert, Blog, China, Education Station, Exploration, International Space Station, Kids Space, Space Race
China continues to press forward in its plans to loft an experimental space laboratory – and according to one space watcher, China’s Tiangong I may fly sooner than expected. According to Gregory Kulacki, a senior analyst and China Project manager at the Union of...
Jul 22, 2011 | Blog, Commercial Space, Education Station, Exploration, General, Kids Space, Market Research, NASA, Research, Space Race, Space Shuttle, Why Space
A new CNN/ORC International Poll has found that 50 percent of Americans say curtailing the NASA space shuttle program is bad for country. The findings from the new national survey were released shortly after the space agency’s last shuttle mission came to a wheel’s...
Jul 7, 2011 | Ask the Expert, Asteroid Exploration, Blog, Education Station, Exploration, International Cooperation, Kids Space, Mars, NASA, Space Race, Space Shuttle
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Florida – The Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle (MPCV) is being pursued as the way to explore beyond low Earth orbit – back to the Moon, out to asteroids, and eventually to Mars. Regarding the decision to press ahead with Orion, Lori Garver, NASA...
Jun 30, 2011 | Blog, China, Education Station, Exploration, Kids Space, Space Race
The next step in China’s space program is launch of that country’s first space station module. The Tiangong-1module has been transported to the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Gansu Province. Now on site, the hardware is slated to undergo final tests before its...
Jun 9, 2011 | Blog, China, Education Station, Exploration, Kids Space, Space Race, The Moon
Chinese space officials have announced that their second lunar orbiter – Chang’e-2 – has departed the Moon and is headed for deep space. Making use of leftover propellant, the spacecraft will reportedly carry out additional exploratory tasks. According to the Xinhua...
May 27, 2011 | Blog, Education Station, Exploration, NASA, Space Race, The Moon
Photos: Courtesy of Bonhams There was an off-world look to the recent Bonhams annual Space History Sale earlier this month. The New York scene is a room packed with active bidders as they competed with each other, along with online bidders and buyers listening in...
May 4, 2011 | Exploration, NASA, Space Race, Space Research, The Moon
The United States marks the 50th anniversary of the nation’s first human space flight on Thursday, the 15-minute voyage of Mercury astronaut Alan Shepard Jr. The May 5, 1961, suborbital flight in the one-man Mercury 7 capsule designated Freedom 7 lifted...
Apr 26, 2011 | Blog, China, Education Station, Exploration, Kids Space, Space Race
Credit: CMSEO The director of the China Manned Space Engineering Office (CMSEO) has called upon Chinese people around the world for a logo and a distinctive name for that country’s first crewed space station. CMSEO’s Wang Wenbao announced the plan to have ideas and...