Jan 22, 2011 | Canadian Space Agency, European Space Agency, International Cooperation, International Space Station, Space Shuttle, NASA, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Space Research
A towering Japanese HII-B rocket thundered away from the Tanegashima Space Center in Japan early Saturday, initiating a five-day journey to the International Space Station for Kounotori, an unmanned cargo transport carrying 5.3 tons of spare parts, food, research gear...
Jan 21, 2011 | European Space Agency, International Space Station, Space Research
 Russian cosmonauts Dmitry Kondratyev and Oleg Skripochka breezed through a spacewalk outside the International Space Station on Friday, installing a communications antenna and video camera as well as collecting external science experiments. The work outside the...
Jan 13, 2011 | Ask the Expert, Blog, Book Reviews, Education Station, Exploration, Kids Space, Mars, Space and Science, Space Research
The Doomsday Lobby – Hype and Panic from Sputniks, Martians and Marauding Meteors by James T. Bennett; Copernicus Books/Springer; New York, New York; $24.95; (soft cover); 2010. I think you’ll find this scholarly book of value – and somewhat surprising in its...
Jan 11, 2011 | Exploration, International Space Station, NASA, Space Research, Space Shuttle
U. S. Air Force Maj. Gen. Susan Helms and U. S. Air Force Col. (Ret) Karol J. Bobko will be inducted in to the U. S. Astronaut Hall of Fame in Titusville, Fla., the Astronaut Scholarship Foundation announced. Induction ceremonies are planned for May 7 at the Kennedy...
Jan 2, 2011 | Education, European Space Agency, Exploration, International Cooperation, NASA, Our Solar System, Space Research, The Sun
 With the help of a prolific Polish astronomy student, the joint NASA and European Solar and Heliospheric Observatory mission has detected its 2,000th comet, a pursuit the 15-year-old spacecraft accomplished with the help of dozens of citizen observers from around...
Dec 25, 2010 | Ask the Expert, Blog, Book Reviews, Education Station, Exploration, Kids Space, Space and Science, Space Research
Confronting Space Debris – Strategies and Warnings from Comparable Examples Including Deepwater Horizon by Dave Baiocchi and William Welser IV; RAND Corporation; Santa Monica, California; $21.60 (paperback/special web discount); 2010. This is an absorbing and...
Dec 22, 2010 | Benefits of Space Exploration, Commercial Space, Exploration, International Space Station, Space Shuttle, NASA, Space and Science, Space Research
 NASA offered strong evidence on Wednesday that its missions and activities represent long range investments in breakthrough technologies that demonstrate down-to-Earth benefits for the vast majority of us – the men and women who will never see the inside of a...
Dec 16, 2010 | International Space Station, Space Shuttle, NASA, Space Research
American, Russian and European astronauts began a five month journey to the International Space Station on Wednesday, lifting off aboard a Soyuz spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. NASA’s Catherine “Cady” Coleman, a 50-year-old...
Dec 14, 2010 | Blog, Education Station, European Space Agency, Exploration, International Cooperation, NASA, Space and Science, Space Research, The Sun
See the Sun like never before – and no shades needed! A new software tool is available from the European Space Agency (ESA), allowing online lookers to view the entire library of imagery from the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO). SOHO is a project of...
Dec 14, 2010 | Our Solar System, Planet Earth, Space and Science, Space Research, Uncategorized
Soon, NASA will have its first chief science officer in five years. Waleed Abdalati, director of the University of Colorado’s Earth Science and Observation Center, will take the NASA post, effective Jan. 3. Abdalati, a 10-year NASA veteran will serve as a top...