May 31, 2015 | Benefits of Space Exploration, Blog, Book Reviews, Education, Education Station, Exploration, International Cooperation, International Space Station, NASA, Planet Earth, Space Shuttle
The Orbital Perspective – Lessons in Seeing the Big Picture from a Journey of 71 Million Miles by Ron Garan; Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc.; $27.95 (Hardcover); 2015. There have been a number of “tell-all” books authored by former space travelers. But this...
Jun 9, 2014 | Benefits of Space Exploration, Biographies, Blog, Book Reviews, Education Station, Exploration, Kids Space, NASA, Space Shuttle, Why Space
Sally Ride – America’s First Woman in Space by Lynn Sherr; Simon & Schuster, New York, New York; $28.00; June 2014. This is a truly inspiring book, written by a top-notch journalist about an extraordinary woman – Dr. Sally Ride. It’s corny to talk of Ride as a...
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...
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,...
Jul 29, 2013 | Benefits of Space Exploration, Exploration, NASA, Planet Earth, Space and Science, Space Research, Space Shuttle
U. S. and European space-based X-ray observatories have added a new technique for identifying alien planets with the discovery of HD 189733b, a “hot Jupiter” class world rapidly orbiting a star 63 light years away. NASA’s Kepler space telescope is...
Jun 4, 2013 | Benefits of Space Exploration, Education, European Space Agency, Hubble Space Telescope, International Space Station, NASA, Space and Science, Space Research, Space Shuttle, Why Space
Though aging, the 23-year-old Hubble Space Telescope has a new assignment in the search for planets circling other stars. In October 2014 and February 2016, Hubble will take aim at Proxima Centauri, the nearest star to the sun. Previous attempts to find planets...
May 28, 2013 | Ask the Expert, Asteroid Exploration, Blog, Book Reviews, Commercial Space, Education Station, Exploration, International Cooperation, Kids Space, NASA, Space Research, Space Shuttle, Space Tourism, The Moon, Why Space
The Little Book of Space Law by Matthew J. Kleiman; ABA Book Publishing; Bolingbrook, Illinois; $19.95 (Regular)/$17.95 (American Bar Association Member); 2013. This is an excellent and very readable treatment regarding space law – the international and national laws...
May 16, 2013 | Exploration, Hubble Space Telescope, International Cooperation, James Webb Space Telescope, NASA, Our Solar System, Space and Science, Space Shuttle, Why Space
NASA’s four year Kepler mission to search thousands of stars in the Milky Way galaxy for sun-like stars with planets that resemble the Earth has encountered a serious technical problem. A second of the four rapidly spinning internal “reaction...
Apr 27, 2013 | Ask the Expert, Blog, Book Reviews, Education Station, Exploration, International Space Station, Space Shuttle, NASA, Kids Space, Mars, NASA, Space Race, Space Shuttle
Spacewalker – My Journey in Space and Faith as NASA’s Record-Setting Frequent Flyer by Jerry Ross with John Norberg; Purdue University Press, $29.95; 2013. As a former astronaut, Jerry Ross has written a personal account of his childhood in rural Indiana, then taking...
Apr 21, 2013 | Asteroid Exploration, Benefits of Space Exploration, Education, Exploration, Hubble Space Telescope, International Space Station, Mars, NASA, Space and Science, Space Shuttle
Three NASA shuttle-era astronauts, two of them women, were inducted into the U. S. Astronaut Hall of Fame on Saturday. Those honored in ceremonies at the Hall, close to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, Fla., included Eileen Collins, the first woman...