Sep 30, 2013 | Ask the Experts — Answers, Blog, Education Station, Exploration, Kids Space, NASA, Space and Science, The Moon
Newly noted research in the pages of the scientific journal, Icarus, a team of scientists have spotlighted the impact of past rocket exhaust upon the lunar landscape. The paper, quite literally, kicks up some dust! Thanks to NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera...
Sep 28, 2013 | Ask the Expert, Blog, Book Reviews, Education Station, Exploration, International Cooperation, International Space Station, International Space Station, Space Shuttle, NASA, Kids Space, Mars, Space Race, The Moon
Russia in Space – The Past Explained, The Future Explored by Anatoly Zak; Apogee Prime; Burlington, Ontario, Canada; $49.95 (soft cover); July 2013. Get this book! This is an impressive, artfully done and seminal masterpiece. The 316-page, large format volume is a...
Sep 22, 2013 | Blog, Commercial Space, Education Station, Exploration, Kids Space, Multimedia, NASA, Space Race, Space Research, The Moon
Government/private sector collaboration is helping to foster the development of commercial, low-cost missions to the Moon. NASA Marshall Space Flight Center is collaborating with Moon Express, Inc. to test the company’s flight software on NASA’s “Mighty Eagle”...
Sep 21, 2013 | Asteroid Exploration, Benefits of Space Exploration, Commercial Space, Education, Exploration, International Cooperation, International Space Station, Mars, NASA, Space and Science, Space Research, The Moon
Expect more on Earth from space as human explorers begin to push beyond the International Space Station to the moon, the asteroids and Mars, the International Space Exploration Coordination Group suggests in a new 21 page white paper, Benefits Stemming from...
Sep 17, 2013 | Blog, Education Station, Exploration, International Cooperation, Kids Space, NASA, Space and Science, The Moon
NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) was launched toward the Moon in June 2009. A huge payoff from the longevity of the LRO mission is the repeat coverage of the lunar landscape obtained by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera system that includes a Wide Angle...
Sep 16, 2013 | Blog, China, Education Station, Exploration, Kids Space, The Moon
China’s Chang’e 3 robotic lunar lander is being readied for launch by year’s end – a milestone making mission that also involves a wheeled lunar rover to drive across the lunar landscape. Chang’e 3 is the third robotic lunar probe mission of the China Lunar...
Sep 12, 2013 | Asteroid Exploration, Benefits of Space Exploration, Commercial Space, Exploration, International Space Station, Space Shuttle, NASA, Mars, Our Solar System, Space and Science, Space Research, The Moon
Experts within NASA and outside are making strides in their plans for a bold Asteroid Retrieval Mission, a joint robotic and human enterprise that would take U. S. explorers beyond low Earth orbit for the first time since the final Apollo mission to the moon....
Sep 7, 2013 | Benefits of Space Exploration, Exploration, NASA, Our Solar System, Space and Science, Space Research, The Moon
NASA’s Lunar Atmosphere & Dust Environment Explorer mission began a 30-day trek to the moon late Friday, successfully blasting off from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility inVirginia. Flight controllers encountered then quickly addressed a problem with the...
Aug 30, 2013 | Asteroid Exploration, Benefits of Space Exploration, Commercial Space, Constellation Program, Exploration, International Cooperation, International Space Station, Space Shuttle, NASA, Mars, Space and Science, Space Research, The Moon
Portions of U. S. space policy focused on the future of human space exploration are seriously adrift, according to two George Washington University experts in the field. The declarations from Scott Pace, the director of GWU’s Space Policy Institute and a...
Aug 20, 2013 | Asteroid Exploration, Commercial Space, Exploration, International Space Station, Space Shuttle, NASA, Mars, Space and Science, Space Research, The Moon
NASA Administrator Charles Bolden greeted eight new astronaut candidates at the Johnson Space Center in Houston on Tuesday, the first of their profession to join the space agency in four years. The four men and four women will train for two years at NASA’s...