Aug 20, 2013 | Ask the Expert, Blog, Canadian Space Agency, Education Station, European Space Agency, Exploration, International Cooperation, International Space Station, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Kids Space, Mars, NASA, Orion Crew Exploration Vehicle, Our Solar System, Space and Science, Space Race, The Moon, Why Space
A new report has been released, the Global Exploration Roadmap for 2013, an action plan for space exploration. The Global Exploration Roadmap is being developed by space agencies participating in the International Space Exploration Coordination Group (ISECG): Italy,...
Jul 30, 2013 | Blog, Education Station, European Space Agency, Exploration, International Cooperation, Kids Space, NASA, The Moon
NASA’s Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer – LADEE – is being prepared for its departure to the Moon. Launch date is slated for September 2013 from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility, Va. atop a Minotaur V booster. LADEE’s mission duration is approximately 160...
Jul 22, 2013 | Blog, Education Station, Exploration, Kids Space, NASA, Our Solar System, Planet Earth, The Moon
Two spacecraft have managed to snag images of our Earth and the Moon, but from far, far away. NASA’s MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging (MESSENGER) orbiter circling Mercury took the image July 19 as part of a campaign to search for natural...
Jul 18, 2013 | Blog, Education Station, Exploration, Kids Space, NASA, Our Solar System, Planet Earth, The Moon
NASA’s MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging (MESSENGER) spacecraft will capture images of Earth on July 19 and 20. The images on the second day will also include pictures of the Moon where all six of the Apollo landing sites will be...
Jun 21, 2013 | Exploration, NASA, Planet Earth, Space and Science, Space Race, Space Research, The Moon, Uncategorized
Family, friends and those who worked along side Neil Armstrong paid tribute to the Apollo 11 commander at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston on Thursday and dedicated a native Live Oak to his memory. The first human to step to the surface of another...
Jun 19, 2013 | Asteroid Exploration, Benefits of Space Exploration, Exploration, International Cooperation, NASA, Our Solar System, Planet Earth, Space and Science, Space Research, The Moon
NASA’s proposed asteroid identification and redirect mission proposal was elevated to “Grand Challenge” status in Washington on Tuesday by the Obama Administration. The featured theme of President Obama’s proposed 2014 NASA budget is now on par...
Jun 18, 2013 | Asteroid Exploration, Benefits of Space Exploration, Exploration, International Space Station, Mars, NASA, Planet Earth, Space and Science, Space Research, The Moon, Why Space
NASA has chosen four men and four women, most of them with military aviation in their wide ranging professional backgrounds, to help define the nation’s post-space shuttle era. They report to NASA’s Johnson Space Center in August to prepare...
Jun 9, 2013 | Ask the Expert, Ask the Experts — Answers, Blog, Book Reviews, Comets, Education Station, Exploration, Hubble Space Telescope, International Space Station, Space Shuttle, NASA, Kids Space, Mars, NASA, Our Solar System, Space Research, The Moon, The Sun, Why Space
The Space Book: From the Beginning to the End of Time, 250 Milestones in the History of Space & Astronomy by Jim Bell; Sterling Publishing Co. Inc; New York, New York; (hard cover) $29.95; May 2013. This elegant, eye-catching book offers stunning photographs and...
Jun 5, 2013 | Blog, Education Station, Exploration, Kids Space, NASA, Space and Science, The Moon
NASA’s next mission to the Moon has moved closer to its launch later this year. The Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) has arrived at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. LADEE is a robotic mission that will orbit Earth’s Moon to gather...
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...