Feb 25, 2011 | Ask the Expert, Benefits of Space Exploration, Blog, Education Station, Exploration, NASA, Planet Earth, Space Research, Why Space
This image, made from NASA’s Terra satellite, shows the change in plant cover in the U.S. Southwest between June 2003-04. Yellow and red areas had lower green vegetation cover in 2004 relative to 2003. Blue areas had higher green vegetation cover in 2004 relative to...
Feb 9, 2011 | Benefits of Space Exploration, NASA, Space Research, Why Space
NASA played a key role in the long running Department of Transportation investigation into Toyota’s runaway car mystery. The sudden acceleration issue forced the Japanese automaker to recall 11 million Toyota and Lexus automobiles and pay nearly $50 million...
Feb 2, 2011 | Ask the Expert, Book Reviews, Education Station, European Space Agency, Exploration, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Kids Space, Mars, NASA, Our Solar System, Planet Earth, Space and Science, The Moon, The Sun, Why Space
The 50 Most Extreme Places In Our Solar System by David Baker and Todd Ratcliff; The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press; Cambridge, Massachusetts; $27.95 (Hardcover); 2010. Readers of all backgrounds will love this book. The volume is beautifully produced,...
Jan 25, 2011 | Exploration, International Space Station, Space Shuttle, NASA, The Moon, Why Space
NASA and the larger space community will honor the 17 men and women who have perished in American spacecraft during ceremonies on Thursday at the Arlington National Cemetery outside Washington D. C. Additional memorials are planned this week at the Johnson Space...
Jan 14, 2011 | Commercial Space, Constellation Program, Exploration, International Space Station, Space Shuttle, NASA, Mars, The Moon, Why Space
The White House, Congress and NASA must work quickly to resolve the space agency’s future exploration and transportation strategies, the Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel concludes in the committee’s latest annual report. The Congressionally-chartered panel...
Jan 4, 2011 | Blog, Book Reviews, Education Station, Exploration, Hubble Space Telescope, International Space Station, Kids Space, Mars, NASA, Our Solar System, Planet Earth, Space and Science, Space Shuttle, The Moon, The Sun, Why Space
Space – From Earth to the Edge of the Universe by editors Carole Stott, Robert Dinwiddie, David Hughes and Giles Sparrow; Dorling Kindersley(DK) Publishing; New York, New York; $40.00 (hard cover); 2010. Space is big…but so is this large format book. This is a...
Dec 17, 2010 | Education, Education Station, Exploration, Kids Space, NASA, Newsroom, The Moon, Why Space
Let your fingers do the moonwalking – and pick the U.S. Postal Office’s Moon Landing stamp! The federal post office agency wants help on selecting an iconic stamp to represent the USA in an upcoming international gallery being built – and on the list is the classic...
Dec 16, 2010 | Commercial Space, Why Space
Aerospace products and services continue to represent an financial beacon for the United States, where they are responsible for more than 600,000 jobs. However, like many sectors, gains have been slowed by a sluggish global economy, according to a new report from...
Nov 16, 2010 | Blog, Education Station, Exploration, NASA, Planet Earth, Space and Science, Why Space
Earth never looked so good! Thanks to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), a space-based look back on our piece of celestial real estate offers an art-filled eye-full. The USGS has unveiled “Earth as Art3” – a collection of the latest set of NASA Landsat satellite...
Nov 3, 2010 | Ask the Expert, Blog, Education Station, Exploration, International Cooperation, NASA, Our Solar System, Planet Earth, Space and Science, Why Space
If you’re concerned about incoming asteroids smacking into the Earth, now you can calculate ahead of time the calamity a comet or space rock would cause if it hit our home planet. Researchers at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana have unveiled Impact:...