Jan 21, 2012 | Blog, Education Station, European Space Agency, Exploration, International Cooperation, Kids Space, NASA, Our Solar System, Space and Science
NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has made the closest fly of Saturn’s moon, Dione. Caught by the Cassini image equipment – two smaller moons, Epimetheus and Prometheus, near the planet’s ring system. How did this impressive flyby of the moon stack up overall? This encounter...
Jan 18, 2012 | Benefits of Space Exploration, Canadian Space Agency, China, Commercial Space, European Space Agency, Exploration, Hubble Space Telescope, International Cooperation, International Space Station, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), NASA, Planet Earth, Roscosmos, Space and Science
Secretary of State Hilliary Rodham Clinton pledged a new U. S.-led effort on Tuesday to develop an international space code of conduct to foster peaceful and productive uses of outer space. The initative — an International Code of Conduct for Outer Space...
Jan 13, 2012 | Benefits of Space Exploration, European Space Agency, Hubble Space Telescope, International Cooperation, NASA, Space and Science
A collection of NASA’s best known space observatories, often working in collaboration with new generations of powerful ground-based telescopes, starred this week in a series of headline grabbing discoveries involving galaxy clusters, black holes, stellar...
Jan 12, 2012 | Ask the Expert, Blog, Education Station, European Space Agency, International Cooperation, Mars, NASA, Planet Earth, Roscosmos, Space and Science
The wayward Russian Marscraft, Phobos-Grunt, is expected to soon dive into the Earth’s atmosphere, destroying itself during a fiery re-entry process. Phobos–Grunt was launched on November 8 of last year, but due to a propulsion failure, the spacecraft was marooned in...
Jan 9, 2012 | Ask the Expert, Asteroid Exploration, Blog, Book Reviews, Comets, Education Station, European Space Agency, Exploration, International Cooperation, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Kids Space, MESSENGER, NASA, Our Solar System, Space and Science, Space Research, The Moon, The Sun
Fifty Years on the Space Frontier: Halo Orbits, Comets, Asteroids, and More by Robert W. Farquhar; Outskirts Press, Inc., Denver, Colorado; (hard cover); $32.36; 2011 There is renewed and growing interest in imaginative use of L-points in space – special spots in...
Jan 4, 2012 | Canadian Space Agency, Comets, European Space Agency, Exploration, International Cooperation, International Space Station, NASA, Roscosmos
Dreaming in space is like dreaming on Earth — except when it’s not. Two of the station’s newest tenants fielded the question Wednesday during a series if interviews with Space.com and Fox News. “My dreaming is exactly like on...
Dec 25, 2011 | Asteroid Exploration, Canadian Space Agency, China, Commercial Space, European Space Agency, Exploration, Hubble Space Telescope, International Cooperation, International Space Station, Space Shuttle, NASA, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Mars, Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle, Roscosmos, The Moon
A year of milestones in human spaceflight, some tinged with nostalgia, is drawing to a close. The New Year opens with the U. S.and its global partners settled in Earth orbit, and a NASA strategy for the future human exploration of deep space starting to gel. In...
Dec 23, 2011 | European Space Agency, International Cooperation, International Space Station, NASA, Planet Earth, Roscosmos, Space Research
The International Space Station became the long term home for six astronauts for the first time since mid-September on Friday with the arrival of a Russian Soyuz spacecraft carrying three U. S., Russian and European crew members. The two spacecraft docked at 10:19...
Dec 21, 2011 | European Space Agency, International Space Station, NASA, Roscosmos, Space Research
U.S., Russian and European astronauts began a five to six month mission to the International Space Station early Wednesday, climbing to orbit from the historic Baikonur Cosmodrome inKazakhstanaboard a Soyuz rocket. NASA’s Don Pettit, Russian Oleg...
Dec 6, 2011 | Benefits of Space Exploration, European Space Agency, International Cooperation, NASA, Planet Earth, Space Research
Three Earth observing satellites are helping scientists explain the enormous destructive force of the tsunami summoned by the Tohoku-Oki Earthquake centered off northeast Japan in March. The magnitude 9 quake on March 11 and the events that followed...