Sep 5, 2014 | Ask the Expert, Asteroid Exploration, Benefits of Space Exploration, Blog, Education Station, Kids Space, NASA, Our Solar System, Planet Earth
A nasty asteroid headed toward Earth is on a collision course – how best to protect our home turf? First of all, knowing its density and structure is important. Is it a rubble pile, solid as rock, Swiss cheese, has a core, or something else? With that information in...
Sep 2, 2014 | Asteroid Exploration, Blog, Education, Education Station, Kids Space, Multimedia, NASA, Our Solar System, Why Space
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission is slated to launch toward an asteroid in 2016. And thanks to an innovative participation project, you can take part in an Asteroid Time Capsule – an initiative to collect ideas from the public about space exploration 10 years from now....
Sep 1, 2014 | Asteroid Exploration, Benefits of Space Exploration, Blog, Education Station, Exploration, Kids Space, NASA, Our Solar System, Planet Earth
Can we protect Earth from potentially hazardous impacts? What do we do if we find an asteroid that threatens Earth? How about harvesting asteroids for potential economic benefits? These kind of provocative questions deserve public participation…and now you can take...
Aug 15, 2014 | Benefits of Space Exploration, Blog, Commercial Space, Education Station, Exploration, Kids Space, NASA, Planet Earth, Space Research
The National Space Biomedical Research Institute (NSBRI) has funded a clinical study to test the Sustained Acoustic Medicine (sam®) device in patients suffering from lower back pain. Thanks to a partnership with the private sector, the idea is to accelerate the...
Aug 9, 2014 | Benefits of Space Exploration, Blog, Commercial Space, Education Station, Exploration, Kids Space, Mars, NASA, Space Research, The Moon
Don’t tell anybody. There may be a secret sauce to cooking in space. Cornell researchers have taken to the air to better understand the effectiveness of a specially constructed space galley – one designed to be used on the Moon as well as Mars. Making use of the...
Aug 5, 2014 | Blog, Comets, Education Station, European Space Agency, Exploration, Kids Space, NASA, Space and Science
The European Space Agency’s Rosetta spacecraft was launched in 2004 and will arrive at comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko on August 6 – a 10 year long voyage. It will be the first mission in history to rendezvous with a comet, escort it as it orbits the Sun, and deploy a...
Jul 27, 2014 | Ask the Expert, Blog, Book Reviews, Education Station, Exploration, Kids Space, Mars, NASA, Why Space
Mars Up Close: Inside the Curiosity Mission by Marc Kaufman; National Geographic Books, Wash., D.C.; $40.00 (hardcover); August 2014. This is an absolutely stunning book. After this read, and soaking in the lavishly dazzling presentation, you’ll get to know the fourth...
Jul 16, 2014 | Ask the Expert, Blog, Education Station, Exploration, International Cooperation, Kids Space, Multimedia, NASA, The Moon
Since 2003, Slooh has connected telescopes to the Internet for access by the broader public. Slooh’s automated observatories develop celestial images in real-time for broadcast to the Internet. Now the new news! Slooh will celebrate the 45th anniversary of the Apollo...
Jul 6, 2014 | Ask the Expert, Blog, Book Reviews, Kids Space, NASA, Space Race, Space Research, Space Tourism, Spaceports, Why Space
Suborbital: Industry at the Edge of Space by Erik Seedhouse; Springer/Praxis, New York /Heidelberg; $34.99; 2014. As the dawn of commercial suborbital flight draws closer, author Erik Seedhouse has written an informative book on the topic. The reader will find...
Jun 30, 2014 | Blog, Education Station, Exploration, Kids Space, Our Solar System, Space and Science, Why Space
So close, yet so far…Gliese 832 c is the nearest best habitable world candidate to date. An international team of astronomers, led by Robert Wittenmyer from the University of New South Wales, Australia, have reported the discovery of a new potentially habitable...