Sep 14, 2011 | Ask the Expert, Blog, Education Station, Exploration, Kids Space, Mars, NASA, Space Research, The Moon
How best to develop a way to measure astronauts’ physical capacities and keep them safe in space, whether they are onboard the International Space Station, working on the Moon or outbound on a future mission to Mars? A research project at Kansas State University is...
Sep 10, 2011 | Asteroid Exploration, Blog, Education Station, Exploration, Kids Space, Mars, NASA, Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle
Construction is underway on the first space-bound Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle. Engineers at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans have started welding together the craft. The first welds were completed last week using an innovative new friction...
Sep 9, 2011 | Benefits of Space Exploration, Blog, Education Station, Exploration, Hubble Space Telescope, International Space Station, Kids Space, NASA
For the moment, forget crop circles and off-Earth aliens playing havoc with a farmer’s real estate! Here’s a new and more down to Earth space-farm connection. In collaboration with NASA, seven farms across the U.S. will invite the public to get lost in space this...
Sep 7, 2011 | Blog, Education Station, Exploration, Kids Space, NASA, Planet Earth, Space Research, Space Shuttle
A hefty NASA satellite is nearing a nose-dive to Earth – almost six years after the end of a productive scientific life. The Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite — or UARS — is expected to re-enter Earth’s atmosphere in late September or early October 2011....
Sep 7, 2011 | Blog, Education Station, Exploration, Kids Space, NASA, The Moon
All is in readiness at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station’s Space Launch Complex 17B in Florida for Thursday’s liftoff of NASA’s twin Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory, or GRAIL, spacecraft. A United Launch Alliance Delta II rocket is being used for the...
Sep 3, 2011 | Ask the Expert, Biographies, Blog, Book Reviews, Commercial Space, Education Station, Exploration, Kids Space, Space Tourism, Spaceports
Burt Rutan’s Race to Space – The Magician of Mojave and His Flying Innovations by Dan Linehan; Zenith Press, Minneapolis, MN; $30.00 (hardcover); July 2011. Burt Rutan is an aerospace maverick, racking up a long list of innovative airplane designs – including...
Sep 2, 2011 | Asteroid Exploration, Blog, Education Station, Exploration, International Cooperation, Kids Space, NASA, Our Solar System, Space and Science
NASA’s Dawn spacecraft has been in orbit around asteroid Vesta since July 16th – relaying back to Earth intriguing imagery of the giant space rock. A German camera system on board is being used to acquire images of the asteroid’s surface. These images show craters,...
Sep 1, 2011 | Ask the Expert, Blog, Education Station, Exploration, Kids Space, Mars, NASA, Space and Science
NASA’s Opportunity robot on the red planet has been busy inspecting an intriguing feature – Tisdale-2 – at the rim of the huge Endeavor crater. While analysis of the flat-topped rock is still underway, scientists note that it is different from the rocks that make up...
Aug 31, 2011 | Blog, Education Station, Kids Space, NASA, Our Solar System, Planet Earth, The Moon
Okay, I know, you’ve got to look hard. But you’re seeing a unique snapshot in space and time! NASA’s Jupiter-bound Juno spacecraft has captured its home planet launch pad and our natural satellite — the Moon. “This is a remarkable sight people get to see all too...
Aug 29, 2011 | Ask the Expert, Blog, Education Station, Exploration, Hubble Space Telescope, International Space Station, Space Shuttle, NASA, Kids Space, Mars, Space Research
Stuffing the food pantry for the first voyagers to strike out for Mars is no easy task. That’s the word from Maya Cooper, a senior research scientist at the NASA Johnson Space Center in the Space Food Systems Laboratory in Houston, Texas. Maya has reported that...