Jan 12, 2011 | Blog, Commercial Space, Education Station, Exploration, International Cooperation, International Space Station, Kids Space, Space Tourism
If you’re anxious to travel into space – and have the tens of millions of dollars to shoulder your passion – then the news today from Space Adventures you’ll like. Working with the Federal Space Agency of the Russian Federation (FSA) and Rocket Space Corporation...
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 26, 2010 | Ask the Expert, Blog, Education Station, Exploration, Kids Space, Mars, NASA, Space and Science
NASA’s Opportunity Mars rover is busy examining Santa Maria crater within Meridiani Planum. The wheeled robot is inspecting the relatively fresh and large crater that’s about 312 feet (95 meters) in diameter. “We’ve been doing a lot of imaging of it from a set of...
Dec 25, 2010 | Ask the Expert, Blog, Book Reviews, Education Station, Exploration, Kids Space, Space and Science, Space Research
Confronting Space Debris – Strategies and Warnings from Comparable Examples Including Deepwater Horizon by Dave Baiocchi and William Welser IV; RAND Corporation; Santa Monica, California; $21.60 (paperback/special web discount); 2010. This is an absorbing and...
Dec 24, 2010 | Blog, Education Station, Exploration, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Kids Space, Our Solar System
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has received financial backing to proceed on development of Hayabusa 2 – a spacecraft designed to collect samples of asteroid 1999JU3. The Hayabusa 2 is a follow-on probe to Hayabusa 1 that surveyed asteroid Itokowa in...
Dec 21, 2010 | Ask the Expert, Blog, Education Station, Exploration, Kids Space, NASA, Our Solar System, Planet Earth, Space and Science
A team of newly arrived rock hounds are on the ice! They are researchers taking part in the Antarctic Search for Meteorites (ANSMET) program. Their job during the 2010-2011 field season is to recover meteorite samples from the Antarctic. ANSMET field work has been...
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 | Blog, Education Station, Exploration, Kids Space, NASA, Space and Science
Dive in on data gleaned by NASA’s Kepler mission – on the lookout for planets beyond our own solar system – and help professional astronomers in their search for Earth-like planet. Web users around the globe can join a new online citizen science project. The effort is...
Dec 14, 2010 | Ask the Expert, Blog, Education, Education Station, Exploration, Kids Space, NASA, Our Solar System, Space and Science, The Sun
Launched back in 1977, the 33-year odyssey of NASA’s Voyager 1continues, chalking up another milestone. The spacecraft has reached a distant point at the edge of our solar system where there is no outward motion of solar wind. Voyager 1 has crossed into an area where...
Dec 8, 2010 | Blog, Education Station, Exploration, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Kids Space, Our Solar System, Space and Science
Japan’s Venus orbiter — the AKATSUKI spacecraft — has failed to reach an intended orbit insertion around the veiled planet. Officials at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) have announced that the planned December 7 injection into Venus orbit was...