May 3, 2010 | Photo Feature
Within the White Room atop the gantry on Launch Complex 39 Pad A, the Apollo 11 astronauts egress from the Apollo spacecraft after participation in the Countdown Demonstration Test. In the foreground of the photograph is Astronaut Buzz Aldrin. Pad leader Guenter Wendt...
May 2, 2010 | Capitol Hill News, Legislative Activity
The following events may be of interest in the coming week. Check our calendar on the right menu for more information or click the links below. Congressional hearings and markups are subject to change; check the committee’s website for up to date...
Apr 30, 2010 | Capitol Hill News, Legislative Activity
NASA announced this afternoon that Dave Radzanowski will replace George Whitesides as NASA’s Chief of Staff. In addition, James Stofan was named acting Associate Administration for Education. The announcement follows:
Apr 30, 2010 | Capitol Hill News, Legislative Activity
In an interview with Jim Oberg for IEEE Spectrum, Wes Huntress praised President Obama’s new plan for human spaceflight. The Constellation program, he said, was “neither inspirational nor sufficiently challenging for a space program as storied as...
Apr 30, 2010 | Capitol Hill News, Legislative Activity
The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) released a draft report today and is seeking input from the space community before finalizing its findings and recommendations. “National Security and the Commercial Space Sector” looks at the...
Apr 30, 2010 | Book Reviews
Europa, Edited by Robert T. Pappalardo; William B. McKinnon; Krishan Khurana; The University of Arizona Press; Tucson, Arizona (hardcover); $85.00; 2009. This book serves up a heavy dose of scientific papers geared to unveiling mysterious Europa – an icy moon of...
Apr 30, 2010 | Photo Feature
This image from the Chandra X-ray Observatory shows the central region of the starburst galaxy M82 and contains two bright X-ray sources of special interest. New studies with Chandra and ESA’s XMM-Newton show that these two sources may be intermediate-mass black...