U.S. Senate Hearing: Video, Testimony on Human Exploration Goals, Commercial Space

Feb 25, 2015 | Ask the Experts — Answers, Asteroid Exploration, Benefits of Space Exploration, Capitol Hill News, Commercial Space, Education Station, Exploration, International Space Station, Kids Space, Mars, NASA, Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle, Space Race, The Moon

U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), chairman of the Subcommittee on Space, Science, and Competitiveness, convened a hearing on Tuesday, February 24, 2015. The hearing was entitled “U.S. Human Exploration Goals and Commercial Space Competitiveness.” Former NASA astronauts...

Atlantis Exhibit Makes Weekend Debut

Jun 28, 2013 | Benefits of Space Exploration, Commercial Space, Education, Exploration, International Cooperation, International Space Station, Space Shuttle, NASA, Mars, Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle, Space and Science, Space Tourism

  Orbiter Atlantis, a veteran of 33 NASA shuttle missions, goes on public display in Central Florida on Saturday as the centerpiece of a $100 million Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex exhibit.   More than 40 astronauts, including NASA Administrator...

2014 NASA Budget Starts Ambitious Asteroid Mission

Apr 11, 2013 | Asteroid Exploration, Benefits of Space Exploration, Comets, Exploration, Hubble Space Telescope, International Space Station, Mars, NASA, Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle, Space Research

President Obama seeks steady NASA budgets of $17.7 billion through 2018 in the funding request he presented to Congress on Wednesday, enough to start the space agency on an ambitious mission to identify and maneuver an asteroid into lunar orbit, where U. S. astronauts...

Congress Ponders Space Leadership Provision

Mar 10, 2013 | Asteroid Exploration, China, Commercial Space, Constellation Program, Exploration, International Space Station, Mars, NASA, Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle, Planet Earth, Space Race, Space Research, The Moon

    Congress is considering some substantial changes in the way NASA is led, managed from the outside and funded, as policy makers attempt to give the nation’s civil space program a sharper focus as well as the stability to ensure the sustained...

Humans in Space: A Look Back at 2011, A Look Ahead at 2012

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...

Beyond Planet Earth: The Future of Space Exploration – New Exhibit Opens!

Nov 19, 2011 | Benefits of Space Exploration, Blog, Commercial Space, Education Station, Exploration, Hubble Space Telescope, International Space Station, Kids Space, Mars, NASA, Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle, Our Solar System, Planet Earth, Space and Science, Space Tourism, The Moon, Why Space

Beyond Planet Earth: The Future of Space Exploration opens today, organized by the American Museum of Natural History in New York. The just-opened exhibit launches visitors into the exciting future of space exploration as it boldly examines humanity’s next steps “out...