Press Release: Phobos LIFE Ready to Launch
Updated: 2011-11-07 08:00:00
On the Planetary Society web site: Phobos LIFE Ready to Launch- On the Planetary Society web site: Phobos LIFE Ready to Launch
Asteroid Vesta, All in the Details
Updated: 2011-11-03 20:14:09By Marc Rayman As NASA’s Dawn spacecraft investigates its first target, the giant asteroid Vesta, Marc Rayman, Dawn’s chief engineer, shares a monthly update on the mission’s progress. NASA’s Dawn spacecraft obtained this image with its framing camera on September 20, 2011. This image was taken through the camera’s clear filter. The distance to the surface of [...]Free shuttle wallpaper download for November
Updated: 2011-11-01 20:38:55
While you are waiting for delivery of your 2012 space shuttle calendar, you can upgrade your computer desktop with this free wallpaper download, showing one of the rare times when two shuttles were on the launch pads at the same time. The wallpaper also has a handy November calendar imprinted on it and as always, [...]Exclusive shuttle calendar goes on sale
Updated: 2011-10-31 19:19:47
A 2012 wall calendar featuring some of the best shuttle photography over the past 30 years has gone on sale. It features the work of our favorite space program photographer, Red Huber. You can order it online for $12.95. If you you are near downtown Orlando and want to save the shipping and handling charges, [...]Former NASA science chief Alan Stern to run UCF Space Institute
Updated: 2011-10-18 21:26:41NASA’s former associate administrator for Science, S. Alan Stern, has been named director of the Florida Space Institute at Kennedy Space Center. Stern will help the institute, a part of the University of Central Florida, develop projects that align UCF and Florida with the new emphasis in the space industry – unmanned flights, commercial flight, science missions [...]