• Lovely Image from Space: Earth, Moon and Approaching Spacecraft

    Updated: 2012-12-31 17:16:01
    Earth, Moon and Soyuz. Credit: NASA/Kevin Ford. This one might have to be added to the group of iconic images from space. On December 21, a Soyuz spacecraft carrying new crewmembers approached the International Space Station. Commander Kevin Ford, already on the ISS took this image, showing the Moon above, bright blue Earth below and [...]

  • Video: Happy New Year from the Space Station Crew

    Updated: 2012-12-31 16:12:20
    The six Expedition 34 crew members aboard the International Space Station will be watching from above as people around the world ring in the new year. Commander Kevin Ford and Flight Engineers Chris Hadfield and Tom Marshburn sent this video greeting for their best wishes for a happy 2013. Because the ISS travels around the [...]

  • NASA Releases 2 Free eBooks About Space Telescopes

    Updated: 2012-12-29 13:31:16
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  • The ‘Bonus’ Full Moon of 2012

    Updated: 2012-12-28 21:54:56
    The Moon and Jupiter above the dishes in Canberra, Australia. Credit: Carlos Orue. The full Moon today is considered a bonus for 2012, since it is the 13th full Moon of the year. But this full Moon has also been a bonus in the sense that we’re getting several nights in a row of nearly [...]

  • Newly Found Comet Could Outshine the Moon

    Updated: 2012-12-28 21:54:05
    Skywatchers may be in for a rare treat in 2013 -- a newly discovered comet is expected to pass very close to the sun, putting on what could be the celestial show of a century.

  • Moonlighting: Enjoy the Last Full Moon of 2012

    Updated: 2012-12-28 18:58:35
    December's full moon rises tonight, Dec. 28, in a final lunar display for the year.

  • A User’s Guide to the Moon

    Updated: 2012-12-28 17:01:39
    Now available from the Lunar and Planetary Institute (LPI) e-book webpage is the seminal book – The Lunar Sourcebook: A User’s Guide to the Moon. This is a treasure-trove of a volume, including sections on: Return to the Moon; Current Understanding of the Moon: A Base for Planning; Goals for Future Lunar Exploration; Unanswered Questions [...]

  • Amazing Video of a Lunar Occultation

    Updated: 2012-12-28 15:17:54
    Captured on camera by astrophotographer Rafael Defavari from his location in São Bernardo do Campo, Brazil, this video shows the Moon passing in front of Jupiter during an occultation event on December 25, 2012. Nice work! The video plays at 5x actual speed. Although Jupiter appeared to be “right next to” the Moon on Christmas [...]

  • Cassini orbiter sees Saturn's storms in black and white ... and red all over

    Updated: 2012-12-28 02:04:33
    The storms of Saturn ripple through the frame of a black-and-white close-up captured by the Cassini orbiter on Christmas Eve and received on Earth on Wednesday. "Close-up" is a relative term: When this picture was taken, Cassini was 441,028 miles (709,766 kilometers) away from Sa hellip;

  • What’s Up in the Night Skies for January 2013?

    Updated: 2012-12-27 23:24:21
    Jane Houston Jones from JPL provides a video preview of the night skies in the first month of the new year. There will be plenty of planetary conjunctions with the Moon: Saturn, Venus, Mars and Jupiter will all be snuggling up with the Moon throughout the month. Jane also suggests using NASA’s Eyes on the [...]

  • First 'Alien Earth' Will Be Found in 2013

    Updated: 2012-12-27 20:22:49
    The epic find should change the way humanity views its place in the universe.

  • Mars Curiosity Rover Self-Portrait, Wide View

    Updated: 2012-12-27 17:54:33
    , Home About SpaceRef SpaceRef Business SpaceRef Europe SpaceRef Asia SpaceRef Canada NASA Watch Get Our Daily Newsletter Loading Missions Space Station Calendar News Archives Space Weather Space Quarterly Magazine Mercury Venus Earth Moon Mars Jupiter Saturn Pluto Asteroids Comets Astrobiology Mars Curiosity Rover Self-Portrait , Wide View By Keith Cowing Posted December 27, 2012 12:54 PM View Comments NASA Curiosity On the 84th and 85th Martian days of the NASA Mars rover Curiosity's mission on Mars Oct . 31 and Nov . 1, 2012 NASA's Curiosity rover used the Mars Hand Lens Imager MAHLI to capture dozens of high-resolution images to be combined into self-portrait images of the rover . The mosaic shows the rover at Rocknest , the spot in Gale Crater where the mission's first scoop sampling

  • Free Read! NASA Books Look Back, Gaze into the Future

    Updated: 2012-12-27 17:47:21
    NASA has issued an impressive volume, just right for reading as the space agency encounters a new year. NASA at 50: Interviews with NASA’s Senior Leadership is edited by Rebecca Wright, Sandra Johnson, and Steven J. Dick. The 50th anniversary of NASA on 1 October 2008 found an agency in the midst of deep transition. [...]

  • International Space Station Crew Celebrates Christmas

    Updated: 2012-12-27 15:39:00
    Aboard the orbiting International Space Station, Expedition 34 Commander Kevin Ford, Russian Flight Engineers Oleg Novitskiy, Evgeny Tarelkin and Roman Romanenko, NASA Flight Engineer Tom Marshburn and Canadian Space Agency Chris Hadfield celebrated Christmas on the orbital laboratory Dec. 25, 2012 through song and downlink messages of cheer for flight controllers on the ground. The crew spent Christmas enjoying a joint meal with one another, sharing holiday greetings with their families in private conferences and soaking up the view of the Earth from the outpost.

  • NEXT in Propulsion!

    Updated: 2012-12-26 14:52:28
    NASA’s Dawn spacecraft that explored asteroid Vesta and is now en route to space rock Ceres is being propelled by ion thrust. Ion engines use electric fields instead of chemical reactions. Ion engines tend to be much less powerful, but they are so efficient, they can last for years before running out of fuel. Ion [...]

  • SpaceX Grasshopper Successfully Flies 40 Meters

    Updated: 2012-12-24 18:39:59
    Single Camera: Grasshopper 40-Meter Test Flight 12/17/12 SpaceX reports: Grasshopper takes a 12-story leap towards full and rapid rocket reusability in a test flight conducted December 17, 2012 at SpaceX’s rocket development facility in McGregor, Texas. Grasshopper, a vertical takeoff and landing vehicle (VTVL), rose 131 feet (40 meters), hovered and landed safely on the pad [...]

  • Free Downloads! Looking Up at Hubble, James Webb Space Telescopes

    Updated: 2012-12-24 14:49:19
    Here are two celestial stocking stuffers for the mind and for those still shopping – just in time for the holidays and new year! NASA has issued two new e-books, one on the Hubble Space Telescope, the other on the still-to-be-launched, next-generation space observatory, the James Webb Space Telescope. The books are written on a [...]

  • Curiosity Rover Report: Curiosity's Martian Holiday

    Updated: 2012-12-24 14:26:40
    Curiosity will spend the holidays at a location on Mars dubbed "Grandma's House."

  • A Message from the International Space Station to All Humankind

    Updated: 2012-12-24 14:10:00
    NASA Television shares this inspiring production by Italian videomaker, Giacomo Sardelli, about the International Space Station, its inhabitants, and its role in space exploration. Sardelli writes of the video, "I'm not the first one to use NASA's pictures taken from the International Space Station to craft a Timelapse video. You can find many of them on the Internet, that's where my inspiration came from. What I wanted to do, though, was to look beyond the intrinsic beauty of those pictures, and use them to tell a story and share the messages sent by the astronauts who worked on the station in the last 11 years."

  • ScienceCasts: Christmas Sky Show

    Updated: 2012-12-24 13:43:35
    The Moon and Jupiter are converging for a heavenly sky show on Christmas 2012. Got a telescope? Something extra-special is happening on Jupiter that makes it an appealing target for backyard optics.

  • All Clear Given on Potential Impact of Asteroid 2011 AG5

    Updated: 2012-12-22 19:32:09
    Home About SpaceRef SpaceRef Business SpaceRef Europe SpaceRef Asia SpaceRef Canada NASA Watch Get Our Daily Newsletter Loading Missions Space Station Calendar News Archives Space Weather Space Quarterly Magazine Mercury Venus Earth Moon Mars Jupiter Saturn Pluto Asteroids Comets Astrobiology All Clear Given on Potential Impact of Asteroid 2011 AG5 By Keith Cowing Posted December 22, 2012 2:32 PM View Comments NASA scientists have announced that new observations of 2011 AG5 show that this asteroid , once thought to have a worrisome potential to threaten Earth , no longer poses a significant risk of . impact The orbital uncertainties of the 140m diameter near-Earth asteroid had previously allowed a 0.2 chance of collision in Feb . 2040, leading to a call for more observations to better

  • A Backlit View Of Saturn

    Updated: 2012-12-22 19:02:56
    Home About SpaceRef SpaceRef Business SpaceRef Europe SpaceRef Asia SpaceRef Canada NASA Watch Get Our Daily Newsletter Loading Missions Space Station Calendar News Archives Space Weather Space Quarterly Magazine Mercury Venus Earth Moon Mars Jupiter Saturn Pluto Asteroids Comets Astrobiology A Backlit View Of Saturn By Keith Cowing Posted December 22, 2012 2:02 PM View Comments NASA Saturn NASA's Cassini spacecraft has delivered a glorious view of Saturn , taken while the spacecraft was in Saturn's shadow . The cameras were turned toward Saturn and the sun so that the planet and rings are . backlit The sun is behind the planet , which is shielding the cameras from direct sunlight . In addition to the visual splendor , this special , very-high-phase viewing geometry lets scientists study

  • AAVSO Alert Notice 475: Monitoring of the Dwarf Nova U Geminorum in Support of HST Observations

    Updated: 2012-12-22 17:31:51
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  • Free e-books give you the cosmos

    Updated: 2012-12-22 00:01:02
    Free books from NASA, the Hubble Space Telescope's science team and the European Space Agency bring Earth and the heavens to life — as long as you have an iPad, and the patience to wait for a longish download. Even if you have a regular old computer, you can still download  amp;hellip;

  • Mission Accomplished for Landsat 5

    Updated: 2012-12-21 18:36:59
    Home About SpaceRef SpaceRef Business SpaceRef Europe SpaceRef Asia SpaceRef Canada NASA Watch Get Our Daily Newsletter Loading Missions Space Station Calendar News Archives Space Weather Space Quarterly Magazine Mercury Venus Earth Moon Mars Jupiter Saturn Pluto Asteroids Comets Astrobiology Mission Accomplished for Landsat 5 By Keith Cowing Posted December 21, 2012 1:36 PM View Comments Today the U.S . Geological Survey announced that Landsat 5 will be decommissioned over the coming months , bringing to a close the longest-operating Earth observing satellite mission in . history By any measure , the Landsat 5 mission has been an extraordinary success , providing unprecedented contributions to the global record of land change . The USGS has brought the aging satellite back from the brink

  • CSExtra – Friday, December 21, 2012

    Updated: 2012-12-21 17:17:32
    To subscribe to CSExtra via RSS feed click here. If you would prefer to receive CSExtra in e-mail format, e-mail us at Info@spacecoalition.com with the word SUBSCRIBE in the subject line. Friday’s CSExtra offers the latest reporting and commentary on space related activities from around the world. U.S., Canadian  and Russian astronauts prepare to dock with the [...]

  • New Multinational Soyuz Crew Docks with Space Station

    Updated: 2012-12-21 14:41:57
      A Russian Soyuz capsule carrying U. S., Canadian and Russian astronauts successfully docked with the International Space Station early Wednesday, restoring the orbiting lab to six person crew operations for the first time since  mid-November. Tom Marshburn, a former NASA flight surgeon, Chris Hadfield, a veteran Canadian astronaut; and Roman Romanenko, the son of [...]

  • Solstice time, and all is well

    Updated: 2012-12-21 11:41:05
    During the buildup to 12/21/12, some people added an extra solstice twist to the Maya doomsday myth, contending that the precise time of the end of the world would be 11:11 UTC, or 6:11 a.m. ET. That's because the turnover date of the Maya Long Count calendar also happens to be t hellip;

  • Transit of Venus To Be Observed from Saturn

    Updated: 2012-12-21 01:09:00
    Home About SpaceRef SpaceRef Business SpaceRef Europe SpaceRef Asia SpaceRef Canada NASA Watch Get Our Daily Newsletter Loading Missions Space Station Calendar News Archives Space Weather Space Quarterly Magazine Mercury Venus Earth Moon Mars Jupiter Saturn Pluto Asteroids Comets Astrobiology Transit of Venus To Be Observed from Saturn By Keith Cowing Posted December 20, 2012 8:09 PM View Comments Grpahic of Venus' Transit This graphic shows the path of Venus across the face of the sun on Dec . 21, 2012, as will be seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft in the Saturn system . This will be the first time a spacecraft has tracked a transit of a planet in our solar system from beyond Earth . orbit For seven years , a mini-fridge-sized instrument aboard NASA's Cassini spacecraft reliably

  • CuriousMars: Curiosity Begins Rock Triage to Avoid Dangers of "Martian Honey"

    Updated: 2012-12-20 20:30:07
    : Home About SpaceRef SpaceRef Business SpaceRef Europe SpaceRef Asia SpaceRef Canada NASA Watch Get Our Daily Newsletter Loading Missions Space Station Calendar News Archives Space Weather Space Quarterly Magazine Mercury Venus Earth Moon Mars Jupiter Saturn Pluto Asteroids Comets Astrobiology CuriousMars : Curiosity Begins Rock Triage to Avoid Dangers of Martian Honey By Craig Covault and A.J.S . Rayl Posted December 20, 2012 3:30 PM View Comments The NASA Mars rover Curiosity used its Mastcam on Dec . 7, sol 120, to image a spectacular outcrop dubbed Shaler” . The outcrop's striking layers , some at angles to each indicate cross bedding . NASA JPL-Caltech Marco Di Lorenzo Ken Kremer The first use the rover Curiosity's drill to obtain subsurface samples from inside a rock on Mars will be

  • Spiral Structure of Disk May Reveal Planets

    Updated: 2012-12-20 18:09:01
    Home About SpaceRef SpaceRef Business SpaceRef Europe SpaceRef Asia SpaceRef Canada NASA Watch Get Our Daily Newsletter Loading Missions Space Station Calendar News Archives Space Weather Space Quarterly Magazine Mercury Venus Earth Moon Mars Jupiter Saturn Pluto Asteroids Comets Astrobiology Spiral Structure of Disk May Reveal Planets By Keith Cowing Posted December 20, 2012 1:09 PM View Comments NAOJ SAO 206462 An international team of astronomers has used HiCIAO High Contrast Instrument for the Subaru Next Generation Optics Note 1 to observe a disk around the young star SAO 206462. They succeeded in capturing clear , detailed images of its disk , which they discovered has a spiral structure with two clearly discernable arms . On the basis of their observations and modeling according to

  • Science Definition Team for the 2020 Mars Rover

    Updated: 2012-12-20 17:58:20
    Home About SpaceRef SpaceRef Business SpaceRef Europe SpaceRef Asia SpaceRef Canada NASA Watch Get Our Daily Newsletter Loading Missions Space Station Calendar News Archives Space Weather Space Quarterly Magazine Mercury Venus Earth Moon Mars Jupiter Saturn Pluto Asteroids Comets Astrobiology Science Definition Team for the 2020 Mars Rover By Keith Cowing Posted December 20, 2012 12:58 PM View Comments NASA Mars 2020 Rover The National Aeronautics and Space Administration NASA invites scientists , technologists , and other qualified and interested individuals at U.S . institutions and elsewhere to apply for membership on the Science Definition Team SDT for the 2020 Mars science rover mission hereafter Mars-2020 Mars-2020 is a strategic mission sponsored by NASA's Planetary Science Division

  • CSExtra – Thursday, December 20, 2012

    Updated: 2012-12-20 13:21:37
    To subscribe to CSExtra via RSS feed click here. If you would prefer to receive CSExtra in e-mail format, e-mail us at Info@spacecoalition.com with the word SUBSCRIBE in the subject line. Thursday’s CSExtra offers the latest reporting and commentary on space related activities from around the world. U. S., Canadian and Russian astronauts lift off for the [...]

  • Lunar Landmark Named for Sally Ride

    Updated: 2012-12-19 14:31:31
    The Earth’s moon now includes a near North Pole landmark named in honor of Sally K. Ride, American’s first female astronaut. The site was named for Ride on Dec. 17, moments after it became the crash site for NASA’s twin GRAIL mission spacecraft, Ebb and Flow. Ride, who died of cancer in July 2012, was [...]

  • U. S., Canadian, Russian Crew Departs for the Space Station

    Updated: 2012-12-19 13:36:49
        A Soyuz rocket with U. S.,  Canadian and Russian astronauts sped toward a linkup with the International Space Station early Friday, following a flawless lift off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. NASA’s Tom Marshburn, CSA’s Chris Hadfield and Roman Romanenko, of ROSCOSMOS, soared from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on Wednesday at 7:12 a.m.,  [...]

  • Two Mars Rovers: Armed for Action!

    Updated: 2012-12-19 13:15:07
    At two distant locations on Mars, NASA rovers are “strong arming” the planet. The Curiosity rover is busy working with its robot arm to help researchers choose a rock to drill within the shallow depression named “Yellowknife Bay”. Meanwhile, the Opportunity rover is using its robot arm to an outcrop, called “Copper Cliff.” This outcrop [...]

  • SETI@Home Needs Your Donations

    Updated: 2012-12-19 00:53:30
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  • Soyuz Rocket Launches Expedition 34 to the International Space Station

    Updated: 2012-12-19 00:45:00
    Home About SpaceRef SpaceRef Business SpaceRef Europe SpaceRef Asia SpaceRef Canada NASA Watch Get Our Daily Newsletter Loading Missions Space Station Calendar News Archives Space Weather Space Quarterly Magazine Mercury Venus Earth Moon Mars Jupiter Saturn Pluto Asteroids Comets Astrobiology Soyuz Rocket Launches Expedition 34 to the International Space Station By Marc Boucher Posted December 19, 2012 7:45 AM View Comments NASA Expedition 34 . launch At 7:12 a.m . ET this morning the Soyuz TMA-07M rocket with the Expedition 34 crew of Chris Hadfield Canada Tom Marshburn USA and Roman Romanenko Russia launched to the International Space Station on Expedition 34 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in . Kazakhstan As the sun set in the early evening in Baikonour it was a frigid 18c at launch time

  • GRAIL Impacts on Moon, Site Named for Astronaut Sally Ride

    Updated: 2012-12-19 00:26:31
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  • A Cosmic Holiday Ornament, Hubble-Style

    Updated: 2012-12-19 00:07:10
    , Home About SpaceRef SpaceRef Business SpaceRef Europe SpaceRef Asia SpaceRef Canada NASA Watch Get Our Daily Newsletter Loading Missions Space Station Calendar News Archives Space Weather Space Quarterly Magazine Mercury Venus Earth Moon Mars Jupiter Saturn Pluto Asteroids Comets Astrobiology A Cosmic Holiday Ornament , Hubble-Style By Keith Cowing Posted December 18, 2012 7:07 PM View Comments STSCI NGC 5189 Tis the season for holiday decorating and tree-trimming . Not to be left out , astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have photographed a festive-looking nearby planetary nebula called NGC 5189. The intricate structure of this bright gaseous nebula resembles a glass-blown holiday ornament with a glowing ribbon . entwined Planetary nebulae represent the final brief stage in

  • Exploding Star Missing from Formation of Solar System

    Updated: 2012-12-18 23:53:41
    Home About SpaceRef SpaceRef Business SpaceRef Europe SpaceRef Asia SpaceRef Canada NASA Watch Get Our Daily Newsletter Loading Missions Space Station Calendar News Archives Space Weather Space Quarterly Magazine Mercury Venus Earth Moon Mars Jupiter Saturn Pluto Asteroids Comets Astrobiology Exploding Star Missing from Formation of Solar System By Keith Cowing Posted December 18, 2012 6:53 PM View Comments NASA Infant Stars A new study published by University of Chicago researchers challenges the notion that the force of an exploding star forced the formation of the solar . system In this study , published online last month in Earth and Planetary Science Letters , authors Haolan Tang and Nicolas Dauphas found the radioactive isotope iron 60 the telltale sign of an exploding star low in

  • National Space Society Announces the 2013 Legislative Blitz

    Updated: 2012-12-18 00:36:40
    From Sunday, February 24 through Tuesday, February 26, 2013, the National Space Society and the Space Exploration Alliance will be holding the annual grassroots visit to Congress known as the “Legislative Blitz”. With unprecedented budgetary pressures facing the legislative and executive branches of government, the debate continues about the future direction and funding of our nation’s [...]

  • Why the World Won’t End on December 21st!

    Updated: 2012-12-17 16:46:28
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  • ESA to Inaugurate New Satellite Tracking Station

    Updated: 2012-12-17 15:58:28
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  • Progressing Towards the First Launch of NASA’s New Orion Spacecraft

    Updated: 2012-12-17 15:20:20
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  • AAVSO Alert Notice 474: Multiwavelength Campaign on Delta Ori (Mintaka)

    Updated: 2012-12-17 13:30:59
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  • GRAIL Mission Ends December 17 With Impact on Moon

    Updated: 2012-12-16 21:29:32
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  • Life in outer space? 37-year-old NASA project depicts how leading minds of the time dreamed about colonizing space

    Updated: 2012-12-15 02:21:08
    The New York Daily News published this story on December 13, 2012. The story quotes two National Space Society Directors: Mark Hopkins and Al Globus. “Amazing artwork from the 1970s shows scientists’ vision of creating settlements in space. They got most of it right, say experts. But funding for the massive endeavor remains a large hurdle.” Read the [...]

  • 50 Years After First Interplanetary Probe, NASA Looks To Future

    Updated: 2012-12-14 22:26:00
    Mariner 2's 1962 mission to Venus was the first time any spacecraft had gone to another planet. Before the mission, very little was known about the planets, and much of what was believed to be true turned out to be wrong.

  • What NASA Has Achieved in 2012

    Updated: 2012-12-14 14:14:13
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  • Big Kahuna in planetary science Ed Stone agrees with the grumbling tracker Voyager I is NOT about to

    Updated: 2012-12-11 01:43:48
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  • NASA Awards Commercial Crew Certification Contracts

    Updated: 2012-12-11 01:05:47
    NASA announced December 10th the next step in its plan to launch American astronauts from U.S. soil, selecting three companies to conduct activities under contracts that will enable future certification of commercial spacecraft as safe to carry humans to the International Space Station. The Certification Products Contracts (CPC) are the Commercial Crew Program’s first major, fixed-price [...]

  • Zoomable Image of the Whole Earth at Night

    Updated: 2012-12-10 23:02:39
    This new image of the Earth at night is a composite assembled from data acquired by the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (Suomi NPP) satellite over nine days in April 2012 and thirteen days in October 2012. It took 312 orbits and 2.5 terabytes of data to get a clear shot of every parcel of Earth’s [...]

  • Curiosity 2.0? NASA Announces New Mars Rover Plans

    Updated: 2012-12-07 18:00:00
    It has been an exciting week for planetary scientists, ranging from the discovery of water ice on Mercury to the announcement of a new Mars rover mission in 2020. Jim Green, director of NASA's planetary science division, and scientist Matthew Siegler discuss the latest news.

  • The Golden Spike Company Announces Plans for Commercial Human Lunar Landings

    Updated: 2012-12-07 16:18:36
    Former NASA Executives Lead the Company Washington, D.C. (December 6, 2012) – On the eve of the 40th anniversary of the launch of Apollo 17, the last human exploration of the Moon, Former Apollo Flight Director and NASA Johnson Space Center Director, Gerry Griffin, and planetary scientist and former NASA science chief, Dr. Alan Stern, today [...]

  • New NASA Images Show The Earth's Electric Light Show

    Updated: 2012-12-05 21:11:00
    "The night is nowhere as dark as we might think," says one scientist. How does your location light up the night?

  • Help NSS with your holiday shopping — at no cost to you!

    Updated: 2012-12-04 23:21:17
    Here is a simple way you can help support the National Space Society during your holiday shopping — and throughout the year — simply by using our Amazon link (bookmark it!) any time you shop at Amazon. NSS receives a small portion of your purchase, at no cost to you! Please use our Amazon link! [...]

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