• Scientists respond to planet hunter's plight with pointers – and poetry

    Updated: 2013-05-18 05:04:31
    NASA is getting plenty of advice mdash; and sympathy mdash; as it assesses whether its Kepler planet-hunting telescope can be revived after the failure of its reaction-control system. The reactions from scientists and engineers range from repair tips to an Audenesque hellip;

  • STEREO Detects a CME From the Sun

    Updated: 2013-05-18 00:39:20
    Home NASA Watch SpaceRef Business Space Quarterly Magazine SpaceRef Canada Astrobiology Web Loading Space Station NASA Hack Space Calendar News Archives Missions Space Weather Get UPDATES Mercury Venus Earth Moon Mars Jupiter Saturn Pluto Asteroids Comets STEREO Detects a CME From the Sun Posted by Keith Cowing Posted May 17, 2013 7:39 PM View Comments NASA CME 17 May 2013 On 5:24 a.m . EDT on May 17, 2013, the sun erupted with an Earth-directed coronal mass ejection or CME , a solar phenomenon that can send billions of tons of solar particles into space that can reach Earth one to three days later and affect electronic systems in satellites and on the ground . Experimental NASA research models , based on observations from NASA's Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory , show that the CME

  • Investigating Recommendations for Improving Citizen Science "Success"

    Updated: 2013-05-18 00:37:21
    Home NASA Watch SpaceRef Business Space Quarterly Magazine SpaceRef Canada Astrobiology Web Loading Space Station NASA Hack Space Calendar News Archives Missions Space Weather Get UPDATES Mercury Venus Earth Moon Mars Jupiter Saturn Pluto Asteroids Comets Investigating Recommendations for Improving Citizen Science Success Posted by Keith Cowing Posted May 17, 2013 7:37 PM View Comments Citizen science programs are increasingly popular for a variety of reasons , from public education to new opportunities for data collection . The literature published in scientific journals resulting from these projects represents a particular perspective on the process . These articles often conclude with recommendations for increasing success This study compared these recommendations to those elicited

  • Massively Clustered CubeSats NCPS Demo Mission

    Updated: 2013-05-18 00:35:54
    Home NASA Watch SpaceRef Business Space Quarterly Magazine SpaceRef Canada Astrobiology Web Loading Space Station NASA Hack Space Calendar News Archives Missions Space Weather Get UPDATES Mercury Venus Earth Moon Mars Jupiter Saturn Pluto Asteroids Comets Massively Clustered CubeSats NCPS Demo Mission Posted by Keith Cowing Posted May 17, 2013 7:35 PM View Comments Technologies under development for the proposed Nuclear Cryogenic Propulsion Stage NCPS will require an un-crewed demonstration mission before they can be flight qualified over distances and time frames representative of a crewed Mars mission . In this paper , we describe a Massively Clustered CubeSats platform , possibly comprising hundreds of CubeSats , as the main payload of the NCPS demo mission . This platform would enable

  • Cubesat Constellation May Gather Earth Energy Imbalance Measurements

    Updated: 2013-05-18 00:33:43
    Home NASA Watch SpaceRef Business Space Quarterly Magazine SpaceRef Canada Astrobiology Web Loading Space Station NASA Hack Space Calendar News Archives Missions Space Weather Get UPDATES Mercury Venus Earth Moon Mars Jupiter Saturn Pluto Asteroids Comets Cubesat Constellation May Gather Earth Energy Imbalance Measurements Posted by Keith Cowing Posted May 17, 2013 7:33 PM View Comments NASA Cubesat constellation A team of scientists has won a berth on a tiny satellite to explore one of NASA's most important frontiers in climate studies : the imbalance in Earth's energy budget and the extent to which fast-changing phenomena , like clouds , contribute to that . imbalance Image : Radiometers may be flown on a constellation of satellites , like the one shown here in this graphic . The goal

  • Clearwater Lakes - Dual Impact Craters

    Updated: 2013-05-17 17:36:31
    Home NASA Watch SpaceRef Business Space Quarterly Magazine SpaceRef Canada Astrobiology Web Loading Space Station NASA Hack Space Calendar News Archives Missions Space Weather Get UPDATES Mercury Venus Earth Moon Mars Jupiter Saturn Pluto Asteroids Comets Clearwater Lakes Dual Impact Craters Posted by Keith Cowing Posted May 17, 2013 12:36 PM View Comments This Landsat image from 9 September 2010 features the Clearwater Lakes in Canada's Quebec province . Located to the east of the Hudson Bay , what appears to be two separate lakes is actually a single body of water that fills two depressions . The depressions were created by two meteorite impacts , believed to have hit Earth simultaneously up to 290 million years . ago The larger of the two to the northwest is about 36 km in diameter and

  • AIA Reminds Young Americans: We Are the Explorers

    Updated: 2013-05-17 17:27:48
    : Home NASA Watch SpaceRef Business Space Quarterly Magazine SpaceRef Canada Astrobiology Web Loading Space Station NASA Hack Space Calendar News Archives Missions Space Weather Get UPDATES Mercury Venus Earth Moon Mars Jupiter Saturn Pluto Asteroids Comets AIA Reminds Young Americans : We Are the Explorers Posted by Keith Cowing Posted May 17, 2013 12:27 PM View Comments The Aerospace Industries Association , in partnership with Challenger Center for Space Science Education , sponsored a first-of-its-kind crowd funding campaign to place a trailer before Star Trek Into Darkness beginning May 17 to educate the public most especially young people on the exciting human spaceflight programs now underway . The trailer will play in more than 50 cities . nationwide With the end of the Space

  • Opportunity Examines Clay Clues in Rock

    Updated: 2013-05-17 17:24:33
    Home NASA Watch SpaceRef Business Space Quarterly Magazine SpaceRef Canada Astrobiology Web Loading Space Station NASA Hack Space Calendar News Archives Missions Space Weather Get UPDATES Mercury Venus Earth Moon Mars Jupiter Saturn Pluto Asteroids Comets Opportunity Examines Clay Clues in Rock Posted by Keith Cowing Posted May 17, 2013 12:24 PM View Comments NASA Clay Clues in Rock NASA's senior Mars rover , Opportunity , is driving to a new study area after a dramatic finish to 20 months on Cape York with examination of a rock intensely altered by . water The fractured rock , called Esperance , provides evidence about a wet ancient environment possibly favorable for life . The mission's principal investigator , Steve Squyres of Cornell University , Ithaca , N.Y . said , Esperance was so

  • Curiosity Rover at 'Cumberland'

    Updated: 2013-05-17 17:19:46
    Home NASA Watch SpaceRef Business Space Quarterly Magazine SpaceRef Canada Astrobiology Web Loading Space Station NASA Hack Space Calendar News Archives Missions Space Weather Get UPDATES Mercury Venus Earth Moon Mars Jupiter Saturn Pluto Asteroids Comets Curiosity Rover at Cumberland' Posted by Keith Cowing Posted May 17, 2013 12:19 PM View Comments NASA Cumberland NASA's Mars rover Curiosity used its front left Hazard-Avoidance Camera for this image of the rover's arm over the drilling target Cumberland during the 275th Martian day , or sol , of the rover's work on Mars May 15, 2013 The rover team plans to use Curiosity's drill to collect a powdered sample from the interior of the rock for analysis by laboratory instruments inside the rover . This is the mission's second rock-drilling

  • Super-Bright Explosion Seen on the Moon

    Updated: 2013-05-17 16:42:47
    If you were looking up at the Moon on March 17, 2013 at 03:50:55 UTC, you might have seen one of the brightest “lunar flashes” ever witnessed. And it would have been visible with just the naked eye. (...)Read the rest of Super-Bright Explosion Seen on the Moon (669 words) © nancy for Universe Today, [...]

  • Instrumental Methods for Professional and Amateur Collaborations in Planetary Astronomy

    Updated: 2013-05-17 16:39:25
    Home NASA Watch SpaceRef Business Space Quarterly Magazine SpaceRef Canada Astrobiology Web Loading Space Station NASA Hack Space Calendar News Archives Missions Space Weather Get UPDATES Mercury Venus Earth Moon Mars Jupiter Saturn Pluto Asteroids Comets Instrumental Methods for Professional and Amateur Collaborations in Planetary Astronomy Posted by Keith Cowing Posted May 17, 2013 11:39 AM View Comments Amateur contributions to professional publications have increased exponentially over the last decades in the field of Planetary Astronomy . Here we review the different domains of the field in which collaborations between professional and amateur astronomers are effective and regularly lead to scientific publications . We discuss the instruments , detectors , softwares and methodologies

  • Large Explosion Detected on Moon

    Updated: 2013-05-17 14:44:00
    NASA researchers have reported the biggest explosion on the lunar surface in the 8 year history of a Moon-monitoring program. The object was about the size of a small boulder and struck in the Moon’s Mare Imbrium, creating a flash nearly 10 times as bright as anything specialists had recorded before. The impact took place [...]

  • CSExtra – Friday, May 17, 2013

    Updated: 2013-05-17 12:56:56
    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 news and commentary on space related activities from across the globe.   A tribute to Sally Ride, America’s first woman in [...]

  • Blocking Light Sheds New Light on Exoplanet Atmospheres

    Updated: 2013-05-16 21:25:07
    Exoplanets are uncanny. Some seem to have walked directly out of the best science-fiction movies. For example, we’ve discovered a planet consisting purely of water (GJ 1214b) and one with two suns (Kepler 16b). Some planets nearly scrape their host stars once every orbit, while others exist in darkness without a host star at all. The [...]

  • 'Star Trek' stars go ga-ga over real astronauts during video hangout

    Updated: 2013-05-16 21:11:49
    You'd think that traveling at warp speed to the planet Nibiru would be the coolest thing in outer space, but for the Hollywood types who made "Star Trek Into Darkness," talking with a real astronaut on the International Space Station was way more awesome. "I'll just act like this hellip;

  • Dust Devils Rip Up Mars' 'Etch A Sketch' Surface

    Updated: 2013-05-16 19:51:00
    In side-by-side comparisons of observations of the same Mars region years apart, the active Martian atmosphere acts like an Etch A Sketch, rubbing out dust devils' tracks only for them to re-form years later.

  • Asteroid Nine Times Larger Than QE2 to Sail Past Earth Later This Month

    Updated: 2013-05-16 18:37:14
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  • Live Online Event: The Exploding Universe: the Realm of Supernovae

    Updated: 2013-05-16 18:28:13
    Supernovae are some of the fascinating objects in the Universe. The Virtual Telescope Project will be hosting a live webcast today UPDATE: the webcast will also be on May 17, 2013 as clouds arrived shortly into the webcast on on the 16th) at 21:00 UTC (5 pm EDT, 2 pm PDT) to explore in real-time [...]

  • First Global Topographic Map of Titan

    Updated: 2013-05-16 18:11:18
    Home NASA Watch SpaceRef Business Space Quarterly Magazine SpaceRef Canada Astrobiology Web Loading Space Station NASA Hack Space Calendar News Archives Missions Space Weather Get UPDATES Mercury Venus Earth Moon Mars Jupiter Saturn Pluto Asteroids Comets First Global Topographic Map of Titan Posted by Keith Cowing Posted May 16, 2013 1:11 PM View Comments NASA First Global Topographic Map of Titan Scientists have created the first global topographic map of Saturn's moon Titan , giving researchers a valuable tool for learning more about one of the most Earth-like and interesting worlds in the solar system . The map was just published as part of a paper in the journal . Icarus Titan is Saturn's largest moon with a radius of about 1,600 miles 2,574 kilometers it's bigger than planet Mercury

  • Nanosatellite Launch Adapter System Ready for Flight

    Updated: 2013-05-16 18:05:38
    Home NASA Watch SpaceRef Business Space Quarterly Magazine SpaceRef Canada Astrobiology Web Loading Space Station NASA Hack Space Calendar News Archives Missions Space Weather Get UPDATES Mercury Venus Earth Moon Mars Jupiter Saturn Pluto Asteroids Comets Nanosatellite Launch Adapter System Ready for Flight Posted by Keith Cowing Posted May 16, 2013 1:05 PM View Comments NASA Nanosatellite Launch Adapter System Nanosatellites now have their own mass transit to catch rides to space and perform experiments in microgravity . A new NASA-designed and developed satellite deployer , dubbed the Nano Launch Adapter System NLAS is scheduled to demonstrate the capability to launch a flock of satellites into space later this . year Image : The Nanosatellite Launch Adapter System NLAS was developed to

  • Counting Space Rock Impacts on Mars

    Updated: 2013-05-16 17:51:50
    Home NASA Watch SpaceRef Business Space Quarterly Magazine SpaceRef Canada Astrobiology Web Loading Space Station NASA Hack Space Calendar News Archives Missions Space Weather Get UPDATES Mercury Venus Earth Moon Mars Jupiter Saturn Pluto Asteroids Comets Counting Space Rock Impacts on Mars Posted by Keith Cowing Posted May 16, 2013 12:51 PM View Comments NASA Mars Scientists using images from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter have estimated that the planet is bombarded by more than 200 small asteroids or bits of comets per year forming craters at least 12.8 feet 3.9 meters across . Researchers have identified 248 new impact sites on parts of the Martian surface in the past decade , using images from the spacecraft to determine when the craters appeared . The 200-per-year planetwide

  • NASA Google Hangout Connects Space Station and Star Trek Crews

    Updated: 2013-05-16 17:26:06
    NASA hosted on Google Hangout today a discussion with veteran astronauts Michael Fincke and Kjell Lindgren and cast members from the just opened "Star Trek Into Darkness" movie.

  • Weather on the Outer Planets Only Goes So Deep

    Updated: 2013-05-16 16:46:16
    Home NASA Watch SpaceRef Business Space Quarterly Magazine SpaceRef Canada Astrobiology Web Loading Space Station NASA Hack Space Calendar News Archives Missions Space Weather Get UPDATES Mercury Venus Earth Moon Mars Jupiter Saturn Pluto Asteroids Comets Weather on the Outer Planets Only Goes So Deep Posted by Keith Cowing Posted May 16, 2013 11:46 AM View Comments NASA Neptune What is the long-range weather forecast for the giant planets Uranus and Neptune These planets are home to extreme winds blowing at speeds of over 1000 km hour , hurricane-like storms as large around as Earth , immense weather systems that last for years and fast-flowing jet streams . Both planets feature similar climates , despite the fact that Uranus is tipped on its side with the pole facing the sun during

  • OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Sample Return Mission Moves Ahead

    Updated: 2013-05-16 16:38:18
    Home NASA Watch SpaceRef Business Space Quarterly Magazine SpaceRef Canada Astrobiology Web Loading Space Station NASA Hack Space Calendar News Archives Missions Space Weather Get UPDATES Mercury Venus Earth Moon Mars Jupiter Saturn Pluto Asteroids Comets OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Sample Return Mission Moves Ahead Posted by Keith Cowing Posted May 16, 2013 11:38 AM View Comments NASA's first mission to sample an asteroid is moving ahead into development and testing in preparation for its launch in 2016. The Origins-Spectral Interpretation Resource Identification Security Regolith Explorer OSIRIS-REx passed a confirmation review Wednesday called Key Decision Point KDP C . NASA officials reviewed a series of detailed project assessments and authorized the spacecraft's continuation into the

  • ‘Star Trek into Darkness’ & NASA Station Crews Join Forces at Live NASA Webcast

    Updated: 2013-05-16 16:35:48
    Science Fact and Science Fiction join forces in space today for a one of a kind meeting turning science fiction into reality – and you can participate courtesy of NASA and Hollywood! Fictional astronauts and crews from the newest Star Trek incarnation; “Star Trek into Darkness” and real life astronauts taking part from outer space [...]

  • Kepler’s Planet Search Encounters Problem

    Updated: 2013-05-16 11:54:24
      NASA’s four year Kepler mission to search thousands of stars in the Milky Way galaxy for sun-like stars with planets that resemble the Earth has encountered a serious technical problem. A second of the four rapidly spinning internal “reaction wheels” that aim and steady the observatory has stopped turning, NASA announced late Wednesday. At [...]

  • CSExtra – Thursday, May 16, 2013

    Updated: 2013-05-16 01:06:38
    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 news and commentary on space related activities from across the globe. NASA’s Kepler space telescope, the centerpiece of an extended search [...]

  • NSS Featured on The Space Show

    Updated: 2013-05-15 22:26:32
    The Space Show featured two speakers from the National Space Society on May 14 and the archived presentation is now online.  The speakers were Dr. Stan Rosen, NSS Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors, and Dave Dressler, Chairman of the 2013 International Space Development Conference (ISDC), the NSS annual conference. Topics: The upcoming [...]

  • Sun Unleashes X-Class Solar Flares

    Updated: 2013-05-15 21:35:27
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  • First Global Topographic Map of Saturn’s Moon Titan

    Updated: 2013-05-15 21:22:05
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  • Mars Rocks! Yearly Red Planet Crater Count

    Updated: 2013-05-15 21:14:24
    This set of images from cameras on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter documents the appearance of a new cluster of impact craters on Mars. The orbiter has imaged at least 248 fresh craters, or crater clusters, on Mars.Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/Univ. of Arizona The two upper images are from the orbiter’s Context Camera (CTX). Researchers investigated the [...]

  • CSExtra – Wednesday, May 15, 2013

    Updated: 2013-05-15 14:21:55
    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. Wednesday’s CSExtra offers the latest news and commentary on space related activities from across the globe. Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield, just back from five months on [...]

  • The Abell S1077 Gravitational Lens

    Updated: 2013-05-14 20:33:38
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  • Canada’s 1st Space Station Commander, U. S., Russian Astronauts Land in Kazakhstan

    Updated: 2013-05-14 17:09:08
    Three International Space Station astronauts reached Earth safely late Monday, including the first from Canada to command the six person orbiting science laboratory. The landing followed a flurry of activities that led to a Saturday spacewalk for the repair of a thermal control system leak within the station’s electricity producing solar power system. Chris Hadfield, [...]

  • Winged Dream Chaser Prepares for First Flight Test

    Updated: 2013-05-14 14:16:44
    Sierra Nevada Corporation’s winged Dream Chaser is bound for NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif. Prior to Dream Chaser’s first autonomous free flight Approach and Landing Test (ALT), the craft will continue a series of tests, including runway tow, ground resonance, and a captive carry flight. The flight tests will [...]

  • CSExtra – Tuesday, May 14, 2013

    Updated: 2013-05-14 14:06:47
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  • CSExtra – Monday, May 13, 2013

    Updated: 2013-05-13 01:22:04
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  • Exploring An Ever-Expanding Universe

    Updated: 2013-05-10 18:00:00
    Saul Perlmutter shared the 2011 Nobel Prize in physics for his discovery that the universe was expanding at an accelerating rate. Perlmutter explains how supernovae and other astronomical artifacts are used to measure the expansion rate, and explains what physicists are learning about "dark energy" — the mysterious entity thought to be driving the acceleration.

  • Building Blocks for Earth-Sized Planets Found Around Two White Dwarf Stars

    Updated: 2013-05-09 19:44:26
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  • Can't get to Australia? Get an online look at the 'ring of fire' solar eclipse

    Updated: 2013-05-09 00:47:53
    If you can't make it to the South Pacific's eclipse zone in time to watch the sun turn into a "ring of fire" on Thursday, you can still get in on the spectacle online. The annular solar eclipse begins at 6:30 p.m. ET (22:30 GMT) in western Australia. Over the course of several ho hellip;

  • European Scientists Examine Options for Dealing With Asteroids

    Updated: 2013-05-08 18:40:58
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  • What is cosmic inflation?

    Updated: 2013-05-08 16:05:26
    Andrew Jaffe explains how the universe underwent a flash of enormous growth when it was just fractions of a second old

  • Dr. Abdul Kalam to Receive Von Braun Award at ISDC 2013

    Updated: 2013-05-08 15:53:54
    The National Space Society’s prestigious Wernher von Braun Memorial Award will be presented to Dr. Abdul Kalam on Friday, May 24 at the 2013 International Space Development Conference (ISDC). Held at the Hyatt Regency La Jolla at Aventine Hotel in San Diego, CA, the ISDC will run from May 23-27, 2013. Dr. Kalam will [...]

  • Engage! Astronomers need your assistance to detect space warps

    Updated: 2013-05-08 03:43:16
    Think you can find space warps? Astronomers have recruited thousands of citizen scientists to look for exoplanets, galaxies, moon craters and other cosmic curiosities — and now they need your help to go after one of the weirdest phenomena in space-time: gravitational lenses hellip;

  • Over 20 Exhibitors to Present at International Space Development Conference

    Updated: 2013-05-07 22:38:15
    Space advocacy organizations, educational institutions and companies from around the world are among the 22 groups which will be presenting as exhibitors at this year’s International Space Development Conference. The 2013 ISDC, the annual conference of the National Space Society and a premier event for space leaders and enthusiasts, will be held from May 23 [...]

  • Will the universe go on expanding forever?

    Updated: 2013-05-06 12:18:53
    Daniel Mortlock gives his informed opinion on the ultimate fate of the universe

  • Space Solar Power Workshop August 8-9 at Michigan Tech

    Updated: 2013-05-05 19:34:40
    A two-day workshop on space solar power (SSP) will be held on August 8-9, 2013, at Michican Technological University, Houghton, Michigan. Presentations and keynotes will be selected from researchers, program managers, industry representatives, and academics, interspersed with topical working group discussions. The workshop aims to compare different SSP [...]

  • NASA's Mars Curiosity rover sends pictures after communications gap

    Updated: 2013-05-03 00:54:51
    NASA's Curiosity rover is back in business after a weeks-long communication gap caused by solar interference. The proof comes in the form of pictures transmitted back to Earth on Thursday from the 1-ton machine's vantage point at Yellowknife Bay on Mars. "Can you hear me now? Con hellip;

  • Send Your Haiku To Mars! NASA Seeks Poets

    Updated: 2013-05-02 15:42:00
    NASA is looking for three haiku to include on a DVD that will travel to Mars aboard a spacecraft this fall. And everyone who submits a poem will have their name included.

  • NASA lets poets / send haiku to Red Planet / on a MAVEN's wings

    Updated: 2013-05-02 00:49:00
    Poets, take note: NASA is looking for a few good haiku to send to the Red Planet aboard its MAVEN orbiter this fall. If you're not the literary sort, don't worry: You can still submit your name to be included on a DVD that will be attached to the spacecraft. MAVEN is scheduled fo hellip;

  • Herschel Space Telescope Ceases Operation After Coolant Runs Out

    Updated: 2013-04-30 11:28:05
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  • Cassini Images Saturn North Pole Hurricane

    Updated: 2013-04-29 19:54:54
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  • Cassini Sees Meteors Colliding With Saturn’s Rings

    Updated: 2013-04-27 15:34:20
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  • Meteor Explodes in Argentinian Sky

    Updated: 2013-04-25 17:43:36
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  • Video of SpaceX Grasshopper 250m Test

    Updated: 2013-04-24 15:09:24
    SpaceX’s Grasshopper flies 820 feet, tripling its March 7th leap. Grasshopper is a 10-story Vertical Takeoff Vertical Landing (VTVL) vehicle that SpaceX has designed to test the technologies needed to return a rocket back to Earth intact. While most rockets are designed to burn up in the atmosphere during reentry, SpaceX’s [...]

  • National Space Society Adds to Its Leadership Team

    Updated: 2013-04-24 14:29:04
    The National Space Society announces the selection of four new additions to its leadership team:  Dr. Stanley G. Rosen to the newly created position of Vice Chairman of the Society’s Board of Directors, Bruce Pittman as Senior Vice President and Senior Operating Officer, Dr. Paul Werbos as Executive Vice President [...]

  • Free copy of O’Neill’s “The High Frontier” (until April 23)

    Updated: 2013-04-20 19:24:10
    The Space Studies Institute is offering a free electronic copy of Professor Gerard K. O’Neill’s The High Frontier through Tuesday April 23.  It’s a Kindle edition, but you don’t need a Kindle to read it. There is a free Kindle app to read it on computers, tablets, and smartphones. An Amazon account is [...]

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