• Station Crew Prepares for Return Home

    Updated: 2011-11-08 10:26:54
    Space Fellowship: Aboard the orbiting International Space Station Monday, Commander Mike Fossum and Flight Engineers Satoshi Furukawa and Sergei Volkov spent some time preparing for their imminent return to Earth. Furukawa and Volkov reviewed procedures for the descent portion of their flight aboard the Soyuz TMA-02M. Along with Fossum they also strapped themselves into their custom Kazbek couches inside the Soyuz, to test out the fit and make sure everything is set for the flight home. The trio is schedu [...]

  • NASA Captures New Images of Large Asteroid Passing Earth

    Updated: 2011-11-08 10:23:46
    Space Fellowship: PASADENA, Calif. -- NASA's Deep Space Network antenna in Goldstone, Calif. has captured new radar images of Asteroid 2005 YU55 passing close to Earth. The asteroid safely will safely fly past our planet slightly closer than the moon's orbit on Nov. 8. The last time a space rock this large came as close to Earth was in 1976, although astronomers did not know about the flyby at the time. The next known approach of an asteroid this size will be in 2028. The image was taken on Nov. 7 at 11: [...]

  • Edmund Halley Google Doodle

    Updated: 2011-11-08 06:37:54
    Method Russia aims for first conquest of Mars Home add your blog Archives Search Contact RSS FEED This site is an rss xml news reader containing our favorite feeds . All articles are the copyrighted material of the blogs that wrote them . Edmund Halley Google Doodle post from Sciencebase Science Blog on 08 November 2011 02:37:54 AM . Sciencebase Science Blog Another scientific Google Doodle . Yesterday , it was Marie Curie , today Google is celebrating the birthday of English astronomer Edmund Halley 8 November 1656 14 January 1742 who is perhaps best known for deriving the orbit of the eponymous comet and being mispronounced by 1950s rock and rollers . Halley was the second Astronomer Royal in Edmund Halley Google Doodle is a post from : Sciencebase Science Blog Read The Full Article :

  • Astrobiologists Discover Sweet Spots For Formation of Complex Organic Molecules

    Updated: 2011-11-08 06:15:53
    Method Astrobiologists Discover Sweet Spots For Formation of Complex Organic Molecules Home add your blog Archives Search Contact RSS FEED This site is an rss xml news reader containing our favorite feeds . All articles are the copyrighted material of the blogs that wrote them . Astrobiologists Discover Sweet Spots For Formation of Complex Organic Molecules post from Space Tourism , Space Transport and Space Exploration News on 08 November 2011 02:15:53 AM . Space Tourism , Space Transport and Space Exploration News New York NY SPX Nov 08, 2011 Scientists within the New York Center for Astrobiology at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have compiled years of research to help locate areas in outer space that have extreme potential for complex organic molecule formation . The scientists

  • NASA Captures New Images Of Large Asteroid Passing Earth

    Updated: 2011-11-08 06:15:53
    Method NASA's Future Up In Space Home add your blog Archives Search Contact RSS FEED This site is an rss xml news reader containing our favorite feeds . All articles are the copyrighted material of the blogs that wrote them . NASA Captures New Images Of Large Asteroid Passing Earth post from Space Tourism , Space Transport and Space Exploration News on 08 November 2011 02:15:53 AM . Space Tourism , Space Transport and Space Exploration News Pasadena CA JPL Nov 08, 2011 NASA's Deep Space Network antenna in Goldstone , Calif . has captured new radar images of asteroid 2005 YU55 passing close to Earth . The asteroid safely will fly past our planet slightly closer than the Moon's orbit on Nov . 8. The last time a space rock this large came as close to Earth was in 1976, although astronomers

  • Russia aims for first conquest of Mars

    Updated: 2011-11-08 06:15:53
    Method NASA Captures New Images Of Large Asteroid Passing Earth Home add your blog Archives Search Contact RSS FEED This site is an rss xml news reader containing our favorite feeds . All articles are the copyrighted material of the blogs that wrote them . Russia aims for first conquest of Mars post from Space Tourism , Space Transport and Space Exploration News on 08 November 2011 02:15:53 AM . Space Tourism , Space Transport and Space Exploration News Moscow AFP Nov 7, 2011 Russia on Wednesday launches a probe for Mars that aims to collect a chunk of a Martian moon and become Moscow's first successful planetary mission since the collapse of the Soviet Union . The Phobos-Grunt probe is to blast off from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on a Zenit-2SB rocket at 00:16 am Moscow time

  • China masters space command, control

    Updated: 2011-11-08 06:15:53
    , Method Campaign Begins For Third Automated Transfer Vehicle Mission To ISS Home add your blog Archives Search Contact RSS FEED This site is an rss xml news reader containing our favorite feeds . All articles are the copyrighted material of the blogs that wrote them . China masters space command , control post from Space Tourism , Space Transport and Space Exploration News on 08 November 2011 02:15:53 AM . Space Tourism , Space Transport and Space Exploration News Beijing XNA Nov 08, 2011 China's space control network has realized integrated command and control , which ensured the successful docking of the unmanned spacecraft Shenzhou 8 with the space lab module Tiangong 1, according to the Beijing Institute of Tracking and Communication Technology . This institute is the general design

  • China's great big leap skyward

    Updated: 2011-11-08 06:15:53
    Method Campaign Begins For Third Automated Transfer Vehicle Mission To ISS Home add your blog Archives Search Contact RSS FEED This site is an rss xml news reader containing our favorite feeds . All articles are the copyrighted material of the blogs that wrote them . China's great big leap skyward post from Space Tourism , Space Transport and Space Exploration News on 08 November 2011 02:15:53 AM . Space Tourism , Space Transport and Space Exploration News Beijing XNA Nov 08, 2011 A Chinese Long March 2F carrier rocket hurled Shenzhou-8 into orbit a week ago . Two days later , the unmanned spacecraft linked up with the Tiangong-1 module , accomplishing China's first space docking . Less than two months before , however , an orbiter launched by a similar Long March rocket had failed to

  • Campaign Begins For Third Automated Transfer Vehicle Mission To ISS

    Updated: 2011-11-08 06:15:53
    Method Edmund Halley Google Doodle Home add your blog Archives Search Contact RSS FEED This site is an rss xml news reader containing our favorite feeds . All articles are the copyrighted material of the blogs that wrote them . Campaign Begins For Third Automated Transfer Vehicle Mission To ISS post from Space Tourism , Space Transport and Space Exploration News on 08 November 2011 02:15:53 AM . Space Tourism , Space Transport and Space Exploration News Kourou , French Guiana ESA Nov 08, 2011 The Ariane 5 for Arianespace's third flight to service the International Space Station has begun its build-up at the Spaceport , preparing this heavy-lift launcher for an early 2012 mission from French Guiana with a European Automated Transfer Vehicle cargo resupply vessel . During activity in the

  • Nonterrestrial artifacts hard to pin down

    Updated: 2011-11-08 06:15:53
    Method What does the Tiangong 1 space station mean for China Home add your blog Archives Search Contact RSS FEED This site is an rss xml news reader containing our favorite feeds . All articles are the copyrighted material of the blogs that wrote them . Nonterrestrial artifacts hard to pin down post from Space Tourism , Space Transport and Space Exploration News on 08 November 2011 02:15:53 AM . Space Tourism , Space Transport and Space Exploration News University Park , PA SPX Nov 08, 2011 Two Pioneer probes left our solar system carrying plaques about humankind , and two Voyager probes will soon join them to gather information about places far out in our galaxy . We can and will send more autonomous probes into outer space , but why have we never found evidence of other civilizations

  • What does the Tiangong 1 space station mean for China

    Updated: 2011-11-08 06:15:53
    Method Nonterrestrial artifacts hard to pin down Home add your blog Archives Search Contact RSS FEED This site is an rss xml news reader containing our favorite feeds . All articles are the copyrighted material of the blogs that wrote them . What does the Tiangong 1 space station mean for China post from Space Tourism , Space Transport and Space Exploration News on 08 November 2011 02:15:53 AM . Space Tourism , Space Transport and Space Exploration News Beijing XNA Nov 08, 2011 China has successfully completed the first step of building a space station when Shenzhou 8 docked with lab module Tiangong 1 on Nov . 3, 2011, but what is the significance of the project for the nation It is generally recognized among the international space exploration community that a space station can provide a

  • Six Astrium satellites on the same flight

    Updated: 2011-11-08 06:15:53
    Method Astrobiologists Discover Sweet Spots For Formation of Complex Organic Molecules Home add your blog Archives Search Contact RSS FEED This site is an rss xml news reader containing our favorite feeds . All articles are the copyrighted material of the blogs that wrote them . Six Astrium satellites on the same flight post from Space Tourism , Space Transport and Space Exploration News on 08 November 2011 02:15:53 AM . Space Tourism , Space Transport and Space Exploration News Toulouse , France SPX Nov 08, 2011 Astrium is prime contractor for all six satellites to be launched in mid-December by the second Soyuz launcher to lift off from the Kourou spaceport in French Guiana . The Pleiades 1 Very High Resolution VHR Earth observation satellite recently left Astrium's site in Toulouse for

  • Is the Pluto System Dangerous?

    Updated: 2011-11-08 06:15:53
    Method Is the Pluto System Dangerous Home add your blog Archives Search Contact RSS FEED This site is an rss xml news reader containing our favorite feeds . All articles are the copyrighted material of the blogs that wrote them . Is the Pluto System Dangerous post from Space Tourism , Space Transport and Space Exploration News on 08 November 2011 02:15:53 AM . Space Tourism , Space Transport and Space Exploration News Boulder CO SPX Nov 08, 2011 New Horizons remains healthy and on course , now almost two times as far from the Sun as the Earth is , and approaching six years into its 9.5-year journey to the Pluto system . We've taken the spacecraft out of hibernation to perform maintenance activities , and to re-point our radio antenna to compensate for Earth's movement around its orbit .

  • NASA's Future Up In Space

    Updated: 2011-11-08 06:15:53
    Method China's great big leap skyward Home add your blog Archives Search Contact RSS FEED This site is an rss xml news reader containing our favorite feeds . All articles are the copyrighted material of the blogs that wrote them . NASA's Future Up In Space post from Space Tourism , Space Transport and Space Exploration News on 08 November 2011 02:15:53 AM . Space Tourism , Space Transport and Space Exploration News Bethesda MD SPX Nov 08, 2011 In a recent interview at the White House , President Obama addressed NASA's future . He said , I am hugely committed to manned space flight but I want to make sure that we're doing it right and that we aren't wasting taxpayer money . In the meantime , thousands of jobs related to the Space Shuttle Program have been lost . NASA's manned space program

  • Unprecedented View of the Sun

    Updated: 2011-11-07 23:17:02
    The Highest Resolution Image of the Sun's Surface Ever Obtained in Visible Light "The 1.6-meter aperture New Solar Telescope (NST) at Big Bear Solar Observatory (BBSO), has captured the highest resolution image of the surface of the sun ever obtained in visible light. The image was acquired with adaptive optics."

  • Jack Townsend

    Updated: 2011-11-07 20:40:22
    Former Goddard Center Director John Townsend Dead at 87 "John W. "Jack" Townsend, Jr., a space pioneer who was among the first employees of the newly formed Goddard Space Flight Center in 1959 and later served as its Center Director from 1987 to 1990, died October 29 of lung cancer. He was 87. Townsend was a rocket and satellite pioneer who was influential in creating the first meteorological, communications, and Earth viewing satellite systems."

  • What is a murmuration?

    Updated: 2011-11-07 18:47:01
    Science Buzz Be a part of the Buzz Register or log in Site Navigation Site Navigation Blog Topics Future Earth Weighing the evidence Archive Features Experimonth : Identity Object of the Month Scientist on the Spot Changing Seasons Browse Images Browse Tags Links Community Latest comments Contribute Buzz points Scientists Teachers Community Guidelines Member Gallery Exhibit Buzz kiosks About Where is Science Buzz Awards Credits Your feedback will help us improve this website Copyright Information Privacy Help Amazing fact What is a murmuration by mdr on Nov . 07th , 2011 I had no idea until I watched this amazing video made by Liberty Smith and Sophie Windsor Clive while canoeing on the River Shannon in Ireland . More info on Irish Central Murmuration from Sophie Windsor Clive on Vimeo :

  • Weird Sleeping Habit

    Updated: 2011-11-07 13:22:45
    Science Buzz Be a part of the Buzz Register or log in Site Navigation Site Navigation Blog Topics Future Earth Weighing the evidence Archive Features Experimonth : Identity Object of the Month Scientist on the Spot Changing Seasons Browse Images Browse Tags Links Community Latest comments Contribute Buzz points Scientists Teachers Community Guidelines Member Gallery Exhibit Buzz kiosks About Where is Science Buzz Awards Credits Your feedback will help us improve this website Copyright Information Privacy Help Nov 07 2011 Weird Sleeping Habit by kikipoopska 0 comments in Life Science I posted this picture a few days ago on Facebook and got a ton of comments . Apparently , I am not the only one that does this . I also thought this was something new , but a friend pointed out that I did this

  • NASA Budget: What to Cut, What To Save?

    Updated: 2011-11-07 11:39:59
    : , Home SpaceRef Commercial Space OnOrbit SpaceRef Europe Astrobiology Sign In This is not a NASA Website . You might learn something . It's YOUR space agency . Get involved . Take it back . Make it work for YOU . Important Disclaimer nasawatch spaceref.com Voice 1.703.787.6567 RSS Feed Twitter Advertising Archives Support NASA Budget : What to Cut , What To Save By Keith Cowing on November 7, 2011 6:39 AM 9 Comments Budget pressures squeeze the dreams of Mars explorers Washington Post At a White House meeting during the last week of October , administration officials were clearly not very keen on signing up for unmanned Mars missions in 2016 and 2018, said Daniel Britt , who attended the meeting as head of the planetary science division of the American Astronomical Society . White House

  • 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

  • Public Invited to Free Lecture at NASA Goddard: Why Space Telescopes Are Amazing

    Updated: 2011-11-05 15:23:25
    Public Invited to Free Lecture at NASA Goddard: Why Space Telescopes Are Amazing

  • NASA Seeks Space Technology Graduate Fellowship Applicants

    Updated: 2011-11-05 15:23:23
    NASA Seeks Space Technology Graduate Fellowship Applicants

  • NASA Point of "Contact" - Please Don't Call Me

    Updated: 2011-11-05 02:33:57
    Home SpaceRef Commercial Space OnOrbit SpaceRef Europe Astrobiology Sign In This is not a NASA Website . You might learn something . It's YOUR space agency . Get involved . Take it back . Make it work for YOU . Important Disclaimer nasawatch spaceref.com Voice 1.703.787.6567 RSS Feed Twitter Advertising Archives Support NASA Point of Contact Please Don't Call Me By Keith Cowing on November 4, 2011 10:33 PM No Comments NASA Space Technology Research Fellowships Fall 2012 Fellowship Grant Point of Contact Name : Claudia M Meyer Title : NASA Space Technology Research Grants Program Exec Phone : 000-000-0000 Fax : 000-000-0000 Email : hq-nstrf-call mail.nasa.gov Keith's : note Where is area code 000 You can contact Claudia Meyer at GRC no mention of GRC in the NASA HQ procurement notice at

  • Obama and NASA This Week

    Updated: 2011-11-05 02:13:46
    Home SpaceRef Commercial Space OnOrbit SpaceRef Europe Astrobiology Sign In This is not a NASA Website . You might learn something . It's YOUR space agency . Get involved . Take it back . Make it work for YOU . Important Disclaimer nasawatch spaceref.com Voice 1.703.787.6567 RSS Feed Twitter Advertising Archives Support Obama and NASA This Week By Keith Cowing on November 4, 2011 10:13 PM No Comments White House Photo of the Day , 3 Nov 2011 Janet Kavandi , Director of Flight Crew Operations at Johnson Space Center , presents President Obama with a jacket during a drop by with the crew of the Space Shuttle Atlantis in the Oval Office , Nov . 1, 2011. The jacket features patches from several past space shuttle missions . Pictured in the background , from left , are : Pilot Doug Hurley ,

  • maslow's hierarchy of needs

    Updated: 2011-11-05 00:45:04
    Science Buzz Be a part of the Buzz Register or log in Site Navigation Site Navigation Blog Topics Future Earth Weighing the evidence Archive Features Experimonth : Identity Object of the Month Scientist on the Spot Changing Seasons Browse Images Browse Tags Links Community Latest comments Contribute Buzz points Scientists Teachers Community Guidelines Member Gallery Exhibit Buzz kiosks About Where is Science Buzz Awards Credits Your feedback will help us improve this website Copyright Information Privacy Help Nov 04 2011 maslow's hierarchy of needs by moez1266 1 comment in Interdependence of Life Abarham Maslow created the 5 basic human needs . Otherwise known as Maslow's hierarchy of . needs 5. self-actualization 4. self esteem 3. belonging 2. safety 1. survival Now the pyramid works like

  • Canada Is Pursuing Space Cooperation Treaties with Russia and China

    Updated: 2011-11-04 22:37:36
    Home SpaceRef Commercial Space OnOrbit SpaceRef Europe Astrobiology Sign In This is not a NASA Website . You might learn something . It's YOUR space agency . Get involved . Take it back . Make it work for YOU . Important Disclaimer nasawatch spaceref.com Voice 1.703.787.6567 RSS Feed Twitter Advertising Archives Support Canada Is Pursuing Space Cooperation Treaties with Russia and China By Keith Cowing on November 4, 2011 6:37 PM 3 Comments Opportunity and Risk Ahead for Canada's Space Industry SpaceRef Canada Maclean noted that Canada had signed two major treaties recently . The first in 2009 with United States and most recently a 10 year extension with the European Space Agency . He also mentioned that the Canadian Space Agency very recently got cabinet approval to go ahead and negotiate

  • 2011-2012 Faculty Institutes for NASA Earth and Space Science Education

    Updated: 2011-11-04 05:23:59
    2011-2012 Faculty Institutes for NASA Earth and Space Science Education

  • NASA 2011 OPTIMUS PRIME Spinoff Video Contest

    Updated: 2011-11-04 05:23:57
    NASA 2011 OPTIMUS PRIME Spinoff Video Contest

  • NASA Expedition 31 and 32 In-flight Education Downlink Opportunity

    Updated: 2011-11-04 05:23:56
    NASA Expedition 31 and 32 In-flight Education Downlink Opportunity

  • Changes at Commercial Spaceflight Federation

    Updated: 2011-11-04 00:41:13
    Home SpaceRef Commercial Space OnOrbit SpaceRef Europe Astrobiology Sign In This is not a NASA Website . You might learn something . It's YOUR space agency . Get involved . Take it back . Make it work for YOU . Important Disclaimer nasawatch spaceref.com Voice 1.703.787.6567 RSS Feed Twitter Advertising Archives Support Changes at Commercial Spaceflight Federation By Keith Cowing on November 3, 2011 8:41 PM No Comments Alexander Saltman Selected As Executive Director of the Commercial Spaceflight Federation The Federation has selected Dr . Alexander Saltman as the organization's Executive Director . Saltman is a physicist who has most recently served as the Legislative Director for Congressman Adam Schiff of California . Separately , the Commercial Spaceflight Federation is currently

  • Photo: On Orbit and Backlit By Earthshine

    Updated: 2011-11-03 15:54:58
    Photo: JAXA Astronaut Satoshi Furukawa Backlit Only By Earthshine "Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Satoshi Furukawa, Expedition 29 flight engineer, holds a still camera while looking through a window in the Cupola of the International Space Station Space Station."

  • Hearing on China, OSTP & NASA (Political Theater Synopsis)

    Updated: 2011-11-03 00:05:31
    , Home SpaceRef Commercial Space OnOrbit SpaceRef Europe Astrobiology Sign In This is not a NASA Website . You might learn something . It's YOUR space agency . Get involved . Take it back . Make it work for YOU . Important Disclaimer nasawatch spaceref.com Voice 1.703.787.6567 RSS Feed Twitter Advertising Archives Support Hearing on China , OSTP NASA Political Theater Synopsis By Keith Cowing on November 2, 2011 8:05 PM 10 Comments Keith's : note As you can see from this screen shot from the hearing's webcast shown only on NASA TV as John Holdren and Charlie Bolden were testifying , that virtually no one other than Rep . Rohrabacher , ranking member Rep . Carnahan , and their staffs even bothered to show up for this hearing . A few selected tweets Rohrabacher : DOJ says that WH can do

  • Steve Squyres is the new NASA Advisory Council Chairman

    Updated: 2011-11-02 20:07:36
    Home SpaceRef Commercial Space OnOrbit SpaceRef Europe Astrobiology Sign In This is not a NASA Website . You might learn something . It's YOUR space agency . Get involved . Take it back . Make it work for YOU . Important Disclaimer nasawatch spaceref.com Voice 1.703.787.6567 RSS Feed Twitter Advertising Archives Support Steve Squyres is the new NASA Advisory Council Chairman By Keith Cowing on November 2, 2011 4:07 PM 5 Comments NASA Announces Steven Squyres as New NASA Advisory Council Chairman NASA Administrator Charles Bolden has named Cornell University Astronomy Professor Steven W . Squyres , as chairman of the NASA Advisory Council NAC an assembly of experts from various fields that offer guidance and policy advice to the administrator of America's space agency.Squyres' scientific

  • Twin Cities Naturalist: Monday Phenoloy Roundup Halloween Edition 2011

    Updated: 2011-11-02 01:03:48
    : Science Buzz Be a part of the Buzz Register or log in Site Navigation Site Navigation Blog Topics Future Earth Weighing the evidence Archive Features Experimonth : Identity Object of the Month Scientist on the Spot Changing Seasons Browse Images Browse Tags Links Community Latest comments Contribute Buzz points Scientists Teachers Community Guidelines Member Gallery Exhibit Buzz kiosks About Where is Science Buzz Awards Credits Your feedback will help us improve this website Copyright Information Privacy Help Science links Twin Cities Naturalist : Monday Phenoloy Roundup Halloween Edition 2011 by tcnaturalist on Nov . 01st , 2011 Twin Cities Naturalist Courtesy Twin Cities Naturalist Check out this week's Phenology Roundup where professional naturalist Kirk Mona of Twin Cities Naturalist

  • Italian Research Sidebar: olive harvest

    Updated: 2011-10-31 20:50:54
    : Science Buzz Be a part of the Buzz Register or log in Site Navigation Site Navigation Blog Topics Future Earth Weighing the evidence Archive Features Experimonth : Identity Object of the Month Scientist on the Spot Changing Seasons Browse Images Browse Tags Links Community Latest comments Contribute Buzz points Scientists Teachers Community Guidelines Member Gallery Exhibit Buzz kiosks About Where is Science Buzz Awards Credits Your feedback will help us improve this website Copyright Information Privacy Help Oct 31 2011 Italian Research Sidebar : olive harvest by Tilly 0 comments in History and Nature of Science On my day off , I helped some friends harvest olives in Varano , Ancona , Italy . The entire harvest is done by hand . First , we spread fine nets on the ground under the trees

  • Vector Addition: Math and Science @ Work – Lunar Surface Instrumentation Web Seminar – Nov 1, 2011

    Updated: 2011-10-28 18:40:09
    NASA Explorer Schools and the National Science Teachers Association are hosting a 90-minute live professional development Web seminar on Nov. 1, 2011, at 6:30 p.m. EDT. Learn how students can apply their knowledge of vectors to a hypothetical lunar instrument-servicing mission. Information and tools will be provided to help engage students and relate the lesson [...]

  • Papercraft Spaceships and Satellites – Build Your Own Space Program!

    Updated: 2011-10-27 19:10:43
    Looking for an inexpensive creative project for you or your children?  Try some of the space themed paper models at the links below.  These patterns are available for free download.  Simply print the pattern and follow the instructions to build your own space fleet!  Warning: Some of these are very challenging! Balloon Powered Nanorover, Cassini, [...]

  • Next Generation Suborbital Research Conference (NSRC) is Coming to California!

    Updated: 2011-10-26 18:31:39
    NSRC is a forum for researchers, educators and other users to learn about the research and education and public outreach (EPO) capabilities of the next generation of space vehicles to suborbital space, their experiments and EPO integration processes. Hosted by NASA Ames Research Center, the Southwest Research Institute and the Commercial Spaceflight Federation, NSRC is [...]

  • CaSGC Student Gonzalo Leyva Participates in Microgravity Flight at NASA Johnson Space Center

    Updated: 2011-10-26 17:53:01
    Fresno State campus director Dr. Ram Nunna (Interim Dean of the Lyles College of Engineering at Fresno State) provided support for a team of students that flew on a microgravity flight at Johnson Space Center this summer. The team investigated the "Formation of Calcium Oxalate in a Microgravity Environment". The team's research objective was to [...]

  • Successful launch of first Galileo IOV satellites

    Updated: 2011-10-24 10:00:41
    Successful launch of first Galileo IOV satellites Space blog Successful launch of first Galileo IOV satellites SSTL congratulates the EU , ESA and Astrium on the successful launch of the two first in-orbit validation IOV satellites , which marks a critical step for the Galileo system . Galileo is the upcoming European satellite navigation system , equivalent to the American Global Positioning System GPS Galileo will start operating in 2014 as a free consumer navigation service , with more specialised services to be rolled out until 2020, when it’s planned to be fully operational Launched by a Russian Soyuz rocket from the base in French Guiana on Friday 21 October 07:30 local time 11:30 BST the satellites are now in their 23,000km orbit above . Earth Friday’s launch is the beginning of the

  • Astronomy Curriculum: Afterschool Universe

    Updated: 2011-10-20 22:55:49
    Afterschool Universe is a hands-on astronomy curriculum targeted at middle school out-of-school-time settings. Developed in 2006 and rigorously pilot-tested and evaluated, the 12-session program explores basic astronomy concepts through engaging hands-on activities and takes participants on a journey through the universe beyond the solar system. To learn more about the program, visit http://universe.nasa.gov/afterschool/. The Afterschool [...]

  • NASA’s New Interactive Space Communications Game

    Updated: 2011-10-20 22:53:18
    NASA has released an interactive, educational video game called NetworKing that depicts how the Space Communication and Navigation, or SCaN, network operates. The release of the video game coincided with the close of World Space Week, Oct. 4-10, 2011. Developed by the Information Technology Office at NASA’s Ames Research Center at Moffett Field, Calif., NetworKing [...]

  • NASA to Seek Applicants for Next Astronaut Candidate Class

    Updated: 2011-10-12 18:37:31
    In early November, NASA will seek applicants for its next class of astronaut candidates who will support long-duration missions to the International Space Station and future deep space exploration activities. A bachelor’s degree in engineering, science or mathematics and three years of relevant professional experience are required in order to be considered. Typically, successful applicants [...]

  • California Space Grant Supports the 2011 NASA Postdoctoral Program

    Updated: 2011-10-12 18:21:49
    The NASA Postdoctoral Program (NPP) offers scientists and engineers unique opportunities to conduct research at a NASA Center or other location stipulated by the program. NPP helps ensure the continued quality of the NASA research workforce. This program is designed to advance NASA research in a specific project related to space science, earth science, aeronautics, [...]

  • Deadline Approaching– NASA Endeavor Science Teaching Certificate Project: K-12 Educator Fellowships

    Updated: 2011-10-12 17:55:54
    The NASA Endeavor Science Teaching Certificate Project awards 12-18 month fellowships each year to 50 formal educators. In partnership with state departments of education, Endeavor Fellows take five graduate courses in an innovative, online format from the comfort of their homes or schools. In these courses, participants gain science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) professional [...]

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