• Hacking the Moon: Crater, by Homer Hickam

    Updated: 2012-03-31 18:03:20
    : , Home NASA Watch SpaceRef OnOrbit Commercial Space Newsletter This is not a NASA Website . You do not need permission to explore space . Fix NASA's stuff or just do it . yourself nasahackspace spaceref.com Voice 1.703.787.6567 RSS Feed Twitter Advertising Archives Hacking the Moon : Crater , by Homer Hickam By Keith Cowing on March 26, 2012 4:00 PM View Comments Book Review : Crater By Homer Hickam Crater by Homer Hickam , is aimed at younger readers and manages to deliver quite a well-paced adventure . The book focuses on the adventures of Crater Trueblood a 16 year old blue collar kid who lives on the Moon complete with a mysterious past and a penchant for invention . He also has a knack of stumbling into one mini-adventure after another as he makes his way across the lunar surface to

  • Conrad Foundation Innovation Summit Underway

    Updated: 2012-03-31 17:56:07
    NASA Hack Space: "This year, we are giving everyone the chance to attend the Innovation Summit - virtually. We'll stream live footage of the Summit's opening remarks, daily fireside chats, interactive student workshops, and opening and closing ceremonies." Live webcast Link Today, in a message from the International Space Station, Astronauts Don Pettit and Dan Burbank welcomed students to the Conrad Foundation Innovation Summit at NASA Ames Research Center. Burbank refered to a comment made by President Obama to participants at the Second Annual Science Fair at the White House: "Don't be bored - make something!". Video (go to 00:35)

  • Open Source Tricorder Project

    Updated: 2012-03-31 17:50:47
    Home NASA Watch SpaceRef OnOrbit Commercial Space Newsletter This is not a NASA Website . You do not need permission to explore space . Fix NASA's stuff or just do it . yourself nasahackspace spaceref.com Voice 1.703.787.6567 RSS Feed Twitter Advertising Archives Open Source Tricorder Project By Keith Cowing on March 31, 2012 12:47 PM View Comments Star Trek-like open-source tricorder sees magnetic fields and more MSNBC A person with that level of smarts , apparently , has enough brain power leftover in his spare time to invent tricorders , not to mention the greedlessness to share the blueprint with DIYers who want their own . Instructions are available from his Tricorder Project website Like the Trek devices , Jansen's gadgets will measure the environment , things such as ambient

  • Neil Tyson?s congressional testimony

    Updated: 2012-03-31 17:00:02
    Method TV discussion on atheism and public policy 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 . Neil Tysons congressional testimony post from Bad Astronomy on 31 March 2012 01:00:02 PM . Bad Astronomy My old friend and colleague Neil Tyson has long been an advocate for exploration , for basic investment in science , and for pushing the boundaries of what we know and can do . In early March , he got a chance to make his stand official : he testified before[ . Read The Full Article : http : feedproxy.google.com r BadAstronomyBlog 3 x1xV96glPa8 Add to del.icio.us Digg this Post to Furl Add to reddit Add to myYahoo Website designed by Bartosz

  • April Fools' Day Asteroid to Buzz Earth Sunday: No Joke!

    Updated: 2012-03-31 16:25:11
    SPACE.com: The asteroid 2012 EG5 will be closer than the moon when it passes Earth on April 1.

  • New UN Report: Space and Climate Change – Use of Space-based Technologies

    Updated: 2012-03-31 15:36:47
    : Search Skip to content Home About the Coalition Benefits of Space Newsroom Legislative Activity Blog Education Station Related Links Contact Us Blog Follow : us New UN Report : Space and Climate Change Use of Space-based Technologies 0 Comments March 31, 2012 Benefits of Space Exploration Education Station Exploration International Space Station NASA Planet Earth Space and Science Why Space Credit : EUMETSAT United Nations organizations are making full use of space-based technologies in a shared quest to enhance our ability to manage planet Earth and to address the critical challenges facing the human . condition Climate change threatens to have a catastrophic impact on ecosystems and the future prosperity , security and well-being of all humankind , explains Ban Ki-Moon ,

  • Strange Gamma-Ray Objects in Deep Space Perplex Scientists

    Updated: 2012-03-31 15:08:05
    SPACE.com: Astronomers aren't sure what is causing these unidentified gamma-ray emissions in space.

  • Libration Point Satellite (1962)

    Updated: 2012-03-31 14:50:35
    Method Desktop Project Part 6 : Psychedelic topographic Moon 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 . Libration Point Satellite 1962 post from CR4 Recent Blog Entries on 31 March 2012 10:50:35 AM . CR4 Recent Blog Entries From Wired Top Stories : In 1962, two researchers hashed out one of the earliest proposals to treat libration points as space destinations . Space historian and Beyond Apollo blogger David S . F . Portree describes a proposed mission to sample dust and observe the Sun at Earth-moon L4. Read The Full Article : http : cr4.globalspec.com blogentry 19489 Libration-Point-Satellite-1962 from_rss 1 Add to del.icio.us Digg this

  • Can Petridish Become The Kickstarter Of Science? We Ask The CEO

    Updated: 2012-03-31 14:40:35
    Method Neil Tysons congressional testimony 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 . Can Petridish Become The Kickstarter Of Science We Ask The CEO post from Singularity Hub on 31 March 2012 10:40:35 AM . Singularity Hub Science in the U.S . is slated for a devastating blow on January 2, 2013 when the debt deal Congress passed last year Read The Full Article : http : singularityhub.com 2012 03 31 can-petridish-become-the-kickstarter-of-scie nce-we-ask-the-ceo Add to del.icio.us Digg this Post to Furl Add to reddit Add to myYahoo Website designed by Bartosz Brzezinski Powered by blogdig.net Cool Stuff Have A Great science BLOG Add Your Blog

  • Fourth Annual Space Grant Faculty Senior Design Training Faculty Workshop – July 19-20, 2012

    Updated: 2012-03-30 22:19:12
    NASA Human Exploration and Operations Higher Education Project in partnership with the National Space Grant College and Fellowship Program Presents the Fourth Annual Space Grant Faculty Senior Design Faculty Training Workshop NASA’s Human Exploration and Operations is hosting a free 2-day faculty workshop in the summer of 2012, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. The purpose [...]

  • Free Education Webinar Series from the Aerospace Education Services Project – April 2012

    Updated: 2012-03-30 19:08:44
    Aerospace Education Services Project is presenting a series of free webinars through June 2012. All webinars can be accessed online. Join aerospace education specialists to learn about activities, lesson plans, educator guides and resources to bring NASA into your classroom. NASA Literature and Science (Grades K-5) April 2, 2012, 4 – 5 p.m. EDT Aerospace [...]

  • Live Webcast: Conrad Spirit of Innovation Summit

    Updated: 2012-03-29 14:21:37
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  • Stephen Hawking Wins NSS' Heinlein Award

    Updated: 2012-03-29 13:59:37
    Stephen Hawking Accepts Prestigious NSS Award on Society's 25th Anniversary "The National Space Society (NSS) is pleased to announce Dr. Stephen Hawking as the 14th recipient of NSS's Robert A. Heinlein Memorial Award. The award [was] be presented to Dr. Hawking at a special ceremony at the Cooks Branch Conservancy in Montgomery, Texas on Wednesday, March 28 and is given in recognition of his outstanding and continuing public efforts in support of human space development and settlement."

  • Will.i.am Narrates New NASA Spinoff Technology Public Service Announcement

    Updated: 2012-03-29 10:02:10
    Will.i.am Narrates New NASA Spinoff Technology Public Service Announcement

  • Odd Silence on the Commercial Space Front (Update)

    Updated: 2012-03-29 00:02:07
    Home SpaceRef Commercial Space OnOrbit SpaceRef Europe Astrobiology 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 Popular : Categories Budget Congress Commercialization Election 2012 ISS News Policy Odd Silence on the Commercial Space Front Update By Keith Cowing on March 29, 2012 8:02 AM View Comments Keith's 23 Mar note There were two Congressional hearings this week , one with House Appropriations Committee Subcommittee on Commerce , Justice , Science , and Related Agencies on NASA's FY 2013 budget and the other by the House Committee on Science , Space , and Technology's Subcommittee on

  • Multiple Hearings on NASA Today

    Updated: 2012-03-28 21:04:07
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  • NASA Calls for Student-Designed Deep Space Habitat Proposals

    Updated: 2012-03-28 21:00:23
    HOUSTON — NASA is offering college and university students a chance to help design a deep space habitat. The Exploration Habitat (X-Hab) Academic Innovation Challenge is accepting applications for the 2013 challenge, inviting students to design, manufacture, assemble and test systems for use on NASA’s deep space habitat prototype. Past projects have included an inflatable [...]

  • Early Career Faculty NASA Space Tech Research Opportunities

    Updated: 2012-03-28 20:54:12
    WASHINGTON — NASA is seeking proposals from accredited U.S. universities on behalf of outstanding early career faculty beginning their independent careers. This inaugural Space Technology Research Opportunities for Early Career Faculty solicitation seeks to sponsor research in specific, high priority technology areas of interest to NASA. Specific topic areas were selected because they can best [...]

  • NASA's Twitter Account Receives Award

    Updated: 2012-03-27 21:11:35
    Home SpaceRef Commercial Space OnOrbit SpaceRef Europe Astrobiology 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 Popular : Categories Budget Congress Commercialization Election 2012 ISS News Policy NASA's Twitter Account Receives Award By Keith Cowing on March 27, 2012 5:11 PM View Comments NASA's Twitter Account Receives Shorty Award NASA's activities in social media were recognized on Monday in New York when the agency's official Twitter feed , NASA , received a Shorty Award for the best government use of social media . The Shorty Awards honor the best of social media across sites such as

  • Bright Night Skies Over Wallops

    Updated: 2012-03-27 14:53:43
    Home SpaceRef Commercial Space OnOrbit SpaceRef Europe Astrobiology 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 Popular : Categories Budget Congress Commercialization Election 2012 ISS News Policy Bright Night Skies Over Wallops By Keith Cowing on March 27, 2012 10:53 AM View Comments NASA Successfully Launches Five Rockets from NASA Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia NASA successfully launched five suborbital sounding rockets this morning from its Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia as part of a study of the upper level jet stream . Each of the rockets released a chemical tracer that

  • Nick Lampson Is Running Again

    Updated: 2012-03-27 00:19:13
    Home SpaceRef Commercial Space OnOrbit SpaceRef Europe Astrobiology 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 Popular : Categories Budget Congress Commercialization Election 2012 ISS News Policy Nick Lampson Is Running Again By Keith Cowing on March 26, 2012 8:19 PM View Comments Rumors of NASA's demise greatly exaggerated opinion , Nick Lampson Right now , NASA is building the next-generation deep-space crew capsule and heavy-lift rocket to explore farther than ever before . NASA is also expanding use of the International Space Station by partnering with American companies to create

  • NASA Is Becoming Boring

    Updated: 2012-03-26 03:57:28
    Home SpaceRef Commercial Space OnOrbit SpaceRef Europe Astrobiology 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 Popular : Categories Budget Congress Commercialization Election 2012 ISS News Policy NASA Is Becoming Boring By Keith Cowing on March 25, 2012 11:57 PM View Comments James Cameron Completes Record-Breaking Mariana Trench Dive Now the science team is getting ready for the returned samples , expedition astrobiologist Kevin Hand , of NASA , said in an email . Because Cameron had prepared extensively for the dive , he should be in good psychological health , said Walter Sipes , an

  • WIA Foundation Announces 2012-2013 Scholarship Award Recipient

    Updated: 2012-03-24 03:54:20
    WIA Foundation Announces 2012-2013 Scholarship Award Recipient

  • NASA Congratulates Winners of YouTube Space Lab Contest

    Updated: 2012-03-23 05:02:56
    NASA Congratulates Winners of YouTube Space Lab Contest

  • National Space Society Announces John Glenn and Scott Carpenter as Featured Guests for 25th Anniversary Gala

    Updated: 2012-03-22 20:22:52
    National Space Society Announces John Glenn and Scott Carpenter as Featured Guests for 25th Anniversary Gala

  • Symphony of Science does Dinosaurs!

    Updated: 2012-03-21 19:54:56
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  • Summer Comes Early to USA- NASA Map of Surface Temperature Anomalies

    Updated: 2012-03-21 14:43:49
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  • NASA Calls for Student-Designed Deep Space Habitat Proposals

    Updated: 2012-03-21 05:08:01
    The Exploration Habitat (X-Hab) Academic Innovation Challenge is accepting applications for the 2013 challenge, inviting students to design, manufacture, assemble and test systems for use on NASA's deep space habitat prototype.

  • Monday Phenology Roundup: March 19th 2012

    Updated: 2012-03-20 13:57:06
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  • What's the Sun trying to tell us?

    Updated: 2012-03-15 17:58:33
    Science Buzz Be a part of the Buzz Register or log in Site Navigation Site Navigation Blog Topics The Space Debate Future Earth Weighing the evidence Archive Space Policy Features 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 What's the Sun trying to tell us by mdr on Mar . 15th , 2012 Angry red Sun : sounding very hot under the collar Courtesy JAXA Hinode Last week I posted a video of the Sun's gigantic coronal mass flare-ups that had the potential to disrupt our spacecraft and some

  • Press Release: Asteroid 2012 DA14 Discovery Enabled by Planetary Society Grant

    Updated: 2012-03-15 07:00:00
    On the Planetary Society web site: Asteroid 2012 DA14 Discovery Enabled by Planetary Society Grant

  • TED Talk: How simple ideas lead to scientific discoveries

    Updated: 2012-03-13 20:09:01
    : Science Buzz Be a part of the Buzz Register or log in Site Navigation Site Navigation Blog Topics The Space Debate Future Earth Weighing the evidence Archive Space Policy Features 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 TED Talk : How simple ideas lead to scientific discoveries by mdr on Mar . 13th , 2012 Check out this insightful TED Talk on How simple ideas lead to scientific discoveries given by Adam Savage , host of television's Mythbusters . The simple method he describes

  • Discover Magazine's Discoblog

    Updated: 2012-03-13 01:31:55
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  • The Sun puts on a stellar performance

    Updated: 2012-03-07 23:44:50
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