February 25th, 2016
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What’s up on the International Space Station (ISS)? There’s a new quarterly magazine on the ISS National Lab that promises to fill you in and up with new data. This publication comes courtesy of the Center for Advancement of Science in Space (CASIS) and NASA. Called “Upward” this new publication promises to delve into […]
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Tired of hearing about all those “other moons” – like Europa,Titan, Ganymede, Phobos and Deimos? A “Name the Moon” campaign is underway, dedicated to respectfully petition the International Astronomical Union (IAU) to give Earth’s Moon a unique name. To do so the campaign has launched an animated series that teaches people about our solar system; […]
NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover is on the prowl during Sol 1262, driving toward Naukluft Plateau. “We’re gearing up for a nice long drive toward the “Naukluft Plateau,” reports Ryan Anderson, a planetary scientist at the USGS Astrogeology Science Center. Anderson explains that the sol 1262 plan is to start off with Chemistry & Camera […]
Space planners are scoping out an outpost for humans to work in cis-lunar space – the space around Earth’s moon. The work is expected to help plot out other deep-space destinations, perhaps to an asteroid, but also provide a leg-up on the larger leap to distant Mars. Under NASA’s Next Space Technologies for Exploration Partnerships […]
The passenger-carrying VSS Unity SpaceShipTwo was unveiled last week in the FAITH (Final Assembly Integration Test Hangar), the Mojave, California-based home of manufacturing and testing for Virgin Galactic’s human space flight program. That VSS Unity name was given to the suborbital spaceship by noted astrophysicist, Stephen Hawking. During the February 19th rollout festivities, Hawking said […]
One of the many surprises at last week’s rollout of Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo was a video featuring Nobel Peace Prize winner, Malala Yousafzai. Yousafzai’s 2014 Nobel Peace Prize win was motivated by her struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education. From eleven years of […]
NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover is now in Sol 1260. Reports Ryan Anderson, a planetary scientist at the USGS Astrogeology Science Center and a member of the ChemCam team on the Mars Science Laboratory: “The rover is fine, gradually working its way around the north end of a large dune.” A few days ago, on Sol […]
MOJAVE, California – The February 19th rollout of the new VSS Unity here proved to be a grand event, a morale booster for The Spaceship Company and Virgin Galactic that’s backed by founder and entrepreneur, Richard Branson. Following the Oct. 31, 2014 mishap of SpaceShipTwo breaking up over the Mojave desert here and killing one of its […]
MOJAVE, California – Some 16 months after the mishap of SpaceShipTwo breaking up over the desert here and killing one of its two-person, test piloting crew, a new SpaceShipTwo has been rolled out. It is the first vehicle to be manufactured by The Spaceship Company, Virgin Galactic’s wholly owned manufacturing arm. VSS Unity was […]
On February 22, 2016, the United States Postal Service will release a new, one-ounce, international-rate stamp: A commemorative stamp. Why? Because exploration of the Moon has always been an international endeavor, explains the U.S. Postal Service. To distinguish this stamp from other Forever stamps, the shape of the international stamp is round and bears the […]
