• ATK Technologies on Display as NASA Launches Next Mars Rover

    Updated: 2011-11-27 16:58:15
    ATK Technologies on Display as NASA Launches Next Mars Rover

  • Aerojet Propulsion Boosts Next Generation Mars Science Laboratory Mission

    Updated: 2011-11-27 16:58:15
    Aerojet Propulsion Boosts Next Generation Mars Science Laboratory Mission

  • NASA's Mars Science Laboratory Lifts Off, Protected by Lockheed Martin-Built Aeroshell

    Updated: 2011-11-27 16:58:15
    NASA's Mars Science Laboratory Lifts Off, Protected by Lockheed Martin-Built Aeroshell

  • Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne Boosts Latest Mars Rover to the Red Planet

    Updated: 2011-11-27 16:58:15
    Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne Boosts Latest Mars Rover to the Red Planet

  • United Launch Alliance Atlas V Rocket Successfully Launches NASA's Mars Science Lab on Journey to Red Planet

    Updated: 2011-11-27 16:58:15
    United Launch Alliance Atlas V Rocket Successfully Launches NASA's Mars Science Lab on Journey to Red Planet

  • Canadian Space Agency: The Maple Leaf Returns to Mars

    Updated: 2011-11-27 16:58:15
    Canadian Space Agency: The Maple Leaf Returns to Mars

  • Opportunity Mars Rover: Getting Ready for Winter

    Updated: 2011-11-27 14:07:45
    While NASA’s Curiosity rover is en route to Mars, the Opportunity robot has been busy scoping out sites for the approaching winter on the red planet. Opportunity is on the prowl for locations with a favorable northerly tilt on the north end of Cape York on the rim of Endeavour Crater. Such sites need to [...]

  • Curiosity on its way to Mars!

    Updated: 2011-11-27 14:05:03
    Yesterday morning, NASA successfully launched the Mars Science Laboratory — named Curiosity — toward the fourth planet. If, like me, you missed the launch itself (^%$#@&! sinuses) why then, here’s some pretty dramatic video of the liftoff: [Make sure to set it to 720p resolution!] The cool parts to watch are: about 2 minutes in [...]

  • Joint USAF/NOAA Report of Solar and Geophysical Activity 26 November 2011 CORRECTED COPY

    Updated: 2011-11-27 03:18:09
    Joint USAF/NOAA Report of Solar and Geophysical Activity 26 November 2011 CORRECTED COPY

  • NASA Administrator Tours Company Assisting With Mars Rover Launch

    Updated: 2011-11-27 03:18:08
    NASA Administrator Tours Company Assisting With Mars Rover Launch

  • Space agencies leading way to sustainable future

    Updated: 2011-11-27 03:18:06
    Space agencies leading way to sustainable future

  • ILS Proton Successfully Launches the AsiaSat 7 Satellite for AsiaSat

    Updated: 2011-11-27 03:18:05
    ILS Proton Successfully Launches the AsiaSat 7 Satellite for AsiaSat

  • Joint USAF/NOAA Report of Solar and Geophysical Activity 26 November 2011

    Updated: 2011-11-27 03:18:04
    Joint USAF/NOAA Report of Solar and Geophysical Activity 26 November 2011

  • Mars Science Laboratory Leaves Earth

    Updated: 2011-11-27 03:18:03
    NASA began a historic voyage to Mars with the Nov. 26 launch of the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL), which carries a car-sized rover named Curiosity. Liftoff from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station aboard an Atlas V rocket occurred at 10:02 a.m. EST.

  • NASA Mars Science Laboratory Begins Its Trip to Mars

    Updated: 2011-11-27 03:18:00
    A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket carrying NASA's Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) spacecraft, including the new rover, Curiosity has been launched.

  • The Moon and Venus, a gorgeous pair

    Updated: 2011-11-27 01:42:15
    Just an hour or so ago as I write this (Saturday, November 26, 2011) I was sitting at my desk at home, puttering around on the computer. I glanced out my office window and noticed the Sun had set a few minutes before. Even though it was still quite bright out, I thought I might [...]

  • Book Review: Exploring Mars – Chronicles from a Decade of Discovery

    Updated: 2011-11-26 22:38:06
    Exploring Mars – Chronicles from a Decade of Discovery by Scott Hubbard; University of Arizona Press, Tucson, Arizona; $17.95 (paperback); February 2012. As I write this today, NASA’s Mars Curiosity rover is outbound for the red planet. It has been a long haul for the robot to get en route. It experienced its own set [...]

  • Video: Curiosity Rover Launches to Mars

    Updated: 2011-11-26 16:08:22
    The Mars Science Laboratory is now on an 8.5 month trip to Mars! Watch the successful launch above, and our on-site team of Ken Kremer, Alan Walters, David Gonazales and Jason Rhian will provide all the launch details and more in subsequent, fact- and photo-filled articles. Below is an incredible video of when the MSL [...]

  • Mars Rover Curiosity Launches

    Updated: 2011-11-26 15:34:20
    An unmanned Atlas V rocket carrying NASA's $2.5 billion Mars Science Laboratory lifted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on Saturday.

  • Giving thanks, taking a break

    Updated: 2011-11-26 13:21:09
    First of all, I can’t believe 2011 is almost over. But it is. And I’ve got a lot to be thankful for … 1. My family. I have a beautiful wife and two of the sweetest, most fun kids you can ever imagine. So blessed. 2. My job. I have a great job, reading and [...]

  • NASA Mars Rover Ready for Liftoff

    Updated: 2011-11-26 13:18:20
    Preparations for launch of NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory aboard an unmanned Atlas 5 rocket are on schedule for 10:02 a.m. EST this morning.

  • Astrophoto: Say Hello to Albireo!

    Updated: 2011-11-26 10:43:54
    RickJ submitted this amazing image of the double star Albireo through the Bad Astronomy and Universe Today forum. “I only had about 20 minutes before the target I wanted would be getting too close the the meridian to get much on the east side before it went into the “Meridian Tree”. It would be too [...]

  • NASA's Mars Mission Readies for Launch

    Updated: 2011-11-26 09:31:00
    The much-anticipated Mars Science Laboratory "Curiosity" sits on the Cape Canaveral launchpad, ready for Saturday's blast-off.

  • Mars Trek – Curiosity Poised to Search for Signs of Life

    Updated: 2011-11-26 05:37:28
    ‘Mars Trek – Curiosity’s Search for Undiscovered Life’ has its galaxy wide premiere Saturday morning Nov. 26 at 10:02 a.m. EST – live on NASA TV. NASA’s quest ‘In Search of Life’ takes a bold leap in less than 12 hours with the Nov. 26 blastoff of “Curiosity”, the most complex and scientifically advanced robotic [...]

  • Stranded Russian Mars Probe Falls Silent (Again)

    Updated: 2011-11-25 21:11:00
    On Tuesday, a tracking station made first contact with Phobos-Grunt. On Friday, the spacecraft stopped talking.

  • Curiosity launches to Mars on Saturday

    Updated: 2011-11-25 18:55:21
    [UPDATE: SUCCESS! The launch was just about perfect, and Curiosity is now on its way to Mars, scheduled to land in August 2012. Congrats to everyone on the mission!] Tomorrow, Saturday, November 26 at 10:02 Eastern (US) time (15:02 UTC), an Atlas V rocket carrying the Curiosity Mars rover will blast off from Florida, sending [...]

  • Quadruply Lensed Dwarf Galaxy 12.8 Billion Light Years Away

    Updated: 2011-11-25 18:50:30
    Gravitational lensing is a powerful tool for astronomers that allows them to explore distant galaxies in far more detail than would otherwise be allowed. Without this technique, galaxies at the edge of the visible universe are little more than tiny blobs of light, but when magnified dozens of times by foreground clusters, astronomers are able [...]

  • The Sun blows some gas to Venus

    Updated: 2011-11-25 14:02:26
    On November 15, the Sun had a minor eruption on its surface that launched a prominence — a towering arc of ionized gas — into space. Sometimes these prominences collapse back down to the surface, and sometimes they wind up ejecting that material into space. This one did a little of both: The animation was [...]

  • Curiosity Rover ‘Locked and Loaded’ for Quantum Leap in Pursuit of Martian Microbial Life

    Updated: 2011-11-25 04:38:39
    NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover, the most technologically complex and scientifically capable robot built by humans to explore the surface of another celestial body, is poised to liftoff on Nov. 26 and will enable a quantum leap in mankind’s pursuit of Martian microbes and signatures of life beyond Earth. “The Mars Science Lab and the rover [...]

  • Forget Exomoons. Let’s talk Exorings

    Updated: 2011-11-24 20:58:01
    In an article earlier this month, I discussed the potential for discovering moons orbiting extrasolar planets. I’d used an image of an exoplant system with rings, prompting one reader to ask if those would be possible to detect. Apparently he wasn’t the only person wondering. A new paper looks more at exomoons and explores exoring [...]

  • Thanksgiving wish

    Updated: 2011-11-24 20:49:37
    I put this up on Google+ and Twitter, so what the heck. My Thanksgiving wish to everyone: Courtesy of Hyperbole and a Half and my own superior and fearsome Photoshop skillz.

  • Mars Rover Plutonium Triggers Launch Precautions

    Updated: 2011-11-24 19:54:00
    Extensive precautions ahead of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory launch on Saturday include 30 radiation sensors.

  • MSL/Curiosity to Further Human Exploration

    Updated: 2011-11-24 16:14:15
        While the primary goal of NASA’s ambitious $2.5 billion Mars Science Laboratory mission is to assess the habitability of the Martian environment,   U. S. space agency experts planning for the future human exploration of the Red Planet will be following the multi-year mission closely as well. The MSL/Curiosity rover mission is scheduled for [...]

  • NASA’s Mars Rover: Go for Saturday Sendoff!

    Updated: 2011-11-23 23:23:55
    The Curiosity rover is ready for its cruise to the red planet. If all stays on track, an Atlas V rocket will boost NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory into space on November 26th. On that day, the launch window for departure of the craft extends from 10:02 a.m. to 11:45 a.m. Eastern Standard Time. The spacecraft [...]

  • Time to get your Mars mojo working

    Updated: 2011-11-23 22:42:43
    NASA's $2.5 billion, car-sized rover is ready for an epic Mars mission. Are you? Here's how to get connected with Curiosity. The one-ton Curiosity rover is the central payload for the Mars Science Laboratory mission, which is due for launch at 10:02 a.m.

  • Happy Thanksgiving – be back Monday.

    Updated: 2011-11-23 20:00:51
    . Home Suggest Stories About Us Staff Contact Us Log In Register to Comment NYTimes , Gizmodo , Wired , lots more amazement : Peru’s Nasca lines get competition . China’s new desert graphics are NUTS Happy Thanksgiving be back . Monday With tomorrow’s Thanksgiving Holiday meaning a four-day weekend for most of us here in the USA , we’ll be pretty inert here at tracker central until . Monday To set the mood , here are a few stories out finding a connection between Turkey Day , and . research Universe Today Nancy Atkinson Mars Rover Finds a Turkey Haven for the Holiday Scroll down in the story for an arresting accident scene . photo The Atlantic Nicolette Hahn Niman Is That Really a Heritage Turkey And yes , the author is in the family that sells the Niman Ranch brand of beef and other meats

  • NYTimes, Gizmodo, Wired, lots more amazement: Peru’s Nasca lines get competition. China’s new desert graphics are NUTS

    Updated: 2011-11-23 19:19:07
    , , , : . Home Suggest Stories About Us Staff Contact Us Log In Register to Comment Lots of Ink : Mars mission a NASA planetary swan song Plutonium powered and can’t even see a microbe’s trail Happy Thanksgiving be back . Monday NYTimes , Gizmodo , Wired , lots more amazement : Peru’s Nasca lines get competition . China’s new desert graphics are NUTS The Tracker must be the last to have stumbled on a buzzstorm of speculation over the last three weeks , largely on the blog side of web news but with mainstream outlets jumping in too , over bizarre graphic designs and shapes dotted across China’s Gobi Desert . Google Earth , among other non-spy surveillance systems , has been picking them up . Favorite speculation among the loonie rune-readers is that the markings are for calibration of

  • Lots of Ink: Mars mission a NASA planetary swan song? Plutonium powered and can’t even see a microbe’s trail

    Updated: 2011-11-23 18:39:44
    : Home Suggest Stories About Us Staff Contact Us Log In Register to Comment ABC Australia Dynamical Casimir effect and the emission of light from empty space , for . real NYTimes , Gizmodo , Wired , lots more amazement : Peru’s Nasca lines get competition . China’s new desert graphics are NUTS Lots of Ink : Mars mission a NASA planetary swan song Plutonium powered and can’t even see a microbe’s trail Bon voyage Curiosity , daughter of Mars Science Laboratory , the big wheeled bruiser of a rover that NASA hopes to get off the ground Saturday . The aim is to land next August in ancient , gnarly Gale Crater not far south of the planet’s equator . It is about 100 miles 154 km across . Its midsection sports a pile of debris about as high as the Andes . The pic shows just part of the crater’s

  • Thanksgiving in Space? Five-Year-Old Turkey

    Updated: 2011-11-23 14:48:00
    Long duration missions to Mars means food that can last for five years. Creating that has not been an easy mission for NASA.

  • Happy birthday, Swift!

    Updated: 2011-11-23 14:00:24
    NASA’s little satellite that could, Swift, recently celebrated its seventh year in space. It blasted into orbit on November 20, 2004, starting a mission that would increase our understanding of the most violent events in the universe, and shatter cosmic distance records. I wrote about Swift six years ago, on the first anniversary of its [...]

  • CSExtra – Wednesday, November 23, 2011

    Updated: 2011-11-23 13:59:11
    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 in reporting and commentary on space related activities from around the globe. Favorable weather is expected for Saturday’s attempt to launch [...]

  • 'Lost' Russian Mars Probe Phones Home

    Updated: 2011-11-23 08:40:43
    The Russian Mars mission Phobos-Grunt has made a surprise announcement: she's alive

  • Mars Probe 'First Sign of Life' Raises Hopes

    Updated: 2011-11-23 05:05:00
    In a dramatic turn of events, the Phobos-Grunt spacecraft is communicating with Earth.

  • New satellite gets INSANELY hi-res view of Earth

    Updated: 2011-11-22 21:32:49
    On October 28th, the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System Preparatory Project (NPP) satellite launched into low-Earth orbit from Vandenberg Air Force base in California. Designed to observe Earth’s environment and climate, it’s in an 800 km (500 mile) orbit, and on November 21 it took its first images of the planet below. And what [...]

  • ABC (Australia): Dynamical Casimir effect and the emission of light from empty space, for real.

    Updated: 2011-11-22 20:07:51
    , . Home Suggest Stories About Us Staff Contact Us Log In Register to Comment NYTimes Science Times Big trucks have a lot of giant people at the wheel crops , cattle , and tree canopies gratitude pays off Nubian krypton , a purging fix for aging ABC Australia Dynamic Casimir effect and the emission of light from empty space , for . real At the Australian Broadcasting Corporation s Science Unit , reporter Stuart Gary tackled a tough , wholly arcane topic but really should have put in another paragraph or two to describe a virtual mirror See , I already don’t even know what I just wrote . It usually takes longer than this . His topic is the creation of light from a vacuum , a glowing of nothing , achieved by somehow or other compelling virtual particles warbling into and out of existence to

  • 'Little Chance' of Saving Stranded Mars Probe

    Updated: 2011-11-22 19:24:00
    The deputy head of the Russian space agency has admitted that the Phobos-Grunt mission is likely lost.

  • The green ghost of a distant dead star

    Updated: 2011-11-22 18:00:28
    160,000 light years away sits the Large Magellanic Cloud, an irregular dwarf galaxy that orbits our own Milky Way galaxy. It’s a fascinating object, actually, filled with stars, gas, dust, and all the usual trinkets a galaxy has. It also has an assortment of globular clusters — roughly spherical collections of a few hundred thousand [...]

  • My asteroid impact talk is now on TED!

    Updated: 2011-11-22 14:00:51
    I am extremely honored and pleased to announce that my talk, "An asteroid impact can ruin your whole day", is now featured on the TED website! I gave this talk in September at TEDxBoulder, and I had a fantastic time. The talks were great, and it was wonderful to be a part of that. However, [...]

  • Scientists take step toward developing Terminator-like vision

    Updated: 2011-11-22 13:58:57
    You’ve probably seen The Terminator, and if you haven’t you’re missing some good science fiction. One of the coolest parts of the movie, which came out more than a quarter century ago, was Ahh-nold’s glasses, which displayed information about his surroundings. The view looked something like this: Well, a new paper (see abstract) in the [...]

  • Soyuz Lands on Freezing Kazakh Steppe

    Updated: 2011-11-22 09:10:00
    Three astronauts have returned from the space station after an extended five-month stay in orbit.

  • U. S., Russian and Japanese Astronauts Make Safe Return to Earth from International Space Station

    Updated: 2011-11-22 03:50:03
      A Soyuz spacecraft carrying three U. S., Russian and Japanese astronauts descended safely into remote Kazakhstan late Monday, ending a 167-day voyage to the International Space Station for the three men. Wintry conditions greeted Mike Fossum, Sergey Volkov and Satoshi Furukawa as their Soyuz 27 mission capsule landed under parachute north of Arkalyk at [...]

  • CSExtra – Tuesday, November 22, 2011

    Updated: 2011-11-22 00:25:28
    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. Tuesday CSExtra offers the latest reporting and commentary on space-related happenings from around the world. U. S., Russian and Japanese astronauts descend safely into Kazakhstan following [...]

  • I’m riding the Desert Bus at 18:00 PST today

    Updated: 2011-11-21 20:30:05
    Tonight at 6:00 p.m. Pacific (US) time (02:00 UTC) I’ll be participating in the Desert Bus campaign to raise money for Child’s Play, a charity that supports kids with cancer. Desert Bus is a videogame produced as part of a package of minigames for Penn & Teller; in it you can drive a bus across [...]

  • LA Times: How the EPA doubled fuel economy standards and why automakers made no stink

    Updated: 2011-11-21 20:23:18
    : Home Suggest Stories About Us Staff Contact Us Log In Register to Comment El Amazonas es más interesante que el Universo , pero no tiene la Oficina de Comunicaciones de la NASA LA Times : How the EPA doubled fuel economy standards and why automakers made no stink It is stunning to us old time car guys that , if new regulations hold , new cars in less than 15 years will be averaging more than 50 miles per gallon . That’ll inlcude a lot of full sized sedans , perhaps with an electric hybrid helper . A lot of us remember when VWs were thought to be amazing for getting 20 mpg or . so There was a flow of news in the last week about the raised standards , some of them reporting the surprise that it got so little resistance from industry . At the LA Times its circulation area full of automobile

  • Faster-than-light neutrinos: the would-be find of the century that may yet be confirmed

    Updated: 2011-11-21 18:47:21
    It’s been a couple of months since scientists first reported the possibility of neutrinos traveling faster than light, a finding that if upheld would turn fundamental physics on its head. There’s been a lot of speculation about the possibility since then, but a majority of physicists seem to have dismissed it. However, there’s also been [...]

  • AP, ScienceInsider: Massed whale skeletons in Peru offer mystery, and a portal to the past

    Updated: 2011-11-21 18:21:36
    , : , Home Suggest Stories About Us Staff Contact Us Log In Register to Comment Time Mag : Space elevator . Google loves it . Google this : Fat chance El Amazonas es más interesante que el Universo , pero no tiene la Oficina de Comunicaciones de la NASA AP , ScienceInsider : Massed whale skeletons in Peru offer mystery , and a portal to the past Late last week Chilean researchers and a team of fossil whale specialists from the Smithsonian Institution showed off to reporters a phenomenal bone bed containing remains of balleen whales millions of years old , plus at least one extinct tusked dolphin and one sperm whale . Highway construction revealed them first , setting off an urgent effort to gather as much data and specimens as possible before road crews go back to work . Puzzles abound .

  • Companies Eye Microgravity Production Technology

    Updated: 2011-11-21 18:10:20
    A business unit of the Schafer Corporation based in Albuquerque, New Mexico has teamed with MoonDust Technologies of Tucson, Arizona to pursue a unique line of products resulting from the use of Schafer’s proprietary microgravity production technology. The agreement grants MoonDust Technologies (MDT) the exclusive right to produce and sell these products worldwide and provides [...]

  • NASA’s budget: JWST saved, but not much good news

    Updated: 2011-11-21 18:00:22
    A few days ago, the US House and Senate compromised on a (partial) federal budget, and President Obama signed it into reality. Among many other things, NASA’s budget was in there. Congress has posted an overview of the bill, which I recommend perusing. Space News has an excellent overview of the budget, as does The [...]

  • Time Mag: Space elevator. Google loves it. Google this: “Fat chance!”

    Updated: 2011-11-21 17:03:59
    : . . : Home Suggest Stories About Us Staff Contact Us Log In Register to Comment A new old sweetener for Europe German Lang . Media AP , ScienceInsider : Massed whale skeletons in Peru offer mystery , and a portal to the past Time Mag : Space elevator . Google loves it . Google this : Fat chance With grand expectations the tracker clicked to open a story Time Mag s Science page offers this morning , from Jeffrey : Kluger An Elevator to Space Better Take the Stairs The hoary concept of a space elevator merits examination . This is because the Google empire has it as a glamour model in its lineup of far-horizon projects that it and its money could supposedly make . happen As one reads here , the materials science challenges of constructing a system of centrifugally stabilized cables

  • New experiment neither proves nor refutes FTL neutrinos

    Updated: 2011-11-21 14:00:28
    On Friday, a news story came out that a second experiment seems to support the results of an earlier experiment which showed neutrinos might be moving faster than light. I commented about this on Google+ at the time, but I want to post about it here as well. Let me be clear: this new result [...]

  • CSExtra – Monday, November 21, 2011

    Updated: 2011-11-21 00:19:35
    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. Monday’s CSExtra offers the latest reporting and commentary on space activities from around the world, including a roundup from weekend activities.  The launching of NASA’s ambitious [...]

  • Beyond Planet Earth: The Future of Space Exploration – New Exhibit Opens!

    Updated: 2011-11-19 14:53:45
    Beyond Planet Earth: The Future of Space Exploration opens today, organized by the American Museum of Natural History in New York. The just-opened exhibit launches visitors into the exciting future of space exploration as it boldly examines humanity’s next steps “out there” in our solar system and beyond. Visitors will be treated to a vision [...]

  • The twice reflected Moon light

    Updated: 2011-11-19 14:22:26
    American astronaut Ron Garan may be the single best promoter of space exploration we have today, if only because of his breathtaking photographs of the Earth from space. In July 2011, as he orbited our planet in the International Space Station, he took this gorgeous shot of the crescent Moon, setting over the Earth’s silhouetted [...]

  • Slash the Bad Astronomer!

    Updated: 2011-11-18 21:30:05
    OK, don’t slash me. But I have been Slashdotted! Slashdot is one of the biggest news aggregators/social networks on the web, where users link to interesting stuff they find, and others can leave comments. They also do interviews, kinda: they line up an interviewee, people leave questions, and then the interviewee answers them en masse. [...]

  • Young astronomer captures a shadow cast by Jupiter

    Updated: 2011-11-18 18:00:06
    Shadows are created when a source of light is blocked. Obvious, right? Also obvious is the brighter the source, the easier it is to see the shadow cast. So you might wonder, how faint an object can you use as a light source and still be able to detect a shadow? We know the Sun [...]

  • Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Catches Mars Sand Dunes in Motion

    Updated: 2011-11-18 02:06:04
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  • Time Lapse View of Earth From the International Space Station

    Updated: 2011-11-17 22:10:36
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  • National Space Society Hails Space Solar Power Study Findings

    Updated: 2011-11-16 04:10:26
    The National Space Society (NSS) and SPACE Canada held a press conference on November 14, 2011 at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C to announce the findings of a ground-breaking space solar power study conducted by the International Academy of Astronautics (IAA) under the leadership of John Mankins, a 25-year [...]

  • Earth’s Beauty Seen from Space

    Updated: 2011-11-15 03:12:34
    Made with NASA photos taken 240 miles above Earth and edited together by German artist Michael Konig, this 4-1/2 minute film captures some of the world’s most stunning views including the Aurora Borealis and the impressive luminosity of human habitation.

  • LISA Pathfinder Takes Major Step in Hunt for Gravity Waves

    Updated: 2011-11-14 19:45:09
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  • NASA Kicks Off Application Process For New Astronauts

    Updated: 2011-11-14 19:02:44
    WASHINGTON — News media representatives are invited to attend a public announcement of NASA’s process for selecting its next class of astronauts. The event starts at 1 p.m. EST on Tuesday, Nov. 15, in the Webb auditorium at NASA Headquarters in Washington. NASA Television and the agency’s website will broadcast the event live. NASA Administrator Charles [...]

  • The Sun Is Getting More Active

    Updated: 2011-11-14 12:30:40
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  • Fastest Spinning Star Will Die a Violent Death

    Updated: 2011-11-14 11:34:31
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  • NATIONAL SPACE SOCIETY TO ANNOUNCE GROUND-BREAKING GREEN ENERGY SOLUTION

    Updated: 2011-11-05 21:48:14
    Study Finds Space Solar Power is a Viable, Low Cost Energy Source Washington, D.C.­ The National Space Society (NSS) will hold a press conference on November 14, 2011, from 9 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., to announce the findings of a ground-breaking space solar power study conducted by the [...]

  • A Space Solar Power Industry for $2 Billion or Your Money Back

    Updated: 2011-11-05 15:03:42
    The latest addition to the NSS Space Solar Power Library is a paper by Al Globus, a member of the National Space Society Board of Directors, proposing a system of prizes to kick-start a vigorous space solar power industry. In recent years prizes such as the Ansari X Prize, the DARPA Grand Challenge, and the [...]

  • NSS Congratulates Astronaut Thomas P. Stafford (USAF, Retired)

    Updated: 2011-11-05 03:31:00
    NSS congratulates Astronaut/Lt. Gen. Thomas Patten Stafford (USAF, Retired), who will be awarded the National Aeronautic Association’s prestigious 2011 Wright Brothers Memorial Trophy on December 16, 2011. This trophy honors the memory of Orville and Wilbur Wright, and is awarded annually to a living American for “significant public service of enduring value to aviation in [...]

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