NASA posts an update on the Lunabotics Mining Competition for students: NASA Invites Media to Annual Lunabotics Mining Competition CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Fifty teams of undergraduate and graduate students from around the world will demonstrate their lunar excavator robots […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
In a multi-part interview with Moonandback, Henry Spencer discussed various aspects of asteroids including their composition, origin, probes, mining, Planetary Resources, and more: Henry Spencer – Asteroids 101 - Moonandback Henry Spencer – The Dawn Mission – Moonandback Henry Spenser […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Astronaut Chris Hadfield explains how the orientation of the International Space Station, where he is living at the moment, is controlled:
The MOOC Production Fellowship competition will provide 25000 Euro to each of the ten winning MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) programs out of the 200 that have entered. The winners will be determined by online voting. Anyone may vote for […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I recently pointed here to the International Space Apps Challenge program, which aims to encourage “collaborative problem solving with a goal of producing relevant open-source solutions to address global needs applicable to both life on Earth and life in space”. […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I have been offering a serialization of the updated version of the book The Rocket Company by Patrick J. G. Stiennon and David M. Hoerr, with illustrations by Doug Birkholz. This week you can obtain the following chapters of the book: […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Yesterday. Virgin Galactic‘s SpaceShipTwo (SS2)vehicle made its first rocket powered test flight. VG has created an education program called Galactic Unite with STEM lesson plans based around the SS2 test flights: Galactic Unite Lesson Plans are now live! – Virgin […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This NASA video presents the EarthKAM program, which lets students control a camera on the International Space Station to take images of the earth. Caption: Since the earliest days of the space program, astronauts have taken photos of the Earth […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
NASA’s 20th Great Moonbuggy Race took place the past few days at Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. There were 89 teams involving over 600 high school and college students competing. The winners were announced yesterday: Puerto Rico Teams […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
NASA Marshall Spaceflight Center this week will host the 20th Annual Great Moonbuggy Race ®, April 25 – 27, 2013: NASA’s Great Moonbuggy Race draws international field of 600 competitors to Huntsville – al.com Updates will be posted at NASA Marshall […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
On Wednesday of last week’s 2013 IAA Planetary Defense Conference held at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff., the Planetary Society organized a public event. It was hosted by Bill Nye the Science Guy and Planetary Society CEO and included Geoff […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The low cost CubeSat approach to satellite design is growing rapidly in popularity and over 75 Cubesats have reached space already. Most of these have come from colleges, universities and small companies. Now even a K-8 school is building one: […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The International Space Apps Challenge is underway this weekend. The International Space Apps Challenge is an international mass collaboration focused on space exploration that takes place over 48-hours in cities around the world. The event embraces collaborative problem solving with […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This episode of This Week @NASA reports on: The Antares rocket remains at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport’s Pad 0-A at Wallops Flight Facility — awaiting launch on its first test flight under NASA’s Commercial Orbital Transportation Services, or COTS program. […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
In this video Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield on the ISS performs a simple science experiment designed by grade 10 Lockview High School students Kendra Lemke and Meredith Faulkner. The students from Fall River, Nova Scotia won a national science contest […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here are some reports on the planetary science and education parts of the administration’s proposed NASA budget for 2014: What We’re Doing About NASA’s Planetary Science Budget Cut – The Planetary Society First Analysis: the NASA Planetary Science Budget for […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Our series of Virtual SpaceTV 3D shows with Amanda Bush and James C. Birk has been on an hiatus for what we hope will be a short break. Here is a brief update from Amanda: Find previous Virtual SpaceTV 3D […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
NASA says that “more than 600 students, representing 56 middle schools, high schools, colleges and universities in 26 states, will” participate in the 12th annual Student Launch Initiative, this Saturday in Toney, Alabama: Local Media Invited to NASA Student Launch […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
An announcement from Andrew Fraknoi, chairman of the Astronomy program at Foothill College: Popular Astronomy Lectures Can Now Be Seen on YouTube We are happy to announce that the Silicon Valley Astronomy Lectures, featuring noted scientists giving nontechnical illustrated lectures […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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