This week’s Space to Ground report from NASA on news about the International Space Station: === For the kids, check out the International Space Station Activity Book (pdf). === A video about a miniature DNA sequencer used by NASA on the ISS: […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
ZERO-G sends the message below about university research projects flown on the companies Boeing 727 that provides periods of weightlessness by flying parabolic trajectories. ZERO-G Research Flights Advance Technology for Future Deep-Space Missions As Part of NASA’s Flight Opportunities Program, […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Blue Origin, the space company owned by Jeff Bezos of Amazon.com, released a video animation this week showing the New Glenn rocket, which they will start building next year at a factory currently in construction at Cape Canaveral. First flights are […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Blue Origin, the space company owned by Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos, flew their New Shepard reusable suborbital rocket yesterday. The goal was to test the abort system for the crew capsule. At about 45 seconds after liftoff, the crew capsule […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A new (and somewhat late) episode of NASA’s Space To Ground weekly report on recent activities related to the Int. Space Station:
Here is a video of the SpaceX cargo Dragon spacecraft leaving theInt. Space Station on Wednesday. The Dragon was launched to the ISS back on April 8th (see videos here). Later in the day the Dragon parachuted safely into the […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Michael Clark gives an update on recent rocket developments by Blue Origin and SpaceX: Here are scenes of the Port Canaveral dock where the SpaceX Falcon 9 first stage that successfully landed on a droneship was prepared this week for transport […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Harvard College astrophysics student Nina Hooper gives a TEDx talk on the potential of asteroid mining: Spotlight TEDx Talk: How asteroid mining could help us live in space – TEDx Innovations Blog Imagine a world with ubiquitous, affordable space travel, where getting […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The latest NASA Space to Ground report on Int. Space Station activities: Here is a video about an instrument used on the ISS to levitate metal while it is melted and then rapidly cooled. Dr. Douglas Matson of Tufts University is […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Arete STEM Project is a new Kickstarter campaign to fund K-12 STEM projects on suborbital high altitude flights using XCOR‘s Lynx rocketplane. Here is a video introduction to the project: The project aims to help all students, whether from a public, private, parochial, or home […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The latest episode of Xploration Outer Space Online – Free at Hulu is about The Entrepreneurs of Exploration:
Here’s a NASA interview with Jeff Goldstein, the director of the National Center for Earth and Space Science Education SSEP Program. The Student Spaceflight Experiment Program will launch aboard a Cygnus module on the Orbital CRS-3 mission.
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