Vandenberg Air Force Base on the coast of California is the primary spaceport for US rockets launching payloads into polar orbits. Lompoc lies next to Vandenberg and David Tekaat of the Lompoc Senior’s Club tells me about the First Annual Space Symposium in Lompoc, set […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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The European Space Agency (ESA) Artwork unveiled on exoplanet satellite 27 August 2018: Two plaques etched with thousands of miniaturised drawings made by children have been unveiled in a dedicated ceremony held today in Switzerland. Three years ago, thousands of children […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This Saturday at Spaceport America in New Mexico, EXOS Aerospace will attempt the first launch of the company’s reusable suborbital sounding rocket, which has the title SARGE (Suborbital Autonomous Rocket with GuidancE) . The rocket will be carrying payloads for student […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Videos: New Glenn animation + Global rocket race + Space communicators + SpaceX’s Gwynne Shotwell
Aug19
A selection of space related videos: ** New Glenn: Blue Origin’s Big Reusable Rocket – YouTube – A nice animation of Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket, including the return and landing of the first stage onto a ship platform at sea. […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
On Wednesday, Russian flight engineers Oleg Artemyev and Sergey Prokopyev made a spacewalk outside the International Space Station. Their initial tasks included hurling four student-built smallsats into orbit: Spacewalkers toss nanosatellites into orbit, hook up bird migration monitor – Spaceflight Now The spacewalkers’ first task was the deployment — by […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Check out this Epic Future Space interview with author and artist Abby Garrett who has created a series of terrific comics for youngsters on the theme of rockets: A cover from one of the “Go for Launch: Merlin & His Friends” books, […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
“Launchboxes” provided by Purdue for K-12 student experiments on suborbital spaceflights
Aug01
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A Purdue group has developed a simple box for grade school kids to fly experiments on suborbital spaceflights of the Blue Origin New Shepard rocket vehicle: Purdue School Launchboxes available to send school experiments into space Standing less than a […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Rocket Lab to launch an Electron with 5 payloads including Irvine CubeSat built by high schoolers
Jun22
This evening US time and Saturday afternoon New Zealand time, Rocket Lab will attempt to launch the third Electron rocket into orbit. The rocket is to lift off from the Mahia Peninsula on the east coast of New Zealand‘s North Island. You can watch […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The non-profit organization Base 11 led by Landon Taylor has organized a rocketry competition for university students that is offering a $1M cash prize: The Base11 Space Challenge is a $1 million+ prize for a student-led university team to design, build, and launch a liquid-propelled, single-stage rocket to […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A message from Jack Colpas co-director of the RFTS Competition: Reach for the Stars ~ National Rocket Competition Through a NASA grant the Florida Space Grant Consortium sponsored 100 kids in the Reach for the Stars ~ National Rocket Competition. Building and […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here is the latest episode of The Planetary Post with Robert Picardo courtesy of the Planetary Society: Our PlantVac performed well in its test flight on the Xodiac rocket in the Mojave desert, but first Robert takes us to D.C. […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Winners have been selected in the Guardians of the Galaxy Space Station Challenge student competition mentioned here back in January: Guardians of the Galaxy Space Station Challenge Winning Projects Selected KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL. (May 22, 2018) – After a robust response from […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Last Friday evening (May 11th), CubeSats from Costa Rico, Kenya, and Turkey were deployed into low earth orbits from the Japanese Kibo module on the International Space Station. This video shows a recording of the live webcast of the event. […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Dr. Michael Busch of the SETI Institute recently gave the following talk in the Silicon Valley Astronomy Lecture Series sponsored by the Astronomical Society of the Pacific: Rubble Piles in the Sky: The Science, Exploration, and Danger of Near-Earth Asteroids – Near-Earth […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here is the most recent TMRO.tv live program: Women working in STEM – Orbit 11.17 – TMRO Holly Griffith, NASA Orion Vehicle Systems Engineer joins us this week to talk women working at NASA and in STEM. Recent launches and space news topics […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Mars Generation is sponsoring a competition and activities event for students and educators called Train Like A Martian Challenge: Join Us For Our 3rd Annual #TrainLikeAMartian Challenge May 14-18, 2018 Sign up now and join us for our third annual #TrainLikeAMartian event! We expect that […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Breakthrough Junior Challenge is an annual global competition for students to inspire creative thinking about science. Students ages 13 to 18 from countries across the globe are invited to create and submit original videos (3 minutes in length maximum) that bring […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Friends of Amateur Rocketry (FAR) and the Mars Society are sponsoring a contest for liquid-fueled bi-propellant powered rockets built by college student teams: FAR/Mars Society Launch Contest Student Rocketry Teams Compete for FAR-MARS Prize MOJAVE, CA – Student-built rockets will streak […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Mission 60 for the Sally Ride EarthKAM program is set for February 20-26. Sally Ride EarthKAM is a NASA educational outreach program for middle school students who select particular spots on earth for imaging by a dedicated camera on the International Space Station. […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Check out the Astronaut Abby YouTube channel where Abigail Harrison, aka Astronaut Abby, hosts The Space and Science Show #AskAbby series in which she answers questions about space travel topics. Here are the first three shows: Abby founded The Mars Generation, a 501c3 nonprofit “with a mission […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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