All-Student Crew Lands at Mars Research Station
[/caption] Headline from the future? Actually, it’s happening now, although not quite on Mars, but about as close as humans…
The Wright Stuff
Space holds the future of our species. While we've been flying for just barely over a century, we've also been…
Re-Discovery; Orbiter makes second trip out to the launch pad for STS-133
[/caption] CAPE CANAVERAL – Space shuttle Discovery was wheeled out of the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) on one of the…
Satellite View: Huge Storm Heads Across the US
[/caption] The roads are a skating rink where I live! This visible image was captured by the GOES-13 satellite on…
More Space Anniversaries: Apollo 14 and Ham
Forty years ago today, the Apollo 14 crew launched on their Saturn V rocket, the 6th human flight to the…
First Ever Whole Sun View .. Coming Soon from STEREO
[/caption] “For the first time in the history of humankind we will be able to see the front and the…
Challenger Astronauts Memorialized on the Moon
[/caption] Shortly after the loss of the Space Shuttle Challenger in 1986, seven craters on the eastern rim of the…
Astronomy Without A Telescope – Gravity Probe B
[/caption] There's a line out of an early episode of The Big Bang Theory series, where Gravity Probe B is…
A Sense of Planetary Scale
This is great! Blogger Brad Goodspeed created an animation which shows different planets in our solar system as they would…
Carnival of Space 182
The Carnival of Space 182 is up at nextbigfuture After a one month hiatus, the Carnival of Space is back.…