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In this illustration, NASA's Kepler space telescope searches for Earth-like planets circling distant stars. Illustration Credit/NASA
A rare New Year’s Day legislative session in Washington produced a response to the Fiscal Cliff — one that led to House passage late Tuesday of a Senate sponsored measure that delays for two months sharp cuts in defense and non-defense...
Now available from the Lunar and Planetary Institute (LPI) e-book webpage is the seminal book – The Lunar Sourcebook: A User’s Guide to the Moon.
This is a treasure-trove of a volume, including sections on: Return to the Moon; Current Understanding of the Moon: A Base for Planning; Goals for Future Lunar Exploration; Unanswered Questions about the Moon; The Next Steps; and a Permanent...
NASA has issued an impressive volume, just right...
Credit: NASA/Glenn Research Center
NASA’s Dawn spacecraft that explored asteroid Vesta and is now en route to space rock Ceres is being propelled by ion thrust.
Ion engines use electric fields instead of chemical reactions. Ion engines tend to be much less powerful, but they are so efficient, they can...
Credit: NASA and ESA
Here are two celestial stocking stuffers for the mind and for those still shopping – just in time for the holidays and new year!
NASA has issued two new e-books, one on the Hubble Space Telescope, the other on the still-to-be-launched, next-generation space observatory, the James Webb Space Telescope.
The books are written on a high-school level and can be viewed using iPads with...
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Friday’s CSExtra offers the latest reporting and commentary on space related activities from around the world. U.S., Canadian and Russian astronauts prepare to dock with the International Space Station early Wednesday. In...
A Russian Soyuz capsule carrying U. S., Canadian and Russian astronauts successfully docked with the International Space Station early Wednesday, restoring the orbiting lab to six person crew operations for the first time since mid-November.
Canadian Chris Hadfield, Russian Roman Romanenko and American Tom Marshburn, pictured left to right, pose in Kazakhstan prior to their Soyuz lift off. Photo...
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Thursday’s CSExtra offers the latest reporting and commentary on space related activities from around the world. U. S., Canadian and Russian astronauts lift off for the International Space Station. The U. S. Senate Appropriations...
The Earth’s moon now includes a near North Pole landmark named in honor of Sally K. Ride, American’s first female astronaut.
NASA Names GRAIL mission site on the Moon for Sally Ride, the first U. S. female astronaut. Image Credit/NASA
The site was named for Ride on Dec. 17, moments after it became the crash site for NASA’s twin GRAIL mission ...
Soyuz rocket departs for the space station early Wednesday. Photo Credit/NASA TV
A Soyuz rocket with U. S., Canadian and Russian astronauts sped toward a linkup with the International Space Station early Friday, following a flawless lift off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
NASA’s Tom Marshburn, CSA’s Chris Hadfield and Roman...
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