(Commercial Space Watch) NASA Astronauts Fly Dream Chaser Simulations
Jack Fischer was one of four NASA astronauts to fly approach and landing simulations of Sierra Nevada Corporation's Dream Chaser spacecraft at the agency's Langley Research Center. The three-day simulations evaluated the spacecraft's subsonic handling in support of NASA Commercial Crew Program efforts.
(Discovery News) Can Space Tourism Save Earth?
Opening spaceflight up to the masses could help spark a global conservation ethic that stems the tide of environmental destruction on Earth.(Discovery News) EXPOSED: Taking Astronomical Pictures
Ever wanted to take dazzling photos of the night sky? Here are some essential tips before you start slapping your DSLR to the back of your telescope!(Space Politics) Moon versus asteroids on the path to Mars
The space subcommittee of the House Science Committee is holding a hearing at 2 pm EDT today on “Next Steps in Human Exploration to Mars and Beyond”. The focus of the hearing, based on the hearing charter, will be whether NASA’s plans to redirect a near Earth asteroid into lunar orbit, to be then visited [...]
(euronews) Focusing on the future
These days cameras tend to be omnipresent, especially at important moments in our lives. They capture images our holidays, parties, or just everyday…
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(Space Fellowship) Hubble Peers Through a Spacetime Magnifying Glass
This Hubble image shows the galaxy cluster Abell S1077. Galaxy clusters are large groupings of galaxies, each of them including millions of stars. They are the largest existing structures in the Universe to be held together by their gravity. The amount of matter condensed in such groupings is so high that their gravity is enough to warp the fabric of spacetime, distorting the path that light takes when it travels through the cluster. In some cases, this phenomenon produces an effect somewhat [...](ScienceDaily) NASA builds unusual testbed for analyzing X-ray navigation technologies
Pulsars have a number of unusual qualities. Like zombies, they shine even though they're technically dead, and they rotate rapidly, emitting powerful and regular beams of radiation that are seen as flashes of light, blinking on and off at intervals from seconds to milliseconds. A NASA team has built a first-of-a-kind testbed that simulates these distinctive pulsations.(ScienceDaily) NASA’s BARREL mission launches 20 balloons
In Antarctica in January, 2013 -- the summer at the South Pole -- scientists released 20 balloons, each eight stories tall, into the air to help answer an enduring space weather question: when the giant radiation belts surrounding Earth lose material, where do the extra particles actually go?(ScienceDaily) NASA's IRIS mission readies for a new challenge
NASA is getting ready to launch a new mission, a mission to observe a largely unexplored region of the solar atmosphere that powers its dynamic million-degree outer atmosphere and drives the solar wind. In late June 2013, the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph, or IRIS, will launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. IRIS will advance our understanding of the interface region, a region in the lower atmosphere of the sun where most of the sun's ultraviolet emissions are generated. Such emissions impact the near-Earth space environment and Earth's climate.(ScienceDaily) NASA launching experiment to examine the beginnings of the universe
When did the first stars and galaxies form in the universe? How brightly did they burn their nuclear fuel? Scientists will seek to gain answers to these questions with the launch of the Cosmic Infrared Background ExpeRIment (CIBER) on a Black Brant XII suborbital sounding rocket between 11 and 11:59 p.m. EDT, June 4 from the Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia.(ScienceDaily) NASA Mars rover Curiosity drills second rock target
NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has used the drill on its robotic arm to collect a powdered sample from the interior of a rock called "Cumberland." Plans call for delivering portions of the sample in coming days to laboratory instruments inside the rover. This is only the second time that a sample has been collected from inside a rock on Mars.(Discovery News) How Kepler Could Die and Keep Giving
NASA hasn’t given up on resurrecting its planet-hunting Kepler space telescope, but it can’t be saved, scientists expect it already has accomplished its goal of finding a habitable, Earth-like planet.(Space Fellowship) NASA Builds Unusual Testbed for Analyzing X-ray Navigation Technologies
Pulsars have a number of unusual qualities. Like zombies, they shine even though they’re technically dead, and they rotate rapidly, emitting powerful and regular beams of radiation that are seen as flashes of light, blinking on and off at intervals from seconds to milliseconds. A NASA team has built a first-of-a-kind testbed that simulates these distinctive pulsations. The pulsar-on-a-table, known as the Goddard X-ray Navigation Laboratory Testbed, was built to test and validate a next-gen [...](Space Fellowship) Station Trio Busy Inside Station, New Trio Prepares for Launch
The Expedition 36 trio aboard the International Space Station started its work week taking apart a treadmill and working on science hardware. Another trio is in Kazakhstan counting down to a May 28 launch aboard a Soyuz rocket to join their orbiting crewmates. Commander Pavel Vinogradov was joined by Flight Engineer Alexander Misurkin spending most of Monday disassembling a treadmill in the Zvezda service module. It will be replaced by a newer treadmill that was delivered April 26 inside the [...](Space Fellowship) NASA Mars Rover Curiosity Drills Second Rock Target
PASADENA, Calif. - NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has used the drill on its robotic arm to collect a powdered sample from the interior of a rock called "Cumberland." Plans call for delivering portions of the sample in coming days to laboratory instruments inside the rover. This is only the second time that a sample has been collected from inside a rock on Mars. The first was Curiosity's drilling at a target called "John Klein" three months ago. Cumberland resembles John Klein and lies about nin [...](Discovery News) UK to Send First Astronaut to Space Station
A former army helicopter pilot was on Monday named as the first 'home-grown' British astronaut to head to the International Space Station.(Discovery News) Curiosity Drills into Second Mars Rock
NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has drilled into another rock and plans are afoot to analyze the pulverized material. Continue reading →(ScienceDaily) The mammoth's lament: How cosmic impact sparked devastating climate change
Researchers have found evidence of a major cosmic event near the end of the Ice Age. The ensuing climate change forced many species to adapt or die.(Discovery News) Kickstarting Our Interstellar Future
The Starship Congress will see some of the most forward-thinking scientists and engineers descent of Dallas, Texas -- now you can get involved with an interstellar Kickstarter campaign. Continue reading →(Discovery News) Moon Gets Slammed by Cosmic Bullet
On March 17, a space rock the size of a basketball slammed into the lunar surface at a speed of 56,000 miles per hour, creating a new crater around 20 meters wide. Continue reading →(Space Fellowship) ATK Successfully Completes First U.S.-Based Testing of High Performance Green Propulsion Thruster Technology
ATK-Tested HPGP Thruster Technology Provides Increased Performance, Safety and Cost-Effectiveness for NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) ARLINGTON, Va. -- ATK (NYSE: ATK), the nation's largest rocket motor producer, has successfully completed the first U.S.-based testing of the High Performance Green Propulsion (HPGP) thruster technology for the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC). The testing was conducted at ATK Defense Group's test facility in Elkton, Md., in April 2013. The AT [...](Space Fellowship) Tim Peake to be first British Astronaut in space for over 20 years
Former Apache helicopter pilot Tim Peake is to become the first British astronaut to visit the International Space Station, making him the first UK astronaut in space for over 20 years. After more than three years of training with the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Astronaut Programme, Peake has been selected to live and work on the International Space Station (ISS) for six months. He will carry out a comprehensive science programme and take part in a European education outreach programme in [...](euronews) Deep inside the brain
The brain controls our thinking, feelings and movements and a new exhibition in southern France aims to reveal some of its secrets. European…
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(euronews) Flying with birds
In France, ornithologist Christian Moullec pilots his microlight, flying with a flock of birds. He has spent years training them to follow him in…
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(Space Fellowship) This Week On The Space Show
The Space Show, hosted by David Livingston under www.TheSpaceShow.com, will have the following guests this week: 1. Monday, May 20, 2013, 2-3:30 PM PDT (21-22:30 GMT) KIMBERLY ARCAND & MEGAN WATZKE come to discuss their excellent new book, "Your ticket to the Universe: A guide to Exploring The Cosmos." To learn more about this book and our guests, visit http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=onegiantlea20. MEGAN WATZKE has spent her professional career trying to make science accessible and en [...](Discovery News) Rodent Space Travelers Perish in Orbital Test
A number of mice and eight gerbils sent into space in a Russian capsule perished during their journey, after a month-long mission touched back down on Earth.(Space Politics) Differing perspectives on commercial crew
Speaking at the meeting Wednesday of the FAA’s Commercial Space Transportation Advisory Committee (COMSTAC) in Washington, NASA administrator Charles Bolden made another pitch—this time to a rather sympathetic audience—for the agency’s commercial crew program.
“If NASA had received the president’s requested funding for this program then,” Bolden said, referring to the rollout of the [...]
