Kansas Students to Speak Live With Space Station NASA Astronauts

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HOUSTON — Expedition 36 crew members and NASA astronauts Chris Cassidy and Karen Nyberg, currently orbiting aboard the International Space Station, will speak with students gathered at the Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center at 9:40 a.m. CDT (10:40 a.m Continue reading →

Space station crew opens Europe’s Einstein cargo ship after fungus flap

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Video of the first ingress into the Albert Einstein cargo craft on Tuesday. By Alan Boyle, Science Editor, NBC News It doesn’t take an Einstein to see that international differences can still crop up on the final frontier: Take the case of the European Space Agency’s Einstein cargo craft, for example. Continue reading →

Seagull in stars: 50 years after first female space flight – Video

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Seagull in stars: 50 years after first female space flight When Valentina Tereshkova, call sign Chaika (Seagull), reached orbit on June 16, 1963, she believed she had opened space up to women forever. Yet 50 years on… Continue reading →

NASA tests next-gen rovers to explore the moon and Mars – Video

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NASA tests next-gen rovers to explore the moon and Mars With the success of the Mars rover Curiosity, NASA is now developing planetary-exploration rovers designed to be controlled by astronauts in space. CNET's Ka… Continue reading →

NASA Google+ Hangout Discusses Newest Space Explorers – Video

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NASA Google+ Hangout Discusses Newest Space Explorers NASA has selected its newest explorers! After an extensive year-and-a-half search, eight candidates have been selected to be NASA's newest astronaut trainees… By: NASAtelevision Continue reading →

NASA Stepping Up Hunt for Scary Asteroids

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NASA on Tuesday unveiled a multipurpose initiative to find, track and potentially relocate asteroids that may be on a collision course with Earth. The project doubles as a steppingstone toward NASAs next human space exploration project which entails capturing a small asteroid, moving it into an orbit around the moon and sending a crew of astronauts to visit it by 2021. Top 10 Ways to Stop an Asteroid This Grand Challenge is focused on detecting and characterizing asteroids and learning how to deal with potential threats, NASAs deputy administrator Lori Garver said in a statement Continue reading →

NASA’s new astronaut class marks changing of guard for US spaceflight (+video)

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NASA named its first new astronauts in four years Monday. Of the eight new recruits, four are women, and all are members of the ‘space shuttle generation.’ If there ever was a changing of the guard within the US astronaut corps, perhaps it came Monday. Subscribe Today to the Monitor Click Here for your FREE 30 DAYS of The Christian Science Monitor Weekly Digital Edition NASA announced the selection of four men and four women as its newest astronaut candidates, the first newcomers to the corps in four years. Continue reading →