Space Station Crew Returns to Earth “Expedition 45 Flight Engineer Kjell Lindgren of NASA is among three crew members who returned to Earth Friday after a 141-day mission aboard the […]
2015
Posted inCulture
The President Likes The Space Comedy That NASA Worked On
POTUS and FLOTUS’ Favorite Songs, Movies and Moments of 2015, People “The movie Barack most enjoyed this year was The Martian, starring Matt Damon …” The Golden Globes think ‘The […]
Posted inBudget
Ohio Has to Help Pay for Maryland's Space Program
Congress might cut tens of millions of dollars from NASA Glenn budget, Cleveland.com “The money taken from Glenn would help pay for a different priority of some Senate members: a […]
Posted inCommercialization
Cygnus Arrives Safely at ISS
Cygnus Berthed To International Space Station “The Orbital ATK Cygnus cargo ship was bolted into place on the International Space Station’s Earth-facing port of the Unity module at 9:26 a.m. […]
Posted inSpace & Planetary Science
There Are Salt Deposits on Ceres
Brine Deposits Are The Source of Ceres’ Bright Spots “Bright spots seen by NASA’s Dawn spacecraft on the surface of dwarf planet Ceres are likely salt deposits, a paper published […]
Posted inSpace & Planetary Science
Akatsuki Is Finally Orbiting Venus
Japan’s Akatsuki Is Orbiting Venus “The nail-biting maneuver that sent Japan’s Akatsuki spacecraft into orbit around Venus this week is being celebrated by NASA scientists, eager to learn more about […]
Posted inSpace & Planetary Science
A New View of Prometheus
Close Up View of Prometheus “NASA’s Cassini spacecraft spied details on the pockmarked surface of Saturn’s moon Prometheus (86 kilometers, or 53 miles across) during a moderately close flyby on […]
Posted inInternet Policies
NASA Spends Money On Innovative Talent That It Ignores
LIVE on #Periscope: Prep for Soyuz. Karaganda https://t.co/q7uja10AqG — Bill Ingalls (@ingallsimages) December 9, 2015 Keith’s note: NASA pays lots of money to send the endlessly-talented photographer/videographer Bill Ingalls to […]
Posted inWorkforce
NASA People Like To Work at NASA
Best Places to Work Agency Rankings “The index score is not a combined average of an agency’s category scores. It is calculated using a proprietary weighted formula that looks at […]
Posted inCongress
Bolden's Confusing Stance On Asteroids
International Perspectives on Space Resource Rights, op Ed, Space News “If the U.S. space resources law were about claiming territory, or an assertion of sovereignty or appropriation of “celestial land,” […]