“The annual NASA Human Exploration Rover Challenge will take place April 17-18 at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama. NASA Television will provide coverage of both days’ races from…
Month: April 2015
Space Apps 2015 Kicks Off
“NASA is gearing up for its fourth annual International Space Apps Challenge, April 10-12. The event unfolds at more than 135 locations worldwide, including this year’s Global Mainstage event in New York…
NEOWISE Imagery Now Available Online
“Millions of images of celestial objects, including asteroids, observed by NASA’s Near-Earth Object Wide-field Survey Explorer (NEOWISE) spacecraft now are available online to the public. The data was collected following the restart…
NASA Helps Students Launch High-Power Rockets
“More than 30 high school, college and university teams will launch student-built rockets during the 15th annual NASA Student Launch event April 10-11 near NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama….
Indian Crowd Sourced Spacecraft
“For the first time, space is not longer the exclusive preserve of advanced technology institutes and scientists. Isro’s Space Application Center (SAC) has invited engineering institutes across the country to share their…
40,000 Amateur Astronomers Have Classified Two Million Objects
“More than 40,000 amateur astronomers have classified two million unidentified heavenly bodies found by the SkyMapper telescope at The Australian National University (ANU). Among the haystack of celestial data, the volunteers uncovered…
New International Space Station Information System
“A new NASA-designed information system will drive discoveries as scientists and researchers devise future investigations to be conducted aboard the International Space Station. Specialists at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville,…
Moon Research Investigating Dust Expulsion Removal Systems
“Moon Research Investigating Dust Expulsion Removal Systems (Moon RIDERS) is an educational project partnering Hawaii high school students with NASA, Google Lunar XPRIZE teams, and the Pacific International Space Center for Exploration…
New Tool Enables Citizen Scientists to Examine Asteroid Vesta
“NASA has announced the release of Vesta Trek, a free, web-based application that provides detailed visualizations of Vesta, one of the largest asteroids in our solar system. NASA’s Dawn spacecraft studied Vesta…