Understanding NASA’s Global Reach, SpaceRef A young boy in Chile wearing a NASA t-shirt explains a computer game to Pete Worden from Breakthrough Initiatives. How did he get that t-shirt? Why is…
Month: January 2017
Electronic Textbook for Introductory Astronomy
A Free, Electronic Textbook for Introductory Astronomy A new introductory textbook called Astronomy has just been published by OpenStax, a national, non-profit project to develop high-quality, introductory textbooks that are free to…
Online Course on Human Spaceflight
ESA Astronaut Christer Fuglesang Will Teach Online Course on Human Spaceflight, SpaceRef Christer Fuglesang, a veteran of five spacewalks and a professor of particle physics, will present a five-week online course on…
Astrobiology Primer v2.0 Released
The long awaited second edition of the Astrobiology Primer is now published in the journal Astrobiology. This version is an update of the Primer originally published in 2006, written by graduate students…
NASA Awards Grants to Inspire Mars Generation
NASA Awards Grants to Inspire Mars Generation of Explorers, Scientists NASA is awarding approximately $3 million in grants to three informal education organizations to help inspire the next generation in science, technology,…