Press Releases

Stephen Hawking Receives Robert A Heinlein Memorial Award

By Staff Writers on March 29, 2012

Stephen Hawking being presented by his daughter Lucy Hawking at the lecture he gave for NASA's 50th anniversary (Credits: NASA/Paul Alers). The... Read more →

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Russia is Developing a Nuclear Space Engine by 2017

By Andrea Gini on March 29, 2012

Artist's conception of a nuclear thermal rocket for interplanetary missions (Credits: Pat Rawlings for NASA) According to press agency RIA... Read more →

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Missed Opportunity Shines Light on Satellite Repurposing

By Merryl Azriel on March 29, 2012

Russia deorbited the Express-AM4 communication satellite on March 25, despite pleas by startup company Polar Broadband Systems Ltd. to allow the... Read more →

Press Releases

Beautiful View of Stars from the ISS

By Staff Writers on March 29, 2012

With all the wonderful observation imagery compiled by NASA's Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth, the stars can get left behind. Alex Rivest... Read more →

News

Soviet Weather Satellite Reenters Over Antarctica

By Andrea Gini on March 28, 2012

The Meteor 1-1 weather satellite, first of its kind for the the Soviet Union, reentered over the Queen Maud Land region of  Antarctica on... Read more →

Space Food

Tomatoes for Mars: Canadian School Project Improves Space Gardening

By Tereza Pultarova on March 27, 2012

Researcher at NASA Johnson Space Center studies oxygen producing plants (Credits: NASA). Technology is not the answer for everything.  Canadian... Read more →