Launch

Spaceflight Clouds Upper Atmosphere

By Tereza Pultarova on July 31, 2013

Polar Mesospheric Clouds from the Aeronomy of Ice in the Mesosphere Cloud Imaging and Particle Size instrument (Credits: NASA). You might have... Read more →

News

Great Interview with Chris Hadfield

By Merryl Azriel on July 31, 2013

Yes, he's still a sensation! This is a great interview with Chris Hadfield from NPR. Here's a sample: For thousands of years, people sailed in... Read more →

Space in Everyday Life

Sci-fi Film Europa Report a “Cautionary Tale” for Future Missions to Jupiter’s Moon

By Michelle La Vone on July 31, 2013

“Compared to the breadth of knowledge yet to be known, what does your life actually matter?” asks pilot Rosa Dasque in the new science fiction... Read more →

Spin Off Technology

NASA to Help Oil Companies Manage Risk

By Maria Fischer on July 31, 2013

Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill as seen from space (Credit: NASA). NASA and the consulting firm Deloitte LLP signed off on a joint partnership to... Read more →

National Space Programs

Russia in Space: an Interview with Anatoly Zak

By Matteo Emanuelli on July 31, 2013

Front and back cover of "Russia in Space: The Past Explained, the Future Explored" (Credits: Anatoly Zak). Just before the publication of his... Read more →

Skylab

Nostalgia for an Age Yet To Come, Skylab 40th Anniversary

By AmericaSpace on July 31, 2013

This weekend, the Astronaut Scholarship Foundation remembered the United States’ first space station – Skylab (Credits: NASA). In an episode... Read more →