NASA Releases Another Game – Air Traffic Control App

NASA Releases Sector 33 Air Traffic Control Educational Game App WASHINGTON — NASA has released a new educational game with an air traffic control theme for Apple iPhone and iPad…

NASA Releases First Multi-Player Facebook Game

WASHINGTON — NASA has launched its first multi-player online game to test players’ knowledge of the space program. Who was the first American to walk in space? Who launched the…

Newt Gingrich, Advocate of Space, Moon base, but NASA?

Lofty goals such as manned moon base by 2020, but are they real? Editorial – With the election campaign in full swing Newt Gingrich has recently been stumping Florida and…

Lego Man in Space

Two 17 year olds put this Lego man holding the Canadian Flag into the stratosphere. Toronto 17-year-olds Mathew Ho and Asad Muhammad put together this project and it is amazing…

JAXA HAYABUSA asteroid sample return analysis beginning

Source (JAXA) – HAYABUSA is a space science mission launched in 2003 by Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency JAXA. The challenge assigned to the mission was to explore an asteroid and…

Kepler Announces 11 Planetary Systems Hosting 26 Planets

NASA’s Kepler mission has discovered 11 new planetary systems hosting 26 confirmed planets MOFFET FIELD, Calif. (NASA)–  These discoveries nearly double the number of verified planets and triple the number…

Most impressive Earth Blue Marble image ever from newest satellite

Incredible pictures of Earth from new satellite The newest Earth Observation Satellite,  NASA’s Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (Suomi NPP) mission took this stunning image on January 4th, 2012. Suomi NPP…

Why did Phobos Grunt really fail?

Recent headlines were filled with a plethora of information about the reentry of the doomed Russian Spacecraft Phobos Grunt. There have been many rumors and speculation as to why it…