Tag Archives: NASA

Space Stars: Generations — Lockhart, Shatner, Wheaton videos celebrate NASA spinoff benefits to life on Earth

Former television space actors June Lockhart, William Shatner, and Wil Wheaton have recorded public service announcements highlighting terrestrial technology spinoffs from NASA's programs... Read more [...]

Keeping the Wheels Turning: registration open for 20th annual NASA Great Moonbuggy Race

The twentieth annual iteration of NASA competition to design and develop a craft capable of working on the surface of the Moon is once again open for registration... Read more [...]

Spot the Space Station Over Your Backyard with New NASA Service

NASA's new service will e-mail you an alert when the International Space Station will be visible from your house (or whatever other location you ask for)... Read more [...]

NASA and International Partners Approve Year-Long Space Station Stay

After 12 years of space station operation, two astronauts are slated to spend an entire year aboard the orbital laboratory, furthering research into long-term effects of weightlessness... Read more [...]

Space Shuttle Endeavour to Make Historic Final Ferry Flight

NASA announces the schedule for the last Space Shuttle flight atop the 747 carrier aircraft, as Endeavour will be transferred from Florida to California later this month... Read more [...]

Moonwalker Neil Armstrong Dies

Neil A. Armstrong (1930-2012) was the first person to step foot on the Moon... Read more [...]

NASA Mars rover begins driving at Bradbury Landing

NASA's newest rover on Mars, Curiosity, has started actually roving. And the landing site has been renamed for SF icon Ray Bradbury... Read more [...]

Astronaut Sally Ride Dies

Astronaut Sally Ride (1951-2012) was the first American woman in space (she flew in 1983 and 1984), and an inspiration to millions... Read more [...]

Most Popular and Updated Articles: 17-24 June 2012

The most popular SFScope articles during the last week, as well as those which were updated... Read more [...]

NASA spacecraft reveals ice content in Moon crater

Data from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter indicates ice may make up as much as 22 percent of the surface material of Shackleton crater... Read more [...]

NASA calls for student-designed deep space habitat proposals

NASA's X-Hab Challenge offers college/university students the opportunity to participate in the development of a deep space habitat... Read more [...]

NASA launches international competition to develop space apps

NASA and several foreign governments are sponsoring a two-day global challenge to use space-derived data to improve life on Earth... Read more [...]

NASA seeking university participants for summer rocket workshop

NASA's weeklong workshop will have participants learn by doing as they build and launch a scientific experiment into space... Read more [...]

Are We Alone? explores extraterrestrial encounters

Science, Ted, and SETI ask the question Are We Alone? with an initiative to bring citizen scientists into the search for extraterrestrial intelligence... Read more [...]

What’s that thing on Werhner von Braun’s desk?

More a case of science fact becoming science fiction, Werhner von Braun was important in both the development of modern American rocketry, and the development of modern science fiction. He was honored for his achievements... Read more [...]