Archive for the ‘Far Distance’ Category

NASA Launches Satellite Designed by Florida Middle School Students

(TNS) — Middle school students who designed and built a satellite watched their hard work pay off as it launched into space on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket this month. Students at The Weiss School built the small satellite over a few three years and tested it at Kennedy Space Center this summer to prepare […]

Arizona State U Launches Open, Adaptive Lessons on Space Exploration

Arizona State University has created a free series of digital lessons, simulations and virtual field trips designed to teach science through space exploration. Campus Technology 

All (Digital) Eyes Are on Discovery

The Space Shuttle Discovery’s 13-day mission to the International Space Station, where it was scheduled to test new safety features implemented after the Columbia disaster in 2003, was scrubbed on Wednesday due to a faulty sensor. While NASA announced no definitive timeline for a new launch, it’s clear that the U.S. shuttle program will soon […]

Discovering the men and women of Discovery

Crew prepared for pressure of unique mission(CNN) — They are parents, as well as sons and daughters; triathletes, nature-lovers and rock ‘n’ rollers; pilots, scholars and engineers; seasoned space explorers and first-timers.Read the Full Story

Discovery Launch Set for July 13

NASA has cleared the Space Shuttle to Return to Flight. After a two-day Flight Readiness Review meeting at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, senior managers approved a July 13 launch date for Discovery.Read the Full Story

Students’ payload to help NASA test high-altitude ‘research lab’

The experiment, which is titled “Characterization of Aerosols in the Troposphere and the Stratosphere (CATS),” will use a digital camera and a spectrometer coupled to a telescope to detect trace chemicals in the atmosphere.Read the Full Story

NASA LIVEâ„¢ Encourages Teachers to Use Hands-on Activities

Research indicates that the hands-on approach for teaching is the best way for students to learn science and mathematics. Teacher and student participation in videoconferences, such as the FREE videoconferences provided by NASA LIVEâ„¢ (Learning Interactively through Videoconferencing Experiences) enhances teacher application of hands-on science and mathematics.NASA LIVEâ„¢ videoconferences demonstrate how teachers worldwide can work […]

Air Force seeks space router

The space-hardened IP router will be part of the Air Force’s Transformational Satellite Communications System, which will provide IP-based communications to warfighters.Read the Full Story

ASU Scientists Part of “Next Step” in Mars Exploration

The mission is called the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL), and is scheduled for launch in 2009. It will have even greater capabilities than the extremely successful Mars Exploration Rovers, which continue to operate nearly a year after their arrival. Read the Full Story

NASA picks two IU devices to go to Mars

One of the devices will provide scientists with a closer look at Mars — literally. The other will tell us, for the first time, what Mars is actually made of. Read the Full Story