It was supposed to be difficult. Dangerous. Death-defying. In the weeks and days leading up to Sunday’s scheduled landing of the Phoenix Mars Lander spacecraft, project officials, scientists, and others made it clear in no uncertain terms the challenge they faced. Read More at The Space Review…
SANDUSKY, Ohio (AP) – NASA is offering the public a rare tour of its testing facility near Sandusky. This weekend’s tour will give visitors to the NASA Plum Brook Station a look at the world’s largest vacuum chamber, which is used for testing rockets and other space gear. Read More at FOX 19 Cincinnati…
Matt Walentosky placed for his astronomical research on Cataclysmic Variable Stars. An Oil City high school junior is “going where no man has gone before.” Read More at The Derrick…
Scientists from Spain, conducting an experiment in space, are getting help with research from eighth-graders at Livonia’s Emerson Middle School. Read More at Livonia Observer…
About 130 members of a multistate, grass-roots space advocacy group were in Washington, D.C., this week lobbying for a strong space exploration program and fully funded NASA budget. Read More at The Huntsville Times…
A bill directing NASA to fly an additional space shuttle mission to deliver the $1 billion Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer to the International Space Station cleared the House Science and Technology space and aeronautics subcommittee. The NASA Authorization Act of 2008 (H.R. 6063) was quickly approved sent on to the full committee for consideration. [...] Read [...]
U.S. Sen. Barack Obama promised to work with NASA officials to develop a focused mission for the future of the space program. Read More at Florida Today…
A bill calling for an extra NASA shuttle flight cleared a House subcomittee. Read More at SPACE.com…
Three patches commemorating the establishment of The Patricia Hilliard Robertson Center for Aviation Medicine at Indiana Regional Medical Center will fly aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery, tentatively scheduled for launch May 31. Read More at The Indiana Gazette…
“I don’t think people realize just how critical northern Ohio and the Plum Brook station has been to the space program over the years,” Dave Taylor, Facility Manager of B-2, tells News 11. Read More at WTOL 11 Toledo…