Astronomers
Neil deGrasse Tyson on Traveling to Mars
On Saturday, NASA will be launching the new rover “Curiosity,” also known as Mars Science Laboratory. The mission is meant to examine chemical ingredients to see if the planet can support human life. The spacecraft will explore a crater the size of a large lake. Curiosity is delivering a rover equipped to test if there […]
Friday Follow: Thanksgiving, Black Friday, Pepper Spray
On Thanksgiving week, the big stories were the consumer’s holiday shopping start-up – Black Friday, of course. The turkey was barely cold this year before family members were out the door to hit the box stores for the biggest deals of the season. In Washington, the debt committee was the most expected failure all year. And […]
NASA Announces New Rocket Design
Just a few months ago, the future of NASA seemed in doubt. But the space agency announced on Wednesday a new rocket design that it says will be the centerpiece of a deep-space exploration program for decades to come. The Space Launch System could lift astronauts farther than ever before, making it eventually possible to journey […]
First Pictures of Mercury Received on Earth
Photographs of Mercury have come to earth for the first time. The Messenger spacecraft entered Mercury’s orbit on March 17 and has just sent back its first batch of photographs. The very first image received shows a crater near the planet’s southern pole, an area that has never been seen before. Neil deGrasse Tyson is […]