Education
AIA Reminds Young Americans: We Are the Explorers 
The Aerospace Industries Association, in partnership with Challenger Center for Space Science Education, sponsored a first-of-its-kind crowd funding campaign to place a trailer before Star Trek Into Darkness beginning May 17 to educate the public - most especially young people - on the exciting human spaceflight programs now underway. The trailer will play in more than 50 cities nationwide.
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NASA Hack Space
Project Morpheus: Hard Lessons and Lean Engineering
Kerry Ellis: Future human space exploration will mean getting beyond low-Earth orbit--and returning safely. Several projects across NASA are working on the challenges that goal presents, among them propulsion alternatives and guidance, navigation, and control. Three years ago, Project Morpheus and the Autonomous Landing and Hazard Avoidance Technology project, or ALHAT, began collaborating on advances in these areas.
NASA Hack Space
Collaborative Planning for IceBridge Science
George Hale: Success in science often relies as much on planning, communication, and constant improvement as it does on gathering data, writing papers, and giving lectures. This is especially true for large scientific missions like NASA's Operation IceBridge.
Astronomy
The Legacy of NASA's Balloon Missions
Don Cohen: In an article on the NuSTAR launch delay in the fall 2012 issue of ASK, I wrote, "NuSTAR, the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, contains the first focusing telescopes designed to look at high-energy X-ray radiation." Soon after that issue was sent out, complaints began to arrive: What about the balloon missions with focusing X-ray telescopes that preceded it?
Solar Physics
STEREO Detects a CME From the Sun
On 5:24 a.m. EDT on May 17, 2013, the sun erupted with an Earth-directed coronal mass ejection or CME, a solar phenomenon that can send billions of tons of solar particles into space that can reach Earth one to three days later and affect electronic systems in satellites and on the ground.
Mars
Opportunity Examines Clay Clues in Rock
NASA's senior Mars rover, Opportunity, is driving to a new study area after a dramatic finish to 20 months on "Cape York" with examination of a rock intensely altered by water.
NASA Hack Space
Instrumental Methods for Professional and Amateur Collaborations in Planetary Astronomy
Amateur contributions to professional publications have increased exponentially over the last decades in the field of Planetary Astronomy. Here we review the different domains of the field in which collaborations between professional and amateur astronomers are effective and regularly lead to scientific publications.
Saturn
First Global Topographic Map of Titan
Scientists have created the first global topographic map of Saturn's moon Titan, giving researchers a valuable tool for learning more about one of the most Earth-like and interesting worlds in the solar system. The map was just published as part of a paper in the journal Icarus.
Mars
Counting Space Rock Impacts on Mars
Scientists using images from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter have estimated that the planet is bombarded by more than 200 small asteroids or bits of comets per year forming craters at least 12.8 feet (3.9 meters) across.
NASA
NASA Google Hangout Connects Space Station and Star Trek Crews
NASA hosted on Google Hangout today a discussion with veteran astronauts Michael Fincke and Kjell Lindgren and cast members from the just opened "Star Trek Into Darkness" movie.
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Calendar
- 20 May: NASA Honors Sally Ride with a National Tribute at Kennedy Center
- 20 May: The Hadean Earth-Moon System - Workshop Without Walls
- 21 May: Space Technology Expo
- 21 May: Small Business Event Quarterly Meeting of the Stennis Business Consortium
- 21 May: NASA Advisory Council Aeronautics Committee; Unmanned Aircraft Systems Subcommittee Meeting
- 21 May: Hearing Next Steps in Human Exploration to Mars and Beyond
- 22 May: NASA Space Station SOcial
- 22 May: NASA Advisory Council Audit Finance and Analysis Committee Meeting
- 23 May: 2013 International Space Development Conference
- 24 May: Spacefest V
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Mars
Opportunity Examines Clay Clues in Rock
NASA's senior Mars rover, Opportunity, is driving to a new study area after a dramatic finish to 20 months on "Cape York" with examination of a rock intensely altered by water.
Hubble Space Telescope
NASA's Hubble Views a Cosmic Skyrocket
Resembling a Fourth of July skyrocket, Herbig-Haro 110 is a geyser of hot gas from a newborn star that splashes up against and ricochets off the dense core of a cloud of molecular hydrogen.
Astrobiology
The Detectability of Habitable Exomoons with Kepler
In this paper, the detectability of habitable exomoons orbiting around giant planets in M-dwarf systems using Transit Timing Variations (TTVs) and Transit Timing Durations (TDVs) with Kepler-class photometry is investigated. Light curves of systems with various configurations were simulated around M-dwarf hosts of mass 0.5 Msun and radius 0.55 Rsun.
Exploration
Solar System Exploration Research Virtual Institute
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is soliciting the submission of multiinstitutional team-based proposals for research as participating members of the Solar System Exploration Research Virtual Institute (SSERVI), hereafter referred to as "the Institute."
Asteroids
OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Sample Return Mission Moves Ahead
NASA's first mission to sample an asteroid is moving ahead into development and testing in preparation for its launch in 2016.
Mercury
Radar Exposes Mercury's Interior
Researchers working with high-precision planetary radars, including the Goldstone Solar System Radar of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., have discovered strong evidence that the planet Mercury has a molten core
OnOrbit
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada At Night As Seen From Orbit
One of the crew members aboard the International Space Station photographed this might image of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada on March 31, 2013.
OnOrbit
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada At Night As Seen From Orbit
One of the crew members aboard the International Space Station photographed this might image of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada on March 31, 2013.
Jupiter
Herschel Links Jupiter's Water to Comet Impact
ESA's Herschel space observatory has solved a long-standing mystery as to the origin of water in the upper atmosphere of Jupiter, finding conclusive evidence that it was delivered by the dramatic impact of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 in July 1994.
European Space Agency
Galaxy Zoom - A Space-Time Magnifying Glass
Bright arcs are smeared around the heart of galaxy cluster Abell S1077 in this image taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble space telescope. The arcs are stretched images of distant galaxies distorted by the cluster's enormous gravitational field.
Astronomy
The Legacy of NASA's Balloon Missions
Don Cohen: In an article on the NuSTAR launch delay in the fall 2012 issue of ASK, I wrote, "NuSTAR, the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, contains the first focusing telescopes designed to look at high-energy X-ray radiation." Soon after that issue was sent out, complaints began to arrive: What about the balloon missions with focusing X-ray telescopes that preceded it?
International Space Station
Expedition 35 Astronauts Land in Kazakhstan
Three members of the International Space Station Expedition 35 crew undocked from the orbiting laboratory and returned safely to Earth Monday, May 13, wrapping up a mission lasting almost five months. The departure marks the beginning of Expedition 36.
