‘Travel’ to Outer Space Aboard Orion Spacecraft!

by PISCES | Oct 16, 2014

Images: NASA NASA is offering the public a rare opportunity to ‘travel’ skyward aboard the Orion spacecraft!  Click on the link below to fill out a submission form to have your name carried into outer space during its first test flight slated for December...

LRO Discovery Will Rewrite Lunar Textbooks

by PISCES | Oct 15, 2014

Above: Artist rendering of the LRO orbiting the Moon. New evidence gathered by NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) suggests volcanic activity on the Moon was still occurring during the age of the dinosaurs. The discovery is a significant shift in the geological...

NASA Plans to Mine Water on the Moon

by PISCES | Oct 11, 2014

Artist rendering of astronauts and a lunar rover equipped with a robotic drill searching for water deposits frozen beneath the lunar surface.  Credit: NASA Inhabiting space is no easy endeavor.  All the necessities for supporting life are far from reach.  But the...

‘Blood Moon’ Captured from Summit of Mauna Kea

by PISCES | Oct 10, 2014

Local tour guide James Stagg of Taikobo Tours (www.taikobo.com) captured this incredible photo (seen above) through a telescope on Mauna Kea in the early hours of October 8.  The fully eclipsed moon was obscured by the darkest part of Earth’s shadow, taking on a...

Two Former PISCES Workers Selected for Next HI-SEAS Mission

by PISCES | Oct 6, 2014

Image of HI-SEAS Habitat on Mauna Loa.  Courtesy of Sian Proctor. The third and longest-yet HI-SEAS (Hawaii Space Exploration Analogue Simulation) mission will commence October 15th and includes two former PISCES workers.  Sophie Milam and Neil Scheibelhut will spend...