NASA Releases ‘EPIC’ Earth Image

NASA Releases ‘EPIC’ Earth Image

Image credit: DSCOVR EPIC Team/NASA. This breathtaking image was captured by the EPIC (Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera) aboard the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) about 1 million miles from Earth.  The photo is the first of its kind captured since Apollo 17...
Hawai‘i County Awards PISCES Moon RIDERS Program $25K

Hawai‘i County Awards PISCES Moon RIDERS Program $25K

Image courtesy of NASA. Hawai‘i Community Foundation Gives Additional $10K Grant The County of Hawai‘i Department of Research and Development has awarded PISCES a $25,000 grant for the Center’s Moon RIDERS (Research Investigating Dust Expulsion Removal Systems)...
NASA Spacecraft Meets Pluto in Historic Flyby

NASA Spacecraft Meets Pluto in Historic Flyby

The latest image of Pluto captured on July 13, 2015 by New Horizons some 476,000 miles away reveals the dwarf planet’s “heart.” The photo took some 4.5 hours to transmit back to Earth 3 billion miles away, and is the most detailed image of the dwarf-planet...
NASA Selects Astronauts for First U.S. Commercial Spaceflights

NASA Selects Astronauts for First U.S. Commercial Spaceflights

NASA’s new commercial crew (from left to right, top to bottom): Bob Behnken, Eric Boe, Doug Hurley and Sunita Williams. Credit: NASA NASA has announced the selection of four American commercial space astronauts as part of an initiative to strengthen the U.S.’...
NASA Spacecraft Nears Pluto for Historic Rendezvous

NASA Spacecraft Nears Pluto for Historic Rendezvous

Image: Artist’s rendering of the New Horizons spacecraft approaching Pluto. Courtesy: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI Less than a week remains until NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft encounters a historic flyby with the last of the “classic planets,” Pluto.  After a...