NASA Testing New Flight Vehicle Off Hawai`i Shores

by PISCES | Apr 8, 2015

Above: Press members get an up-close look at the LDSD flight-test vehicle that will be tested on Kauai Island at NASA-JPL on March 31. Photo:  NASA/JPL-Caltech. How did NASA land a 2,000 pound, car-sized robotic rover on the surface of Mars?  Part of their success lay...

NASA Reveals New Details on Asteroid Retrieval Mission

by PISCES | Mar 30, 2015

Image: artist rendering of a spacecraft retrieving an asteroid to place in lunar orbit.  Photo: NASA/AMA NASA has announced the latest details on its ambitious Asteroid Redirect Mission (ARM) which aims to capture a boulder from the surface of an asteroid and bring it...

Moon RIDERS Students Honored at State Capitol

by PISCES | Mar 26, 2015

Above: Students from Kealakehe High School and `Iolani School participating in PISCES’ Moon RIDERS lunar flight experiment pose at the Hawaii capitol with lawmakers and PISCES staff on March 23. Following a week of field-tests evaluating the space hardware for...

Kealakehe Moon RIDERS Complete First Tests for Lunar Experiment

by PISCES | Mar 24, 2015

Image: Kealakehe students and mentors pose with their mock-up lunar lander and PISCES staff at a planetary analogue testing site following two days of intensive trials for the lunar flight experiment. Kealakehe High School students have completed two days of...

`Iolani Students Complete Initial Tests for Lunar Flight Experiment

by PISCES | Mar 19, 2015

Above: `Iolani Moon RIDERS (orange vests) take a break from testing to pose with PISCES staff (yellow vests) and their student-built mock lunar lander at the PISCES planetary analogue test site on Mauna Kea. After two days of intensive work with their mockup lunar...