PISCES is pleased to announce the two Hawaii high schools chosen for the PISCES Moon RIDERS student lunar flight experiment! Kealakehe High School in Kailua-Kona on Hawaii Island, and `Iolani School in Honolulu on Oahu, have been selected to participate in the...
Above: Artist rendering of a future Mars colony. Courtesy of Bryan Versteeg, Mars One. After receiving over 202,000 applications from candidates all over the world, the Netherlands-based Mars One nonprofit announced that it has narrowed down its selection to 100...
Early this month (February), PISCES submitted three legislative bills intended to further the Center’s project goals and development. The first bill, SB 672, appropriates general funding for the Center to continue its planetary surface systems work enabling Hawaii to...
Image: Commander Shepard stands some 240,000 miles from Earth on the lunar surface next to the Modular Equipment Transporter (MET) – a lunar rover designed to carry tools, cameras, and sample cases around the lunar surface. Credit: NASA. Today (Feb. 5, 2015),...
Image: The latest view of Europa based on information gathered by NASA’s Galileo mission in the 1990s. The coloring is representative of what the moon might look like to the human eye. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SETI Institute. NASA is planning a spaceflight...
