HI-SEAS participants are pictured here as they made their way out of isolation in August 2016. A recent article in the New York Times sheds light on the close-knit living conditions experienced by the Hawai’i Space Exploration Analog and Simulation (HI-SEAS)...
Credit: NASA Launching on Sept. 8, 2016 from Space Launch Complex 41 at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, OSIRIS-REx will travel to a near-Earth asteroid called Bennu and bring a small sample back to Earth for study. Watch the video below for more information....
The Pacific International Space Center for Exploration Systems (PISCES) welcomed the HI-SEAS participants on Aug. 28. A group of scientists who have spent a year in isolation atop of Mauna Loa emerged into the public eye on Aug. 28. The six scientists participating in...
This is an artist’s concept of the young Earth being bombarded by asteroids. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image Lab Watch this 6-minute animated movie about NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission, Asteroid Bennu, and the formation of our solar...
PISCES’ Program Manager Rodrigo Romo will be lecturing a group of visiting Japanese High School students from 9:30 -10:30 a.m. on Aug. 26-27 at the Imiloa Astronomy Center in Hilo. PISCES is a guest speaker at the first annual Hawaiian Educational Pursuits...
The Earth from the Moon. Credit: NASA Fifty years ago, on August 23, 1966, NASA captured the first images of Earth from the moon. According to a story on Mashable.com, Lunar Orbiter 1 snapped the above photograph during a mission to locate potential landing spots for...