PISCES Welcomes Hilo High School Student

PISCES Welcomes Hilo High School Student

Ara Uhr The Pacific International Space Center for Exploration Systems (PISCES) is pleased to announce they have a new high school intern on board this summer. Ara Uhr will be a junior at Hilo High School next year and will be working on computer programming with...
Chang’e 5 to Explore the Moon in 2017

Chang’e 5 to Explore the Moon in 2017

The Moon.  Credit: NASA China is preparing to send its lunar probe, Chang’e 5, to the Moon next year. The mission will include an exploration of the Moon’s north and south poles. According to a story in the Science World Report, the lunar probe by China is...
New Horizons Reveals Close-Up of Pluto’s Surface

New Horizons Reveals Close-Up of Pluto’s Surface

Pluto’s surface. Credit: NASA This mosaic strip of Pluto’s surface was taken by the New Horizons spacecraft on July 14, 2015 and is the highest-resolution image taken to date. With a resolution of about 260 feet (80 meters) per pixel, the mosaic affords...
ISS Station Adds Bigelow Expandable Activity Module

ISS Station Adds Bigelow Expandable Activity Module

The BEAM. Credit: Bigelow Aerospace The final preparations are under way for Thursday morning’s expansion of the Bigelow Expandable Activity Module (BEAM) from the Tranquility module. Back on Earth, a veteran cosmonaut and a pair of first time space flyers are getting...
NASA Posts New Photograph of Mars

NASA Posts New Photograph of Mars

The Red Planet. Credit: NASA, the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA), J. Bell (ASU), and M. Wolff (Space Science Institute) The Hubble Space Telescope took this photograph of Mars taken when the planet was 50 million miles from Earth on May 12, 2016. Watch the video...