Above: The crew of Space Shuttle Challenger, STS-51-L: (front row) Michael J. Smith, Dick Scobee, Ronald McNair; (back row) Ellison Onizuka, Christa McAuliffe, Gregory Jarvis, Judith Resnik. Credit: NASA. Today (Jan. 28), 29 years ago, the space shuttle Challenger...
Image Courtesy of Google Lunar XPRIZE. Today (Jan. 26, 2015), the winning teams for the Google Lunar XPRIZE (GLXP) Milestone Prizes are being recognized and honored at an Awards Celebration in San Francisco at the California Academy of Sciences. The event will...
Image: Mission Specialist Ellison S. Onizuka (left) posing with Pilot Loren J. Shriver (right) at mid-deck aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery in January, 1985. Credit: NASA. Saturday, January 24, 2015 marks the 30th anniversary of Hawaii astronaut Ellison S. Onizuka’s...
Image: Courtesy of NASA. Hawaii High School Students to Shoot for the Moon PISCES SIGNS NON-REIMBURSABLE SPACE ACT AGREEMENT WITH NASA KENNEDY SPACE CENTER FOR LUNAR SURFACE EXPERIMENT INVOLVING STEM OUTREACH AND MENTORING OF HAWAII HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS The Pacific...
Image: Artist’s rendering of the New Horizons spacecraft at Pluto. Credit: JHUAPL/SwRI Scientists are anticipating the rendezvous of NASA’s New Horizons satellite with Pluto to return the first up-close imagery and scientific data ever relayed from the distant dwarf...
Image Credit: Microsoft Imagine Cup PISCES Robotic Tech Casey Pearring and a fellow team of University of Hawaii at Hilo (UHH) computer science students claimed victory in the 2015 Pitch Video Challenge in the Microsoft Imagine Cup – a global student technology...
