The Space Report
PISCES Chairperson Proposes Lunar Base in Hawaii
During the 2016 Hawaii Aerospace Summit last week in Honolulu, HI, where state and business representatives convened to discuss the future of aerospace in the Aloha State, PISCES Board Chair and...
Hawaii Aerospace Summit Kicking off in Honolulu
Tomorrow the Hawaii Aerospace Summit will kick off at the Hawaii State Capitol Auditorium in Honolulu, HI, and continue through Wednesday, Oct. 5. This year's summit coincides with Aerospace in...
PISCES Summer Interns Unveil Research
Photo: PISCES interns Kyla Defore and Ashley Garnett presented their summer projects and research findings to members of the County and State offices, PISCES staff and University of Hawai'i...
Space Mining Could Now be a Reality
Image credit: Dassault Systèmes According to former NASA scientist and current University of Central Florida professor Dr. Phil Metzger, off-planet mining and manufacturing could be made a reality...
HI-SEAS Participants Say Harmony is Key to Life on Mars
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...
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Begins Asteroid Mission Today
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...
Congrats to HI-SEAS Participants!
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...
NASA Video on Asteroid Bennu
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...
PISCES Speaks to Visiting Japanese Students
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...
50 Year Anniversary of the First Image of the Earth from the Moon
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...
Picture Shows Geology of Saturn’s Moon Dione
Dione. Credit: NASA Dione reveals its past via contrasts in this view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. The features visible here are a mixture of tectonics -- the bright, linear features -- and...
NASA Launches Project Imua Payload
Project Imua Payload Launch. Photo credit: University of Hawai'i. Story from University of Hawai'i A Terrier Improved-Malemute suborbital sounding rocket carrying a payload developed by University...