The Space Report
New Horizons Mission Could Help Find Planets Beyond Neptune
A recent discovery found evidence of a giant planet located on the outside of our solar system, and with the help of NASA's New Horizons spacecraft we may be on the path to confirming the planet's...
NASA Commends PISCES for Lunar Landing Pad Efforts
Jack J. Fox, the Chief of Science and Technology Projects Division for NASA Kennedy Space Center, recently sent a letter to the Pacific International Space Center for Exploration Systems. It reads...
Luna-9 50th Anniversary
This time 50 years ago, Soviet automatic lunar station Luna-9 landed on the moon. The spacecraft was the first to make a soft landing on the lunar surface. Luna-9 landed west of the Reiner and...
55th Anniversary of Ham the Chimpanzee’s Trip to Space
Ham the Chimpanzee. Credit: NASA January 31 marked the 55th anniversary of when Ham the Chimpanzee went to space on the Mercury Redstone-2 launch. According to an article in Space.com, Jan. 31 also...
PISCES Video on Lunar Landing Pad Bullseye Construction
The Pacific International Space Center for Exploration (PISCES) recently published this video of the lunar landing pad, or Vertical Take-off/Vertical Landing Pad. The video, made by PISCES Project...
China Announces Plans to put Probe on Far Side of Moon
China will be sending the Chang'e-4 probe to the far side of the Moon in 2018, said China's Xinhua on Friday. "The far side of the moon is never visible to earth because of gravitational forces and...
Europe Looks to the Moon for the Future of Space Exploration
The Moon. Credit: NASA While NASA and United States President Barack Obama may only have Mars on mind, other countries are choosing to explore the Moon instead. According to an article in Ars...
Join PISCES and Keaau High School in Honoring Ellison Onizuka
Two Keaau High School students pose for a picture while working on the recently reconstructed Space Shuttle Flight Simulator set to be unveiled during our ceremony honoring Ellison Onizuka. ...
PISCES Completes Lunar Landing Pad Bullseye
The Helelani rover is seen here after laying down the 100th paver for the Vertical Take-off/Vertical Landing Pad project on Hawaii Island. The Pacific International Space Center for Exploration...
South Korea Announces Plans for Lunar Project
A South Korean science ministry plans to launch a lunar exploration project next year. According to a story published by the Yonhap News Agency, plans are underway to eventually send a landing...
Getting to Mars Via the Moon: The Future of Lunar Exploration
An artist's rendition of the Centaur upper stage. Credit: NASA In a recent story published in Ars Technica written by Eric Berger, the author discusses how the discovery of water on the Moon has...
PISCES Scientists Make Headway at Lunar Landing Pad Site
The Helelani rover atop of recently placed basalt pavers. The Pacific International Space Center for Exploration Systems' (PISCES) Vertical Take-Off, Vertical Landing Pad test site is making...