The Space Report
PISCES and Hawaii Students Share Lunar Flight Experiment at Astronomy Center
Image: Kealakehe High School teacher Justin Brown, accompanied by his students, briefing visitors at the `Imiloa Astronomy Center on the PISCES 'Moon RIDERS' lunar flight experiment during a Journey...
ISS Astronaut Captures Incredible View of Hawaii Island
Image Credit: Samantha Cristoforetti/ESA/NASA. European Space Agency astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti captured this amazing view of Hawaii Island some 200 miles overhead from the International Space...
NASA Probe Making First Rendezvous with Dwarf Planet
Image: Artist's rendering of NASA's Dawn spacecraft approaching the dwarf planet Ceres. Credit: NASA/JPL-CaltechNASA’s Dawn spacecraft is slated to become the first probe to rendezvous with a dwarf...
NASA Presenting Talk on Asteroid Threats at UH Hilo
On any given day, there are an estimated 25 million objects in the skies and nearly 100 tons of meteorites that make contact with Earth’s surface. While most of them are the size of a grain of...
GLXP Teams Partner and Envision NASCAR Race on Moon
Above: Artist rendering of Astrobotic's lunar rover on the lunar surface. Credit: Astrobotic. Two GLXP teams are teaming up to reach the lunar surface together aboard a rocket which could result in...
Participating Schools Announced for Student Lunar Flight Experiment!
PISCES is pleased to announce the two Hawaii high schools chosen for the PISCES Moon RIDERS student lunar flight experiment! Kealakehe High School in Kailua-Kona on Hawaii Island, and `Iolani School...
MARS ONE Narrows Candidates for Red Planet Colonization
Above: Artist rendering of a future Mars colony. Courtesy of Bryan Versteeg, Mars One. After receiving over 202,000 applications from candidates all over the world, the Netherlands-based Mars One...
PISCES Submits Three Bills to Hawaii State Legislature
Early this month (February), PISCES submitted three legislative bills intended to further the Center’s project goals and development. The first bill, SB 672, appropriates general funding for the...
44 Year Ago Today: The Record-Setting Apollo 14 Mission
Image: Commander Shepard stands some 240,000 miles from Earth on the lunar surface next to the Modular Equipment Transporter (MET) - a lunar rover designed to carry tools, cameras, and sample cases...
NASA on Track for Unprecedented Mission to Europa
Image: The latest view of Europa based on information gathered by NASA's Galileo mission in the 1990s. The coloring is representative of what the moon might look like to the human eye. Credit:...
NASA’s ‘Volcano Bot 2’ to Explore Kilauea in Hawaii
Image: 'VolcanoBot 2', held by its creator, Carolyn Parcheta, a postdoctoral fellow at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. The bot is preparing for a journey into the depths...
NASA Honors Fallen Astronauts on Challenger Disaster Anniversary
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....