NASA’s proposed asteroid identification and redirect mission proposal was elevated to “Grand Challenge” status in Washington on Wednesday by the Obama Administration. The featured theme of President Obama’s proposed 2014 NASA budget is now on par with John Kennedy’s call to reach the moon with human explorers, unraveling the human genome, exploiting solar power as [...]

    NASA has chosen four men and four women, most of them with military aviation in their wide ranging professional backgrounds, to help define the nation’s post-space shuttle era. They report to NASA’s Johnson Space Center in August to prepare for future missions that could send them on unprecedented missions to an asteroid, the [...]

To subscribe to CSExtra via RSS feed click here. If you would prefer to receive CSExtra in e-mail format, e-mail us at Info@spacecoalition.com with the word SUBSCRIBE in the subject line. Tuesday’s CSExtra offers the latest reporting and commentary on space activities from across the globe. NASA selects eight to join America’s astronaut corps. On Tuesday, the [...]

To subscribe to CSExtra via RSS feed click here. If you would prefer to receive CSExtra in e-mail format, e-mail us at Info@spacecoalition.com with the word SUBSCRIBE in the subject line. Monday’s CSExtra offers the latest reporting and commentary on space related activities from across the globe, plus a summary of activities from the weekend. In Washington, [...]

Launched in January 2006, the NASA New Horizons mission to distant Pluto is on target to whisk by that faraway world in July 2015. New news from the New Horizons team: Unless significant new hazards are found, the spacecraft is set to stay on its original course past Pluto and its moons. That’s the call [...]