May 26 Atlantis Caps Final Mission with Permanent Resting Place Still TBD By Larisa Epatko The space shuttle Atlantis glided to a landing with six astronauts aboard at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Wednesday, capping the orbiter's 25-year career in space. Continue reading
Apr 15 Space Watchers Critique President Obama’s Proposal for NASA’s Future President Obama traveled to Florida's "Space Coast" Thursday to sell his plan for a new direction for NASA. The president's proposal would end the return-to-the-moon Constellation program begun under President Bush, a program many critics say… Continue reading
Mar 29 NewsHour Plus ‘This Week In Space’ Talk Mars and Your Ticket to the Stars By Chris Amico, Miles O'Brien Recent developments have moved us a bit closer to "space (flight) for the rest of us," Miles O'Brien of 'This Week In Space' tells us in his first visit to NewsHour Plus. O'Brien catches us up on… Continue reading
Oct 13 Watch ScienceNow Looks at Rescuing the Hubble The NewsHour airs an excerpt from a NOVA ScienceNow report on efforts to repair the Hubble Space Telescope. Continue watching
Oct 07 New Saturn Ring Could Hold a Billion Earths A team of scientists have discovered a new ring around the planet Saturn, already famous for its many rings, that is so large that it has the volume equivalent to one billion Earths. Continue reading
Aug 14 With Eyes on Moon and Mars, Space Exploration Goes Under Review According to a presidential review panel, the U.S. plan to return astronauts to the moon by 2020 will not happen without a big boost in NASA's budget. Continue reading
Aug 14 Watch Budget Woes Expected to Ground Some Space Missions U.S. budget constraints threaten to ground some of NASA's manned space missions. Judy Woodruff looks at the space program and its future prospects. Continue watching
Jul 20 ‘We Sent Music and Laughter There’: Man and the Moon, 40 Years On Now re-released by the Criterion Collection, the new DVD version of "For All Mankind" is far superior to the original grainy images most watched for the first time on their TVs. Continue reading
Jul 06 Why Are Christmas Tree Stands Different in NYC? Robert Frank: Economic naturalists often find that many interesting new questions are stimulated by the experience of living in an unfamiliar environment. That’s always been my experience during sabbaticals spent away from Ithaca. One Saturday last December during my… Continue reading