This statement was send to the Senate and Congress by The Planetary Society and I wholeheartedly agree. {br]Cutting into the budget of NASA is peanuts compared to the whole government budget, in the end not saving a whole lot of money. However cutting the budget of NASA does cut into the capabilities of the country [...]

BEVERLY, Mass. — September 16, 2011 – After a an exciting first year of the Mars Education Challenge, Explore Mars, Inc is pleased to announce the second annual Mars Education Challenge (MEC).   MEC asks science educators who teach grades 7-12 to develop inspiring ways to fit Mars science and exploration into their “every day” classroom lessons – such as biology, chemistry, physics, [...]

A Progress, Russian space freighter, carrying cargo to the International Space Station has crashed in the Altai region, a remote area of Siberia.
The unmanned Progress cargo craft, which launched at 1 p.m. EDT in Kazakhstan (9 a.m. local time) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, was due to dock with the ISS on Friday.
The Progress Cargo craft [...]