2018 Perseid Meteor Shower

The Persied Meteor Shower peaks August 11-13th and here are a few things you need to know.

Joint Polar Satellite Launch: Nov 10

Friday November 10th officials from NOAA and NASA will be sending a new type of weather satellite into space. The Joint Polar Satellite System-1 or JPSS-1 for short is the first of four highly advanced polar satellites that will help improve the accuracy of weather forecast out to seven days. While NASA will be handling […]

November Night Sky

Song in video: Your Hand In Mine by Explosions in the Sky The month of November will start off with a Hunters Moon (also known as the Beaver moon), this is the first full moon after the Harvest moon. This will occur on the night of November 3rd into the Predawn hours on the […]

Lego honors NASA women in Science

How cool is this: Lego’s will honor some pretty influential women at NASA with a “Women of NASA” Lego set. The set will include Sally Ride the first American woman in space; Mae Jemison, the first African-American woman in space; Nancy Grace Roman who helped develop the Hubble telescope and Margaret Hamilton an engineer who […]

Virtual Walk on Mars

Virtual Walk on Mars Have you ever thought about what it would be like to walk on Mars? Now you can with NASA’s virtual walk on Mars tour. Starting today, you’ll be able to get a feel for what its like on Mars. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Google teamed up to provide a […]

Orionid Meteor Shower

If you can and weather permitting of course: Head outside tonight and early Saturday morning to view the Orionid Meteor Shower, It peaks early Saturday morning during the pre-dawn hours. Approximately 10-15 meteors are possible and with the moon during the noon moon phase it should be easy to spot them. Unfortunately for Kansas City […]

Girls STEAM/Entrepreneur Summit

On Thursday I had the opportunity to participate in the Girls STEAM/Entrepreneur Summit hosted by the Institute of Black Invention and Technology. Girls aged 9-12 from local elementary and middle schools were able to learn about different STEAM fields by participating in hands on experiments from African American professionals within the KC community. The overall […]

Solar System: Things to Know This Week

nasa: What’s next for NASA? A quick look at some of the big things coming up: 1. We will add to our existing robotic fleet at the Red Planet with the InSight Mars lander set to study the planet’s interior. This terrestrial planet explorer will address one of the most fundamental issues of planetary and […]

Another Space Walk

This morning NASA astronauts will conduct the second of three space walks planned for this month, the first occurred on October 5th and the next will be on October 18th. Today’s space walk will be the 204th space walk. Astronauts are making repairs to the ISS. NASA Link: https://blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/2017/10/10/spacewalkers-going-outside-second-time-in-less-than-a-week/

Space Station on Mars?

On Tuesday NASA announced that it would be teaming up with Lockheed Martin in designing a path to Mars. This comes just a few weeks after SpaceX announced that it would be doing the same. NASA and Lockheed Martin want to send a six person crew to orbit Mars by 2028 to scout a site […]