Grad Students, Take Your History Books, Chapter Earth

Grad Students, Take Your History Books, Chapter Earth

This image from a NASA space shuttle mission shows the International Space Station in orbit. The space station is the size of a football field and home to six astronauts. Image taken: Feb. 10, 2010.
WATCH LIVE NOW: Experts Discuss Search for Habitable Alien Worlds-
By Space.com Staff
Date: 14 July 2014 Time: 06:35 AM ET
- Kepler-186f, the first Earth-size planet orbiting in the habitable zone of its star, is just one of the many potentially habitable planets in the Milky Way galaxy.CREDIT: NASA Ames/SETI Institute/JPL-Caltech
A panel of scientists and engineers will talk this afternoon (July 14) about the ongoing search for exoplanets that may be capable of supporting life, and you can follow along live in the window below, courtesy of NASA TV.
NASA is hosting the exoplanet discussion, which takes place Monday from 2 to 3:30 p.m. EDT (1800 to 1930 GMT) at the space agency's headquarters in Washington, D.C. You can ask questions via Twitter during the event by using the hashtag #AskNASA.
Broadcast live streaming video on Ustream
NASA Administrator Charles Bolden will give opening remarks, then turn things over to the panelists, who include:
- — Ellen Stofan, NASA’s chief scientist, NASA Headquarters, Washington
- — John Grunsfeld, astronaut and associate administrator, NASA's Science
Mission Directorate in Washington - — John Mather, Nobel Laureate and Senior Project Scientist for the Webb
telescope at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland - — Sara Seager, MacArthur Fellow and Professor of Planetary Science and Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
- — Dave Gallagher, director for Astronomy and Physics, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California
- — Matt Mountain, director of the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore and Telescope Scientist for the Webb telescope
More Resources:
10 Exoplanets That Could Host Alien Life
The Strangest Alien Planets (Gallery)
REPLAY: Buzz Aldrin Visits Space.com to Discuss Apollo 11 Anniversary
Famed Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin will visit Space.com today (July 14) at 12p.m. EDT (1600 GMT) in a live Google Hangout to help us mark the 45th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing on July 20, 1969, and discuss his vision for the future of human space exploration. You can follow Buzz Aldin's Apollo conversation with Space.com live on our Google+ page, as well as below here as the event begins.
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NASA's Apollo 11 moon landing mission was an iconic event in human history. It marked the first time humans ever set foot on another world. Buzz Aldrin served as the Lunar Module Pilot on that mission, with Neil Armstrong as Commander and Michael Collins as Command Module Pilot. Aldrin became the second man to walk on the moon during the Apollo 11 flight, after Armstrong, and the trio received a hero's welcome when they returned to Earth on July 24, 1969. Five more manned moon landings would follow by 1972. [Buzz Aldrin, Apollo 11 Moonwalker, in Photos ]
To mark the 45th anniversary of Apollo 11, Aldrin launched the Apollo 45 Project this month to invite the public to recount memories of the Apollo 11 moon landing. You can learn more about Apollo 45 Project via its YouTube page here: https://www.youtube.com/apollo45
More Resources:
Moonwalker Buzz Aldrin Launches Campaign for 45th Apollo 11 Anniversary
NASA's Historic Apollo 11 Moon Landing in Pictures
NASA's 17 Apollo Moon Missions in Pictures
Photos: New Views of Apollo Moon Landing Sites
Live NASA Television
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HD Views from the International Space Station
NASA is now live-streaming views of Earth from space captured by four commercial high-definition video cameras installed on the exterior ofthe International Space Station. The project, known as the High Definition Earth Viewing (HDEV) experiment, aims to test how cameras perform in the space environment. Full Story: NASA Now Streaming Live HD Camera Views of Earth from Space
Live streaming video by Ustream
- Earth From Space: Amazing Astronaut Photos
- UrtheCast Photos: HD Cameras Watch Earth from Space Station: Gallery
- Photos: Amazing Images of Earth from Space
- Planet Labs Photos of Earth from Space: Gallery
- Astronaut Chris Hadfield's Amazing Photos of Earth From Space
REPLAY: SpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell Talks USSpaceflight Future
SpaceX President and Chief Operating Officer Gwynne Shotwell will discuss the private spaceflight company's achievements in commercial space travel in a live Atlantic Council event in Washington, D.C., and you can watch it live here beginning at 10:30 a.m. EDT (1430 GMT):
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The Atlantic Council webcast will be moderated by Bharath Gopalaswamy,deputy
director of the Atlantic Council's South Asia Center, and will be focused on the rise of SpaceX's commercial rockets and Dragon spacecraft. It will run through 11:45 a.m. EDT
(1545 GMT).
From the Atlantic Council: "SpaceX President and Chief Operating Officer Gwynne Shotwell will address the company's ongoing efforts to support commercial, civil, and national security customers with All-American launch services and the challenges faced in introducing change to government national security space launch acquisition."
More Resources:
- How SpaceX Dragon’s Taxi to ISS will Self-Land
- Meet Dragon V2: SpaceX's Manned Space Taxi for Astronaut Trips (Photos )
- 6 Fun Facts About Private Rocket Company SpaceX
- Quiz: How Well Do You Know SpaceX's Dragon Spaceship?
At 11 a.m. ET: National Academy of Sciences Committee of Human Spaceflight
The NAS Committee on Human Spaceflight will hold a press conference today on the future of manned spaceflight un the United States to mark the release of a new report on American spaceflight capabilities. The press conference will begin
at 11 a.m. EDT (1400 GMT) and can be seen live on the NAS human spaceflight committee website here: http://sites.nationalacademies.org/DEPS/ASEB/DEPS_069080
If possible, Space.com will embed the webcast as well.
Rationales and Approaches for a U.S. Program of Human Space Exploration" is an upcoming report from the National Research Council that describes the rationales for, and value of, human spaceflight beyond low Earth orbit. Written by a diverse committee of experts, the report develops recommendations that could guide the U.S. human spaceflight program in a sustainable manner.
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