Space
Opinion: Sally Ride, A Role Model For The Ages
Looking around our nation, it’s obvious that we need more heroines and heroes with Sally Ride’s brave and courageous character. Her inspiration and legacy must live on to create the heroines – and heroes – of the future.
SF Fundraising Begins To Build Warning System For Asteroid Threats
Sentinel, a massive infrared space telescope to be privately financed by the B612 Foundation, would hover in space anywhere from 30 million to 100 million miles from Earth looking for large asteroids on a trajectory for home.
Public Recruited For New Space Experiment Ideas In South Bay
Citizens in Space, a non-profit group that hopes to use the new wave of private sub-orbital space flight to make scientific breakthroughs, has an informational meeting planned for this Thursday, where “citizen scientists” will be encouraged to develop experiments to be carried into space.
South Bay Disco Bash To Honor World’s Top Alien Hunter
Jill Tarter, the astronomer who was a prototype for the lead character in Carl Sagan’s novel Contact, will be honored with a disco serenade at her retirement party in Santa Clara this weekend.
Bay Area Luxury Travel Agents Booking $200K Space Flights
As a Bay Area luxury travel agent for more than three decades, Lynda Turley Garrett never thought she’d be selling trips to outer space.
KCBS Cover Story: Space Station Astronauts Speak To San Jose Students
The students at Washington Elementary looked up to the astronauts at the International Space Station. Their field trip Wednesday to the Tech Museum of Innovation left little doubt.
SETI Astronomers Call For Help In Search For Alien Life
Astronomers searching for intelligent extraterrestrial life have created a new website to encourage the public to help sort through a vast quantity of radio signals detected by telescopes scanning the stars for a sign we are not alone.
International Space Station To Be Visible Above Bay Area
Stargazers and space enthusiasts could have a chance to see the International Space Station in the skies above the Bay Area Tuesday Night.
NASA Ames Center Spared From President’s Budget Cuts
The Mountain View facility is actually getting a $20 million budget increase for fiscal year 2013.
Alameda Warship Honored For Role In Space Program
The USS Hornet was acknowledged for its role in the Apollo 11 space mission Wednesday, as the curator for the warship and museum docked in Alameda attended Wednesday’s Congressional Gold Medal ceremony for Apollo astronauts in Washington, D.C.
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