2016 Novato Space Festival
One of the best space memorabilia museums in the Bay Area will have its annual Space Festival on Saturday August 6th, from 10 AM to 4 PM. Come see both US and Russian memorabilia, from tools used in space, to garments worn by astronauts. There is also a Lunar Module and Lunar Rover on display. […]
NASA Recruits Adventurous Kids For Mission To Mars
BERKELEY (KPIX) – UC Berkeley space sciences professor Davin Larson is thinking about colonizing Mars. “I think it easily could happen — and will happen — in a thousand-year time scale,” Larson said. NASA agrees with Larson and has published recruiting posters that encourage people to think about taking the ( at minimum) 30-million-mile trip to the Red Planet. NASA isn’t […]
Anderson Post-Doc Travel Award Donation
Kinsey Anderson Post-Doc Travel Award is a program for providing travel funds for post-doctoral researchers at the Space Sciences Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley has been established in honor of Professor Kinsey Anderson. Professor Anderson, an early director and guiding figure behind the success of the Space Sciences Laboratory is pictured here. Please consider making a donation to the fund.
A crescent Pluto shines like a jewel in the Kuiper Belt
A High Resolution version of the image An image released Thursday, taken by NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft minutes after zipping past Pluto in July, shows the backlit world on a new scale, revealing rugged mountains, glacial plains and deep layers of atmospheric haze. It is an expanded version of a crescent view first released in […]
NASA's Dr. John Grunsfeld visits the Space Sciences Lab
John M. Grunsfeld, Associate Administrator for the Science Mission Directorate For Grunsfeld’s NASA astronaut and Science Mission Directoraten bio, visit. The U.C. Berkeley Space Sciences Lab was honored to have Dr. Grunsfeld spend some time touring our facility on August 21st, 2015. He is the third NASA dignitary to visit our lab, joining the ranks of […]
2015 Novato Space Festival – Reminder
Event Reminder This Saturday August 1st is the 2015 Novato Space Festival – Admission and Parking are FREE Schedule of Events and Home Page
2015 Novato Space Festival – Reminder
Event Reminder This Saturday August 1st is the 2015 Novato Space Festival – Admission and Parking are FREE Schedule of Events and Home Page
2015 Novato Space Festival
If you are a fan of space flight, NASA, and space exploration in general, mark your Calendar for Saturday August 1st and come out to the 2015 Novato Space Festival. Meet Legendary Astronauts. See the latest additions to the museum, A Lunar Excursion Module (LEM): this is a 90% scale mockup, A Lunar Rover: this is […]
APOD – Astronomy Picture of the Day, turns 20 Years Old
Welcome to the vicennial year of the Astronomy Picture of the Day! Perhaps a source of web consistency for some, APOD is still here. As during each of the 20 years of selecting images, writing text, and editing the APOD web pages, the occasionally industrious Robert Nemiroff (left) and frequently persistent Jerry Bonnell (right) are pictured above plotting to highlight yet […]
APOD – Astronomy Picture of the Day, turns 20 Years Old
Welcome to the vicennial year of the Astronomy Picture of the Day! Perhaps a source of web consistency for some, APOD is still here. As during each of the 20 years of selecting images, writing text, and editing the APOD web pages, the occasionally industrious Robert Nemiroff (left) and frequently persistent Jerry Bonnell (right) are pictured above plotting to highlight yet […]
