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Out-Of-This-World Careers That Do Not Require Take-Off

You don't have to be an astronaut to explore space! NASA is not just astronauts. Nor does it exist only for the physical exploration of space. America’s space agency isn’t even just about space. Its major initiatives comprise astrophysics (the purest science of the cosmos), the study of our Solar System; aeronautics (focusing on improvements to aviation technology), Earth science, the examination of the Sun, space technology (which finds new ways to conduct robotic and human missions), and, the human exploration program.

Check out these five career paths that do not require take-off: 

By | 2018-05-29T22:39:43+00:00 May 29th, 2018|Careers, Education|Comments Off on Out-Of-This-World Careers That Do Not Require Take-Off
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A Remarkable Resemblance: Outer Space and Virtual Space

The Space industry bears a remarkable resemblance to an industry that enriched most Space entrepreneurs: the Internet, another space that’s virtually out of this world. A generation ago, few people imagined that the “brick and mortar” world of retail would be rocked by an online bookstore named after a river, or that people would trust their money to flow through a place called PayPal, or that computer geeks would become billionaire celebrities while still in their twenties.

By | 2018-05-21T03:41:51+00:00 May 21st, 2018|Education, Technology|Comments Off on A Remarkable Resemblance: Outer Space and Virtual Space
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If April Showers Bring May Flowers, What Do May Flowers Bring?

“We humans have, since the earliest civilizations, built monuments. We want to leave something behind to show the next generation, or the generations after that, what we did with our time here.”

By | 2018-04-29T22:53:45+00:00 April 29th, 2018|Aerospace, Education|Comments Off on If April Showers Bring May Flowers, What Do May Flowers Bring?
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The STEM Crisis and Bounded Rationality in Education

Sometimes a relatively small, well-timed, deft intervention at the right injection point will set everything working again. A tune-up, a new carburetor: the right injection at the perfect injection point.

By | 2018-03-12T05:18:18+00:00 March 12th, 2018|Economy, Education|Comments Off on The STEM Crisis and Bounded Rationality in Education
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STEM- Why The Decline, Why It Matters

Why the decline in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) professionals? As the space program’s goals were pulled back by budgets designed to “save” money, and a post-Apollo generation came of age, the impetus of STEM declined with it.

By | 2018-01-02T14:59:16+00:00 January 2nd, 2018|Education|Comments Off on STEM- Why The Decline, Why It Matters
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Final #MartianClassroom Vocab Lesson of Winter Break!

Microgravity- The condition of free fall, when an object appears to be weightless. Microgravity in space allows the formation of precise crystals, along with other forms of manufacture and experimentation that would be near- impossible on Earth.

By | 2018-01-02T03:14:51+00:00 January 2nd, 2018|Aerospace, Education|Comments Off on Final #MartianClassroom Vocab Lesson of Winter Break!
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SpaceX: When Something is too Important Not to Try

“Elon Musk… built an industrial empire from the stuff of little boy dreams: fast cars and rocket ships. Musk is an idealist who told us he had to start his company so that man could colonize Mars and save the Earth. His sister says it’s like her brother traveled into the future and came back to tell us all about it.” CBS News

By | 2017-12-24T02:54:24+00:00 December 24th, 2017|Aerospace, Education|Comments Off on SpaceX: When Something is too Important Not to Try
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