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The Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) will study a diverse range of objects and phenomena, from early and distant galaxy formation to nearby planetary nebulae, and finally our own backyard — the planets and other bodies of our Solar System.

A team at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center designs and builds the special tools and aids astronauts need when they service the Hubble Space Telescope.

The Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) will study a diverse range of objects and phenomena, from early and distant galaxy formation to nearby planetary nebulae, and finally our own backyard — the planets and other bodies of our Solar System.

The Ariane 5 launched two satellites in to orbit on August 14th, 2007. The first was the Superbird-7 for Japanese operator Space Communications Corporation (SCC) and AMC-21 for American operator SES Americom. This launch happened at the spaceport is Kourou, French Guiana with a liftoff at 8:44pm UTC.

William Pomerants, Director of Space Projects at the X PRIZE Foundation will be joining us live this Friday, August 29th at 2:00am UTC. For those in the United States that is Thursday, Auguest 28th at 7:00pm Pacific time, 9:00pm Central time or 10:00pm Eastern time. We hope to see you there at http://www.spacevidcast.com/live

Earlier this week NASA’s Cassini spacecraft started sending some of the most detailed and fascinating pictures home of Saturn’s sixth largest moon. Cassini recently began a two year extension of it’s original tour of our solar system’s ringed planet by taking a closer look at Enseladus. We know that Enseladus is almost entirely water ice, but many are hoping to find something more along the lines of the building blocks of life. Watch on to learn more about Cassini and see some great pics of Enseladus!

Did you know that Sweeden has a space agency and they have developed no fewer than 6 satellites? At a fraction of NASAs budget and man power, this little space agency packs a huge punch! Watch on in this second installment of Better Know a Space Agency!

Up until August 2nd, 2008 Obama’s campaign had talked about delaying Constellation for 5 years and funneling that money instead to a pre kindergarden program. This would have created a full decade long gap in NASAs manned space program. Obama seems to have changed his tune and is now in favor of NASAs program and has instead found other ways to pay for his education program.

A quick update on the status of the Phoenix Lander which landed on Mars May 25th, 2008. While it feels like scientists have found water on Mars 4 or 5 times now, it is officially official: Mars has water! Watch on for not only a Phoenix Lander update but the debut of Cariann in the daily episodes!

On October 4th, 2004 SpaceShipOne was the first private vehicle to make it in to space and after a second successful flight won the Ansari X-Prize.

On July 28th, 2008 WhiteKnightTwo rolled out on the runway with SpaceShipTwo getting ready for a 2009 rollout. These new crafts will enable for the first time in human history privatized space travel. Anyone, you included, will be able to reach low earth orbit and experience weightlessness. This will forever change the course of human exploration.

This is the story of Virgin Galactic.

With Virgin Galactic rolling out WhiteKnightTwo on Monday we thought it would be fun to highlight the Virgin Galactic experience. This animation shows what it will be like to takeoff, drop from WhiteKNightTwo, blast in to space aboard SpaceShipTwo, feel what it is like in microgravity for 4 to 5 minutes and then land again safely on the ground.

Virgin Galactic is on the verge of forever changing the face of human space flight. Yesterday they rolled out EVE which is one of the two ships needed to send private astronauts in to space for $200,000 per ticket. While that may sound like a lot keep in mind that current tickets to space cost around $25,000,000 so we’re on the right track.

The THEMIS mission looks at our Northern Lights to try and find where they come from, an update on the Phoenix Lander and making space robots more intelligent, a new resource to see thousands of stunning images from NASA and should we repurpose the $156 billion dollar International Space Station to explore additional space on [...]

While I have been a regular guest on KSTP’s Twin Cities Live in the past, I have never been on to chat about SpaceVidcast… Until now!

On July 14th at 3:18pm CDT Cariann and I chatted with John Hanson and Rebekah Wood about SpaceVidcast, where we are and where we are going. As always it is a TON of fun to be on that show. The atmosphere is kept light, the topics are fun and there is always something interesting going on. Heck, in this show alone they had an electric motorcycle that looked like a green jellybean and they cooked up a serving of watermelon pie. It sure sounds gross, but holy cow did it taste good!

Originally slated to launch on July 4th, 2008 this Arianespace Ariane-5 rocket ended up launch on July 7th, 2008 at 6:47pm local time in French Guiana.

Twenty-seven minutes after its launch the rocket released ProtoStar 1 the first satellite for the new U.S.-based telecommunications company ProtoStar. Eight minutes later, the rocket released a BADR-6 satellite for Arabsat, the 21-nation telecommunications group of the Arab League, that is designed for direct television broadcasting to the Middle East and North Africa.