Assembled over 23 years, by a coalition of 15 countries, and at a cost of $ 100 billion, the International Space Station represents humanity’s most ambitious and enduring foray into space to date. The point is, the ISS probably shouldn’t even be in space anymore – when the project started …
Read More »Lewis Center selected for NASA program that connects students with astronauts on the International Space Station
The Lewis Center for Educational Research was selected as one of nine educational institutions in the United States to participate in a program allowing students to communicate with astronauts aboard the International Space Station. The program – known as NASA Amateur Radio on the International Space Station, or ARISS – …
Read More »UH to lead NASA Space Telescope study of the nature of dying stars
Debris from an exploded star known as Kepler’s supernova remnants (Photo credit: NASA) How do stars die, explode, and release heavy elements into the universe? These questions are the subject of an international team of scientists led by the University of Hawaii Institute of Astronomy (If a) Postdoctoral Research Fellow …
Read More »NASA’s Rover Curiosity on Mars climbs Mount Mercou
NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spotted Curiosity climbing a rocky outcrop known as Mont Mercou. The photo was taken at an altitude of 167.5 miles above the rover. The hills beyond the region, which has earned its nickname of a French mountain, are rich in sulphates. NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) …
Read More »NASA hosts virtual destination station with astronaut Ricky Arnold, scientists
WASHINGTON, May 21, 2021 / PRNewswire / – NASA Astronaut Ricky arnold, as well as representatives of NASA and International space station (ISS), will participate in a virtual panel Wednesday May 26, to highlight the orbit US National Laboratorythe research capabilities of, and share the progress of space research and …
Read More »‘Clyde’s Spot’ on Jupiter has a wild new look in NASA photo
Clyde’s spot on Jupiter, as imaged by NASA’s Juno spacecraft in April 2021. (Image credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS Image processing by Kevin M. Gill © CC BY) “Clyde’s Spot”, a feature discovered on Jupiter in 2020, has a strange new look, reveals NASA’s Juno spacecraft. The …
Read More »NASA wins 3 Webby Awards 2021, 2 distinctions for the voice of the people
NASA received three Webby Awards and was honored as a People’s Voice winner in two categories in the 2021 Webby Awards competition. The awards, presented by the International Academy of Computational Arts and Sciences, recognize the best of online communication. The three NASA Webby winners are: The flagship of the …
Read More »New NASA Video: What Does Space Look Like?
NASA Voyager 1 became the first man-made object to enter interstellar space, meaning it traveled outside the confines of our own heliosphere. Now the data has revealed what the interspace actually looks like. Through NASA, Voyager 1 returned interstellar sounds in November 2012, three months after its first visit to …
Read More »Houston, we’ve got a splash! NASA’s SpaceX Crew-1 returns to Earth – WFTV
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Read More »UNM research team wins NASA MINDS competition
This would allow plants to grow without the help of people to take care of them. âThe scope of our project is so wide that a single discipline cannot achieve it, and we need multiple disciplines to accomplish what we are trying to achieve,â said Biraj Silwal, researcher at UNM. …
Read More »NASA’s Hubble Telescope Enables Astronomers to See the Shape of a Planet in the Centaur Constellation
TORONTO – NASA’s Hubble Telescope allows astronomers to observe the formation of a Jupiter-sized planet by feeding on matter surrounding a young star. Although 4,000 exoplanets have been cataloged so far, only 15 have been directly imaged by telescopes, according to a Press release. They are often so far away …
Read More »NASA simulated asteroid impact, couldn’t avoid crash in Europe
Scientists around the world were embarrassed this week by a fictional asteroid heading for Earth. A group of experts from US and European space agencies participated in a week-long exercise led by NASA in which they were confronted with a hypothetical scenario: an asteroid 35 million kilometers away was approaching …
Read More »NASA’s Artemis I SLS Rocket Core scene transported to its new home
Through NASA May 1, 2021 Credit: NASA / Kim Shiflett NASASpace launch system from (SLS), the main stage of the Artemis I mission arrived on April 27, 2021 at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The main stage arrived aboard the barge Pegasus from NASA’s Stennis Space Center in …
Read More »NASA shares fantastic snapshots of the universe, the photos will leave you in awe
“Wow beautiful,” wrote one Twitter user in reacting to the post. By Trisha Sengupta POSTED ON MAY 01, 2021 11:38 IST Giving someone a birthday present is a loving practice that is followed around the world. Every now and then we also hear stories of how some of these giveaways …
Read More »NASA Hubble Provides Glimpse Of Jupiter-sized Planet Still In Formation, Feeding On Star
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captured the rare breathtaking glimpse of a still-forming Jupiter-sized planet engulfing material surrounding a young star on Friday. The exoplanet dubbed PDS 70b is located 370 light years from Earth in the constellation Centauri and revolves around the orange dwarf star PDS 70. According to the …
Read More »NASA tells SpaceX to stop lunar lander work pending contractual challenges
In this NASA-provided document, Acting NASA Administrator Steve Jurczyk watches the launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from the balcony of the Operations Support Building II carrying the company’s Crew Dragon spacecraft on NASA’s SpaceX Crew-2 mission with NASA astronauts Shane Kimbrough and Megan McArthur. , ESA (European Space …
Read More »NASA’s Parker solar probe went faster than any spacecraft
Through Leah Crane An artist’s impression of the Parker solar probe NASA / Johns Hopkins APL / Steve Gribben The fastest spaceship ever built has almost touched the sun. NASA’s Parker solar probe, launched in 2018, set two records at once: the spacecraft closest to the sun and the highest …
Read More »Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin protests NASA’s HLS award to Elon Musk’s SpaceX
Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk Getty Images Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin filed a protest with the Government Accountability Office against NASA on Monday, challenging the space agency’s award of a nearly $ 3 billion lunar lander contract to Elon Musk’s SpaceX more early this month. SpaceX, in a competition against …
Read More »NASA’s Ingenuity Mars helicopter flies faster and farther on third flight – NASA’s Mars Exploration Program
The flight of the craft on April 25 was carried out at speeds and distances beyond what had never been demonstrated before, even in tests on Earth. NASA’s Ingenuity Mars helicopter continues to set records, flying faster and farther on Sunday, April 25, 2021 than in any test it has …
Read More »We’re getting ready for Ingenuity’s third flight test
First color aerial image of MarsFull picture and caption ⺠Yesterday I was able to write the entry for the second successful “Wright Brothers Field” experimental flight test in the official project journal, which is called “The Nominal Pilot’s Journal for Planets and Moons”. The next chance to make an …
Read More »NASA’s Bold Bet on Starship for the Moon Could Change Space Flight Forever
Enlarge / In the future, what might lunar exploration look like if NASA could send multiple spacecraft there each year? This SpaceX rendering offers a vision of such a future. When NASA astronauts return to the moon in a few years, they will do so inside a lander that eclipses …
Read More »NASA’s target to land on the Moon in 2024 is ‘really achievable’
SpaceX owner and Tesla CEO Elon Musk poses as he arrives on the red carpet for the Axel Springer Awards in Berlin on December 1, 2020. Britta Pedersen | AFP | Getty Images Elon Musk believes SpaceX can help NASA meet its ambitious goal of landing astronauts on the moon …
Read More »NASA to participate in tabletop exercise simulating asteroid impact
UPDATE: 2021 Planetary Defense Conference hypothetical asteroid impacts tabletop exercise EXERCISE ONLY – The information listed in this update summarizes the details of a simulated asteroid impact exercise at the 7th Planetary Defense Conference of the International Academy of Aeronautics (IAA). The fictional asteroid, named 2021PDC, is used only for …
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