Monthly Archives: Tháng Tư 2020
Expedition 51 Flight Engineer and Soyuz Commander Oleg Novitskiy of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) and Flight Engineer Thomas Pesquet of ESA (European Space Agency) landed safely near the town of Dzhezkazgan, Kazakhstan June 2 after bidding farewell to their colleagues on the International Space Station and undocking their Soyuz MS-03 spacecraft from the […]
NASA celebrates the 50th Anniversary of John Glenn’s orbital space flight. Glenn’s flight ushered in a new era for space travel. John Glenn, America’s first astronaut to orbit Earth, launched aboard his Friendship 7 Mercury capsule on Feb. 20, 1962. At the end of the mission, Friendship 7 splashed down into the ocean and Glenn […]
NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine talks via satellite with astronaut Nick Hague in Houston. Hague and Russian crewmate Alexey Ovchinin safely made a ballistic landing in Kazakhstan on Oct. 11, when the launch of their Soyuz spacecraft to the International Space Station was aborted due to an anomaly. This video is available for download from NASA’s […]
The unpiloted Russian ISS Progress 67 cargo ship automatically docked to the rear port of the station’s Zvezda Service Module on June 16, completing a two-day journey following its launch atop a Soyuz booster from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on June 14. The new Progress is delivering three tons of food, fuel and supplies […]
Aboard the International Space Station, Expedition 35 Commander Chris Hadfield along with Flight Engineers Tom Marshburn and Chris Cassidy of NASA discussed life and research aboard the orbital laboratory with students gathered at the Fernbank Science Center in Atlanta Nov. 17. The educational in-flight event was part of NASA’s “Destination Station” traveling exhibit designed to […]
Aboard the International Space Station, Expedition 35 Commander Chris Hadfield along with Flight Engineers Tom Marshburn and Chris Cassidy of NASA discussed life and research aboard the orbital laboratory with students gathered at the Fernbank Science Center in Atlanta Nov. 17. The educational in-flight event was part of NASA’s “Destination Station” traveling exhibit designed to […]
Discover what NASA’s Earth data sounds like when it’s turned into music. With each passing Earth Day, the drums get louder. Every sound and instrument tell a story. The higher the pitch of the music, the more data collected from NASA Earth science missions. The guitar represents the mission launches. The orchestra is split up […]
“Houston, we’ve had a problem” is the now famous phrase radioed from Apollo 13 to Mission Control upon the catastrophic explosion that dramatically changed the mission. On the 50th Anniversary of the Apollo 13 mission, we recognize the triumph of the mission control team and the astronauts, and look at the lessons learned. The Apollo […]