Monthly Archives: Tháng Tư 2020

NASA Live: Earth Views from the Space Station

Currently, live views from the International Space Station (ISS) are streaming from an external camera mounted on the ISS module called Node 2. Node 2 is located on the forward part of the ISS. The camera is looking forward at an angle so that the International Docking Adapter 2 (IDA2) is visible. If the Node […]

2017 Takes Second Place for Hottest Year

Earth’s surface temperatures in 2017 were the second warmest since since 1880, when global estimates first become feasible, NASA scientists found. News release: https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/long-term-warming-trend-continued-in-2017-nasa-noaa Global temperatures in 2017 were second only to 2016, which still holds the record for the hottest year; however, 2017 was the warmest year on record that did not start with […]

Pizza Night on the Space Station!

Pizza delivery to the International Space Station! Our Expedition 53 crew had a blast channeling our inner chef by building tasty pizzas for movie night. Whose pizza looks the tastiest? What’s it like to make pizza in space? Team skills come in handy when your food floats. FOLLOW RANDY BRESNIK! Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AstroKomrade/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/AstroKomrade Instagram: […]

Space Station Cameras Peer down on Major Hurricane Harvey

Cameras outside the International Space Station captured views of Hurricane Harvey during a flyover of the massive storm at 5:15 p.m. EDT Aug. 25. This video is available for download from NASA’s Image and Video Library: https://images.nasa.gov/#/details-NHQ_2017_0825_Space%20Station%20Cameras%20Peer%20down%20on%20Major%20Hurricane%20Harvey.html

Happy 4th of July from the Space Station Crew

Aboard the International Space Station, Expedition 60 Flight Engineers Nick Hague and Christina Koch of NASA honored America’s 243rd birthday by wishing Americans at home and around the world a happy 4th of July. Learn more about the research on board our orbiting laboratory: https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/main/index.html

Celebrating 100 Years of NASA Langley: A Storied Legacy, A Soaring Future

NASA Langley – 100 Years: Something happened 100 years ago that changed forever the way we fly, the way we explore space and how we study our home planet. That something was the establishment of what is now NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, which commemorates its 100th anniversary on July 17, 2017. Astronaut […]

The John Glenn Story

The early life and professional career of American astronaut John Glenn. Several of the people who knew him “back when” in New Concord, Ohio take up a certain amount of time reminiscing on Glenn’s boyhood and then segues into the astronaut’s preparations for his space flight — three orbits around the earth, and then home […]