Monthly Archives: Tháng Sáu 2020

Launch Preparations Continue for Expedition 50-51 Crew in Kazakhstan

At the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, Expedition 50-51 Soyuz Commander Oleg Novitskiy of Roscosmos and Flight Engineers Peggy Whitson of NASA and Thomas Pesquet of the European Space Agency along with their backups, Fyodor Yurchikhin of Roscosmos, Jack Fischer of NASA and Paolo Nespoli of the European Space Agency participated in their final fit checks […]

Spinoff 2015

NASA has a long history of transferring technologies from their original mission applications to secondary uses. For example, Mars continues to be a rich destination for scientific discovery and exploration, and NASA’s missions there have inspired a variety of practical, terrestrial benefits. Spinoff 2015 features stories about some of these technologies, including shock absorbers used […]

NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover – Countdown to Mars

Follow the road to launch for our next mission to the Red Planet, the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover. NASA leadership and a panel of scientists and engineers will preview the upcoming mission at 2 p.m. EDT on Wednesday, June 17. Briefing participants will be: – NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine – Lori Glaze, director of NASA’s […]

Astronaut Recruitment

NASA is on a Journey to Mars and we are on the lookout for a new generation of space pioneers. Do you think you have what it takes to join NASA’s next astronaut class? Visit: http://www.nasa.gov/astronauts

Happy 4th of July from NASA

NASA wishes you a safe and happy Independence Day. Since the beginning of human space flight, NASA’s astronauts, rockets and spacecraft have flown the American flag to Earth orbit, the Moon, Mars, and beyond. https://www.nasa.gov/content/the-american-flag-in-us-missions

New ISS Crew Members Welcomed!

A few hours after docking their Soyuz Spacecraft to the Rassvet module on the International Space Station, Expedition 36/37 Soyuz Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos), NASA Flight Engineer Karen Nyberg and Flight Engineer Luca Parmitano of the European Space Agency opened hatches and were greeted by the three crew members […]

Goodbye Cassini

NASA’s Cassini Spacecraft Ends Its Historic Exploration of Saturn A thrilling epoch in the exploration of our solar system came to a close today, as NASA’s Cassini spacecraft made a fateful plunge into the atmosphere of Saturn, ending its 13-year tour of the ringed planet. Cassini’s plunge brings to a close a series of 22 […]