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 […]
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NASA’s Kepler space telescope has discovered its first circumbinary planet, a planet that orbits two suns. The cold, Saturn-sized planet is not in the star system’s habitable zone. But, someone near the planet’s surface could see double sunrises and sunsets, similar to what Luke Skywalker saw on Tatooine in the 1977 movie, “Star Wars.”
NASA is honoring visionary physicist Stephen Hawking, who died at his home in Cambridge, England, early Wednesday morning. Acting NASA Administrator Robert Lightfoot noted Hawking’s role as a “passionate communicator who wanted to share the excitement of discovery with all,” adding that his “impact cannot be overstated.” “Stephen’s breakthroughs in the fields of physics and […]
NASA addresses the coronavirus pandemic, some online material to stay connected with NASA, and more testing with our Orion spacecraft … a few of the stories to tell you about – This Week at NASA! This video is available for download from NASA’s Image and Video Library: https://images.nasa.gov/details-NHQ_2020_0320_Addressing%20the%20Coronavirus%20Pandemic%20on%20This%20Week%20@NASA%20%E2%80%93%20March%2020,%202020
To explore the unknown. To be part of a team. A love of science, math, engineering and technology. We asked our newest graduates why they wanted to #BeAnAstronaut. It turns out, there isn’t just one reason. What will be yours? Applications are open until March 31, 2020: https://www.nasa.gov/astronauts
January 9th, 2020 marks 300 days aboard the International Space Station for NASA Astronaut Christina Koch. In December, Christina Koch set a record for the longest single spaceflight by a woman, eclipsing the record of 288 days set by former NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson in 2016-17. Koch will have been part of three expeditions – […]
On July 20, two days after the SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft launched from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (CCAFS) in Florida, and hours after NASA astronaut Jeff Williams used the station’s robotic arm to capture the Dragon, Ground controllers in Houston sent commands instructing the robot arm to install Dragon […]
On Sept. 8, NASA launched the Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security – Regolith Explorer, or OSIRIS-REx mission from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. OSIRIS-REx, the first U.S. mission to sample an asteroid, is scheduled to arrive at near-Earth asteroid Bennu in 2018. Mission plans call for the spacecraft to survey the asteroid, […]
After launching on July 7 in their Soyuz spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, Expedition 48-49 Soyuz Commander Anatoly Ivanishin of …
High definition cameras outside the International Space Station captured new views of a somewhat weakened Hurricane Florence at 6:56 a.m. EDT Sept. 13 as …