Apollo 8 launched 40 years ago this December. In this video Astronauts Frank Borman, James Lovell and Bill Anders recount man’s first voyage around the moon.
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NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory has mapped the debris of a supernova and discovered that the explosion may have turned the original star inside out.
From the White House Oval Office, President Obama spoke with the four Atlantis astronauts of STS-135, the final space shuttle mission, and the six Expedition 28 …
Expedition 20 Flight Engineer Michael Barratt provides a 20-minute tour of the International Space Station, documenting the full 167 feet of the space station’s pressurized modules. Barratts commentary describes to Mission Control in Houston how equipment and supplies are arranged and stored, and provides engineers with a detailed assessment of each module-to-module hatchway.
After launching earlier in the day in their Soyuz MS-05 spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, Expedition 52-53 Soyuz Commander Sergey Ryazanskiy of Roscosmos and Flight Engineers Randy Bresnik of NASA and Paolo Nespoli of the European Space Agency arrived at the International Space Station on July 28.
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 […]
Aboard the International Space Station, Expedition 42 Flight Engineer Samantha Cristoforetti of the European Space Agency, discussed life and research aboard the orbital outpost with the British Broadcasting Corporation’s Channel 4, during an in-flight question and answer session Dec. 15. Cristoforetti arrived on the station in late November and is scheduled to remain in orbit […]
Watch SpaceX’s March 6, 2020, launch of its 20th resupply mission to the International Space Station, carrying 4,300 pounds of science investigations and supplies. Liftoff was at 11:50 p.m. EST. The Dragon arrived at the space station on Monday, March 9.
Former astronaut Edgar Mitchell (USN Capt. Ret.), who became the sixth man to walk on the moon during the Apollo 14 mission to the highlands of Fra Mauro, died on Feb. 4 in West Palm Beach, Florida at the age of 85. Mitchell’s death occurred on the eve of the 45th anniversary of his landing […]
Highlights of the launch of space shuttle Atlantis from NASAs Kennedy Space Center, Fla. on May 14, 2010 to begin the STS-132 mission to the International Space Station. Video includes views of the liftoff from multiple cameras in and around launch pad 39A.